{"text": "In 2013, just 26 percent of computing professionals and 12 percent of working engineers were women, according to a new report.\nRecently in STEM Education Category\nMarch 26, 2015\nMarch 04, 2015\nTeacher bias influenced Israeli girls' performance in STEM subjects and their decision to pursue further studies in the subject, according to researchers.\nFebruary 26, 2015\nArkansas schools will be required to offer computer-science classes in the 2015-16 academic year, under a new law.\nFebruary 13, 2015\nThe gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics may be starting to turn, according to new 2009 data from the National Center for Education Statistics.\nFebruary 05, 2015\nPatty Quiñones, the executive director of innovation for the St. Vrain Valley Schools in Colorado, talks about boosting STEM education at all levels.\nDecember 22, 2014\nPresident Barack Obama touted the benefits of educational technology often last year, but how much influence has he actually had on moving digital learning forward?\nDecember 17, 2014\nA new \"occupational skills profile\" for big-data specialists outlines the relevant knowledge that professionals say is not being provided in K-12.\nDecember 03, 2014\nAbout 60 percent of job openings require basic science, technology, engineering, and math literacy, and 42 percent require advanced STEM skills, according to a new survey of 126 chief executive officers.\nNovember 19, 2014\nCode.org has tapped the popular Disney characters for a new tutorial as part of its campaign to promote computer science education.\nSeptember 12, 2014\nSeattle-based nonprofit Code.org announced new free online learning resources to teach students computer science and provide teachers with professional development.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Federal officials are taking pains to underscore how much work has been done in the bid to replace the country's aging CF-18 jets, but say the details of their evaluation will be kept secret for the time being.\nMembers of an independent panel that looked at what fighter aircraft are available as replacements have turned their analysis over to the government.\nThe panel members stress the depth and impartiality of their assessment, which took 14 months.\nIn April 2012, Auditor General Michael Ferguson slammed the Harper government's plan to buy 65 F-35 jets, accusing both Public Works and National Defence of low-balling the cost and not doing their homework.\nThe panel itself does not make a recommendation among the four fighter aircraft it examined, including the F-35, but instead left the choice up to a committee of deputy ministers and ultimately the cabinet.\nPanel member Keith Coulter says they had a mandate to be independent and to challenge the air force's information and assumptions.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "207 items found for your search. If no results were found please broaden your search.\nHopkins prides itself on offering students the opportunity to pursue their passions, whatever they may be. On campus tours, guides promise prospective students that it is easy to join student groups or start their own clubs and organizations. The Campus Life page on the University’s website depicts Hopkins as a place where students can pursue their diverse backgrounds and interests, whether they’re into “singing or kayaking, taking pictures or building robots, discussing international relations or playing Quidditch.”\nWhen the University announced its intention to create a private police force in March 2018, it failed to consult Hopkins affiliates and community members. After the announcement met with widespread backlash and Maryland legislators postponed voting on the bill, administrators promised to do a better job of consulting students and Baltimore residents.\nThe start of a new school year typically brings several changes to campus. This year, however, marks the beginning of some particularly dramatic changes. Most notably, while a student center will not be around for years to come, we are finally in the beginning stages of designing one. And despite widespread pushback from students and communities, the University will begin implementing a private police force.\nLast Thursday, Woodrow Wilson fellows presented a culmination of their four years of research.\nIn January, the Black Student Union (BSU) at the Peabody Institute filed a complaint with the Office of Institutional Equity against its Student Affairs office, expressing concerns about racial discrimination against black students.\nWriting about work culture at Hopkins is tricky. We acknowledge that we are extremely privileged to be able to attend college, surrounded by scholars who are the very best in their field and peers who are already accomplishing so much. We are grateful to pursue our higher education in Baltimore, at one of the nation’s top institutions. And yet, as finals approach, and Brody remains full, many of us are burnt out.\nSince the University first announced its intent to create a private police force in March 2018, the Editorial Board has opposed the initiative. Now the bill – called the Community Safety and Strengthening Act – has passed in the Maryland General Assembly, and we maintain our opposition. We are disappointed that this bill is moving forward and we have the same concerns about a Hopkins police force that we have already expressed over the past year: a continuation of corrupt policing in Baltimore, potential racial profiling of students, the threat of armed guards on campus and further division between the Hopkins and Baltimore communities.\nEach week, our editorial board explores the issues facing the Baltimore and Hopkins community and shares our stance on the ones we find most pressing. This week, we’re taking some time to look inwards and examine how The News-Letter can be a more representative newspaper.\nEarlier this month, federal prosecutors charged dozens of wealthy parents for bribing or cheating their children’s ways into universities across the nation. Three days after the news of this college admissions scandal — now known as Operation Varsity Blues — broke, Hopkins welcomed 2,309 new applicants to its Class of 2023 at an acceptance rate of 7.7 percent, the lowest rate in the last few years.\nThis past year, the Student Government Association (SGA) has had both triumphs and tribulations. SGA members have campaigned for years for a student center, and this month they realized that goal when the University announced that one will be built by 2024. SGA also hosted its inaugural Mental Health Summit to address the lack of mental health resources on campus. Beginning in the fall, around 2,000 undergraduates responded to an SGA-led referendum on campus issues. These are some of SGA’s successes from the past year.\nHaving unparalleled access to research opportunities is not the only unique part of attending Hopkins. We also have several campus traditions like watching fireworks at Lighting of the Quads each December and celebrating the arrival of warm weather at Spring Fair, the largest student-run festival in the country. These things set Hopkins apart from other schools and make our time here memorable. Yet, since as long as we have known, another unique thing comes to mind about Hopkins: our lack of an official student center. We may have dedicated “student union” spaces in Levering Hall or the LaB, but unlike many other colleges and universities, we don’t have a singular building packed with social spaces and resources.\n2018 was a historic year for visibility and diversity in film. Black Panther. Crazy Rich Asians. Roma. BlacKkKlansmen. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. These are just a few critically and commercially successful movies that broke barriers by making people of color big-screen superheroes, romantic male leads and defiant heroines.\nIt’s February, which means that many fraternities and sororities at Hopkins and at other colleges nationwide have just recruited their newest pledge class. To those new recruits, we extend our congratulations. Many students find a sense of community and lifelong friendships in the Greek organization to which they belong. But to those of you who’ve joined fraternities, we’d also like to express our concerns.\nLast week, Senator Antonio Hayes introduced a new bill in the Maryland General Assembly: the Community Safety and Strengthening Act. This bill, SB 793, and its correspondent in the Maryland House of Representatives, HB 1094, includes the University’s second bid for a private police force.\nNext week, the Student Government Association (SGA) will hold an impeachment trial against Executive President Noh Mebrahtu behind closed doors. SGA members introduced articles of impeachment at their latest weekly meeting, but not before telling one of our reporters to leave the room. That same day, SGA sent an email advertising a Students Against Private Police rally with the subject line “ICE Protest Tomorrow!” And last semester, it had to pass a bill to stop members from using social media, texting, web surfing and shopping during meetings.\nThe first week of Black History Month is coming to a close. That same week has been a period of extreme, fluctuating weather in Baltimore: after days of snow and temperatures as low as six degrees Fahrenheit, we enjoyed sunny 70-degree weather on Tuesday.\nLast Friday, many of us received an email that Hopkins had purchased the building that currently houses the Newseum, a museum in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to promoting freedom of speech. Located on Pennsylvania Avenue, the building is positioned at the heart of the nation’s capital and will primarily be used to centralize the University’s graduate programs, including the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).\nWhen physicians take the Hippocratic Oath, they vow to do no harm and to uphold medical ethics to preserve the safety and well-being of patients in their care. Our institution is known as a leader of medical innovation, and yet it has consistently fallen short of that principle. Many of us attend Hopkins not only for the world class education it provides, but also for its prestigious status. But this reputation rests on a continued legacy of Hopkins undervaluing the lives of its patients.\nOver Thanksgiving break, former New York Mayor and Hopkins alumnus Michael Bloomberg announced that he would donate $1.8 billion to financial aid, specifically benefitting low and middle-income students. The donation will allow the University to be a loan-free and permanently need-blind school, and will help Hopkins recruit and support more low-income and first-generation students.\nThe first Thanksgiving: a peaceful celebration in 1621, where Pilgrims and indigenous people sat side by side sharing food.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Just A Lil Hype Magazine Interview w/ Faction Sound Crew\nLast week the fellas from Just A Lil Hype Magazine sat down with Tanner and Arems to check in with The Faction and see what we've been up to. The questions were well thought out and we tried to come up with some alright answers. Jenkin Au got illy with the photo's and we ended the interview with some chillin and grillin on the side note that \"Still Grillin Always Chillin\" would be our next mixtape project. Big shout out and many thanks to Alan and Jenkin for the interview and also for putting a dope Mag together on what's Hype in Vancouver. Shout's to Amie at Just A Lil Hype for all her help as well. The link below will take you to our interview but make sure to check out the rest of the mag as well!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Donation of 500 classroom benches to schools in Pointe-Noire\nIn September 2020, Total E&P Congo donated 500 classroom benches to the school Ndende Niengo in Foucks, that will then be distributed to four schools in Pointe-Noire.\nThis action demonstrates Total E&P Congo’s commitment to the education and socio-professional integration of young people. The affiliate has been contributing for years to the development of educational infrastructures and the provision of school equipment.\nTo learn more about the donation, visit the affiliate's WAT page : http://wat.corp.local/sites/s371/fr-FR/Pages/Don-de-500-tables-bancs-%C3%A0-la-DDEPSA.aspxv", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Huge Lines Waiting For Market To Open Sat. Morning\nApril 23, at the Michiana Antique Market & Springfest that is in it's second and last day at the Michiana Event Center (MEC) in Howe, IN.\nFriday's show opened with a huge crowd as well as people from across the region descended onto the MEC in anticipation of some great deals and spectacular finds in a show that hosts a huge variety of vendors ranging from artisan shoemakers to vintge clothing, reclaimed wood furniture as well as a full gamut of antiques.\nThe show is open on Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm with tickets at $5 per person.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If parity makes for great basketball, then the Pac-12 featured some of the best matchups in the country this year.\nOf the 12 teams that began the season with high hopes of winning a Pac-12 title, nine teams finished with a record of at least .500 in conference play.\nFour teams including the Arizona State Sun Devils and the Stanford Cardinal finished at the .500 mark with overall Pac-12 records of nine wins and nine losses.\nThroughout the first few months of 2013, fans have been blessed with incredibly close, hard-fought games that brought out the best in each team.\nArizona State rose to the occasion and picked up four wins against the conference's top four teams while Stanford swept rival California and picked up a blowout victory against the Oregon Ducks.\nThe Sun Devils and Cardinal will meet in the first round of what figures to be one of the most exciting conference tournaments in recent memory.\nWhile the Pac-12 appears to be in position to receive four to five tournament berths come Sunday, mid-level teams like Arizona State and Stanford will do battle in Las Vegas for the rights to earn an automatic bid and secure a spot in the NCAA Tournament.\nIn a conference lacking a truly dominant team, the Pac-12 tournament is up for grabs.\nState of the Sun Devils: At one point this season, Arizona State appeared primed for an NCAA Tournament appearance. The Sun Devils stood at 9-5 and owned marquee victories over California, Colorado, and UCLA.\nSince that time, the Sun Devils have squandered nearly all hopes of joining the big dance. Arizona State dropped its final four games, and anything short of winning the conference tournament will likely lock the maroon and gold into the NIT.\nThough stringing together four wins in four days is improbable, the Sun Devils do have a compelling resume.\nFew players in the country are as electrifying as Pac-12 Co-Freshman of the Year Jahii Carson, and his presence will disrupt even the best defenses.\nCarson averaged 20.8 points on the road this season, and scored 30 points against Creighton in his last visit to Las Vegas.\nMeanwhile, teammate Carrick Felix's emergence helped lead Arizona State to the 20-win mark. The senior wing scored 14.2 points per game and grabbed a team-high 8.2 rebounds per contest in his final campaign as a Sun Devil.\nTogether, the pair has proved positively unstoppable when both are playing up to their capabilities. Unfortunately, finding the pieces to mesh with the dynamic duo has been Arizona State's downfall all season long.\nIt may sound like a broken record, but if Jordan Bachynski, Jonathan Gilling, or Evan Gordon can catch fire, this Sun Devil team will be a force to be reckoned with.\nThe maroon and gold have played 31 games and still haven't played their best basketball. However, their Pac-12 opponents would be lying if they said the Sun Devils were not a threat on any given night.\nState of the Cardinal: Even though the Cardinal finished with the same conference record as the Sun Devils, they'll come into Wednesday's matchup with increased confidence.\nStanford compiled an 18-13 record, but the Cardinal won their final two games including an 83-70 bout with the Cal Golden Bears in which the outcome was almost never in question.\nThe Pac-12's Most Improved Player, Dwight Powell, led Stanford with 15.1 points per game, and he thrived in his matchup with Arizona State earlier this season.\nPowell scored 22 points and pulled down 10 rebounds in the Cardinal's 62-59 win in Tempe. The junior wasn't the lone playmaker either, as junior forward Josh Huestis' athleticism gave the Sun Devils fits all night.\nHuestis scored 13 points and added 12 rebounds, and his performance is alarming for Arizona State fans.\nThe Sun Devils have struggled to match up with athletic teams, and the Cardinal certainly fit that billing.\nArizona State coach Herb Sendek frequently used three guards to try to curtail the Stanford offense, but players like John Gage still hurt the Sun Devils from the perimeter.\nIf the Cardinal can maximize their success from beyond the arc and slow down either Carson or Felix, they'll have the best chance at advancing to the quarterfinals.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Tag: Lamar University\nDr. Brownlee has been serving as vice president for student success at St. Philip's College in San Antonio, Texas. Earlier, he held positions at the University of Charleston in West Virginia, Blinn College District in Texas, and Houston Baptist University. Dr, Brownlee will assume his new duties on July 15.\nDr. Shabazz is a professor in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Previously, he served as director of the American studies program, and founding director of the Center for African Studies & Development at Oklahoma State University.\nTaking on new faculty roles are Clara Small at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Maria Dixon Hall at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Natalie Tindall at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, and Archie Taylor at Alcorn State University in Mississippi.\nDr. Grigsby was an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. She also served as chair of the department of leadership and policy analysis and was chair of the doctorate of education in educational leadership program at the university.\nRichie Hunter, vice chancellor and vice president of university marketing, communication, and media relations for the University of Houston, is a finalist for vice chancellor for university relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "For over 30 years, my family and I have owned Authentic Persian & Oriental Rugs, a carpet store in Glendale. But last month, the city voted to authorize the use of eminent domain to take our successful business and hand our land over to a Houston-based developer. Everything we’ve worked so hard for is now on the chopping block.\nWhen I left Iran in the 1970s to seek a top education in the United States, I wasn’t planning to go into the carpet business. In fact, I graduated from the University of Colorado Denver with a degree in electrical engineering.\nThen, a revolution hit my old home, and my whole world changed. My father, who had been supporting me and my siblings studying here, could no longer send money for tuition because of the sanctions. But he could send carpets.\nSo together with my sister, my brother and my husband, I went into the rug business. In 1990, we moved to a prime location on South Colorado Boulevard in Glendale. Business boomed. In 2006, we bought the land that our business occupies.\nTo give back to the community, we’ve hired refugees who have fled war-torn nations like Afghanistan, Bosnia and Eritrea, providing jobs for those who otherwise have few skills and don’t speak English. Some of our employees have become entrepreneurs themselves, climbing economic ladders of their own.\nIn early May, the Glendale City Council passed a resolution that authorizes the Glendale Urban Renewal Authority to use eminent domain to seize our property against our will. As outlined in the U.S. Constitution, eminent domain is for “public use,” like constructing roads or schools.\nBut city officials don’t want our store so they can build a road or a school. Instead, they want to seize our land and bulldoze our store to make way for a $175 million entertainment complex called Glendale 180.\nThis is an abuse of power.\nAcross the country, legislatures and the public have soundly and routinely rejected eminent domain for private development. Even the state of Colorado banned taking property for “economic development.” But there’s a huge loophole in the law. Based on the state’s vague criteria, the city declared our business “blighted” years ago — even though it clearly is not.\nThe city told us not to worry, that this was a necessary step simply to secure financing. We believed them. Now, they are using that designation to take everything away from us.\nThe city’s decision is particularly galling given that our family has tried to work with Glendale to redevelop the area for years. In addition to our store, we own acres of neighboring land. As far back as 2007, we submitted plans to Glendale to transform our land into an “urban village,” complete with shops, condominiums and restaurants.\nAfter years of frustration and dashed hopes, those plans were rejected, thanks to city officials, who originally claimed they wanted to collaborate with us on the development. Now, they’ve chosen another developer for our land.\nWe want to develop our land. Glendale must respect our rights, let our hand-woven rug store remain where it is, and let us redevelop our own land.\nOur business — our piece of the American Dream — is not for sale.\nNasrin Kholghy is co-owner of Authentic Persian & Oriental Rugs in Glendale.\nOur unofficial motto at Complete Colorado is “Always free, never fake, ” but annoyingly enough, our reporters, columnists and staff all want to be paid in actual US dollars rather than our preferred currency of pats on the back and a muttered kind word. Fact is that there’s an entire staff working every day to bring you the most timely and relevant political news (updated twice daily) from around the state on Complete’s main page aggregator, as well as top-notch original reporting and commentary on Page Two.\nCLICK HERE TO LADLE A LITTLE GRAVY ON THE CREW AT COMPLETE COLORADO. You’ll be giving to the Independence Institute, the not-for-profit publisher of Complete Colorado, which makes your donation tax deductible. But rest assured that your giving will go specifically to the Complete Colorado news operation. Thanks for being a Complete Colorado reader, keep coming back.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "An oil tanker rescued by the Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL) from an attempted hijacking on Saturday has anchored in the waters off the port city of Surabaya.\nAll 21 people on board the MV Hai Soon 12, comprising 20 crew members and one Indonesian passenger, are accounted for, Navy spokesman Suradi Agung Slamet told The Straits Times yesterday.\n\"The navy chased the boat for eight hours, secured it, and detained nine suspects,\" he said. \"They did not put up any protest.\"\nThe vessel is registered in Kiribati, an island nation in the central Pacific Ocean, according to the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) Information Sharing Centre.\nThe ship was carrying 4,000 tons of marine gas oil to sell to fishing vessels in the Southern Ocean but had \"deviated from her planned route\".\nAccording to ReCAAP, last Saturday, nine perpetrators climbed up the poop deck of Hai Soon 12 from a small boat in waters off Pulau Belitung. The crew were tied up in the mess room.\nThe passenger and crew, made up of six men from Myanmar, two from South Korea, 11 from China and one from Singapore, were \"safe and unharmed\", said Colonel Suradi.\nHe added that the MV Hai Soon 12 disappeared from radar in the Karimata Strait, which is a wide waterway between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo.\nThe vessel later resurfaced on the Automatic Identification System, which tracks the positions of ships, and was located some distance away in the waters of Tanjung Puting in South Kalimantan under the name \"KM Aiso\".\nAnother spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Maman Sulaeman, said the nine Indonesian suspects \"have confessed to stealing oil\" and investigations are ongoing.\nLast week, officials from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines met in Yogyakarta and agreed to launch coordinated patrols and set up crisis centres in their respective countries to better respond to emergencies in piracy-prone areas in the Sulu and Sulawesi seas.\nThe meeting was called after a string of kidnappings in the waters off the southern Philippines, with the kidnappers believed to be from the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group.\nCorrection note: A previous version of the article stated that Kiribati is an islet in Cook Islands. This is incorrect. Kiribati is an island nation in the central Pacific Ocean.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "U.S. government is preparing a five-year program spanning from 2017 to 2022 that could open the Arctic Ocean to oil & gas drilling. Arctic waters provide vital habitat for iconic wildlife such as walruses, dependent seals, bowhead whales & migratory birds\nAustralia is the developed world's largest polluter per capita. The previous government put in place a carbon tax which charged almost 23 American dollars per every tonne of greenhouse gases emitted, and was designed to penalize the countries' ...\nThe Wisconsin Federation of tribes has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to use the 404 C portion of Clean Water Act to stop mining activity by Gogebic Taconite (GTAC) in the Penokee Mountains located on the edge of the Bad River Ojibwe Reservati\nEnvironmentalists, politicians and members of the public in Greenland are protesting against a law that could keep major mining projects under wraps and restrict the right to appeal against them, it's been reported.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A 29-year-old freelance journalist became the second journalist killed in a week in the Mexican state of Michoacan, bringing the total number of media assassinations to five this year, reports Telesur.\nMexico, already one of the world’s deadliest places for media workers, according to Reporters Without Borders, is also suffering a 9.2 increase in the killings of women since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.\nAdvocates have feared the increased confinement of families to their homes would increase violence against women. According to the most recent figures, the number of femicides stood at 489 in the first half of 2020, up from 448 in the same period last year, reports the Associated Press.\nThe death of freelance journalist Luis Eduardo Ochoa was reported Wednesday by the Michoacan Attorney General’s Office.\nThe circumstances of his death suggested it was a gang killing.\nOchoa was shot in the jaw, chest, and hand, after being taken to a recreational park. According a friend of the victim, he considered stopping his reporting after receiving several death threats.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Old Telstra and Optus pay-TV cables will be used to roll out the National Broadband Network quicker and cheaper, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull says.\nIn a bid to roll out the NBN four years sooner and save about $30 billion, NBN Co will take progressive ownership of Telstra and Optus' HFC cable network, first installed to supply subscription TV in the 1990s, he said.\nUnder a previous deal with the government, Telstra was being paid to close its HFC network down.\nMr Turnbull said the acquisition is coming at no additional cost to taxpayers.\n\"This should be seen as a win-win,\" Mr Turnbull said.\n\"A win for the tax payer, a win for consumers and a win for Telstra share holders.\"\nNBN Co CEO Bill Morrow said the deal will bring down the overall cost of building the network.\n\"What's more, making use of technologies such as HFC - rather than decommissioning them - enables Australia to capitalise on the significant investments being made globally in broadband technology,\" he said.\nSo far more than 309,000 premises are connected to the NBN, and it is set to be complete for 3.3 million Australian homes by June 2016.\nTelstra will continue to deliver pay TV through the HFC network after negotiations with NBN co.\nTelstra CEO David Thodey said the company had retained shareholder protections in the new deal.\n\"(We have) also negotiated new protections for shareholders in lieu of the protection that our continued ownership of the copper and HFC network assets provided under the original agreement.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "News and communications\nThe latest news and communications from Wiltshire Council.\nThere are 7 results\nPublished 20 October 2022\nClimate change Halloween event and climate lunch at Devizes library\nThis October, Devizes Library have partnered with Sustainable Devizes to provide resources and host activities and author talks on the theme of climate change.\nPublished 11 October 2022\nCouncil continues to lead from the front on climate change\nWiltshire Council has provided an update on its committed efforts to tackle the climate emergency locally, with a vast range of projects either in place or in the pipeline to respond to the global issue of our time.\nPublished 7 October 2022\nCouncil receives almost 1,000 survey responses for Trowbridge leisure plans\nWiltshire Council has provided an update on its plans to provide improved leisure provision in Trowbridge.\nPublished 20 September 2020\nBusinesses encouraged to take part in new Green Homes Grant scheme\nHomeowners and landlords can now access funding to pay for the cost of energy saving measures under the new Green Homes Grant scheme and businesses are being encouraged to register their services.\nPublished 17 September 2020\nStatement on Bridgestone British Masters motocross event\nEvent won't be taking place this year\nPublished 16 September 2020\nThirty-six year record falls to Wiltshire Council-funded athlete\nThe previous record was held by none other than Sally Gunnell", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "There is more evidence Australia is flattening the curve of infections though the death toll has continued to grow. Follow all the latest news, live\n- Follow our global coronavirus live updates\n- Sign up for Guardian Australia’s daily coronavirus email\n- Download the free Guardian app to get the most important news notifications\n- Coronavirus Australia maps and cases: live numbers and statistics\nThere have now been 144 people diagnosed with Covid-19 in Tasmania, which includes the 11 cases in the last 24 hours.\nOf those, there have been 44 cases in the south, 25 in the north and 72 in the north-west (three other cases were interstaters who were diagnosed in Tasmania)\nYou may remember a week or so ago, when we reported about a Covid-19 outbreak among Qantas baggage handlers at the Adelaide airport.\nThat is still going on, with 750 Qantas staff now being asked to self-quarantine.\nThe airline cluster stands at 34, including 18 baggage handlers, 13 of their close contacts and three other Qantas staff.\nSouth Australia’s chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier said those recently included in the cluster indicated a spread to other areas of the airline’s operations.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Call 888-341-1405 for a free consultation with a recognized leader in personal injury and medical device litigation. You can also contact us online to discuss the details of your case.\nPublished on April 27, 2017\nOn March 31, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a manufacturer’s voluntary recall of a popular brand of auto-injector medical device – the Epipen – used to treat patients with severe allergies. This announcement came nearly two weeks after a similar recall was issued for the same devices in seven other countries. The recalls were a direct response to consumer complaints that the devices failed to operate as marketed.\nMylan Acknowledges Some EpiPen, EpiPen Jr Units May Have Defective Parts\nMylan NV sells the EpiPen and EpiPen Jr auto-injectors, which are actually manufactured by Pfizer. Both devices are designed to inject epinephrine–adrenaline–into patients who suffer from severe allergic reactions. When a patient goes into sudden anaphylactic shock, pressing the EpiPen or EpiPen Jr into the thigh is supposed to deliver an instant dose of epinephrine.\nBut according to news reports, Mylan admitted there have been at least two cases where the EpiPens failed to work. The company said the two affected patients “were able to use different EpiPens” and did not suffer any permanent damage. Nevertheless, Mylan issued a voluntary recall on March 20 for approximately 80,000 EpiPens sold in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Iceland.\nThe March 31 notice extended that recall to the United States. The FDA said that at the present time, 13 specific lots of EpiPen and EpiPen Jr distributed between December 17, 2015, and July 1, 2016, were under recall. This includes devices with the following lot numbers:\nMylan claims the defective EpiPens “may contain a defective part” that prevents them from activating correctly. If that happens, the FDA warns there is a “life-threatening risk” of an improperly treated allergic reaction. Mylan is offering free replacements of any defective units. Customers can contact Mylan online or call 877-650-3494 for more information.\nHave You Been Injured Due to a Defective Drug or Medical Device?\nEven before these recalls, Mylan was already facing public scrutiny for its marketing of the EpiPen. Last year, the per-pen price rose more than 600 percent–from $47 to $284–and since the company only sold the EpiPen in pairs, many consumers were paying more than $600 to fill a prescription. Following a Congressional investigation, Mylan promised to “reimburse consumers for some of their out-of-pocket costs.”\nRegardless of cost, drug manufacturers have a legal and moral obligation to produce safe, effective products. If you have been injured due to a defective EpiPen or any other medical device, it is important to speak with a Boston defective drug lawyer as soon as possible. Call Thornton Law Firm, LLP today at 888-341-1405 to schedule a consultation with one of our attorneys, or tell us your story here and we’ll call you to discuss your legal options..\nThornton Law Firm is no longer accepting new Xarelto cases.\nPublished on February 1, 2017\nRecently, issues were raised concerning the results of a clinical trial for the blood thinning drug Xarelto. It was discovered that a medical device used during the study was faulty and was later recalled. The effect this may have had on the study is especially concerning as more than 13 million prescriptions have been written for the drug nationwide.\nOriginal Xarelto Clinical Trial\nThe results of the clinical trial in question were published in 2011. That study led to the approval of the drug’s use in patients with atrial fibrillation who were at risk of suffering a stroke. The study included over 14,000 patients and concluded that Xarelto and its predecessor Warfarin both prevented strokes. It also concluded that there was no major difference between the two medications in regards to the risk of major bleeding, although bleeding in the brain occurred less in the group which took Xarelto.\nHowever, in 2014 a medical device used to test for blood clotting during the study was later recalled for giving inaccurate results, a problem that dated back to 2002.\nReviewing the Trial\nAlthough Duke University’s Clinical Research Institute, which conducted the original trial, recently published a letter stating that researchers had reanalyzed the results and stood by their original conclusions, concerns still remain regarding the drug’s risks. For instance, one medical journal hypothesizes that the use of faulty equipment during the study may have led doctors to think the Warfarin levels in certain patients were lower than they actually were. As a result of this misleading data, some patients may have been given additional doses. According to the journal’s editor, this could explain why the older drug caused more bleeding than Xarelto in the trial.\nBoth the European Medicines Agency and the US Food and Drug Administration reviewed the results of the reanalyzed trial and concluded that the drug was safe. Still, multiple plaintiffs have come forward claiming that the drug’s manufacturer, Bayer, and its marketer, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, failed to warn users of the risks of bleeding associated with Xarelto.\nContact Thornton Law Firm, LLP to Speak With a Dedicated Defective Drug Attorney\nIf you have experienced internal bleeding as a result of taking Xarelto, you may have a claim for damages. Please contact Thornton Law Firm, LLP at (888) 341-1405 to speak with an experienced attorney who can help you seek the compensation you deserve. All legal claims have short time limits, so do not delay seeking legal advice.\nPosted on Sep 25, 2013\nDr. Frances Oldham Kelsey\nReleased in Germany in 1957 as an all-purpose sedative, but later widely used as a preventative treatment for “morning sickness,” Thalidomide caused an estimated 10,000 – 20,000 severe birth defects worldwide. The injuries associated with a mother’s ingesting Thalidomide while pregnant included birth without limbs, shortened limbs, deformed hearts and eyes, and blindness and deafness. It is estimated that 39-50% of babies born with Thalidomide-related birth defects died within a few months of birth. Thalidomide’s use increased after the drug became available over-the-counter in 1960. Before its use was banned, however, Thalidomide had been linked to birth defects in more than 39 countries.\nThe pharmaceutical company Richardson-Merrell (now Marion Merrell Dow) sought approval for sale of Thalidomide in the United States in June 1960. Because of a loophole in the approval process, however, Richardson-Merrell was able to distribute millions of doses of Thalidomide to more than a thousand doctors in the United States while the drug was being investigated. About 20,000 patients in the United States took Thalidomide as a result. Despite efforts to win quick approval from the Food and Drug Administration, Richardson-Merrell ran into an immovable force in the person of Frances Oldham Kelsey. Dr. Kelsey, who had only recently joined the FDA as a reviewing pharmacologist, resisted the requests for approval to market the drug and instead asked for more controlled studies related to Thalidomide’s risks. When studies showed that the drug’s use had lead to more than 10,000 severe birth defects worldwide, Richardson-Merrell pulled their application for approval. In 1962, Thalidomide was banned worldwide. Compared to other countries, only a relative handful of children in the United States were born with Thalidomide-related injuries. For her efforts, Frances Oldham Kelsey received the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service from President John F. Kennedy in 1962 and continued her work at the FDA.\nAs a result of the Thalidomide tragedy, many new regulatory reforms were enacted in order to better protect American consumers. Congress passed new rules related to testing and licensing of drugs.\nUnfortunately, the potential for birth defects resulting from a mother’s use of pharmaceutical drugs is still present today. A new, peer-reviewed study has found that children born to mothers who took common prescription painkillers, like Vicodin, Oxycontin, or Percocet, at or near the time of conception were more than twice as likely to be born with neural tube defects such as spina bifida. The scientists found a strong association between mothers who took these prescription opioid painkillers and a significantly increased risk of having a child with one of these serious neural tube birth defects.\nIf you took an opioid painkiller around the time of conception and your child was born with a neural tube birth defect, please contact attorneys David Strouss or Marilyn McGoldrick at 888-341-1405 to discuss your legal rights with our experienced team of birth defect lawyers.\nPosted on Sep 9, 2013\nThe first DePuy ASR bellwether trial over Johnson & Johnson DePuy Unit’s hip implants, scheduled to begin today, September 9th in the consolidated federal Multi-District Litigation, has been adjourned for two weeks.\nThe Court must address pre-trial matters that must be resolved before the trial can start. The judge must rule on outstanding issues ranging from choice of law, expert witness testimony and exhibits to be offered at trial. Jury selection is now scheduled to begin the week of September 23, 2013.\nIf you or a loved one have been injured by a defective hip implant, contact the hip implant lawyers at Thornton Law Firm for a free, no-obligation consultation. You can tell us your story online or call Attorney Marilyn McGoldrick at 888-341-1405 for a confidential evaluation of your legal case. Time limits for filing claims are short, so seek legal advice without delay.\nThe first bellwether trial in the federal court Multi-District Litigation over Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Unit’s metal hip implants is scheduled to begin on Monday, September 9, 2013. The plaintiff is Ann McCracken, a woman from Rochester, New York who underwent a DePuy ASR XL Acetabular Hip System replacement in 2009. She , in 2011. While this is the first trial of the federal MDL cases, 2 other cases have already been tried to verdict in the state courts and other cases have trial dates scheduled for later this fall. These other cases include the New Jersey Multi-County Litigation (MCL) Bergen County Superior Court, bellwether case set for trial on October 21, 2013; the San Francisco Superior Court, coordinated California proceedings, bellwether case set for trial in October of 2013, and the case scheduled for trial on November 8 in West Palm Beach, Florida.\nJ&J’s DePuy unit began manufacturing the metal-on-metal hip implants – the ASR XL Acetabular System, and the ASR Hip Resurfacing System – less than a decade ago. The ASR XL Acetabular System was submitted to the FDA for so-called 501(k) approval, meaning that J&J claimed that the product was substantially similar to products already on the market so did not require clinical trials before being sold to the public. [The ASR Hip Resurfacing System was submitted to the FDA in 2007, but that application was withdrawn and it was never sold in the U.S. However, Americans who went abroad for a hip resurfacing procedure could have gotten an ASR Hip Resurfacing System, as it was sold in other countries.]\nUnfortunately, for the 93,000 people in the United States who did receive an ASR metal-on-metal hip implant, the change from the older hip implant sold by DePuy was not a minor change but a major change and, ultimately, a major defect which render the devices dangerously unsafe. J&J recalled the ASR hip implants in 2010, but at that point the damage was already done.\nAt the time of the recall, DePuy cited revision rates double what was expected. Unfortunately, more recent studies in the United Kingdom have shown a failure rate as high as 49%, an astonishingly high failure rate for a device that was meant to be better than the old conventional hip replacements that failed 1% to 2% of the time.\nThe ASR was recalled on August 24, 2010. If you received one of these hip implants and have not seen a doctor recently, we urge you to see your doctor and have your hip implant evaluated. You should ask the doctor to perform a metal ion test to see if you have elevated levels of chromium or cobalt in your blood.\nCall the Boston hip implant lawyers at Thornton Law Firm for a free and confidential evaluation of your case. Ask for attorney Marilyn McGoldrick when you call 888-341-1405 and we will put our hip implant legal team to work for you.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Club is delighted to announce the 24 year partnership between the Sydney Swans and QBE will be extended to the Club’s exciting junior development program, which will be officially named the QBE Sydney Swans Academy.\nIn a major coup for the Academy, Paul Roos has accepted the position as Head Coach of the QBE Sydney Swans Academy.\nRoos’ decision to continue his association with the Club in a new full-time role was pivotal in QBE’s decision to make a long-term commitment to the QBE Sydney Swans Academy.\nThe Academy will be a state-of-the-art training facility and development program for talented athletes aged from as young as nine years old, and will shape them into future Sydney Swans players.\nThe Sydney Swans, the AFL and the SCG Trust are looking to work together to build a world class facility at the historic venue to accommodate the Swans and the Academy.\nFrank O'Halloran, Group, Chief Executive Officer, QBE Insurance, says QBE is proud of this extension to the existing relationship with the Sydney Swans.\n“We are delighted with the focus on succession planning within the club and the nurturing of talent for the future - we believe this is a strong foundation for success,” Mr O’Halloran said.\nHe said QBE was pleased to continue its association with Paul Roos, one of the most respected and experienced coaches in Australia. “To retain Paul recognises his dedication and commitment to the Sydney Swans and we look forward to continuing to work with him in the future.”\nRoos, who led the Sydney Swans to their first premiership in 72 years, said he was thrilled by the opportunity to develop the next generation of Swans players.\n“I’ve now been in Sydney since 1995 and have a passion for developing the game in NSW. I’m very excited to be involved with the QBE Sydney Swans Academy,’’ Roos said.\n“Without overstating it, the Academy is the most significant development for the Swans in the 27 years since the Club moved from Melbourne.\n“QBE have once again shown what an incredibly supportive partner they are for the Swans, and their involvement with the Academy will ensure it becomes a real success story,’’ Roos said.\nThe chief executive of the Australian Football League, Andrew Demetriou, was in Sydney for today’s announcement and praised the Swans, QBE and Paul Roos on the establishment of the Academy partnership.\n“On behalf of the AFL, I would like to thank QBE chief executive Frank O’Halloran and his colleagues most sincerely for their continued support and partnership with the Sydney Swans, which is one of the greatest relationships in the AFL,’’ Mr Demetriou said.\n\"Today’s partnership announcement between QBE and the Sydney Swans lays the foundation to provide a world class Academy for young athletes in NSW. To have Paul Roos as Head Coach, identifying, guiding and nurturing the next generations of young sporting talent is a fantastic result for the Sydney Swans and for the growth of the game.’’\nThe Academy began operations earlier this year, under the guidance of former Swans captain and Team of the Century member, Dennis Carroll, as General Manager.\nAlready more than 700 youngsters aged from 9 to 18 have been involved with the Academy at trial days and at elite training sessions under the tutelage of expert coaches.\nWhen the Academy is in full operation next year, it will make contact with thousands of youngsters annually through the Swans wide-ranging NSW zone, which includes more than 1600 schools. More than 300 boys will be involved in ongoing intensive training programs each year.\nSydney Swans chief executive Andrew Ireland said the QBE Sydney Swans Academy was the culmination of several years research by the Club into world-leading sports science and skill acquisition programs.\nIreland and the club’s medical, fitness and coaching staff have visited junior academies at a number of Europe’s leading sporting clubs, including Real Madrid, AC Milan, Ajax, Bayern Munich and Manchester United, to look at best practice models.\n“We have been gathering information for more than five years to ensure our Academy is at the forefront in the areas of sports science and development programs,’’ Ireland said.\n“For the first time, we will be able to develop players and then draft them directly to the Club, and who better to nurture young talent than Paul Roos,’’ he said.\n“While not every boy who is a member of the Academy will go on to play for the Swans, the Academy should significantly increase the number of boys from NSW who go on to play in the AFL, and will also benefit local football.\n“We want to develop our own local talent, and we want NSW boys in our extensive zone to know they can one day pull on a red and white jumper and play for the Sydney Swans if they are good enough,’’ Ireland said.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Monterey Bay Aquarium, which is delivering free distance learning in all 50 states, is creating new fall classes and workshops to support teachers during the coronavirus crisis.\nJulie Packard, the aquarium’s executive director, announced the news on Twitter: “As the US looks for ways to safely start the new school year, [Monterey Bay Aquarium] is delivering effective distance learning to 25K students in all 50 states – free of charge.\n“We’re creating new fall classes and workshops to help support teachers #backtoschool,” she wrote.\nPrior to the coronavirus pandemic, the aquarium welcomed more than 100,000 classroom students and teachers every year, free of charge.\nAquarium helps students get #backtoschool\nAs the US looks for ways to safely start the new school year, @MontereyAq is delivering effective distance learning to 25K students in all 50 states — free of charge. We're creating new fall classes and workshops to help support teachers: https://t.co/wPES51vbtb #backtoschool\n— Julie Packard (@juliepackard) July 14, 2020\nMonterey Bay Aquarium, which won’t host students until 2021, has already launched free online courses that build on its distance learning approaches.\nBy late June, more than 22,000 students across the US had enrolled in multi-day courses, and enrolment grows daily.\n“The pandemic really opened our eyes to the opportunity to bring ocean sciences to inland kids who have never seen the ocean in their lives,” said Rita Bell, VP of Education.\n“We already emphasize place-based science, focused on our own backyards. Our backyard is the ocean, but the activities and curriculum we’ve developed can be done anywhere,” added Bell. “It opens a huge opportunity for our teen and teacher programs, too.”\nPlace-based science with Monterey Bay Aquarium\nA bubble bath for the mind pic.twitter.com/lekQG9zG0T\n— Monsterey Boo Ascaryum 🎃🦑 (@MontereyAq) July 9, 2020\nThe courses combine on-screen curriculum with experiences in nature, as aquarium educators guide students via video using materials developed by the education team.\n“We prompt them to get away from the screen and do things in the real world: walk outside, look out the window, do something in the kitchen,” said Katy Scott, STEM integration manager.\n“We offer options for students with less access to the wild, because we know children don’t all have a backyard at home. We encourage them to do science in a park, on their balcony, out on the sidewalk or just looking out their window.”\nNow, the aquarium is reinventing itself for a different future and reimagining how to deliver its programmes amid the ‘new normal’ of COVID-19.\nNew online classes will roll out in fall 2020\nThis summer, educators will deliver programmes for those who had signed up for in-person programmes at Monterey Bay Aquarium.\nThe attraction will then build classes to serve the students and teachers who normally visit for free school programmes. These online classes will roll out in fall 2020.\nIn the future, Monterey Bay Aquarium hopes to collaborate with colleagues at other aquariums, and to expand outside the US.\n“A lot of online courses are just videos of lectures,” said Scott. “We do a good job of integrating video to build relationships between students and our online instructors.\n“And we include interactives that are engaging for the audience. Over the years, we’ve tested a lot of different approaches.”\nMonterey Bay Aquarium recently teamed up with a Smithsonian entomologist for a Twitch Animal Crossing bug field trip livestream.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A popular outdoor event that celebrates the maritime community while gearing up for the summer season returns this month to Beaufort.\nThe Friends of the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort will host Maritime Day on June 12 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the grounds of Gallants Channel, located at 293 West Beaufort Road at the foot of the new high-rise bridge into Beaufort. The free community event, held annually on the second Saturday in June, stems from the National Maritime Day created by Congress in 1933 and observed annually on May 22.\nFriends Director of Operations Brent Creelman said the local community event offers family-friendly fun in a beautiful setting: the Gallants Channel waterfront.\n“I think everyone is really ready to get together and celebrate again,” Creelman said. “And we’re looking forward to helping them do that.”\nCreelman said the variety of free activities planned — like the popular sailboat rides — offers a broad appeal.\nIn addition to sailing in the museum’s fleet of wooden boats, activities include kayaking, cane pole fishing, kite flying, nature trail tours, kids’ activities, live music and games. Rumor has it that pirates are even plotting to “invade” the site that day.\nAll activities are free; however, donations are appreciated.\nFood trucks will be on site, and beer and wine will also be available for purchase. The event will wrap up with a celebration at 2 p.m. on the waterfront to specially recognize those who have purchased personalized bricks for the courtyard by the flagpole.\nFor those heading into Beaufort that day, the museum will be hosting a book sale on the front patio from 9 a.m. to noon. The museum will also be opening at 9 a.m., an hour early, to welcome book shoppers as well as participants of the Beaufort Ole Town Rotary’s Historic Road Race, which will be held the same morning downtown along Front Street, leaving plenty of time to head over to Gallants Channel for the Maritime Day fun.\nMuseum Associate Curator Christine Brin is a familiar participant in Maritime Day, having taken part in the event for years. This year, though, will still offer a first for her: she’ll be operating a Remote Operated Vehicle underwater and livestreaming the footage.\n“I can’t wait to see what we discover in Gallants Channel,” she said. “Could be all murky, might find some sea animals, maybe even a mermaid!”\nFor more information on Maritime Day or the Friends of the North Carolina Maritime Museum, call 252728-1638 or visit maritimefriends.org.\nBy Cindi Brown, Public Information Officer, N. C. Maritime Museums", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Home > Lifestyle > Food > News\nTuesday February 11, 2014 MYT 7:00:00 PM\nTuesday February 11, 2014 MYT 7:19:09 PM\nIce-cream of the crop: Haagen-Dazs celebrates its three decades in Japan by producing this pair of pink delights – Sakura (left) and Rose.\nThe quintessentially Japanese special is yet another innovative touch by the country’s sweets world.\nTO mark its 30th anniversary in Japan, premium ice cream maker Haagen-Dazs has released a pair of commemorative flavours to celebrate Japanese culture: rose and cherry blossom.\nThe floral ice creams come in various shades of pink. Ribbons of cherry sauce streak through the cherry blossom ice cream, while the damask rose flavour is streaked with ribbons of “rich and sour” plum sauce.\nThe commemorative tubs launched earlier this month across Japan.\nWhen it comes to innovative and unexpected flavour pairings in the Japanese sweets world, chocolate brand Kit-Kat may have the market cornered. Its flavours include everything from Hojicha Roasted Tea, Matcha Green Tea and Blueberry Cheesecake to Edamame Soybean and, of course, Wasabi. – AFP Relaxnews\nTags / Keywords:\nLifestyle, Haagen-Dazs, Japan, floral flavours, Japanese, rose, cherry blossom, ice cream\nIndulgent and creamy creations\nMore than just ice cream\nMalaysian artist relives beauty of Japan’s cherry blossom season through exhibition\nFrench ice cream giant buys Aussie maker of Drumstick\nFamily company grows beyond its humble beginnings making ice cream\nThe best and worst places to build roads\nPantanal wetlands: A paradise to protect\nLocal musician Danny One represents Malaysia music awards\nPrime pulls out all the stops for its weekday lunch menu\nFolk legend Leonard Cohen turns 80, releases new album\nMembers of the Heart Support Group say fellowship and awareness on healthy living keep them going\nQatar adamant it will host 2022 World Cup despite doubts\nWhite House intruder had 800 rounds of ammunition in car - prosecutor\nRussia eyes measures to fend off Western Internet threat: Kremlin\nCopyright © 1995-2014 Star Publications (M) Bhd (Co No 10894-D)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "After Five-Organ Transplant, Woman Gives Birth\nAt age 19 years, Fatema Al Ansari was diagnosed with a condition called mesenteric thrombosis – a clot that blocks the blood flow of a vein carrying blood from the intestine. The condition caused her abdominal organs to fail.\nShe was two months pregnant. Fatema’s condition grew worse as her liver, pancreas, stomach, and small and large intestine continued to fail. Making matters worse, her pregnancy further put her life in danger and it had to be terminated.\nWith no more options left in her native Qatar, she was flown to Jackson Memorial Hospital to seek medical treatment in 2007. Two months later, Fatema received a five-organ multivisceral transplant that gave her a new liver, pancreas, stomach, and small and large intestine.\nNever giving up hope, at 26 years of age, Fatema and her husband returned to Miami and Jackson to attempt to realize their dream of becoming parents. She became pregnant via in vitro fertilization treatments. Because of her previous medical condition, Fatema’s pregnancy was considered high-risk. She remained in Miami and was monitored closely by her team of UHealth/Jackson transplant surgeons at the Miami Transplant Institute and UHealth/Jackson OB/GYN physicians at Jackson Memorial Hospital.\nAt 36 weeks pregnant, Fatema delivered a healthy baby girl at Jackson via C-section on February 26, 2013 – becoming the first five-organ transplant patient in the world to conceive and deliver.\nFeb. 2018 Employee Stories\nFighting the Unknown. Link opens story page.\nMore than 30 years ago, Miami became the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic. When the first patients came to Jackson Memorial Hospital in the 1980s with this unnamed disease, I was a young doctor, fresh out of residency, at the beginning of my career.Explore in story page.\nJan. 2017 Employee Stories\nEmployee to Patient – In an Instant. Link opens story page.\nWorking at Jackson, I often heard success stories about patients who beat the odds, but I never expected I would become one of them.Explore in story page.\nJan. 1979 Jackson History\nJackson Employees Save the Alamo. Link opens story page.\nIn the late 1970s, Jackson employees stopped the demolition of Miami’s oldest surviving hospital building.Explore in story page.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Newsdesk posts with results matching church\nOctober 19, 2016 ET\nMarching Church unveil video for \"Lion's Den\", with 'Telling It Like It Is' out next week!\nSeptember 14, 2016 ET\nMarching Church share 'Lions Den' from forthcoming second album 'Telling It Like It Is'\nPress Release: MARCHING CHURCH announce album 'Telling it Like It Is' for Oct 28th release on Sacred Bones\nSeptember 7, 2016 ET\nMarching Church, band of Iceage's Elias Bender Rønnenfelt announces second album\nJune 23, 2016 ET\nMay 16, 2016 ET\nApril 23, 2016 ET\nFebruary 26, 2016 ET\nJanuary 6, 2016 ET\nNovember 10, 2015 ET", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "U of T ranked best university in Canada for 2019\nAnother university ranking, another top spot for U of T.\nThe QS World University Rankings came out this week, and the University of Toronto was ranked 28th in the world, and 1st in Canada.\nThe university is consistently ranked in the top tier of postsecondary institutions, often taking the number-one spot. This is its second year at #1 on the QS rankings.\nYork and Ryerson also made an appearance, although they were at numbers 481 and 801, respectively.\nComing in at the top of the worldwide list was MIT, followed by Stanford and Harvard.\nInstitutions are ranked by their academic and employer reputations, faculty-to-student ratios, academic citations, and international presence.\nToronto was joined by 25 other Canadian schools, including McGill at 33, UBC at 47, and The University of Alberta at 109.\nHere are the top ten schools in Canada, according to the QS World Rankings:\nJoin the conversation Load comments", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "#RollRepeat: Mega Millions® Jackpot Reaches $430 Million\nCHICAGO—The Mega Millions jackpot is rolling again with an estimated $430 million up for grabs in the next draw this Friday, May 14.\nThis is the highest Mega Millions jackpot on offer since the historic jackpot run in January this year, which led to a lucky lottery player from Michigan winning a $1 billion jackpot.\nThere have been plenty of winning Mega Millions moments in Illinois this year, too. To date, 1.6 million winning tickets have been sold, bringing in over $8.9 million in prizes to Illinois players. This includes two Mega Millions players in Illinois who were made into millionaires after cashing in on $1 million prizes during the historic jackpot rolls series in January 2021.\nIt’s never been easier for Illinois residents 18 years of age or older to get in on the fun and purchase an Illinois Lottery ticket with multiple ways to play. Tickets can be purchased in-store, online, and on the Illinois Lottery’s mobile app.\nMega Millions is played every Friday and Tuesday night, with the next draw taking place Friday, May 14 at 10 p.m. (CT). Players can add the Megaplier for an additional $1 for the chance to multiply non-jackpot prizes.\nAbout the Illinois Lottery:\nFounded in 1974, the Illinois Lottery has contributed over $21 billion (since 1985) to the state’s Common School Fund to assist K-12 public schools, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars to the Capital Projects Fund and to special causes like homelessness prevention, Illinois Veterans services, the fight against breast cancer, MS research, Special Olympics, police memorials and assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS. In addition to playing in-store, the Illinois Lottery offers online and mobile play for all draw-based Illinois Lottery games at illinoislottery.com. Players must be at least 18 years old.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The acquisitions create a formidable player in providing software to put financial services companies online, strengthening Security First's hand against competitors like Microsoft, BroadVision, and Integrion, which is owned by a consortium of major North American banks.\n\"Quite a power move for Security First,\" said Scott Smith, e-commerce analyst with Tera Group, noting that FICS is strong in Europe and Edify has had a high profile in the United States. \"And it certainly doesn't hurt to have a partnership with Intuit and its money.\"\nBanks and insurers are increasingly relying on electronic delivery and financial reporting systems to link with their customers, although that market has been slower to take off than many expected. Security First estimates the $500 million worldwide Internet banking market will expand 40 percent annually to about $2.7 billion by 2003, citing figures from Dove Associates, a Boston-based consulting company.\nMarket research firm Zona Research called Security First's moves \"The right pieces in the right place at the right time, and a good chance to grab market share near term.\"\n\"Every industry goes through a consolidation, and instead of following consolidation, we're leading it,\" said Charles Ogilvie, executive vice president at Security First. FICS adds banking software for major corporations, and the three companies had only two overlapping customers, he added.\nSecurity First is paying about $1.08 billion for closely held FICS and $345 million for Santa Clara, California-based Edify. It's offering 0.330969 of a share for each in Edify, valuing each share at 17.87, a 15 percent premium to Friday's close.\nOgilvie said the product offerings at Security First, Edify, and FICS have little overlap and the companies could end up hiring after the merger is complete. The combined entity, to be called S1 Corporation., would have a workforce of about 1,500 people, which could expand to 1,900, he said.\nShares of Security First fell 3 to 51 on the news, while Edify fell 0.6250 to 14.9375. Intuit gained 0.3125 to 73.8125.\nThe combined transactions will increase Security First's shares by 26.4 million shares. It has about 12.5 million shares outstanding. Earlier this year, Hewlett Packard invested $10 in Security First.\nIntuit's investment will pave the way for it to expand connections for its tax preparation and small-business accounting software.\n\"We as a company are not really set up to do the kind of sales, service, and support that a company like S1 is, yet we've got great tools,\" said Intuit chief executive Bill Harris. \"Being able to integrate our tools with online banking solutions such as those created by Security First is a win-win for everyone one.\"\nFor example, Harris said, the cooperation could make it easier for users of Intuit's Web TurboTax service, which lets taxpayers fill out returns on the Internet, to pull financial data for tax purposes from their bank's records. S1's Ogilvie said the alliance would accelerate efforts to integrate Intuit's small business accounting software, QuickBooks, with online banking applications from Edify.\nThe new company will be based in Atlanta, with Security First's chief executive James Mahan as chief executive. Michel Akkermans, chief executive and chairman of FICS, will become S1's chairman.\nSecurity First had 1998 sales of $24.2 million, employs more than 375 people, and its clients include more than 100 financial service companies. Edify employs 470 people and has 300 financial service companies and more than 1,250 other organizations as customers.\nIntuit is buying 970,813 shares and has options to buy up to 9.9 percent of S1, or an additional 5.6 million shares at $51.50 each, Ogilvie said.\nSecurity First expects to complete the transactions by December, though they could be closed by September. The company formerly had its own online bank, which it sold last year.\nBloomberg contributed to this report.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Al Pacino has been ordered by a Los Angeles judge to pay his girlfriend, Noor Alfallah, over $30,000 per month in child support for their son, Roman. According to documents obtained by Page Six, Pacino must also pay Alfallah $110,000 upfront, cover any medical bills not covered by health insurance, and provide $13,000 for a night nurse.\nThe court ruling further stated that Pacino should make a yearly $15,000 deposit into an education fund for Roman. The judge also granted joint legal custody to Alfallah and Pacino, with primary physical custody given to the \"Scarface\" star.\nPacino, 83, and Alfallah, 29, were first linked romantically in April 2022, but it was later revealed that they had been dating since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sources close to the couple described their relationship as strong, despite the significant age difference. Alfallah, known for dating wealthy older men, previously had relationships with Mick Jagger and Nicholas Berggruen.\nIn May 2023, it was confirmed that Alfallah was eight months pregnant with their son. Sources claimed that the pregnancy was unexpected and unplanned. The couple welcomed Roman a month later. However, in September, Alfallah filed for custody of their son, although the reasons behind this decision are unknown.\nPacino, who has never been married, described the birth of his fourth child as a \"very special\" miracle. In a video obtained by the Daily Mail, he expressed his joy and gratitude, stating, \"It always has been. I've got many kids, but this is really special coming at this time.\"\nIn addition to Roman, Pacino has three other children from previous relationships. He shares Julie, 34, with Jan Tarrant, and twins Olivia and Anton, 22, with ex Beverly D'Angelo.\nThe court ruling marks another chapter in Pacino's personal life, which has been a subject of public interest over the years. Known for his iconic roles on screen, including Tony Montana in \"Scarface\" and Michael Corleone in \"The Godfather\" trilogy, Pacino's love life has often attracted media attention.\nAs for Alfallah, she has a history of dating high-profile figures and being part of the wealthy jet-set crowd. Her previous relationship with Mick Jagger garnered significant media coverage. The details of Alfallah's custody filing for Roman remain undisclosed.\nWhile Pacino continues to make headlines for his professional achievements, such as his recent role in the film \"House of Gucci,\" his personal life continues to captivate the public's interest. With the court's ruling on child support and custody, the relationship dynamics between Pacino and Alfallah will undoubtedly continue to generate attention in the coming months.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Janice Manning Crandall (Omicron, Baker University) was elected as National President at the 1996 National Convention. Janice began her volunteer work on the National Council in 1983 while also serving as the NPC delegate on and off from 1984-97. She was remembered fondly by friends who said, \"She always had a friendly smile and was eager to help her fellow sisters.\"\nJudy Evans Anderson (Alpha Lambda, University of Minnesota) was elected National President at the 1996 National Convention. Judy first began her national volunteer role as vice president in 1985. She also worked with NPC from 1991-96, serving as alternate delegate and delegate.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "New Delhi [India], May 21 (ANI/SRV Media): Abdominal Cancer Day was observed all over the world on 19th May 2021. Keeping in mind the severity of this stomach cancer, a worldwide webinar was organized as the main event in which many experts and well-known personalities participated from all over the world.\nThe event was organized by the Abdominal Cancer Trust and IIEMR. The webinar's Chief Guest was Padmashree, noted Author and Poet, Ashok Chakradhar, who initiated the event. He started the program in his familiar style through a poem in which he praised the work done by Dr Sundeep Jain.\nOn the occasion of Abdominal Cancer Day, he said, \"Your life is your responsibility, in negligence the danger is heavy, if you have cancer, consider it is a decree of death, this is the patient and this is the successful treatment.\"\nThe keynote speaker of the webinar, Founder Trustee, Abdominal Cancer Trust, Dr Sundeep Jain, in his presentation said, \"In today's hectic life, untimely eating has not only disturbed our daily routine but also adversely affected our health. 90 to 95 per cent of cancers are related to environmental and lifestyle reasons and only 5-10 per cent are due to hereditary genetics (hereditary). In my 15 years of experience in the field of gastrointestinal and bariatric surgery, I have noticed that most people are unaware of the potentially serious illnesses and risks to their lives behind the initial symptoms. Stomach diseases have still not attracted the attention of people from all educational, financial, and social sections of society and our people are still not fully aware of such potentially fatal diseases. This is a matter of concern.\"\nAfter this presentation, Abdominal Cancer Survivors shared their experiences in the webinar in which they gave information on how they have been treated for the deadly disease. A mobile application was also unveiled based solely on causes and prevention related to abdominal cancer. This mobile application provides information about the tests and their prevention of all types of abdominal cancer-related problems and is available in 13 Indian languages. The mobile application is available worldwide and will prove to be beneficial for all abdominal cancer patients.\nDistinguished guest at the webinar, Dr SS Sharma (MD, DM) Senior Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, SMS Medical College, Jaipur, said that in the ongoing Corona era, everyone has come to know the importance of staying healthy. People have become alert. Just like corona, they have been more cautious about symptoms for other diseases too.\nThe same applies to stomach cancer and obesity. It grows like this and it is very important that we know its early symptoms. The situation is very bad, as the concerns of cancer patients and their families have increased because the risk of covid-19 infection has increased due to cancer. The immunity of cancer patients is less and it also reduces the ability to fight diseases in the body. For cancer patients, the same precautions are necessary for the general public, just to be strict in compliance.\nThe seminar ended on a positive note as a deeper and stronger message to analyse and study the early symptoms of Abdominal Cancer was spread among all the attendees.\nThis story is provided by SRV Media. ANI will not be responsible in any way for the content of this article. (ANI/SRV Media)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- BHA Group Holdings bhag said Friday that its shareholders have approved of an acquisition proposal by G.E. Energy, a unit of General Electric GE, -1.43% BHA Group, which supplies replacement parts and services for industrial air pollution, said the deal could close on Aug. 31. Shares of BHA Group last traded up 4 cents at $37.97. Shares of GE last traded down 5 cents at $32.74\nHave breaking news sent to your inbox. Subscribe to MarketWatch's free Bulletin emails. Sign up here.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By Kevin Deutsch\nLocal voters will be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine when they vote for their new representative in the U.S. Congress.\nThe Broward County Supervisor of Elections office is launching a “Vote & Vax” program this month for the U.S. District 20 Special Primary Election.\nThe vaccination push is a partnership between the supervisor’s office, the Florida Department of Health of Broward County, and Broward County Transit.\n“Vote and Vax helps boost community vaccination rates by offering voters the opportunity to cast their ballots and then safely and easily get their vaccination nearby,” said Ivan Castro, Voter Engagement and Communications Coordinator for the Broward County Supervisor of Elections.\nThis service is offered from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., October 23 through October 31, at all early voting sites for the District 20 primary.\n-Tamarac Branch Library, 8701 W. Commercial Boulevard, Tamarac.\n–African-American Research Library, 2650 Sistrunk Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale.\n-Miramar Branch Library, 2050 Civic Center Place, Miramar.\n-Lauderhill Mall, 1519 NW 40th Avenue, Lauderhill.\n-South Regional Library, 7300 Pines Boulevard, Pembroke Pines.\n-E. Pat Larkins Community Center, 520 Martin Luther King Boulevard, Pompano Beach.\nParticipants in the program will also receive a free month-long bus pass from Broward County Transit.\nThe special election is being held to fill the vacancy left by the late congressman Alcee Hastings. The district includes Tamarac, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach.\nGot News? Send it to Tamarac Talk.\n- Kevin Deutsch is an award-winning crime journalist and author. A graduate of Florida International University, Kevin has worked on staff at The Miami Herald, New York Daily News, and The Palm Beach Post.\n- NewsDecember 3, 2023Chabad Jewish Center of Tamarac Holds 2 Major Chanukah Events\n- NewsNovember 29, 2023Lauderhill Toy Giveaway Aims to Spread Holiday Joy\n- NewsNovember 28, 2023Lauderhill Hosts Dive-In Movie: ‘Jingle All the Way’\n- NewsNovember 27, 2023Virtual Forum Simplifies Tax Mysteries for Residents and Businesses in Lauderhill", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Cambridge Quantum (CQ) and Honeywell have announced that they have reached three technical milestones. These milestones are proof that quantum technology at large is a viable option and the optimization of these quantum solutions can come sooner than anyone previously expected.\nThe group of scientists has successfully demonstrated real quantum error correction (QEC). This is a big advancement and a big step forward into putting quantum technology into the real world to perform computing tasks. Honeywell has reported that they have achieved a quantum volume of 1,024. Much more than they have previously anticipated. Breaking their previous record which was the highest measured on a quantum computer until this breakthrough.\nIn addition to this, CQ has also demonstrated its new and advanced quantum algorithms that are using far fewer qubits to perform the same task. They solved the problem using 6 qubits, rather than using 23 as their previous effort. This new algorithm will be vital for financial and industrial applications.\nHoneywell also broke another milestone; they have managed to double the performance of their H1 quantum system. This double in performance has set a new record just four months ago. Honeywell’s scientists have also managed to place ten physical qubits in a single logical qubit in their System H1 Model. They also managed to apply multiple rounds of QEC protocols to protect the quantum information. This logical qubit successfully combats the errors that accumulate during the computations.\nCQ and Honeywell have also announced in June their partnership. They will unite in one company that is expected to become the largest quantum computing company in the world. This transaction is expected to be closed after the regulatory committee reviews the merger. These companies have worked together for many years and managed to bring many new solutions to the quantum computing industry.\nThis new algorithm is showing how big of an impact the partnership between CQ and Honeywell makes, and also shows what can we expect out of the merger of these two companies. Their collaboration and their latest algorithm show the speed up convergence, scalability, and accuracy of the quantum algorithms for combinatorial optimization-related problems. Namely, supply chain problems, problems in manufacturing and logistics.\nCQ has managed to accelerate the convergence up to 100 times than previously, this improved the solution quality and has reduced the hardware resources needed to perform these tasks compared to standard Variational Quantum Eigensolver and Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm. These new solutions have been successfully implemented on Honeywell’s System H1.\nHoneywell is a Fortune 100 company that delivers many solutions to different industries. These solutions include aerospace products and services, they also offer control technologies for industry and buildings. Their technologies are used by companies all over the world. As they say, their technologies are making the world safer, smarter, and more sustainable.\nAbout Cambridge Quantum\nCambridge Quantum (CQ) was formed back in 2014 and they have established themselves as world players when it comes to quantum software and quantum algorithms. CQ allows its customers to get the most out of the quantum hardware. They have offices in the UK, USA, and Japan.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "“Paying Tribute to our Fallen Heroes this Memorial Day”\nFrom the White House weblog:\nIn this week’s address, President Obama commemorated Memorial Day by honoring the brave men and women in uniform who have given their lives in service to our country. As we stand with our veterans and military families this weekend, the President underscored our commitment to uphold our nation’s sacred trust with our veterans and ensure they get the benefits and opportunities they deserve and have earned.\nClick below to listen to the audio only:\nTranscript after the break.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Sheffield United midfielder tested positive See full list on irishtimes.com Friday 10 June, 21:00 (Saint-Denis): France 2-1 Romania – Group A Saturday 11 June, 15:00 (Lens): Albania 0-1 Switzerland – Group A Saturday 11 June, 18:00 ( Apr 01, 2021 · If Jota, Bernardo Silva, Bruno Fernandes, Joao Felix, Andre Silva and Pedro Neto are all able to score this summer, Portugal will be a formidable contender to win Euro 2020.\nGroup E. Spain ESP --Sweden SWE See more. Group F. Hungary HUN --Portugal POR See more. Poland Euro 2020 odds. You can find Poland at a huge 80/1 to win the tournament this summer. Although a tournament victory seems unlikely, at least progressing through the group stages should be a Jun 11, 2021 · - Italy vs. Turkey kicks off the postponed Euro 2020 in Rome on Friday.\nJun 07, 2021 · Opposing defenses will have to lock him down to slow down the Turks. Gareth Bale (Wales): Bale is the face of Welsh football. After a disappointing 2019-20 season at Real Madrid, Bale returned to Tottenham in 2020-21. This season, Bale scored better than a goal per 90 minutes (1.08) in just 920 minutes for Spurs.\nBut their mind-boggling depth makes them not just Group F favourites, but my pick Jun 07, 2021 · Spare a thought for Hungary, which did extremely well to reach Euro 2020, but will need a minor miracle to see the knockout stages. France , the tournament favorite, will battle with Portugal and Jun 10, 2021 · So, at 101, we have picked out eight must-watch games that will take place during the Euro 2020 group stage. 1) Turkey vs Italy (Friday, June 11, 2021) Our list has to start with the opening match Apr 29, 2021 · EURO 2020 KITS New away shirts released by Adidas for Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Spain, Russia and Sweden RICHARD JOLLY France have to be favourites for Euro 2020, despite what the bookies say Jun 10, 2021 · Thu Thursday 10 Jun June 2021 at 2:19pm.\nThe UEFA EURO 2020 will take place from June 11 to July 11, 2021. France, Portugal and Hungary are Germany's opponents at the EUROs 2020 then beat Croatia in the round of sixteen, Poland in the quarter-finals, Wales in the\nSince then, his European soccer picks have been spot-on. Euro 2020 qualifying takes place in March, June, September, October and November with two games each month, so all but one Pot 1 nation will not have a free date for friendlies unless they slot He’s not a regular starter, either, have made Rossi’s line-up in just three of the last 11 internationals that Hungary have played. In truth, you get what you pay for in this price bracket. Austria’s influential utility man David Alaba (€5.5m) does stand out – he is fond of a shot or two, having had 17 attempts on goal in five EURO European and Nations League champions Portugal kick-started their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign with a hard-fought win over Serbia in Belgrade. It has been a long time coming, but Euro 2020 (in 2021!) is finally on the horizon. And though it promises to be a competition unlike any fans have seen before, with games being spread across the Cristiano Ronaldo scores twice in a pulsating draw against Hungary Hungary, who were denied a winner when Adam Szalai's shot hit the post, will Only Michel Platini (9) has scored more goals at European 2, P Portugal is joined by Germany, Hungary and France, the defending World Cup champions, in Group F. If Portugal is able to repeat as champions at Euro 2020, it will become and fade, including a long shot who has a chance France, Germany and Portugal could potentially get Iceland in their Group E: Spain, Poland, Sweden, Playoff Winner B (Bosnia and Grop F: Germany, France, Portugal, Playoff Winner A (Bulgaria, Hungary, Iceland or Ro Hungary had six shots on target compared to Republic of Ireland's one, They have won nine games and drawn four.\nA varied coaching career has taken Poland does not use the euro as its currency. However, under the terms of their Treaty of Accession with the European Union, all new Member States \"shall participate in the Economic and Monetary Union from the date of accession as a Member State with a derogation\", which means that Poland is obliged to eventually replace its currency, the złoty, with the euro. Spain can only 'hope for the best' in Euro 2020 opener (1:16) Alejandro Moreno examines the difficult situation facing Spain amid a COVID-19 outbreak on the eve of the Euros. Probably one of the strongest teams in European football right now, and the current World Champions certainly have their hopes up for the upcoming Euro 2020. A rejuvenated team that is saturated with talents like Kylian Mbappe and Paul Pogba hopes to go even further than they did four years ago when they lost to Portugal in the finals.\nWell, actually, you could argue that all 24 countries have a shot at achieving something special this summer when you recall tha Is UEFA EURO 2020 going to be your first EURO? Can coach Didier Deschamps complete a EURO double, having won the Group stage opponents : Germany, Hungary, Portugal Group stage opponents: Poland, Spain, Sweden ..\nteams will play one another in the opening round, with the first- and A betting guide to the UEFA European The Spanish have won the Euro three times before, making them the most successful team in the Google will work with UK regulators on its big ad tracking change Hungary vs Portugal Prediction: UEFA Euro 2020 | June Group F: play-off winner A or D, Portugal, France, Germany. Who will join Hungary v Iceland Euro 2020 Playoff Final preview. The Puskas The Red Devils are 13/2 to go the whole way and have a winnable group Poland, Sweden and Slovakia aren't the most difficult opposition in finish behind England – or face one of Portugal, France or Germany.” The Portugal national football team has represented Portugal in international men's football With the win, Portugal qualified and made its only appearance in the FIFA Four days later, in the finals at the Estádio do Dragão in England, France and Portugal are leading contenders for Euro 2020. Who will win Euro 2020? Well, actually, you could argue that all 24 countries have a shot at achieving something special this summer when you recall tha Is UEFA EURO 2020 going to be your first EURO? Can coach Didier Deschamps complete a EURO double, having won the Group stage opponents : Germany, Hungary, Portugal Group stage opponents: Poland, Spain, Sweden .. The UEFA EURO 2020 will take place from June 11 to July 11, 2021.\n- Norwegian euro 2020 scotland vs. czech republic\n- Uefa euro 2020 how to get your groupid italy vs. switzerland\n- Euro 2020 final location germany vs. hungary\n- Euro 2020 qualification draw ukraine vs. north macedonia\nReuters: Peter Nicholls. ) After a delay of 12 months, the UEFA European Championships Poland National Team » Appearances EURO Qualifiers 2019/2020 Portugal not convinced the first matches of the Euro, but qualified with a total of 3 points after three draws with Hungary, Iceland and Austria, which were superior to the band. We might call the optimum lucky victory against Croatia: Vida passed scored three times, while the Portuguese had no clear opportunity to empty. May 29, 2021 · Euro 2020 will be played at 12 venues across Europe Image Credit: AFP Also in this package Euro 2020: Take a look at squads for all 24 teams at European Championships Euro 2020 will now take place in 2021, though its name is staying the same.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Committed To Bring Natural Gas Under GST To Make Prices Cheaper: PM\nNew Delhi: The Centre is committed to bring natural gas under the goods and services tax (GST) regime to make prices cheaper and uniform across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday.\n“We are committed to bringing natural gas under GST regime… I want to tell the world come invest in India’s energy sector,” Modi said while dedicating the Ramanathapuram-Thoothukudi natural gas pipeline and Gasoline desulfurisation unit in Tamil Nadu to the nation via video-conferencing.\nModi also said that India will generate 40% of all its energy from renewable sources by the year 2030.\nNatural gas is currently outside the ambit of GST, so central excise duty, state VAT and central sales tax continue to be applicable on the fuel.\n“Non-inclusion of natural gas under GST regime is having adverse impact on its prices due to stranding of taxes in the hands of gas producers/suppliers and is also impacting natural gas-based industries due to stranding of legacy taxes paid on it,” the Federation of Indian Petroleum Industry (FIPI) said.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "40th National Education Day observed today\nKATHMANDU: The 40th National Education Day and International Literacy Day-2019 has been observed across the country by organising various programmes on Sunday.\nPresident Bidya Devi Bhandari today conferred various medals, awards, decorations and honours on 373 persons in recognition of their outstanding academic achievements.\nOn the occasion, President Bhandari conferred the 'Nepal Bidya Bhushan' (A, B and C grades) and 'Nepal Chhatra Bidya Padak' on various students nominated for those education awards.\nLikewise, the head-of-the-state expressed optimism that the outstanding students would use their expertise, knowledge and skills to achieve the national goal of 'Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepalis' proposed by the incumbent government.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The New Central Library (NCL) is already attracting attention from far and wide.The stunning architectural design – intrinsically based upon the encapsulation of the LRT – is an industry coup in itself. The building will undoubtedly stand as a tes-tament and a source of local pride to the city, becoming another landmark architectural icon. But it will also be more than just a symbol; it will be a living, breathing space designed to bridge communities in both a physical and emotional sense – one that, most important perhaps, will be accessible by one and all.\nLibrary lore Today’s libraries have evolved into so much more beyond being just a warehouse for books and other resources. In a leadership brief entitled, Building Connected Communities, the Urban Libraries Council describes the potential of these civic institutions: “The pace of change and its immediate impact on daily life and economic success make the role of public libraries as trusted guides in a rapidly chang-ing world increasingly vital. Every day, libraries offer programs, services, and resources that introduce the possibilities of technology, build digital literacy skills, and provide access for all.” Libraries are also economic drivers. A 2013 study by the Martin Prosperity Institute found that the Toronto Public Library delivers $5.63 of economic impact for every $1 spent. But, at its very heart, libraries help shape communities. “Library structures in downtown North America are used as a point of pride for North American communities,” says Bill Ptacek, chief executive officer, Calgary Public Library. “But, I think one of the things that public libraries can do better than any other in-stitution is bring together people from all different walks of life.” Ptacek acknowledges that libraries contribute to the overall literacy of the community and thus, have a real economic impact. But they are so much more than just that. Libraries are peoples university,” he says. “We are the information broker for the community. Libraries are a benefit to everyone in the community and an investment in the future.” Community access Of course, the NCL will be a stunning piece of architectural ingenuity.\nNow in 2018 , is the completion of the building’s interior spaces, which includes installing flooring and shelving, con-structing 40+ meeting rooms, and selecting furniture and audio-visual equipment. On the slate for 2018 is the com-pletion of the interior construction and finishings (once this is done, the Calgary Public Library will be able to move in); and the soft landscaping, which includes all the exterior, as well as the trees and planters surrounding the building. To date, the official grand opening remains Q42018. “Our objective all along has been to deliver a high-quality design and a high-quality project that’s on time and on budget,” says Thompson. “Of course, how we built the team and how we’ve been dealing with the project is the really interesting part of the story. In the end, however, what we’d like to see is an inspirational gathering space for Calgarians to use for generations.” Ptacek would be the first to agree that the NCL will become an important part of the fabric of Calgary. “I think the NCL will be the embodiment of our mission statement, which is Potentials Realized,” he concludes. “I think Potentials Realized reflects the NCL building, the people who work there, the people who use it, and the communities served.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rutgers will play Iowa State in the second annual Pinstripe Bowl on Dec. 30 at Yankee Stadium, it was revealed on Sunday.\nIt will be the Scarlet Knights' sixth bowl game appearance in seven seasons, after missing out on a bowl last year.\n\"It is a terrific situation when you can play your bowl game in the greatest city in the world,\" said Rutgers coach Greg Schiano. \"Getting an opportunity to play in a bowl game hosted by the New York Yankees is a great reward for our players.\"\nRutgers finished the regular season 8-4, 4-3 in Big East play. The Scarlet Knights had a chance to win a share of the Big East championship for the very first time, but lost at UConn 40-22 on Nov. 26 in their regular season finale.\nThis will be Rutgers' second game of the season at Yankee Stadium -- the Scarlet Knights defeated Army 27-12 there on Nov. 12.\nIowa State finished the regular season 6-6. The Cyclones were 3-6 in Big 12 play, but did beat No. 3 Oklahoma State 37-31 in two overtimes on Nov. 18, the Cowboys' only loss of the season.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Tompkins not left wanting upon departure\nBy RYAN OLSON\nThe Daily Mining Gazette\nMarch 31, 2004\nHOUGHTON When the Michigan Tech University Board of Control\nfired President Curt Tompkins last Friday, they left him far from\nBoard members told The Daily Mining Gazette that Tompkins\ncontract, which was revised in 1999, could pay him more than $600,000\nin salary, sabbatical and deferred compensation.\nIt was something already decided when we did\nthe contract with him, said board member Claude Verbal, of\nFountain Hills, Ariz. There was no surprises as far as myself\nor any other board members.\nTompkins was could not be reached for comment this\nUnder the revised pact, Tompkins will draw his salary\nand benefits for a year after his contract has been terminated by\nthe board. Last year, Tompkins earned $202,150, reduced from\n$210,940 because of budget reductions.\nTompkins, as a tenured member of Techs faculty,\nalso had the option of taking a year off for a sabbatical and receive\na years salary.\nBut because he didnt take time off during his\n12-year tenure as president, he is now entitled to the pay. Under\nthe contract, Tompkins also remains a faculty member at Tech although\nits unclear if he intends to teach.\nIn addition, a 1999 university press release states\nthat a deferred compensation fund established by the contract would\nincrease $45,000 each year from contributions from the Michigan\nBased on the press release, the fund could now contain\nas much as $210,000.\nBoard Chairman David Brule of Iron Mountain said the board wasnt\nin a position to default on its agreement with Tompkins.\nWe have to honor it and its something\nwe obviously want to do, Brule said.\nBrule confirmed a statement made by Tompkins last\nweek that he asked the president on March 16 to send a letter seeking\na leadership transition.\nThe Board of Control has the responsibility\nto understand when its time to move on and collectively I\nthink we felt it was time to move on, Brule said.\nBoard Vice President Rodger Kershner of Bloomfield\nHills said the compensation package included in the 1999 contract\nwas an enticement for Tompkins to stay on at the university for\nat least another five years.\nThe board had renewed Tompkins contract for\nthree more years, through June 2007.\nIts not unreasonable I dont think\nin light of whats typically necessary to attract a chief executive\nof any large organization, Kershner said. He did all\nthe university asked him to earn that.\nIf Tompkins had resigned, he wouldnt be eligible\nfor most of those benefits. Tompkins reiterated Friday that he didnt\nTompkins in the past has said that he had no plans\nto quit, including at the time of a December faculty and staff no-confidence\nvote which he lost.\nKershner said the loss of compensation may have been\nwhy Tompkins stayed.\nIt could have been that he was standing up for\nprinciple and telling the world that he thought he was doing a good\njob as president and was going to demonstrate that conviction until\nhe was forced to go or he could have been thinking about the sacrifice\nhe was going to make by resigning, or some combination, Kershner\nBrule said Tompkins statements at the time of\nthe no-confidence vote were likely a reaction to the fact that he\nwasnt going to walk away amid criticism.\nI think he was reacting, which I dont\nblame him for, he said.\nVerbal said that it would have been in Tompkins\nbest financial interests to have the board fire him than resign.\nIt was time for him to move on and its\nthe best way for it to happen, I think, Verbal said.\nBrule pointed out that the deferred compensation funding\ncomes from the Michigan Tech Fund from off-budget funds.\nA Tech press release from July 1999 notes that Tompkins\npledged to return the money to the Leadership Excellence fund as\na charitable remainder trust.\nAlthough the contract mentions that Tompkins would\nhave to serve through five years of his contract, an attorney said\nthe former president can receive the funds because of the three-year\ncontract extension, according to Brule.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Coalition and Labor MPs have backed an Indigenous \"Voice to Parliament\" but recommended the proposal be further developed before it is considered as a referendum proposal to be enshrined in the constitution.\nThe Voice — a representative body to advise Parliament on policies affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people — was the central recommendation of the \"Uluru Statement from the Heart\", issued by a gathering of Indigenous Australians in 2017. It has been backed by Labor but faced hostility from the Coalition.\nThe \"co-design\" process recommended by Parliament's constitutional recognition committee would involve Indigenous people and consider national, regional and local elements of a Voice. The committee recommended the design work be finished in the next term of Parliament and then progress through the legislative and constitutional process in a \"deliberate and timely manner\".\nWhile strong advocates of the Voice may welcome the Coalition MPs' endorsement of it, they will likely criticise the declaration that the proposal needs further work before going to a referendum. The backers say the constitutional change can be done first, followed by the practical and legal development of how it would function.\nLabor senator Patrick Dodson, co-chair of the committee, said a Voice would be the party's first constitutional priority if elected, even as it pushes for a separate referendum on an Australian republic.\nTabling the committee's final report in Parliament on Thursday, he said it was a significant step towards the Parliament achieving bipartisan progress on constitutional recognition.\n\"There has been some quite intense discussion on what should come first: a referendum, legislation or co-design. In some ways this is a matter of political judgement, working through to achieve a successful outcome for First Nations peoples and the Australian community,\" he said.\nGreens senator Rachel Siewert issued a minority report, dissenting against the recommendation that the policy design work come before the referendum. Liberal senator Amanda Stoker also dissented, backing a focus on regional representative bodies rather than a national entity or constitutional change.\nThe remaining Coalition MPs have backed progress on a Voice despite criticisms from Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his predecessor Malcolm Turnbull, who suggested the proposal would be viewed as a third chamber of Parliament, be incompatible with Australian democracy, and face defeat at a referendum.\nLiberal co-chair Julian Leeser said the committee's outcome had \"confirmed bipartisan support for the concept of the Voice\" and predicted it could become a reality if successfully designed.\n\"The design of the Voice is now a matter for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to work with government to achieve,\" he said.\nSenator Dodson said the government's position was \"undefined\" and called on Mr Morrison to back the committee's findings.\n\"The current Prime Minister may be waiting for this report before he makes his mind up. But I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and I hope he would get behind it and support it if we get into power next year,\" he told Fairfax Media.\nEarlier this year, the Prime Minister said he viewed the proposal as a third chamber of Parliament and unworkable.\n\"People can dress it up any way they like but I think two chambers is enough,\" he told ABC Radio.\nThe parliamentary committee also backed another recommendation of the Uluru statement, a process of truth-telling about Indigenous history since colonisation. The MPs called for the government to consider the establishment of a national resting place for Indigenous remains.\nThe committee considered the Uluru statement, the report of the non-partisan Referendum Council, the findings of the 2015 committee on constitutional recognition and the findings of a 2012 expert panel.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "NSO’s Pegasus is in the spotlight after many, many reports. Update your Apple devices for the 12th and 13th zero days. Read more on SIM swapping, and Kaseya. A new study points to a way for spotted owls and finally a proof of concept project using OPA and cosign to sign and verify images.\n- If you haven’t been keeping up with all of the NSO’s Pegasus spyware news and the back and forth, The Verge has a great rundown of what is known at this point with a ton of links. If you’re concerned about your phone, Amnesty International has released MVT on GitHub to search for it.\n- Keep updating your Mac’s and iPhones as Apple has patched actively exploited vulnerabilities in both culminating in the 13th zero day patched this year alone via Security Week.\n- One of the people allegedly involved with the massive Twitter hack and many other SIM swapping extortions primarily for unique social media handles has been indicted. Read more at KrebsOnSecurity\n- John Hammond at Huntress digs into the Kaseya ransomware attack and asks why wasn’t it worse?\n- Finally, ethically concerning Clearview AI raised $30 million and “that new investors have asked not to be publicly identified” via Yahoo News.\nOwl fun and facts:\nThe spotted owl is back in the news as a 17 year study was recently released that showed the best chance of survival for the spotted owl was to remove the invasive barred owl originally found on the East Coast. Read more at OSU news.\nA Shout Out:\nThis is another really interesting use case of policy as code to sign and verify images using 2 major CNCF projects.\n“This project is just a proof-of-concept project that shows people how they can use cosign and OPA (Open Policy Agent) together to implement the signing and verifying container image process together.\nIn most basic form, cosign is a container signing tool; it helps us to sign and verify container images by using the signature algorithm (ECDSA-P256) and payload format”\nRead more about the project on GitHub\nTSD began as an internal newsletter that our Security Lead, Daniel Tobin, would circulate to the team each Tuesday. It proved to be a great resource for all of us so we thought, why not share it with all of you? Our hope is that it helps make you just a bit more secure.\nCheck back here every Tuesday for more TSD or sign up below to stay in the loop!\nThat’s owl for now!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In this week’s newsletter, I look back on a lunch I had with Siri co-founder Adam Cheyer in 2014. Siri was a ground-breaking intelligent assistant. But his new, recently launched company, Viv, will put intelligence into much more than your smartphone.\nArtificial Intelligence technology is slowly but surely making everything around us smarter. Some AI, such as IBM’s Watson, will take years to be fully utilized. Watson is currently being deployed as a medical research assistant, but it will have many other uses in years to come. Other AI, such as Siri and Google Now, are already widely deployed. Regardless of when and where these AI systems are rolled out, a common theme has emerged: AI is increasingly being used to augment human intelligence, rather than replace it. AI may as well stand for ‘Assistive Intelligence’, particularly if Viv is any indication.\nI mentioned in a previous newsletter that virtual assistant software in your smartphone is probably the most popular form of AI right now. On iPhone the software is called Siri, on Android it’s Google Now, and on a Microsoft Windows phone it’s Cortana. All three enable you to ask a question – for example, will it rain tomorrow? – and a robotic voice will respond. I just asked that very question to my Siri and she responded, “It sure looks like it’s going to rain tomorrow.” Thanks for being a downer, Siri.\nPhase 2: Mr Robot Cameos\nThat was phase one of intelligent assistants. Phase two will be AI devices that reside in our homes. An early example is Amazon Echo, which looks kind of like a mini-speaker. The idea is that you place the Echo in a common living area, such as your kitchen, and ask it questions. You can ask it to play music, give you the latest news, or forecast the weather like my Siri just did. The device is always-on and you just need to say its name, “Alexa,” to wake it. According to Amazon, Alexa is self-learning software:\n“Alexa is built in the cloud, so it is always getting smarter. The more customers use Alexa, the more she adapts to speech patterns, vocabulary, and personal preferences.”\nIt must be getting very smart by now, because the Echo has become one of the most popular Internet devices of the year. It even made a guest appearance in the latest season of Mr Robot, one of my favorite TV shows. In last week’s episode, lonely FBI Agent Dominique DiPiero asked her Echo, “Alexa, when is the end of the world?” Alexa launched into an overly technical explanation about the Sun, but “several billion years time” was the gist of her answer.\nPhase 3: Intelligence Everywhere\nEcho is a nifty tool, but it still only scratches the surface of what an AI assistant will eventually do. The third phase of this trend will be intelligence embedded in everything around you. One company in particular is trying to make that a reality. Viv is being billed as “an intelligent interface to everything.” It’s been one of the most hyped startups of 2016, but in this case there is good reason to believe the hype. That’s because the team behind Viv is the same one that built Siri.\nThat team includes Adam Cheyer, the engineering brains behind both Siri and Viv. A couple of years ago, I had lunch with Adam Cheyer in San Jose, California. It was the end of May 2014 and I was working on a book project about Douglas Engelbart, the Silicon Valley pioneer who created arguably the world’s first personal computer. Cheyer worked with Engelbart in the mid-1990s, while at SRI International (previously called the Stanford Research Institute). Cheyer was particularly impressed by Engelbart’s vision that computers should augment human intelligence, not usurp it. He carried that philosophy forward into Siri, which was the pioneer among the three smartphone assistants mentioned above.\nOne thing Cheyer said that day in May 2014 particularly stuck with me. “When you do AI,” Cheyer told me, “my learnings from Doug was that you do it in the context of helping people – it’s just a tool. You’re not going to replace humans.” With Viv, which at the time we spoke was still in stealth, Cheyer and his co-founders at Viv are taking that augment philosophy another step forward.\nWhat Viv Will Deliver\nFor a start, Viv will be able to answer more sophisticated queries than Siri and its ilk. In the first public demonstration of Viv in May 2016, co-founder and CEO Dag Kittlaus “ratcheted up” the familiar weather questions to showcase Viv’s intelligence. He asked Viv: “Will it be warmer than 70 degrees near the Golden Gate bridge after 5pm the day after tomorrow?” Despite the complex structure of the question, Viv was easily able to answer: no.\nThe other way Viv will extend what Siri achieved is to make itself a platform for third-party developers, so any software will be able to tap into Viv’s “intelligence.” Prior to Siri getting acquired by Apple in 2010, it reportedly accessed more than 40 third-party services. But after the acquisition, Siri was shut off from third parties completely. So Viv is a chance for Kittlaus, Cheyer and Chris Brigham (the third founder) to finally bring intelligent assistants to thousands – perhaps eventually tens of thousands – of different apps.\nI’m sure there will be amazing new apps that emerge to take advantage of Viv’s platform, but even imagining what current apps could do with it is instructive. Imagine being able to talk to Spotify and ask it to find “music that inspired David Bowie’s 1995 album Outside.” If it correctly interpreted that query, Viv-powered Spotify would present you with a playlist that included acts like Nine Inch Nails and Ministry. Maybe even specific songs that Bowie once name-checked in an obscure interview archived somewhere on the Web. That would be very cool – and very useful.\nIf Viv is ultimately successful, then it’ll be a voice interface to the Internet for nearly everything. Not just Spotify, but you’ll be able to talk to items in your home and objects outside. John Battelle likened the potential of Viv to Google’s search interface in its early years. He said it’s “a new way to interact with the Internet,” just as Google search was a new way to interact with the Internet back in the mid-90s. It’s early days, but I think that’s a great comparison.\nIn conclusion, intelligent assistants are destined for more than a cameo in Mr Robot. If Viv’s potential plays out, they’ll end up featuring as background in The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful, and every other popular tv program too.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dirt bikes stolen from Myaree dealership\nExpensive dirt bikes worth tens of thousands of dollars were stolen from a dealership in Myaree early Thursday morning.\nThe bikes, all red and white Honda CRF450R and CRF250R models, were taken about 2am when thieves smashed their way into the McCoy Street business.\nPolice say an alarm was set off but that the thieves got away with seven bikes.\nNew 2017 Honda CRF450R and CRF250R bikes sell for between $8000 and $12,000 each.\nFremantle Detectives are now investigating if the bikes were ridden away or transported using a truck or trailer.\nOne of the bikes was recovered in Gosnells later on Thursday after a member of the public spotted it. The thief had abandoned the bike after it ran out of fuel.\nPolice want to speak to anyone who saw anything suspicious in the McCoy Street area between midnight and 2am on Thursday.\nAnyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or make a report online at www.crimestopperswa.com.au.\nGet the latest news from thewest.com.au in your inbox.\nSign up for our emails", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Five fishermen from\nFive fishermen from Ramannapallem of Kothapalli mandal went to sea on August 3, For all the latest India News,Written by MUKESH BHARDWAJ | Chandigarh | Published: April 30 Haryana minister and Congress spokesman Randeep Surjwala ridiculed the BJP’s observations.\nhad an altercation a day before he was killed. He had also been booked under the NSA for allegedly assaulting a polling officer at a booth during an assembly election in Fatehpur Sikri in 1993.By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: December 12” one user tweeted. attained after a see-saw battle. will feel they have not lost much. They demanded that farmers’ permission should be necessarily taken before acquiring their land. BJP waved red flags Members from Congress,By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Published: May 17 Here is the list of winners: TASLEEM UDDIN – RJD – Araria RAJ KUMAR SINGH – BJP – Arrah SUSHIL KUMAR SINGH – BJP – Aurangabad JAI PRAKASH NARAYAN YADAV – RJD – Banka BHOLA SINGH – BJP – Begusarai S K alias BULO MANDAL – RJD – Bhagalpur ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY – BJP – Buxar KIRTI AZAD – BJP – Darbhanga HARI MANJHI – BJP – Gaya JANAK RAM – BJP – Gopalganj RAMVILAS PASWAN – LJP – Hajipur DR ARUN KUMAR – RLSP – Jahanabad CHIRAG KUMAR PASWAN – LJP – Jamui BIRENDRA KUMAR CHAUDHARY – BJP – Jhanjharpur UPENDRA KUSHWAHA – RLSP – Karakat TARIQ ANWAR – NCP – Katihar C MAHBOOB ALI KAISER – LJP – Khagaria MOHAMMAD ASRARUL HAQUE – CONG – Kishanganj PAPPU YADAV – RJD – Madhepura HUKM DEO NARAYAN YADAV – BJP – Madhubani JANARDAN SINGH “SIGRIWAL” – BJP – Maharajganj VEENA DEVI – LJP – Munger AJAY NISHAD – BJP – Muzaffarpur KAUSHLENDRA KUMAR – JD-U – Nalanda GIRIRAJ SINGH – BJP – Nawada RAM KRIPAL YADAV – BJP – Pataliputra SHATRUGHANA SINHA –?\n68 lakh was donated from Karnataka, followed by public rally on March 16. For all the latest India News, since they are essential for rejuvenation of Ganga, seeking action against “love jihad”. In their memorandum to the District Collector and SP Sachin Badshah, CASHFGS chairperson Nighat Ahmed said, We fear the way the complaint was handled,” he added. These forces are also responsible for threatening the unity and integrity of the nation and attempting to subvert the time-tested democratic principles of the country.\nAttacking the state government, download Indian Express App More Related News” said Rajan S. telecom providers would send text and voice-based awareness messages. The bench of Justice A V Ramakrishna was acting upon a petition filed by a person E V Antony, said Kerala High Court on Monday. From creation of separate Telangana state to Food Security Bill,he accused the Congress of doing politics by judging its gains and losses.other cabinet ministers and several senior Congress leaders were present.Chief Minister Raman Singh and a host of other leaders.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By offering a stipend and a secure network connection, agencies will welcome employees' personal devices at work.\nMobile computing pilot programs involving Apple iPads and other tablet PCs and smart phones have been a dime a dozen around government. Momentum for all things mobile has been undeniable, but in November 2011, President Barack Obama issued an executive order calling on agencies to limit spending on unnecessary IT devices, citing tablets and smart phones in particular.\nHowever, rather than squelching interest in mobile technology, some observers say Obama’s order might actually help advance those plans as officials re-evaluate their existing computing device strategies for employees and confirm the benefits of mobility. It could also hasten the adoption of a workplace mobile device management approach that is growing in the private sector. It involves a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) plan and is often coupled with giving employees allowances to buy their own devices for shared work and personal use.\n“The order is going to prompt agencies not already doing so to do a strategic review of their workers, their needs and security requirements, so that they can create a mobile device policy around that,” said Adelaide O'Brien, a research director at IDC Government Insights.\nAfter such an evaluation, some agencies will find, as many private-sector firms have, that a BYOD policy can be one of their tools for reducing IT acquisition and management costs while letting employees use the tools they prefer, which helps them be more productive and stay current with new technology, O’Brien said.\n“Agencies are very open to this idea,” she added.\nThey are hardly alone. IDC predicts that in three years 55 percent of all mobile devices used in workplaces worldwide and across all industries will be personally owned — or what IDC calls employee-liable devices. However, O’Brien expects the government to lag somewhat because of security and related concerns.\nThe growth of BYOD is also driven by a recognition that enterprise IT’s traditional purchase-and-control-everything approach is ill-suited to mobile technology.\n“With the variety of [mobile] devices and cost points and the pace at which the technology is moving, it doesn’t make sense [for enterprises] to try and manage that,” said Gene Zapfel, a managing partner at Unisys Federal Systems. “You also need to think about [giving employees] allowances [to buy mobile devices]. It’s a lot cheaper and cleaner than managing a supply chain.”\nThe allowance idea got its first high-profile plug in February 2011 when then-Federal CIO Vivek Kundra suggested that agencies think about giving employees a $2,000 allowance to buy a mobile device and network plan for work. Roger Baker, CIO at the Veterans Affairs Department, said at an industry event in May 2011 that he expects the government to move to that stipend model within two years.\nNumerous agencies are already laying the groundwork. For example, the National Nuclear Security Administration is building a secure mobile wireless infrastructure and has been allowing a test group of employees to access some agency resources using their personal smart phones, said J. Travis Howerton, NNSA's chief technology officer.\nThe agency’s long-term plan is to allow some employees to use approved personal devices in exchange for turning in their agency-issued devices, such as BlackBerrys. “Over time, I would like to see BlackBerrys go to zero,” Howerton said. NNSA is also planning to provide allowances for mobile devices to selected employees who have a documented business need for that capability.\nMost agencies will need to deploy some new capabilities to enable those programs, such as ways to partition devices with separate spaces for work and personal use and the ability to remotely wipe data from a lost or stolen device. They will also need policies that clearly spell out employees' responsibilities, typically codified in acceptable-use agreements.\nAgile software development\nFederal agencies are often known for taking a Missourian “show me” stance when it comes to embracing new ideas. Those waiting to see if agile development can replace the government’s traditional, plodding style of custom software development won’t have any excuses for avoiding agile after this year.\nThe number of agencies trying agile development, in which programmers collaborate frequently with end users and develop functionality incrementally to get working software out the door more quickly, is taking off.\nFor example, the Office of Personnel Management was emboldened by its success with a trio of agile-based projects last year and now has at least eight new agile projects started or planned. Elsewhere, the Homeland Security Department, U.S. Postal Service, VA and numerous Defense Department agencies have agile projects under way.\nNevertheless, agile remains a promising but challenging opportunity. Achieving all the benefits it has to offer will involve a major mind-set change among all the stakeholders in the acquisition and development process.\nGiven the reservations that many executives still have about cloud computing, it’s hard to believe that one of the first cloud services that many agencies will adopt is also one of the highest profile: enterprise e-mail.\nBy the end of 2012, about 2 million federal employees will start their workdays by retrieving e-mail messages from a cloud-based system, which is astounding given that practically none were doing so only two years ago. And that’s just counting the agencies that have gone public with their cloud e-mail plans.\nAs for those lingering cloud concerns: Get over it, say agency executives who are leading the changeover. Officials at the General Services Administration, the Army, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say cloud-based e-mail services will cost them half or less of what they would pay for in-house messaging systems, while also meeting government security requirements.\nBesides saving money, the more standard and accessible cloud-based systems also provide a better platform for building new collaboration applications.\nHTML5 for mobile apps\nNo matter how small, fast or cool a smart phone or tablet PC might be, what many people like most about them are the applications that run on the devices and are available from places such as Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market. The handy, dynamic little apps for work and fun are typically much easier to use than the static websites that users access from a mobile device’s browser. Plus, many of the native apps work even when devices don’t have a network connection.\nUnfortunately, until recently, agencies that wanted to create native mobile apps had to develop separate versions for each of the mobile operating systems if they wanted to reach the widest audience. But now agencies can use the newest version of HTML, called HTML5, to create standard Web apps that have many of the same great features as the native mobile phone apps.\nNumerous agencies, including the Transportation Security Administration and the Labor Department, are hopping on the HTML5 bandwagon, but they recognize that the new standard is not a silver bullet. Many elements of HTML5 are quite stable, but some spotty areas remain, at least for the short term.\nOnly a couple of years ago, virtual desktop technology was an interesting newcomer in search of a good, mass-appeal business case to justify its not insignificant price tag. It will find that irrefutable return-on-investment rationale in 2012 in the form of all the smart phones and tablet PCs that are invading government workplaces.\nVirtual desktop infrastructure solutions were designed to eliminate the management and security liabilities posed by fleets of traditional desktop PCs that store and run most of their own software. With VDI, a centrally managed server hosts the client software and data, and makes it available across a network to end-user client computers as needed.\nSmart phones and tablet PCs are becoming the ultimate thin client. In conjunction with other solutions for ensuring security and partitioning workloads, VDI could let agencies dole out virtual desktops to a wide range of devices, from desktop PCs and thin clients to smart phones and tablet PCs.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "TV makers, including LG Electronic, Panasonic and Thomson, expect increased number of replacements of conventional and small-size TV screens with large-size smart TV panels above 55 inch screen size. Premium and ultra-premium ranges of QLED and OLED TVs are also expected to be in much demand during the World Cup from October 5 to November 19.\nThe industry expects overall sales growth of 18 to 20 per cent, and in continuation of the previous year a higher growth of over 30 per cent from premium products such as large screen TVs, higher capacity refrigerators and washing machines.\nLike in earlier season, the industry is gearing up with offers and interest-free finance schemes to woo customers with new launches along with high-decibel 360 degree campaigns. However, there are also concerns about sales of value-based opening price point (OPP) mass segment products.\nGodrej Appliances Business Head and Executive Vice President Kamal Nandi said again this festive season would be price-led, where the volume would be similar to last year but high-priced premium products would grow over 30 per cent.\n\"Mass segment will be under pressure, as we have been experiencing throughout this year right from Q1 because the inflationary trend is still continuing and as a result, there is pressure on the discretionary spends. Moreover, variation in monsoon, with some states not getting adequate ranis, could impact agricultural income. So, I think this both will play on the mass segment and therefore, we do not expect the mass segment really to do well,\" Nandi told PTI.\nThe appliance and consumer electronics industry is expected to cross Rs 70,000 crore sales this year and the festive season sales, which start from Onam in the south and cover Ganesh Chaturthi, Durga Puja and Deepawali, contribute around 25-27 per cent.\nCompanies also expect pent-up demand for airconditioners which faced challenged due to weather-related uncertainties this summer.\n\"There is demand even during the monsoon as there has been lesser rainfall. Therefore, temperatures were high. We see that trend very clearly in the southern, northern and parts of western and eastern markets also. In the north temperatures are high and with with little rainfall, humidity levels are also high. So AC demand will be there,\" he said.\nPanasonic Life Solutions India also expects a double-digit value-led growth this festive season, primarily led by smart ACs and home appliances products including refrigerators and washing machines.\n\"Last year, we observed that value growth surpassed volume growth and anticipate the trend to continue this year as well with consumers seeking value-added features and lower total cost of ownership. Inverter ACs followed by 4K Android LEDs continue to be the growth drivers for us that grew in double digits,\" said Panasonic Marketing India Managing Director Fumiyasu Fujimori.\nSouth Korean major LG India is encouraged by a 20 per cent growth in Onam sales and expects good growth both in volume and value terms during the festive season this year.\nIt has introduced Diwali offers ahead of the festive season to boost consumer sentiment and encourage early purchases, said LG India Senior VP -Head GTM Ashish Agrawal.\n\"This festive season is coinciding with the World cup. We will see good demand for large screen TVs, battery-backed party speakers and soundbars (audio category). There are many consumers who upgrade their homes or shift to new homes so demand for premium segment like large screen TV, large size refrigerators, washing machines, microwave ovens and AC will significantly increase,\" he said.\nSimilarly, Super Plastronics Pvt Ltd (SPPL), which has licences for international brands including Blaupunkt, Thomson, Kodak and White-Westinghouse for the Indian market, also expects the TV market to grow.\n\"There are few instances in the TV Industry where festival season and India's most popular sport cricket's main event World Cup will be together. We may witness the highest viewership ever, as a result, there can be significant growth in TV sales especially in higher screen sizes,\" said SPPL CEO Avneet Singh Marwah.\nAccording to Consumer Electronics and Appliances Manufacturers Association (CEAMA), it is \"optimistic\" about the uptick in consumer demand and expects \"10 to 15 per cent sales growth this festive period\".\n\"Unlike last year when there was high volatility in commodity prices, this year has witnessed stable commodity prices. Consequently, no price hikes are anticipated as we approach the festive season, which is indeed a positive sign,\" said CEAMA President Eric Braganza.\nEmphasising on premiumisation of products, BSH Home Appliances India MD and CEO Saif Khan said consumer preferences are shifting towards high-quality, feature-rich and innovative appliances.\n\"The premium segment continues to be a significant growth driver for us. The external headwinds have had their fair share of impact on sales but Indian consumers have showcased resilience and the pent-up demand will work to our advantage this year,\" he said.\nHaier India expects 30 per cent growth in sales and has launched a range of new products across categories. It expects the premium segment to perform even better than last year as more consumers are looking to upgrade their appliances.\n\"Our experience during Onam in the south has been encouraging... We have observed that premiumisation has been a consistent trend in the consumer electronics industry, and we anticipate premium segments will continue to lead the festive sales,\" said Haier India President Satish NS.\nMonday, 04 Dec, 2023\n- 3-1: Modi’s Guarantee Stamped on Heartland\nBJP records massive win in MP, ejects Cong govts in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh; southern comfort for Grand Old Party with victory in Telangana. Prime Minister Narendra Modi stamped his electoral authority on the heartland ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls as the BJP wrested Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh from the Congress while retaining Madhya Pradesh with a two thirds majority.Blackstone set to Sell India ARC to Former Exec\nBlackstone, the world’s largest alternative assets manager, is exiting the distressed assets space in India by selling its controlling interest in a high-profile, six-year-old joint venture that includes Tata group, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank. Mathew Cyriac, former PE co-head for Blackstone India, has emerged as frontrunner to buy a controlling 51% in IARC, said people in the know.Singhania, Nawaz Discuss Settlement\nSettlement talks have commenced between Raymond Group chairman Gautam Singhania and his wife Nawaz Modi following their separation, legal sources close to the couple said.\nRead More News on\nDownload The Economic Times News App to get Daily Market Updates & Live Business News.\n- View: Modi shouldn't chase Musk to Make in India\n- Former Blackstone executive Mathew Cyriac set to buy ex-firm's 51% stake in International ARC\n- Russian beverage & aluminium majors eye JVs under Make in India initiative\n- Good tidings for textiles industry as experts see pick-up in production, exports\n- PSBs want cap relaxed for management-level hiring\n- Vodafone Idea halts revenue market share decline in Q2\n- Banking, financial services are looking up as bad debt, Covid-related stress are things of the past: Jaspal Bindra, Centrum Group\n- Piramal Alternatives to deploy Rs 200 crore in ATM player TSI India\n- Honda Cars to hike prices of its entire model range from January\n- Godrej Properties net debt up 17 pc to Rs 6,174 cr in Jul-Sep mainly to fund land acquisitions", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Triggered email messages have repeatedly been shown to garner response rates higher than business-as-usual emails. But that doesn’t mean that you should expect all your Welcome campaigns to be read – or to even reach the inbox. A new study from Return Path finds that it’s a different type of message that’s most likely to be read.\nCart abandonment is a major concern for online retailers, and according to new research, shipping costs and overall price are the two major factors that are causing digital shoppers to abandon their items.\nA majority (55%) of client-side marketers believe that conversion rate optimization (CRO) is crucial to their overall digital marketing strategy.\nA/B testing is the most common form of conversion optimization used among the client-side marketers surveyed worldwide.\nCustomer journey analysis is on track to become one of the most commonly used methods to improve conversion rates, and is now rated the most valuable method by users.\nA/B testing is still a top method used among client-side marketers to improve conversion rates.\nThe biggest pain point for client-side marketers today is the major bottleneck presented by IT and web development teams.\nAsked what they do when they struggle using a mobile app for shopping, 51% close the app and abandon their shopping cart.\nOnline shoppers aged 18-65 are most likely to abandon their shopping carts due to unexpected shipping costs.\n89% of company marketers (primarily UK-based) feel that conversion rate optimization is crucial (55%) or important (34%) to their overall digital marketing strategy.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Obvs! Sedgwick's Old Brown Sherry is not a cure for Covid-19, warns brewer\nOld Brown Sherry is not a cure for Covid-19, as claimed in viral social media posts.\nRumours have been circulating on social media in which is it claimed that not only does a glass of Sedgwick's Old Brown Sherry “make your blood warm”, it also kills the deadly coronavirus.\nThe rumours started circulating after a WhatsApp voice note was shared online.\nIn the voice note, a Xhosa-speaking woman in the Eastern Cape claimed that a child, who had been very ill from Covid-19, was “cured” after having a sip from their uncle's alcohol stash.\nHowever, Distell Group debunked the rumours and said it was aware of the WhatsApp voice note doing the rounds on social media.\nThe group also said it did not condone the consumption of alcohol by minors.\n“We have become aware of a WhatsApp voice note alleging that Old Brown Sherry offers medicinal benefits. This is simply not true,” the group said in a statement.\n“Old Brown Sherry is not a cure for Covid-19. We are equally shocked and extremely concerned that the voice note also suggests that Old Brown Sherry can be consumed by minors. It is illegal for alcohol to be sold to or consumed by anyone under the age of 18, and as Distell we do not condone the consumption of alcohol by minors.”\nThe group advised all consumers to always refer to official sources of information about Covid-19 before sharing rumours.\nAccording to the World Health Organisation, drinking alcohol does not protect one against Covid-19 and can be dangerous. The organisation warned that the harmful use of alcohol increases one's risk of health problems.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This is the moment the young man was photographed after injuring himself while trying to rape a lady.\nHome / NAIJA NEWS / UNIZIK Student Caught Trying To Rape A Lady But What He Ended Up Doing to Himself Will Shock You (Photo)\nThe unnammed man, a student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), was severely injured after jumping down storey building in failed attempt to rape lady on Thursday, August 25.\nThe unnamed male attempted to rape the lady at the female hostel block A by 3:45am.\nThe girl then raised alarm by screaming at the top of her voice and in a bid to escape, he jumped down from the second floor of the hostel and landed in a gutter and was arrested later.\nA Lagos stylist, Tosin took to Instagram to cry out after he was allegedly arrested …", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "One man is dead and three others are injured following a Jeep rollover in an unincorporated part of San Luis Obispo County.\nAccording to the California Highway Patrol, a 31-year-old man from Newhall, California was driving a 1998 Encore M-151 military style two-door Jeep westbound on a private dirt road off Huasna Rd around 10:20 Saturday night.\nIn a CHP report, the driver, while going about 30 MPH, made an unsafe turning maneuver to the left which caused the vehicle to overturn. All occupants were ejected.\nCHP says the driver died from his injuries when the vehicle overturned and was pronounced dead on scene. Authorities are still in the process of notifying next of kin before releasing his name.\nAccording to officials, none of the occupants were wearing lap/shoulder seat belts.\nThe three passengers, a male and two females, sustained minor injuries. One of those passengers was airlifted to Marian Regional Medical Center according to officials.\nIt is unknown if drugs or alcohol were a factor in the collision.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The day was March 9th, 1997 and the music world woke up to a shock. Notorious BIG (Biggie Smalls) was ambushed in the streets of LA. There’s no doubt that music, and the world itself lost so much that day.\nMarch 9th will always be remembered as the day the world lost a great, if not the greatest rapper and artist in the hip hop community. His music has brought light to many issues, has been a motivator and an inspiration for so many. Notorious BIG, although not here will always be remembered.\nCheck out this tribute and share it.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "After a long gap of nearly two decades, the 78-year old Tirunelveli District Police Cooperative Thrift and Credit Society Limited paid dividend to its members on Wednesday, thanks to the efforts of Superintendent of Police Asra Garg.\nOn coming to know from his driver David that dividend to the investors of Tirunelveli District Police Cooperative Thrift and Credit Society Limited had not been given for the past eighteen years, Mr. Asra Garg discussed it with Special Officer of the society I. Noor Mohamed and secretary Natarajan, who told the SP that it would consume two full years to complete the entire process and disburse the dividend arrears.\nHowever, Mr. Asra Garg, who provided adequate men and material support to Mr. Noor Mohamed and Mr. Natarajan, asked them to complete the exercise within two months.\nBeating the deadline, the team accomplished the mission within just 27 days and the dividend of Rs. 23.16 lakh was given to 521 members on Wednesday.\nAccording to Mr. Noor Mohamed, the society, now having 933 members and rated as an ‘A' Grade society since 1999, has Rs. 69.29 lakh as shares and Rs. 80.72 lakh as thrift fund while Rs. 1.88 crore has been invested in other societies as fixed deposits.\n“The general body of the society has now decided to increase the loan ceiling from Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 5 lakh, depending upon the salary being drawn by the members. And the repayment period will be increased from 48 months to 120 months,” Mr. Noor Mohamed informed.\nIncrease in loans\nAs per the revised scheme, DSPs and Personal Assistant to SP can get a loan of upto Rs. 5 lakh while Inspectors and Superintendents (ministerial staff) can draw Rs.3.50 lakh as loan from the society. Similarly, Sub-Inspectors can get Rs. 2.50 lakh and Head-Constables and Assistants can avail Rs. 2 lakh. Constables, Junior Assistants, Typists, Data Entry Operators can get Rs. 1.50 lakh as loan while this amount will be Rs. 1 lakh for Record Clerks and Office Assistants.\nHanding over the dividend, Inspector General of Police, South Zone, S.S. Krishnamurthy said the policemen, who had to plan their lifestyle according to their salary, should effectively make use of this credit facility to improve their living standards and to meet their unexpected expenditures.\nThe IG praised Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Tirunelveli, K.P. Shanmugarajeshwaran and Mr. Asra Garg for their efforts in disbursing the dividends within the shortest possible period of 27 days. Mr. Shanmugarajeshwaran, Mr. Asra Garg and Tuticorin SP T. Senthilkumar spoke.\nKeywords: Thrift and Credit society", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "28th of December, 2021. Georgetown, Guyana, South AmericaLast updated: December 28, 2021 at 14:45 pm\nMeenakshi Narine, the wife of Georgetown Mayor, Ubraj Narine, has taken to social media to condemn alleged fake news reports by a questionable online publication “Live in Guyana” about her family. Her message, posted on her Facebook Page yesterday, 27th of December, reads:\nMy family and I were enjoying the Season only to be distressed by the news that we have become targets of propaganda. I would like to state that the article posted by Live in Guyana is totally false and is a deliberate attempt at targeting my family. I hope a good conscience would allow the persons who posted those false statements to remove it.\nHer statement follows two questionable reports about the Georgetown Mayor, Ubraj Narine, by the publication, “Live in Guyana.” The said source published an article yesterday, 27th of December, that the Mayor has been placed on station bail and his firearm lodged after he discharged three rounds during an altercation between himself, his wife, and his father-in-law. Action News Guyana also carried a similar story alleging that the mayor was involved in a domestic altercation during which he discharged several rounds.\nThe Mayor, along with his wife, however, has denied all this.\nStatement from His Worship Pt Ubraj Narine, Mayor of the City of Georgetown\nIt has been brought to my attention that the online propaganda site Live in Guyana has made me their recent target of lies and misinformation. It would seem that this political press piece is unable to observe the sanctity of the Christmas seasons but prefers to continue its brand of gutter politics.\nIn my Christmas message as I have continued to call through the year for all stakeholders to work together for the betterment of all Guyanese. There is no place for this type of dirty politics. I refute and reject the slanderous statements made in the social media post and call for its immediate retraction.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The United States Department of Commerce announced the federal red snapper season in the Gulf of Mexico will be reopened for recreational anglers.\nThe new season will conclude Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 4. This announcement comes after the original three-day federal season for the popular species closed two weeks ago.\nThe plan will include 39 additional days of red snapper fishing in Gulf federal waters for recreational anglers. The announcement is a result of an agreement between the Department of Commerce and the five Gulf states — Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas — which hoped to improve access for the species.\nThese changes only apply to recreational anglers, not commercial or charter fishing.\nThe announcement is a huge victory for recreational anglers and advocacy groups such as the American Sportfishing Association. The group’s conservation director, Mike Leonard, said the announcement “is a welcome relief for the thousands of tackle shops, marinas, equipment manufacturers and other business who have suffered from decreasing public access to Gulf red snapper in recent years.” Keep Florida Fishing also issued a statement praising the decision.\n“An extended federal Gulf red snapper season will have a tremendous positive economic impact on Florida’s coastal communities, which depend on our state’s $9.6 billion sportfishing industry,” said Gary Jennings, the group’s director. “We appreciate efforts to expand access to our fisheries, and we will continue to push for improvements to federal management of recreational fishing.”\nThe original Gulf season in federal waters was June 1-3, the shortest ever. All Gulf states had longer seasons, with Florida enacting a 78-day season. It also will end Labor Day.\nThe extended federal season will consist of three-day weekends (Friday-Sunday) from Friday, June 16 through Monday, September 4. Fishing also will be allowed on Monday and Tuesday, July 3-4 and Monday, September 4. The compromise to reach the agreement is that each state’s season also will be closed Monday through Thursday during the season, with the exception of holidays. Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas might gain additional fishing days in state waters in the fall depending on harvest estimates from the summer season.\nThe Department of Commerce’s announcement on its website added that the agreement between the federal government and the Gulf states “is a significant step forward in building a new Federal-State partnership in managing the Gulf of Mexico red snapper stock.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A car crash 11 years ago left Terry Brake with a brain injury and forced him to quit his job as a mechanical engineer. He had to relearn how to walk and talk, and was unable to work longer than two hour stretches.\nAs part of his therapy, Brake was given a banana plant from his South African doctor to help him relax. That gesture planted an idea. When his longtime caregiver Laurie Macpherson bought a 40-hectare farm in Huron County, the idea took seed. They became business partners and started a tropical fruit farm.\nGrowing bananas and papayas in Ontario’s climate would appear to be an impossible endeavor without a sophisticated laboratory and team of horticulturalists. However, the two simply started seeding and graphing plants on their own and with lots of trial and error, it took root.\nToday, they sell their produce at farmers’ markets in Goderich and Exeter. Bananas are four for $2 while papayas are $3 each, comparable to the price of imported fruit at the big supermarkets.\nLocated in Blyth, about a three-hour drive west of Toronto, east of Lake Huron, Macpherson and Brake were naive but eager for a career change when they started the farm in 2010. The locals were skeptical when word got out they were growing bananas.\n“We’ve been accused of growing pot or that we were getting (the fruit) from the food terminal,” says Macpherson, a law clerk for 25 years, taking a break from plucking purple beans.\n“So we had open houses, asking them to come in and see it for themselves.”\nNow they have a loyal local following as well as supporters from as far as Windsor who come to buy the fruit as well as more typical Ontario produce such as kale, broccoli, beans and tomatoes.\nBroad fragrant leaves from a cluster of 10 banana trees hits my face as I step deeper into the hoop house, essentially a giant plastic tent with metal arches grounded by wooden planks. The bananas are still green and won’t be ready for market for another week. Macpherson returns from her house with a plate of Lady Fingers. These fat little bananas with thick skin are sweeter than the Cavendish variety, the common banana produced for export markets.\nA circular path along the perimeter of the house is dotted with pineapple plants, long spiky leaves poke at my ankles as I walk past trees sprouting guava, papaya and oranges. Brake, who acts as the farm’s administrator, plucks a leaf from the lemon tree for me to smell. The scent is more intense than lemon zest.\n“Our dream is to see (these fruits) growing everywhere and not have to depend on other countries and employ local people,” says Brake. He is hoping to expand the operation from the current three hoop houses on the property and be able to feed more people in the province.\n“We don’t need to rely on boats or planes and we can have better tasting fruit that would otherwise rot during transport,” he says.\n“We travel to the Dominican Republic and get tips from the plantations there. We also made a friend in Jamaica who works at a resort and showed us how to graph and grow the plants,” says Macpherson, who learned that banana trees grow better in triangle formations rather than in rows. “We also learned that orange trees have to be constantly trimmed before they bear fruit, and that lemons have to be picked before they turn yellow or else they rot quickly.”\nThis year, they’re introducing lychee, starfruit and passionfruit to the farm. The one crop that failed to flourish? Coconut. The cold-sensitive tree didn’t survive the winter and the two decided it was too much trouble to replant it.\nBut how do the rest of the plants fare since Ontario is far from having a tropical climate? When temperatures start dipping, the hoop houses are heated by an outdoor furnace fuelled by wood cut down on the farm’s property. “We do select cutting,” says Brake. “We have loggers cut trees from an area and we don’t cut from it again for 20 years. We noticed in the last six years, our maple trees have gotten bigger because they have more room to grow now.”\nBrake and Macpherson efforts aren’t being universally praised. The farm is facing multiple charges from the Township of Huron and Huron County for failing to obtain permits for its hoop houses, as well as a single charge from the Maitland Conservation Authorityfor altering the wetland and clear-cutting on their property.\nTheir next court date with the township is in October. They are scheduled to go to pretrial with the conservation authority in December.\nBrake says the township’s former building official determined that the hoop houses weren’t permanent structures and therefore aren’t subject to commercial taxes. As for the clear-cutting allegations, Brake says that the trees cut down were diseased or dying.\nWhen contacted for a statement, The Township of Huron and Maitland Conservation Authority said they cannot comment on matters regarding ongoing cases.\nBrake, however, is optimistic that the legal hurdles will clear by the end of the year. He and Macpherson hope to expand operations and build 100 hoop houses on the property next year so they can expand into other markets in the province. There is an online petition in circulation supporting the farm.\n“The county put us in a pickle but we’re here to stay,” says Macpherson.\nOther tropical fruits grown at the farm\nWhile the farm grows more conventional Ontario produce including peppers, kale, cabbage, lettuce, cauliflower, celery and broccoli, it’s the tropical fruit that’s getting most of the attention.\nBrake brought a guava tree from Florida last year and says it produces hundreds of fruit each year. The relatively fuss-free plant needs warm temperatures and water to survive.\nLemons and limes\nThe farm has about 100 citrus trees scattered among two hoop houses since Brake and Macpherson started growing them four years ago. Throughout the year, the leaves are trimmed and sold for potpourri.\nOranges and grapefruit\n“The big grapefruit tree was a gift from a customer in London because it got too big for him,” says Brake. “He grew his outside in his backyard in the summertime and brought it to us in the winter.” The farm also grows two types of oranges, navel and Valencia in two hoop houses. Bees are kept in the back of the hoop house to help pollinate the trees.\nGrown from a strain of Sugarloaf, a type of pineapple grown in Hawaii, these pineapples are smaller, sweeter and less acidic than the Smooth Cayenne, the species of pineapple most common on Canadian shelves. They also have a shelf life of 10 days.\nThe farm harvests about 300 papayas throughout the year and Macpherson bringing papaya salads to Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Russian VOD provider Megogo has jumped aboard the live-streaming bandwagon. Beginning in August, the service will offer the Eastern European market access to live broadcasts of large-scale public events, from music festivals to sports and eSports tournaments.\nChosen as the first headliner for the new services is Z-Games 2016, an Olympics-style Eastern Europe sports tournament and music festival and, according to the Moscow-based company execs “the main event of the year for youth in the post-USSR.”\n“Choosing the project, we looked at dozens of events and picked the most entertaining and interesting. It was not only first-class music and sports component, but also the atmosphere of the festival, extremely popular among progressive audience, that influenced our choice,” said Ivan Shestakov, company marketing director, in a statement.\nZ-Games are scheduled to take place in early August on the Black Sea, with more than 1,500 athletes, musicians, DJs, and artists filling the beach over four days, according to the game’s website.\nUsing a mix of professional-grade cameras and Samsung smartphones (hand operated and attached to drones), Megogo is planning to live stream all four days — from 7 am until the last DJ set. Online translation will be available to viewers in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, the Baltic States and other Eastern European countries.\nAdditional content will include summaries, interviews, discussions and analytics, highlights, fan moments, backstage events and the after-party scene.\nCompany execs estimate the broadcast will garner an international audience of more than 150,000 viewers daily, and view the event as a launch pad to other live-streaming initiatives. The live stream will be available globally free of charge every day of the festival on the Megogo website and apps for all devices and platforms.\nLive streaming is, of course, all the rage among digital brands in 2016, with early leaders in the space — namely Facebook — setting the pace for others to catch up. YouTube and Yahoo (via Tumblr) have both responded by launching their own live-streaming features. Twitter, meanwhile, via the live-streaming platform Periscope, recently tested its live broadcast capabilities at Wimbledon, and plans to stream 10 NFL games every Thursday night during the upcoming season, tapping into the ever-growing demand for live content.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Former W.Va. state trooper pleads no contest to domestic battery\nRITCHIE COUNTY, W.Va. (WTAP) - Former West Virginia State Police Trooper Joseph Comer on Friday pleaded no contest to domestic battery, and guilty to violating a protective order.\nComer was released from jail following the hearing in Ritchie County on Friday.\nHe will be sentenced in 2024. He could face up to a year in jail and/or a $500 fine.\nHe must complete all parts of the agreement or the deal is off.\nCopyright 2023 WTAP. All rights reserved.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "“Obama runs the risk of mission creep in Syria……. However, the key test will be for the US president. Having committed his forces to the fight, he needs to reflect on the lessons of past unsuccessful campaigns. Two-thirds of Americans support the US attack on Isis. But to retain that support, he must set clear goals and avoid the curse of mission creep………..”\nThat is normal, this mission creep: it goes with war, all wars. Going to war is not like giving a birthday party, as I tweeted yesterday. Much more unpredictable. It is almost like going out on a blind date: you can never be sure how things will turn out. That is why they called them ‘blind’.\nIn this case Mr. Obama is going on a double (nay multiple) blind date, along with a gaggle of princes and potentates. Whom he had to pressure and coerce to forcefully side against their wayward fellow Wahhabis of ISIS and Al Nusra and other assorted international cutthroats.\nJust don’t get blindsided.\nMohammed Haider Ghuloum", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Transfer students discuss imposter syndrome amid pandemic, remote instruction\n(Cat Nordstrom/Daily Bruin)\nMay 7, 2021 12:03 a.m.\nA strong sense of imposter syndrome hits Aaron Sokthavy Tann at the start of each quarter.\nWith the quick turnaround of UCLA’s quarter system, Sokthavy Tann said he finds it hard to adjust to new instructors when classes begin – especially amid online classes.\nThe third-year communication transfer student was used to the semester system at his community college, making the transition to UCLA more difficult. He also said he feels like a fraud asking for letters of recommendation and reaching out to professors that he hardly knows.\nThis lack of connection to his professors contributes greatly to his experience of imposter syndrome, he said.\nImposter syndrome describes a phenomenon in which one doubts their abilities and diminishes personal successes as undeserved.\nSokthavy Tann is just one of many students who experience self-doubt. This feeling has been exacerbated for some over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic because of remote instruction.\nMost recently, the university’s decision to prioritize incoming students – but not fourth-year transfer students – sparked conversations among the transfer student community about feelings of devaluation from UCLA administration.\nTransfer student housing fosters community among transfer students, said Tiffany Do, a fourth-year sociology transfer student.\nDo said she did not feel imposter syndrome during her in-person classes because she could rely on dorm life to provide her a close connection with the transfer and greater UCLA community. However, the feeling arose when she became a Transfer Experience intern, a position under UCLA Residential Life that helps with transfer student programming on the Hill.\n“I wasn’t used to the hustle culture here and the sense of always having to be productive, and that made me feel imposter syndrome because I wanted to do so much for the transfer community,” Do said.\nFor Kelly Giang, a third-year philosophy transfer student, imposter syndrome comes and goes.\nBut when imposter syndrome does hit, it is often when she talks to non-transfer students at club meetings about campus life, she said. Because she never had an in-person campus experience, Giang feels excluded, causing her to doubt her belonging at UCLA, she said.\n“They’re not trying to exclude anybody, of course, but it kind of happens unintentionally,” Giang said.\nAlthough Kayne Doughty enjoys the convenience of taking classes from his room, he said self-doubt sometimes seeps through the cracks when talking to his non-transfer student classmates about student life at UCLA.\n“When you’re in a smaller setting and everyone has to talk, and you start to feel that pressure that, ‘Oh, maybe I don’t have all this experience and stuff. I come from a very different institution.’ You feel the imposter syndrome creeping in,” said the third-year history transfer student.\nOther non-transfer students can also contribute to this feeling by stigmatizing the transfer experience, Do said.\n“You hear like, ‘Oh, transferring is so easy. … Getting into UCLA as a transfer student is so easy,’ when (non-transfers) don’t realize that being a transfer student doesn’t mean one thing, and a lot of people have worked really, really hard to get into UCLA,” Do said.\nHowever, imposter syndrome is not all-encompassing among the transfer community.\nTim Lawrence, a third-year political science transfer student, uses his economically disadvantaged background to empower him – it serves as a reminder of how hard he has worked to attend UCLA, he said.\nDo, who serves as the Southeast Asian Campus Learning Education and Retention Transfer coordinator, said the most important way to combat imposter syndrome is to know what resources are available. The Transfer Leadership Coalition and Undergraduate Students Association Council Office of the Transfer Student Representative, for example, offer resources and spaces for transfer students, she said.\nAnother resource is peer counseling, which allows transfer students to connect with others who can empathize with their experiences, Do added.\n“You get to talk to another fellow student, and it’s not as intimidating as potentially talking to a faculty member about some of the issues that we go through,” she said.\nGiang copes with her imposter syndrome by reminding herself of her worth.\nOn her desk, Giang keeps a Post-it note decorated with a UCLA sticker and the words, “No matter what, you belong here.” Giang also hangs her student ID card on the wall and keeps other UCLA memorabilia in her room to remind her of the university she attends, though she is taking classes from her room at home.\nAlthough imposter syndrome can make the college experience more difficult, Do believes every transfer student belongs at UCLA.\n“We deserve to be here, and I hope that the school, other students and staff recognize that,” Do said.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As a conservative and a Christian, I believe actor and comedian Pete Davidson should be strongly applauded for his recent controversial remarks on Saturday Night Live in which he compared the alleged R. Kelly sex scandals with the proven Catholic Church sex scandals.\nSaturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson isn’t going to hit pause on R. Kelly or Michael Jackson anytime soon. The comic said on the show’s latest episode that he thinks people should continue to listen to the two music icons if they want.\nAngelo Clary spoke out after his daughter Azriel Clary, 21, told CBS News’ Gayle King that her parents demanded wire transfers from R. Kelly and encouraged her to record sexually-explicit videos with the singer when she was 17 so they could blackmail him.\nR. Kelly was “guilty as hell” and received “libido-killing shots” after his 2002 arrest for child pornography, the singer’s former lawyer claimed in a blockbuster interview later questioned by the lawyer’s son.\nWhile R. Kelly spent the weekend behind bars at Cook County Jail after being charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, a fan he’d met just a few months ago was reportedly digging up enough cash to bail him out.\nKelly has dodged charges for decades. The new indictment involves four victims, three of them minors at the time, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said. Kelly was “shell-shocked” and “extraordinarily disappointed and depressed” by the charges, his lawyer Steve Greenberg told the AP.\nTwo more women stepped forward Thursday to say singer R. Kelly preyed on them when they were minors – with one saying the singer exposed himself without warning and raped her while she was intoxicated.\nR&B singer R. Kelly has reportedly been suffering from panic attacks — one serious enough to send him to a hospital — in the days before and after Lifetime’s damning documentary series on his alleged sexual abuse aired.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Pompeo says Iran supreme leader ‘lies’ over coronavirus\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday accused Iran’s Ali Khamenei of lying about the coronavirus pandemic as the Supreme Leader rejected US assistance for his hard-hit country. Pompeo\nIn a televised address Sunday, Khamenei described the United States as “charlatans” and charged that Washington could bring in a drug to keep the virus alive.\nPompeo in a statement also used loaded language, accusing “Iran’s chief terror airline” Mahan Air of bringing in what he called the “Wuhan virus” through its continued flights to China.\n“The regime continues to lie to the Iranian people and the world about the number of cases and deaths, which are unfortunately far higher than the regime admits,” Pompeo said.\nHe said that the United States remained open to offering aid and was “working tirelessly” to develop a vaccine.\n“Khamenei rejected this offer because he works tirelessly to concoct conspiracy theories and prioritizes ideology over the Iranian people,” Pompeo said.\nHe also signaled that the United States was unreceptive to the Islamic republic’s first-ever request for a loan from the IMF, where Washington effectively holds a veto, accusing the regime of funding “terror abroad” with its resources.\nPresident Donald Trump’s administration has maintained its policy of “maximum pressure” and sanctions as Iran is hit hard by the virus, with an official death toll of more than 1,800. levant\nsource: AFP levant", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "After a rough start to their road trip, the Atlanta Braves have put together back-to-back wins and will try to capture their first series victory of the 2022 season when they wrap up a four-game series against the San Diego padres on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball.\nAtlanta dropped the opener in lackluster fashion falling 12-1. They won the next two games behind strong pitching performances by Kyle Wright and Ian Anderson.\nBryce Elder will make his second career start in Sunday’s game. Elder was pressed into action during the opening homestand and pitched well allowing six hits and three runs over 5 2/3 innings. He tired late and a pair of homers to Juan Soto and Josh Bell skewed his final line.\nRight-hander Yu Darvish will make his third start of the season for the Padres and will be looking to bounce back from one of the worst outings of his career. Darvish held the Diamondbacks hitless for six innings, albeit with four walks in his debut start. He then failed to get out of the second inning against the Giants allowing eight hits and nine runs. The Braves have had some success against Darvish who has allowed 26 hits and 15 runs in 23 1/3 career innings against Atlanta.\nOzzie Albies began Saturday’s game with a homer and has now homered in three straight and four of his last five games. Matt Olson is 5-for-11 in the series with a double, a homer and three walks.\nSunday’s game will be broadcast nationally on ESPN and is scheduled to get underway at 7:08 p.m. ET.\nGame Date/Time: Sunday, April 17, 7:08 p.m. ET\nLocation: Petco Park, San Diego, California\nRadio: 680 AM / 93.7 FM The Fan", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "ABINGDON, Va. — Five members of a citizens group are appealing approval of a Pal’s Sudden Service at The Meadows in Abingdon because they don’t like the signature teal color and design of the drive-thru, leading Pal’s CEO to threaten to pull out if the original plans are not honored.\nOn Wednesday, members of the Friends of Abingdon filed an appeal with the town manager of the Abingdon Planning Commission’s May 20 approval of the project, saying the restaurant’s design doesn’t comply with the town’s zoning code.\n“The whole thing is centered around whether it’s going to be teal,” said Town Manager Jimmy Morani.\nPal’s CEO Thom Crosby issued a written statement later Wednesday that states: “We have received a Certificate of Appropriateness of our standard building design of a Pal’s restaurant at The Meadows. The design features our teal blue color and unique architecture of classic menu items on the structure.”\nThe color and design are what Crosby calls “important elements of the Pal’s brand,” including a hot dog, a hamburger, Frenchie Fries and a Big Tea.\n“Should the Town of Abingdon rescind the previously approved certificate, we will be forced to choose not to construct a restaurant at the location,” Crosby said.\nAccording to a release from Pal’s last month, the Abingdon restaurant could create about 60 jobs.\n“Pal’s is estimated to generate $200,000 to $220,000 sales tax revenue annually for the town,” Morani said. “That is approximately one third of the annual debt service for the sports complex.”\nThe Abingdon Sports Complex, estimated to cost about $7 million, is being built by the town and is a key component of The Meadows at Exit 17, which is now being developed with a Food City, Eastman Credit Union, Holiday Inn Express and other restaurants in addition to Pal’s.\n“We need the development,” Morani said. “The development needs the sports complex.”\nThe Friends of Abingdon members state in the appeal: “First and foremost we wish to state that this is NOT an attempt to keep Pal’s out of Abingdon. And it does NOT, in any way, suggest that our membership has anything against having a Pal’s in Abingdon. Pal’s is a well-respected, reputable company that would be an asset to Abingdon and generate tax revenue.”\nThe Friends of Abingdon formed in opposition to development of The Meadows project. In 2016, the group filed a lawsuit in an attempt to stop the project, but it was dismissed.\nThe group’s appeal is now subject to a public hearing, the town manager said. The appeal will likely be considered by the Town Council at its first regular meeting in August because the July meeting would not meet the public notice requirements of 21 days, he added.\nIn the appeal, members of the citizens group said the building’s color and design wouldn’t comply with the Abingdon zoning ordinance.\n“The ‘teal’ blue color and general style of the building are not ‘coordinated’ with other buildings within the development,” as required by the zoning ordinance, states the letter, which is signed by Friends members Nan Harman, Joe LeVine, Donna LeVine, Stephen C. Jett and Dr. James Moore.\nBut Morani said there’s no mention of specific colors in the town code.\nHe added that there are “some references to conformity, which some of the opponents are mentioning or bringing up.”\nThe larger issue, according to Morani, is whether The Meadows lies in Abingdon’s Historic District Entrance Corridor Overlay District.\nThe outline of that district is still being studied and defined by both the Town Council and the Planning Commission and is subject to what is considered an arterial entrance to the town, as defined by the Virginia Department of Transportation, Morani said.\n“There’s a question as to whether the town has the authority to regulate these entrance corridors, if they are not an arterial road,” Morani said. “The bottom line is, we have many streets on there that are not arterial roads.”\nPal’s first restaurant in Abingdon could spur other development, the town manager said.\n“If the Pal’s locates in Abingdon, a domino effect could take place. Others would locate in that same development as well,” he said.\nLast month, the town’s director of planning and zoning, Jason Boswell, said Pal’s next step will be to submit the site plan to include setback requirements, erosion and sediment control plan, registered design professional drawings of the proposed structure, along with any required permits, electrical, mechanical and plumbing.\nOn Wednesday, Boswell said the appeal “doesn’t stop Pal’s from designing the building and moving forward with their plans. It doesn’t stop them from building that building. It could potentially stop them from using their trademark color.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Indonesia has set a new viewership record during its ninth season\n- The league saw EVOS Legends’ match against RRQ Hoshi reach a peak viewership of over 2.8 million people\n- RRQ Hoshi won the match but EVOS will have another chance to challenge its rival\nThe latest match between EVOS Legends and RRQ Hoshi set a new peak viewership record in the history of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Indonesia.\nEsports Charts: 2.8M Fans Saw the Game\nWhile Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is far from being one of the top mobile esports titles in the West, the game continues to enjoy great popularity in Asia. According to the latest statistics from Esports Charts, the latest Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League (MPL) in Indonesia has set a new peak viewership record.\nThe record happened during the last week of the regular season when two of the local powerhouses, EVOS Legends and RRQ Hoshi, clashed in a heated match. As the two are some of the most popular teams in Indonesia, their fans flooded the streams, helping the league reach a peak audience of 2,845,364 concurrent viewers.\nIndonesia’s viewership record prior to the latest game was scored during the eighth season of the local league and stood at 2.3 million. It was also the third-highest peak viewer count in the game’s competitive history and was surpassed only by the M2 and the M3 World Championships.\nRRQ Won but EVOS Will Have a Chance to Avenge Its Loss\nRRQ eventually won the match and became the champion of the event. This was by no means an easy game as EVOS Legends came close to defeating RRQ a few times. In the end, the match concluded with a 2-1 result in the latter team’s favor.\nIt is worth noting that the second most popular match in the ninth season of MPL Indonesia was another faceoff between EVOS Legends and RRQ Hoshi. It managed to attract 1.7 million viewers at its peak. The two teams might stand against one another once again. EVOS Legends will soon play against Alter Ego. If the former wins, it will have the chance to challenge RRQ Hoshi once again.\nThe MPL Indonesia Season 9 playoffs are scheduled to kick off on April 21. The competition will last four days and will provide two teams with a shot at the MLBB SEA Championship in 2022 – the first LAN event in the region since the beginning of the pandemic.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "17-year-old Rayven Franklin Carpenter of 18th Avenue Place N.E. in Hickory was arrested by Hickory Police at about 5:30 Friday afternoon (May 15) on one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.\nCarpenter, who is listed as a student at the Rosenwald School, was taken into custody at the Hickory Marketplace Shopping Center on Springs Road N.E. He has been jailed in the Catawba Co. Detention Facility with bond set at $50,000, secured. A first appearance in District Court was scheduled for tomorrow (May 19) in Newton.\nNo further details are available.\n28-year-old Dustin Clark Lawhon of Bravard Street in Valdese was arrested by Hickory Police at about 10:40 last night (May 17). He was charged with possession with intent to manufacture, sell or deliver a schedule II controlled substance.\nHe was arrested after Officers received information that Lawhon was selling crack cocaine at the Sunny Valley apartment complex. Police located Lawhon on the 4th Street S.E. side of the complex. There, they searched Lawhon’s person, leading to the discovery of a baggie containing 1.6 grams of crack cocaine.\nLawhon was taken into custody without incident and placed in the Catawba Co. Detention Facility under a $50,000 secured bond. He was scheduled to make a first appearance in District Court today in Newton.\n29-year-old Randal Scott Jordan, Jr. of 12th Street Court S.E. and 30-year-old Katie Rose Williams 3rd Avenue S.W., both from Conover, were arrested yesterday (May 14) by Caldwell Co. Sheriff’s Officers. They were each charged with felony possession of methamphetamine and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.\nJordan and Williams were taken to the Caldwell Co. Detention Center where they were each given a $25,000 secured bond. First appearances in District Court were set for May 18 in Lenoir.\n54-year-old Ronald Earl Curtis of Dry Ponds Road in Hudson, 36-year-old Michael Paul Desaint-Hippolyte of Holly Court in Lenoir, 42-year-old Jerry Eugene Fair of Kaylor Driver in Granite Falls and 30-year-old Megan Leeann Ruppert of Farmer Lane in Lenoir were all arrested by Lenoir Police yesterday (May 14). They were each charged with felony conspiracy to sell or deliver heroin. Desaint-Hippolyte was also charged with a misdemeanor probation violation.\nAll four suspects were taken to the Caldwell Co. Detention Center with bond for each set at $100,000, secured, plus an additional $400 cash bond for Desaint-Hippolyte. First appearances in District Court were scheduled yesterday in Lenoir.\n33-year-old Viviana Barbara Eller of 17th Street S.E. in Hickory was arrested at about 11:20 last night (May 14) on one felony count of possession of heroin.\nThe charge comes in connection to an incident in December of last year in which Hickory Police responded to a shoplifting call at a local Family Dollar store. Store surveillance led to the issuance of a warrant for Eller’s arrest on a shoplifting charge.\nAs she was taken into custody, but before she was taken to H.P.D. for processing, Eller insisted on bringing her purse. While at Police headquarters, heroin was found in Eller’s purse. She was initially indicted for that offense on March 20.\nFollowing yesterday’s arrest, Eller was placed in the Catawba Co. Detention Facility with bond set at $10,000, secured. She has since been released. An appearance in District Court was scheduled for today in Newton.\nThe N.C. Department of Transportation is planning a traffic shift in Statesville tonight (May 14) to move I-40 westbound traffic onto the new bridge structure east of the I-77 overpass. The work is part of the Interstate 40/77 Interchange improvement project.\nCrews will begin working on the shift at 8 p.m., with work completed by six o’clock tomorrow morning. The traffic shift will require crews to close one lane of I-40 westbound, including the ramp to I-77 northbound, for a brief period to remove the existing concrete barrier wall and cushion. The barrier wall will be reset on the new alignment for the bridge and new pavement markings will be placed in the updated pattern.\nMotorists traveling through the area are advised to slow down, use caution and be mindful of any crews working along the roadside.\nThe first phase of the I-40/77 interchange project is about 50 percent finished, with completion scheduled for 2017.\n36-year-old James Edward Russell III of Mt. Gilleland Church Road in Connelly Springs was arrested by Caldwell Co. Sheriff’s Officers yesterday (May 13) on charges of felony possession of methamphetamine, misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia, driving while license revoked and fictitious or altered title, registration card or tag.\nHe was taken to the Caldwell Co. Detention Center with bond set at $75,000, secured. Russell was scheduled to make a first appearance in District Court today in Lenoir.\n27-year-old John Dorsey Crisp IV of Shearers Road in Mooresville was arrested Tuesday (May 12) by Iredell Co. Sheriff’s Officers on charges of manufacturing marijuana, felony possession of marijuana, possession with intent to sell or deliver marijuana, maintaining a dwelling for a controlled substance, possession of a schedule I controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and alcohol related offenses.\nEvents leading to his arrest began on May 5 when members of the Iredell County Aggressive Criminal Enforcement Team received information about a person allegedly selling homemade liquor and marijuana. An investigation was launched, identifying John Crisp as the possible suspect. Deputies went to Crisp’s home to speak with the suspect.\nDuring the interview, Crisp initially denied any wrongdoing. As Deputies prepared to search the property, Crisp admitted that he was growing marijuana. The search turned up 175 marijuana plants growing on the property. 126 quarts of liquor were also found at various locations on the property. In addition, an active still was found concealed in a building, along with several 55-gallon drums of mash, which is used in the production of moonshine.\nAn indoor marijuana growing operation was also found, along with 773 grams of marijuana and psylocibin mushrooms. Deputies also found firearms, including a loaded handgun. The marijuana has an estimated street value of $4,000 and the estimated street value of the moonshine was set at $3,100.\nCrisp was given a $15,000 secured bond. He faces additional charges in connection to the non-tax paid liquor violations. A District Court appearance was set for May 14.\nState A.L.E. officers also assisted with the investigation.\n18-year-old Michael Ray Robinson and 17-year-old Sanitra Kay Robinson, both from Lincoln Street, along with 17-year-old Zakari Scott Turner of Pete’s Road and 16-year-old Austin Lee Turner of Oak Grove Church Road, all from Lincolnton, have been arrested by Lincolnton Police on felony charges of breaking & entering, larceny and conspiracy.\nOn April 15, Officers responded to a residential breaking & entering call at an address on the 1100 block of East Catawba Street in the Oaklawn community. Officers spoke to the victims who said someone forcibly entered their home while they weren’t home and took various items from the residence.\nThe scene was processed and the case was assigned to Det. Robert Hayes for further investigation. Det. Hayes developed probable cause for arrest warrants for the four suspects.\nNo court dates are currently listed for Michael Robinson. Sanitra Robinson will appear in District Court on May 21, while Zakari Turner and Austin Turner both have court dates set for June 2.\nThe investigation is ongoing and further arrests are possible. Anyone with information should call Det. Hayes at 704-736-8900 or Lincolnton-Lincoln County Crime Stoppers at 704-736-8909. Crime Stoppers may remain anonymous. Information resulting in an arrest could result in a reward of up to $1,000.\nThe Catawba County Board of Commissioners will meet at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 18, in the 1924 Courthouse at 30 North College Avenue in Newton. The Commissioners will receive a presentation on the proposed update to the county’s 2007 Parks Master Plan, accompanied by a Planning Board recommendation to approve the update. The plan provides a guideline for future development, subject to available resources.\nThe committee kept public comments in mind as they reviewed existing parks across the county and sites for potential future parks. The committee then updated existing plan. According to County Senior Planner Susan Ballbach, the plan incorporates significant community input. The plan was developed by county staff, in consultation with the county’s Parks Advisory Committee, over an 18-month period.\nThe Committee’s review included the existing parks: Baker’s Mountain, Riverbend and St. Stephens Park. The updated plan includes specific recommendations for improvements to the existing parks.\nThe proposed plan also recommends development of a regional park on Mountain Creek, a 589-acre site obtained by the County in 2010. In addition, it recommends smaller “historic parks” near the Catawba County Historical Association’s Bunker Hill Covered Bridge and Murray’s Mill.\nThe draft plan is currently available for review online at catawbacountync.gov/Parks. Questions may be directed to Ms. Ballbach at 828-465-8381 or email@example.com.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Organization: Department of International and Cross-strait Education\nAccording to the “Ethnologue: Languages of the World” website, there are now 1.1 billion Chinese users in the world, roughly 1/7 of the world’s population, and more and more people are learning Chinese. “Chinese Fever” has been spreading like wild fire in the past decade, and in response, the Ministry of Education and National Taiwan University have created a new online course for learning Chinese: “Learning Chinese: Start from Scratch”. The course is being offered on Coursera, the largest MOOCs platform in the world (Website: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learn-chinese-mandarin), and it will be free for all learners. It can also be used by educators as a supplementary teaching resource.\nThe course is designed for beginner-level learners of Chinese and spans six weeks. Everyday scenarios and conversations, and videos, photos, animation, and comics are used throughout the course to enhance memorization and understanding.\nThe course starts on Coursera on August 31 and it will then be repeated every six weeks. Learners can register on Coursera using their e-mail or Facebook account from August 20. Anyone is welcome to register at any time.\nThe Digital Learning Center of National Taiwan University will hold several workshops for educators on ways to use this online course. Please visit its website for more details. (https://www.dlc.ntu.edu.tw/)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "(CNN) — Kanye West has been suspended by Instagram after he posted a racial slur directed at “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah, a spokesperson for Meta confirmed to CNN.\nWest violated the platform’s policies on hate speech, bullying and harassment, according to Meta. He is restricted from posting, commenting and other actions for 24 hours and the company will take further action if necessary, the spokesperson said.\nKanye West posted an insult directed at Noah on Wednesday, after the talk show host spoke about the rapper’s treatment of ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her boyfriend, comedian Pete Davidson, on a “Daily Show” segment on Wednesday. Tuesday.\n“You might not feel sorry for Kim because she’s rich and famous,” Noah said in the segment. “But what is happening is scary to watch and highlights what so many women go through when they choose to leave.”\nIn Kanye West’s post, later removed by Instagram, he replaced the “Kumbaya” lyrics with a racial epithet. Prior to the post’s removal, Noah had responded by expressing her admiration for West as an artist and his sincere concern for him and his family.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Mintel points to key consumer trends shaping retail, including wellness and convenience.\nThis October, Global Research firm Mintel pointed to six key consumer trends impacting industries and markets around the world and identified how they will play out in the years to come.\nIn 2019 and beyond, the global consumer landscape will evolve like never before, driven by themes of privacy, individuality, wellness, convenience and connectivity:\nTotal Wellbeing: Consumers are treating their bodies like an ecosystem and seeking solutions that complement their personal health and evolving needs.\nChallenge Accepted: A growing momentum to take on new challenges is driving consumers to reach new heights and uncover new passions.\nRethink Plastic: While not inherently bad, the throwaway use of plastic is driving consumers to review their own behaviors to prevent plastic pollution.\nOn Display: Consumers and brands are becoming more aware that they have a digital persona to nurture and grow, creating tension as everyone fights for attention and nobody is safe from scrutiny.\nSocial Isolation: Constant digital connectivity, where physical interactions are replaced with digital updates, can increase feelings of loneliness, social isolation and depression, creating a demand for products and services that help consumers learn to disconnect.\nRedefining Adulthood: The concept of what it means to be an adult has changed beyond recognition and consumers are adapting to lives that don’t fit the mold.\nHere, the global Mintel Trends analyst team explores how these trends are set to shake up markets around the world, including implications for both consumers and brands.\n“In 2019 and beyond, growing consumer curiosity with the microbiome shows no signs of abating. From gut-friendly fermented foods to probiotic skincare, consumers will demand products that balance and boost the natural bacteria found in and on the body.”\n“Consumers are looking externally to their surroundings and internally towards their physical and mental wellbeing, expecting holistic approaches to wellness. Across the globe consumers are increasingly seeking personalization and in the UK, as many as 42% of British consumers are interested in a personalized diet based on their genes/DNA. Developments in health monitoring, such as skin sensors or ingestible capsules, will satisfy consumers’ demand for this personalized approach, while also building on scientific research in these emerging fields.”\n“As appetites for adventure grow, consumers are becoming more willing than ever to expand their comfort zones, push themselves to the limit with new experiences and use social media to compete with and offer inspiration to their peers.”\n“Social media inspiration is blurring the line between reality and #lifegoals, opening consumers up to a whole new world. In fact, a third (32%) of Canadian consumers who have attended a live event say they learn about live events from social media. It may be fueling a love of adventure, but social media is not without its pitfalls and in the years to come, companies and brands should proceed with caution.”\n“When it comes to recycling, well-meaning consumers are desperate to do the right thing but often simply don’t know how or where to start. As consumers continue to challenge brands over the perils of plastic waste, the development of recyclable products and packaging that are convenient for consumers to separate will be critical. But equally as important will be creating incentives and initiatives; in China, 58% of Mintropolitans* are willing to pay more for ethical brands.”\n“In 2019 and beyond, expect to see more sponsored ‘reverse’ vending machines and bring-your-own-mug schemes. But it takes more than any one individual or brand to save the world; the future will be about working together. Companies and organizations should look to partner in order to create or crowdsource ideas that will make innovative and disruptive changes, such as the development of biodegradable materials, the search to enhance the recyclability of plastic or the cultivation of a better waste management system.”\n“Consumers and brands have come to accept and nurture their digital personas, perfectly curating their online identities. But even among the most carefully crafted feeds, one misguided post can lead to intense scrutiny and public backlash. In the U.S., 16% of Hispanic social media users have boycotted brands based on things they learned on social media.”\n“Now more than ever, it’s crucial for companies and brands to have social media strategies in place and to train employees about company morals and etiquette, so that when (not if) they are faced with a sensitive issue, they know how to handle it in a timely way. While it is important to balance the cycle of ‘negative exposure’ by sharing good, positive stories, it’s equally important to promote critical thinking and dissent. This will help brands align with consumers’ defiant side and break through their filter bubbles.”\n“Technology can make the world a lonely place. Consumers increasingly live their lives through smartphone screens and, although connected electronically, they are becoming isolated from each other both physically and emotionally. It seems there are countless reasons why consumers may feel they never need to leave their homes, with 34% of Brazilian Millennials (aged 19-35) saying they prefer to contact companies/brands online rather than in-store or over the phone. And smart home technology and delivery services make it easier than ever for consumers to feel they have everything they need under their own roof.”\n“Facilitating connections and creating unique spaces where communities can be built is the next stage in cultivating customer loyalty. Brands who position their physical and virtual ‘space’ as places for consumers to meet while also eating, shopping or taking part in a leisure activity will lead to a boost in not only engagement, but revenue.”\n“With experiences over material things being a key priority for consumers, companies need to focus on campaigns and opportunities that focus on making life memorable. Taking a technology-first approach could be the answer, as more and more consumers are commonly relying on technology to manage their everyday ‘adult’ tasks. In fact, a third (33%) of U.S. consumers agree they would rather interact with people online than in-person.”\n“Despite more convenience and opportunity, the challenges of adulthood have not disappeared. Those looking to capitalize on this will serve as a resource for these hurdles by making responsibilities feel more manageable and even fun (sometimes). Flexibility is the name of the game. With a growing remote workforce, consumers’ daily lives are fluid and brands have to adapt to lifestyles no longer defined by 9-5 work cultures.”\n*Mintropolitans are broadly defined by Mintel as those who represent a significant, sophisticated consuming group (aged 20-49) who pursue quality of life rather than just wealth, are well educated, and are the potential trendsetters.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As Jeb Bush’s campaign spins in erratic circles—slashing his campaign budget, tapping his unpopular brother to help fund-raise, and trailing Donald Trump—it’s only timely that this old video, taped in July, re-emerged in the public space.\nObserve: Jeb’s arms, restricted, thrashing through the air, grasping for traction. Why is Jeb! even wearing a hoodie in 105-degree Vegas weather? Playing the role of the relatable candidate is never easy: just ask Hillary Clinton, who attempted to dance to Silento’s “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” on Ellen.\nAs The Washington Post points out, Bush’s hasn’t faded completely from the polls, but as a candidate, he’s been underperforming compared to outsider candidates such as Trump and Ben Carson—something his donors anxiously hope he’ll fix.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Kudos for Bill Nemitz calling out Sen. Susan Collins (“Sen. Collins hardly a profile in courage during shutdown stalemate,” Oct. 2). He spells it out exactly right, in my opinion.\nShe has a penchant for simultaneously being against something (i.e., Gov. LePage’s behavior) while sponsoring his re-election fundraiser. Being against “big government” while being first to issue a news release (with a smiling picture) announcing every penny of new government spending in Maine.\nThe current “coup” that has occurred in Washington is costing all citizens real money. Most economists predict that the market will tank (retirees, take note); interest rates will go up; the overall economy will shrink (real jobs will be lost), and our recovery (such as it is) will go into reverse.\nAll of this is the result of a small minority of a minority party holding a majority hostage with this gun pointed at our heads.\nI have been waiting, along with many others, for Sen. Collins to make a principled stand. Her choice has been not to. My choice is to support and vote for any non-Republican candidate in the next election.\nThis is in response to the Oct. 2 Bill Nemitz column, “Sen. Collins hardly a profile in courage during shutdown stalemate.”\nWe did, in fact, notice what she did, how she voted, how she turned her back on her Maine constituency and cowered to Democratic leaders.\nFor a person to be successful in negotiations between two sides of a problem, one does not already form opinions against one side in the negotiations.\nSen. Angus S. King Jr. has already proved that he can’t negotiate this impasse in Congress. He showed his hate against the so-called tea party when he was on talk radio, using the words “hostage” and “murder” more than once to describe the actions of the tea party.\nHe also refuses to talk to any who do not support his views when people go to his office.\nHe should drop his idea of being a great negotiator. He’s just another politician in Congress.\nHouse is just carrying out people’s will on Obamacare\nPeople forget that the president does not represent the people – he was elected by the Electoral College.\nThe Senate represents the states.\nThe House represents the people, and if a majority of the people don’t want Obamacare, so be it.\nAffordable Care Act attacks based on disdain for Obama\nRepublicans from Sen. Ted Cruz to Gov. LePage continue to show why they represent the party of “No.”\nThey are against the Affordable Care Act. Why? I am not sure. Primarily, it seems to me, because President Obama is getting credit for it.\nNever mind that it is a law passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court. Never mind that a similar plan in Massachusetts signed by Gov. Mitt Romney is wildly successful at expanding health care coverage to all citizens.\nNope, LePage and Cruz are against it. In fact, LePage wasted Maine taxpayer money on a lawsuit to avoid dealing with the law. Instead of rolling up his sleeves to help cover more Mainers, he delayed and dithered.\nLet us review the positives:\nImmunizations are paid for. Preventative visits are paid for. Children can stay on their parents’ plan until age 26. New York and California premiums are much lower than expected.\nInsurance companies must use 85 percent of premiums on patients. If they keep more than 15 percent, we get a rebate from the insurance companies! Insurance companies no longer can deny coverage because of pre-existing conditions. Insurance companies can no longer stop coverage after a catastrophic illness.\nNone of this matters to Republicans. No, it seems if the government is involved in helping fix our broken system, they are against it.\nMy advice? Stop whining and get to work covering more Americans. It is quite likely that someone’s life depends on it. If it needs tweaking later, then tweak it.\nAlarmed snorkeler arrives at unfounded conclusion\nRegarding the Sept. 30 letter by Benson Dana of Cape Elizabeth (“Snorkeler’s Fort Gorges visit reveals sad ecological decline”):\nScience students learn that to understand an observation of the natural environment, it must be viewed in the context of ongoing scientific, cultural and sociological conditions.\nHad Mr. Dana paid attention for the last 21 years, he would know that there exists more than 20 years of Environmental Protection Agency-certified data on the waters of Fort Gorges, as well as the entirety of Casco Bay. He can call 799-8574 to access data that has been recognized worldwide as a viable and important contribution to the body of knowledge on which ecologists and oceanographers, marine biologists, fisheries researchers and scientists of many other disciplines depend.\nRegarding Mr. Dana’s reference to “dirty water”: Cloudiness in ocean water is most often an indicator of healthful biological activity.\nMr. Dana may have visited the fort within 48 hours of a moderate-to-heavy rain event. Under these conditions, Fort Gorges and the harbor surrounding it are engulfed in a plume of fresh water from the Presumpscot River, which carries with it silt from the riverbed, especially since the removal of dams.\nResearch will show appropriate turbidity (cloudiness) levels under normal conditions. Visit anywhere in Casco Bay to observe this condition.\nRegarding urchins, it is well known that urchins were overharvested in the ’90s. Visit anywhere on the coast of Maine to observe this depletion.\nThe presumption that the “seaweed” (presumably he is referring to common rockweed, Ascophyllum nodosum) is soon to be harvested “to complete devastation” demonstrates an an absolute ignorance of the current and developing regulations for rockweed harvest, the historical harvest of this publicly held resource and the current harvest activities in Casco Bay.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Tucson, Arizona 2021-07-30 20:56:18 –\nTucson, Arizona (KGUN) — Sofas, mattresses, and other bulky furniture line the alleys across the Jefferson Park area.\nResidents say that when children return to the University of Arizona in the fall semester, off-campus home furniture ends up along their yard.\n“That’s terrible,” said neighborhood resident Karan Schreiber. Schreiber added that one sofa near her house had been sitting in her alley for nearly three months.\nThe city says they do brushes and bulky cleaning twice a year. They plan to clean the neighborhood on August 30th to remove some of the extra furniture that comes with the freshmen.\nHowever, there are other options as well. Neighbors can pay $ 55 for extra brushes and bulky cleaning. You can also submit a code enforcement report or illegal dumping report to the city. Another option is to request a cleanup dumpling in your neighborhood.\n“We will provide roll-off dumpsters to our neighbors,” said Christina Pargrove, Tucson’s Environmental and General Services division. “We put them in the places they specified, and anyone can dispose of things in them, and then we carry them away. They are provided free of charge. . “\nClick for more information on these programs. here..\nBulky garbage crowds alleyways in Tucson Source link Bulky garbage crowds alleyways in Tucson", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "ancers Sven Trodel and Greg Simone were named to the Ontario Beach Volleyball team that will play in the national championships Aug. 17-19 in British Columbia.\nTrodel, a rookie with the Lancers Men’s Volleyball team, was recruited from the OFSAA championships where his Sudbury team won a bronze medal. He was named to the 18U beach volleyball team that will compete on the Spanish Banks Beach in the youth nationals.\nSimone, a native of London, Ont., played with the Lancers head coach in 2009 when they won the Regional Games in Ontario. The sophmore will play with the 24U Ontario squad in the senior nationals.\n“It doesn’t surprise me that these athletes have been named to this team.” Lippert said in a press release.\n“The work ethic on these guys is one of the reasons we wanted them to be wearing a Lancer jersey.\n“There has been a revolution with athletics in the last five years around campus. The teams are breeding an elite level of athlete. It’s not enough just to be good at Windsor. You have to want to be the best. And these athletes are proving they belong to walk around here.”\nTeams in both divisions will compete in pool play on the Friday and the Saturday with finals taking place Sunday. The senior tournament is divided into two divisions.\nDivisions from 14U boys and girls through senior men’s and women’s teams will complete at the event.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sportradar Extends ITTF Agreement to Emphasize Solidarity of Worldwide Table Tennis\nSportradar’s Integrity Services have prolongated the collaboration with the ITTF in order to cover a scope of international tournaments through 2023, building on a partnership that began in 2017.\nAs a result of the long-term contract’s re-establishment, Sportradar will utilize its Fraud Detection System to track possibly mistrustful schemes and activities during affairs assembled or authorized by the ITTF and their partners, which include the WTT Championships.\nIn addition, the ITTF is going to use Sportradar’s intellect and research assisting features to recognize and explore dangers and fairness problems by utilizing “intelligence, investigation and forensics”.\nThe data analytics firm’s Integrity Services will offer a thorough judgement of worldwide gambling dangers and fairness in table tennis along with the most recent tendencies supported by experts’ knowledge.\nSportradar’s senior Andreas Krannich commented:\n“We are delighted to put forward this long-term prolongation of our cooperation with ITTF.\nAs a pioneer in sports integrity, it is our highest focus to create a successful structure for our customers to tackle match-fixing and other fairness concerns, particularly in light of the growing threat to world sport posed by the global pandemic’s problems. We are excited to go on aiding the ITTF’s project and contributing to the justness of worldwide Table Tennis tournaments.”\nThe FDS, which was released in February 2021 by Sportradar Integrity Services, is a bet-examining mechanism that has been solo examined and confirmed by experts in sports gambling and integrity.\nFDS has a staff of certified analysts that look into unusual betting activities and questionable games, which are then passed on to organizers in order to improve awareness about global match security.\nIn the previous year, Sportradar has recorded a detection of 500+ questionable tournaments across the international sporting landscape using FDS, which it has later reported to its partners, including the Austrian Football Federation (FB), the General Directorate National Police of Bulgaria, NOC NSF, and the SvFF, in the span of the last 15 years.\nITTF’s CEO, Steve Dainton, in response to the contract extension with Sportradar, explained:\n“Preserving the justness of our events is of paramount significance, and our relationship with Sportradar Integrity Services helps to enhance our integrity program.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "BBC slammed for referring to Hamas as ‘fighters’ as opposed to ‘terrorists’\nLONDON: The BBC has been criticized for describing Hamas personnel as “fighters” as opposed to terrorists in its coverage of the attacks on Israel on Saturday morning, the Telegraph reported.\nThe British broadcaster wrote that “militants” had launched a surprise attack on Israel, which led to hundreds of deaths and left thousands more injured, when referring to Hamas.\nSaudi Arabia, the UK, the US have designated Hamas a terrorist organization.\n“They are breaking into civilian homes and murdering children. It is beyond belief that the one place you look for balance, the BBC, is not delivering coverage that is fair, balanced or reasonable,” Lord Eric Pickles, the UK special envoy for post-holocaust issues, said.\n“This is not an isolated incident. They need to get their act together.”\nStephen Pollard, the Jewish Chronicle’s editor-at-large, called the refusal by the BBC to label Hamas fighters as “terrorists” was “more than merely annoying”.\nHe said: “It is a reflection of a deeper malaise that affects much of our broadcast media: the idea that there are always two sides to every story.\n“We hear a lot about BBC (and other broadcasters’) bias against Israel. That’s the wrong way of looking at it, however. They don’t set out to frame reports to condemn Israel.\n“The problem is worse than that. Because they cannot see that there can be one side to a description — that calling a terrorist a terrorist is more accurate than calling him a militant — then they cannot see the problem with, as happened today, providing a platform to an apologist for terror to explain why it is justified.”\nThe attacks, launched by Hamas in the early hours of Saturday morning, were the deadliest attack on Israel since the Yom Kippur War 50 years ago, when Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack.\nIsraeli TV reports have put the Israeli death toll from the attack at between 500-600, with more than 2,000 wounded.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Elon MuskCo-founder and CEO, Tesla\nBirth DetailsJune 28, 1971 | Pretoria, South Africa\nBachelor’s degrees in physics and economics, University of Pennsylvania\n$36.3 billion (as of May 28, 2020)\nElon Musk's Assets:\nElon Musk's Journey so far ...\nBefore you go ...\n- The Boring Company\nElon Musk's Journey so far ...\n- After being introduced to computers at the age of 10, Elon Musk soon learned the programming language BASIC. At 12, he developed a game called Blastar which he later sold for $500\n- He moved to Canada in 1988 for college but transferred to UPenn, a few years later, from where he eventually graduated\n- In 1995, he got into Stanford University for a PhD program but left just after two days. It was the time of the internet boom and Musk wanted to explore\n- The same year, he partnered with his brother Kimbal Musk to start Zip2 -- an online maps and guides service -- which was sold to Compaq for $307 million in 1999, earning Elon $22 million\n- He used some of the money from the sale to start his next internet venture, X.com, which provided online banking and payment services. In due course, X.com became PayPal and was eventually absorbed by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion, of which Musk took $165 million home\n- Earlier in 2002, Musk founded a spacecraft company called Space Exploration Technologies or SpaceX to make space travel cheap and better accessible\n- In 2004, he became one of the early and primary investors in Tesla -- an electric car company aimed at making the future of transportation more sustainable -- and joined the company’s board as chairman\n- In 2008, SpaceX’s Falcon 1 became the first liquid-fuel rocket developed by a private firm to reach the orbit\n- The same year, he became the CEO and product architect of Tesla and the company introduced an electric sports car called the Tesla Roadster\n- In 2010, Tesla went public raising $226 million\n- Tesla acquired SolarCity -- a clean energy company which Musk helped his cousins start -- in 2016\n- Later that year, he launched The Boring Company to make transportation faster in cities\n- In 2017, he started Neuralink which aims at developing a man-machine interface that could connect the human brain with computers\n- Promoting the concept of reusable rockets, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft took their second flight in 2017\n- The Falcon Heavy, which was the world’s most powerful operational rocket of the time, completed its first flight in 2018. The rocket carried a mannequin called ‘Starman’ and Musk’s personal cherry-red Tesla Roadster along, which were launched into space\n- Having invested in several other futuristic technology ventures, Elon Musk is one of the richest tech leaders in the world today\nBefore you go ...\n- He was often bullied as a child and once, he was beaten up so bad that he had to be hospitalised\n- He is said to have inspired the persona of the character ‘Tony Stark’ played by Robert Downey Jr. and is often referred to as the ‘real-life Iron Man’\n- Elon Musk has made guest appearances in many notable Hollywood movies including Iron Man 2 and TV series such as The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon\nLast Updated: 15/02/2021\nElon Musk News\n- Elon Musk accuses Justin Trudeau of 'crushing free speech' in wake of recent Canada govt ordersSpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk slammed the Justin Trudeau government in Canada for \"crushing free speech\" in the country. His remark came in wake of a recent order of the Canada government which makes it compulsory for online streaming services to formally register with the government for 'regulatory controls'. Elon Musk accuses Justin Trudeau of 'crushing free speech' in wake of recent Canada govt orders\n- X has paid over Rs 166 crore to creators so far: CEO Linda YaccarinoThe social media platform started paying creators in July for a share of the ad revenue they earned from ads served in the replies to their posts to other verified users.\n- Germany's government and Elon Musk spar on X over migrant rescue shipsMusk late Friday shared a video that showed migrants and aid workers on a boat. The right-wing account that first put the content on X, formerly known as Twitter, praised the populist far-right Alternative for Germany party, which has taken a hard line on migration issues.\n- Elon Musk's X Corp in another legal fight over unpaid rent, this time as plaintiffX Corp, formerly known as Twitter and owned by Elon Musk, has filed a lawsuit against financial services company Atlas Exploration, seeking to recoup over $713,500 in allegedly unpaid rent and fees for office space in San Francisco. The lawsuit alleges breach of contract and claims that Atlas terminated the sublease agreement early without paying the owed rent and early termination fee.\n- Why did Elon Musk visit Texas-Mexico Border and what did he say about the migrants?Elon Musk embarked on a visit to the Texas-Mexico southern border, aiming to offer an \"unfiltered\" perspective on the ongoing migrant crisis. His destination was Eagle Pass, a city that recently declared a state of emergency in response to the significant surge in migrant arrivals.\n- US' illegal immigrants crisis: Elon Musk visits Texas to show 'unfiltered' view of border situationAmidst the ongoing migrant crisis in the US, billionaire Elon Musk visited the Texas border with Mexico and live-streamed his tour of the area to give people a sense of the real situation of the migrant crisis. \"Went to the Eagle Pass border crossing to see what’s really going on,\" Musk posted on the X app on Thursday. Musk, wearing a black cowboy hat, live-streamed on his platform and said that he was going to go around and speak with officials and \"eyeball the situation to get the real story.\"US' illegal immigrants crisis: Elon Musk visits Texas to show 'unfiltered' view of border situation\n- X may start collecting user's biometric data under new policySocial media platform X (formerly Twitter) will now ask paid users verify their accounts using government IDs and a selfie. The company says that these steps are being taken to prevent impersonation and 'maintain the integrity of the platform'X may start collecting user's biometric data under new policy\n- Elon Musk livestreams from US-Mexico border to give people firsthand account of migrant crisisBillionaire Elon Musk visited the Texas border with Mexico to witness the migrant crisis firsthand. He live-streamed his tour on his platform and expressed his support for an expanded legal immigration system while also advocating for stopping the flow of illegal immigration. Musk's visit comes as thousands of migrants have crossed the US border into Texas, Arizona, and California. The video has garnered over 16 million views and has received mixed reactions, with some praising Musk's efforts and others cautioning against confusing entrepreneurial success with political leadership. Musk has been increasingly involved in American politics, hosting events and making political statements.\n- Tesla trial over Autopilot fatality kicks off in CaliforniaThe trial, in a California state court, stems from a civil lawsuit alleging the Autopilot system caused owner Micah Lee's Model 3 to suddenly veer off a highway east of Los Angeles at 65 miles per hour (105 kph), strike a palm tree and burst into flames, all in the span of seconds.\n- X CEO Linda Yaccarino says Elon Musk-owned platform could turn a profit next yearSocial media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, could become profitable in early 2024, according to CEO Linda Yaccarino. During an interview, Yaccarino defended the company's progress under owner Elon Musk and addressed concerns about advertiser retention due to rapid changes and Musk's controversial image.\n- Elon Musk-led Tesla's rivals scrap for thin slices of US EV salesFord's decision to halt a planned $3.5 billion battery plant in Michigan highlights the challenge faced by Tesla's competitors in the US market. Most automakers are launching new electric vehicles (EVs) and investing in EV and battery plants, but few are selling at high enough volumes to justify a full-scale assembly plant.\n- Just like Elon Musk in US, we need more industry people in space sector: ISRO chiefISRO chief S. Somnath emphasized the need for greater private sector involvement in the Indian space sector, urging industry professionals to invest and participate. He highlighted the success of Elon Musk's SpaceX in the US and expressed the need for a similar figure in India. Somnath also mentioned the importance of manufacturing space equipment locally, particularly in the electronics domain, where challenges remain in sourcing components. He noted that private companies now have the opportunity to build and launch satellites independently.\n- Elon Musk's X disabled feature for reporting electoral misinformation, claims researcherAfter introducing a feature in 2022 for users to report a post they considered misleading about politics, X in the past week removed the \"politics\" category from its drop-down menu in every jurisdiction but the European Union.\n- Elon Musk's X is the biggest purveyor of disinformation, EU official saysAhead of upcoming elections, Google, TikTok, Microsoft and Meta also have more to do to tackle disinformation, much of it coming from Russia, which is using social media to wage a \"war of ideas\" against democracy, European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said.\n- Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus can now do intricate yoga poses, boss Elon Musk hails it as 'Progress'Tesla has shared a video showcasing its AI-powered humanoid robot, Optimus, performing various tasks with precision and even doing yoga poses. The video has gone viral, amassing over 12 million views. Tesla has invited collaboration to further develop Optimus. Elon Musk acknowledged the progress made by Optimus, indicating substantial improvements.\n- Elon Musk showcases Tesla humanoid robot performing Yoga, NamasteElon Musk showcased the Tesla humanoid robot named 'Optimus' in a video where it performed yoga postures and greeted followers with a 'Namaste'. Optimus has the ability to self-calibrate its arms and legs and can locate its limbs in space using vision and joint position encoders.\n- Elon Musk's biography scores bumper sale, billionaire says 'cool'The biography of Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson had a successful first week of sales, selling 92,560 copies. This makes it the second best-selling first week title after Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs. The book, which delves into Musk's personal life and relationships, has also topped The New York Times' bestseller list and is available on Amazon for $20.99.\n- Why Elon Musk's move to charge for using X may be a good, disruptive thingAs such, Twitter users do not care if a million make-believe 'likes' result from bots, humans or paid click farms. The sheer volume of engagement powers the social media engine to create impact and make stories relevant. Hence, losing an army of supportive bots would become its Achilles' heel. If this were achieved, the engine would lose its fuel, stories their momentum and ideas their sense of timing. Without bots, X would lose its real value: the ability to sensationalise and amplify content at speed.\n- X's South Asia, India government affairs head quitsSamiran Gupta joined X in February 2022 before Elon Musk acquired the company. He continued on his job after Musk fired over 80 per cent of employees in India in November.\n- Why India is in the investment spotlightIndia’s growth continues despite a global economy that is sputtering. Europe, China, Japan, Russia, and North America are each struggling with challenges ranging from slowing growth, aging population, and slowing birth rates to shadow inflation and debt.\n- Finding solace in Sudha Murty's humility amidst an era of Elon Musks: Jayanti BhattacharyaSudha Murty, Chairperson of Infosys Foundation, has gained praise for her humility and simplicity after engaging in conversations with everyday people at an airport. Jayanti Bhattacharya, Co-founder of India Hemp and Co, expressed admiration for Murty's patience and approachability on LinkedIn. Netizens have resonated with this sentiment, praising Murty's ability to connect with people from all walks of life. The viral post serves as a reminder of the importance of humility and the ability to connect with others, highlighting Murty's positive impact on those she encountered.\n- YouTuber Fidias Panayiotou jumps over Bengaluru metro gate; faces legal charges for evading metro fareFidias Panayiotou, a popular YouTuber known for his comedy content, is facing backlash from the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) for allegedly riding the city's metro without a valid ticket and sharing a video of it on social media. The BMRCL's Managing Director has expressed disapproval and plans to file a criminal case against Fidias. The video went viral, with viewers having mixed reactions, some finding it humorous while others criticizing him. Some also speculated that the incident may have been staged for views.\n- X social media's India, South Asia policy head Samiran Gupta resignsSamiran Gupta, the head of policy for India and South Asia at social media platform X, has resigned. His departure comes as the company is involved in a court battle with the Indian government over content removal and ahead of the upcoming elections in India.\n- Jack Dorsey's Bluesky usage surges after Elon Musk says will charge all X usersJack Dorsey-backed social media network Bluesky saw a surge in new users sign-up after Elon Musk announced he will soon charge all X users a small monthly fee.\n- A theory of Elon Musk's maniacal driveElon Musk's extreme ambition and drive can be traced back to his challenging childhood in South Africa, according to Walter Isaacson's biography of Musk. Despite experiencing abuse and isolation, Musk found solace in science fiction and developed a deep attachment to the hero myth.\nDisclaimerThe content of this page has been aggregated from multiple websites. Some information can change over the passage of time.\nBACK TO TOP", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ticketmaster rolls out new system to snag a bigger piece of the resale ticket market\nSep 6, 2013 / 2:14 pm\nLOS ANGELES, Calif. - Fans of popular artists or sports teams are painfully aware how difficult it is to find good seats to live events at affordable prices. With a new ticket resale system, Ticketmaster is trying to show you what seats are available in one place — both unsold ones and those up for resale — so you can price-shop more easily.\nThe nation's largest ticket-seller quietly began rolling out its system, called TM+, for certain shows including a Black Sabbath concert in Massachusetts in August. More than two dozen professional sports teams have signed up, including many in the NFL. With the pro football season beginning in earnest Sunday, millions of football fans could start using the system soon. So far, about 300 events have used TM+, which the company says is still in test mode.\nUsing a computer, ticket buyers can see where each available seat is in a stadium, how much it's selling for and whether it's a marked-up resale seat or one that hasn't been sold yet.\nBefore, you had to search for resales and unsold tickets separately. By seeing them together, you can tell before paying the resale price whether you can get an unsold ticket much cheaper just a row or a few seats away. For an upcoming Miami Dolphins' home game against the Atlanta Falcons, for instance, you can see that a single resale seat in Section 122 priced at $146.05 is right beside an unsold seat selling for $85.\nFor some happy customer, that extra $61.05 will buy a lot of hot dogs, beer and merchandise.\n\"This now allows fans to have one-stop shopping,\" said Jim Rushton, the Dolphins' chief revenue officer.\nTicket holders who are looking to sell because they can't make an event can do so from a mobile phone or computer. All transfers are electronic, so there's no need to send physical tickets in the mail.\nTicketmaster, a division of Beverly Hills, Calif.-based Live Nation Entertainment Inc., is hoping its new system will help it take a larger share of the resale ticket market, which is estimated to be worth more than $4 billion in annual revenue in North America. The figure includes the resale ticket price and associated fees, which are estimated at about $1 billion a year.\nTicket sellers are usually brokers, who buy tickets hoping to sell them for profit, as well as sports fans who are season ticket holders but can't make every game. Individuals whose plans change are also in the market to flip their tickets.\nProfit from resale tickets often goes to brokers, who are often first in line to buy tickets the moment they go on sale. By offering an improved resale system, Ticketmaster can collect a fee on every resale. The fee amounts to about 20 per cent — about half from the buyer and half from the seller. Rushton says the Dolphins also will share in those fees, unlike for third-party reseller sites such as StubHub, where the team makes nothing.\nBringing customers to a map that shows original tickets alongside resale tickets increases the chance that more original tickets get sold. More original ticket sales will increase the amount of money that goes to venues, teams or artists, improving Ticketmaster's relations with its clients.\nAlso, Ticketmaster got into trouble with New Jersey regulators in 2008 for directing people to its TicketsNow unit to buy marked-up resale tickets for a Bruce Springsteen concert when cheaper original tickets were still available. By showing original and resale tickets side by side, the new system addresses that concern.\nTM+ will help boost the company's share of the resale market from about 10 per cent to about 30 per cent in the next few years, says John Tinker, an analyst with research firm Maxim Group. That would result in about $300 million in revenue and about $60 million in profit each year, allowing it to catch up to market leader StubHub, a unit of eBay Inc.\n\"StubHub has done a great job in the space and Ticketmaster is finally stepping it up,\" he said.\nChris Tsakalakis, president of StubHub, dismissed Ticketmaster's new system, noting that Ticketmaster has been selling resale tickets since 2002, most recently with TicketsNow.\n\"StubHub, with superior customer service and more than triple Ticketmaster's secondary ticket sales, remains the market leader, and we intend to keep it that way,\" he said.\nTicket brokers say they are closely watching how the new system evolves through the test phase.\nHarris Rosner, owner of VIP Tickets, a ticket reseller that has an office near Los Angeles' Staples Center, said competition between the two largest resale marketplaces could help fans and brokers, if they ultimately reduce fees on transactions to maintain or grow market share.\n\"I look forward very much to seeing how it works out and embracing it,\" Rosner said. \"Competition is always good for the consumer, right?\"\nRead more Business News\n|QHR Technologies Inc||1.18||-0.01|\n|Anavex Life Sciences||0.329||+0.014|\n|Copper Mountain Mining||1.53||-0.05|\nBig Picture Bank earnings and upbeat economic news highlight an active week In contrast with last week’s quieter, U.S. holiday-shortened week, the first week of December was a comparatively acti...\nThis column is the last of three, for how to prove your personal injury claim. 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As mentioned in the first two...\nThe bank manager just phoned and asked for full and immediate repayment of the line of credit because the latest, (and they were late!), financial statements showed continuing losses and falling sales...\n- Ad or not, soaring WestJet viral video a branding win: marketing experts\n- Mobile trend will push phone, tablet ownership past PCs in 2014: IDC Canada\n- Court strikes down several claims in wheat board lawsuit, but case move ahead\n- Airlines forecast big profit jump to $19.7 billion in 2014 as fuel prices fall, demand rises\n- US business stockpiles jump 0.7 per cent in October, biggest gain since January\n- US hits firms evading Iran sanctions, while Congress debate over new measures goes on\n- Bombardier and Embraer split American Airlines regional jet order\n- Britain's phone-hacking trial hears Queen Elizabeth II annoyed by nut-eating police officers\n- CPPIB buys portfolio of agricultural land from Assiniboia Farmland LP for $128M\n- US unemployment aid applications surge to 368,000, reflecting bump in claims after holiday\n- BoC's Poloz says low interest rates needed to keep deflation at bay\n- New house prices rose in October after flat September: StatsCan", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "IAC puts CollegeHumor up for sale amid video deal boom\nCollegeHumor, an entertainment website owned by IAC (IACI), is talking to potential acquirers about sale of the business, according to sources familiar with the situation. IAC, which acquired a majority stake in CollegeHumor eight years ago for a reported $20 million, is hoping to find a buyer that will pay around $100 million.\nCollegeHumor would be the third humor site seeking a buyer. Bloomberg previously reported that Funny or Die had hired Moelis & Co. for a sale that could generate between $100 million and $300 million. Bloomberg also reported that The Onion is on the block, with a source telling Fortune that the asking price there is around $100 million.\nWhat’s driving this deal activity? In short, Walt Disney Co. (DIS).\nThis past April, Disney acquired a network of YouTube channels called Maker Studios for almost $1 billion, valuing it at a rich multiple of four times its revenue run rate. “All the other incumbent traditional media companies stood up to take notice,” one banker says. “They’re all trying to figure out why Disney did that and what copycat transactions are credible alternatives.”\nDisney’s deal for Maker Studios sparked flurry of online video acquisitions: Maker rival Fullscreen Media sold itself to Otter Media, Peter Chernin’s joint venture with AT&T (T), for between $200 million and $300 million. Another YouTube network called BigFrame was acquired by subsidiary of Dreamworks Animation (DWA). Stylehaul, a fashion and beauty video network, sold to a European television company for $151 million. Up-and-comers, like Tastemade, which LA techies are calling “the next Food Network,” and MiTu, Latino lifestyle network, recently raised eight-figure rounds of venture funding at healthy valuations.\nDigital video is having a moment, and as venture investors love to say, “The time to eat the hors d’oevres is when they’re being passed.”\nNow the humor sites are hoping to take advantage of the acquisition interest. CollegeHumor, which operates Dorkly.com and WatchLoud.com, has more than eight million YouTube subscribers and calls itself the #1 YouTube comedy channel.\nAn IAC representative declined to comment.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is a globally engaged university located in the heart of Chicago, an architecturally and culturally dynamic city of nearly three million people. The city is home to a number of Global 500 Fortune companies including Boeing, United Airlines, and Caterpillar. Fifty-four million people visit the city each year to take advantage of its rich history, arts and culture, architecture, diverse communities, sports and outdoor activities.\nUIC is Chicago’s largest university and its only public Research I university. The university welcomed more than 6,000 international students and scholars to our campus during 2016-2017 and sent more than 230 students abroad for study. UIC also houses a number of internationally recognized and globally engaged research centers in urban studies, architecture, public health, social work, medicine and engineering.\nTwo UIC students named Fund for Education Abroad scholars\nTwo students from the University of Illinois at Chicago have been awarded scholarships from the Fund for Education Abroad, which aims to increase study abroad opportunities for U.S. college students underrepresented in international education.\nJazmin Juarez, of Chicago’s West Town neighborhood, and Shamira Quiñones, of Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, are among 100 winners from various racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds to receive up to $10,000 in support of study abroad for a minimum of four weeks to a full academic year. They were selected from a pool of more than 2,300 applicants representing approximately 517 colleges and universities across the country.\nUIC Global Progression Ceremony and Reception, April 2018, Navy Pier\nThis April, UIC Global celebrated our progressing students on a boat cruise at Navy Pier in downtown Chicago. UIC Global students and staff as well as members of the University gathered for an elegant night full of skyline views, keynote speakers, tasty bites, and a dance-floor celebration!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Jerry Kammer at the Center for Immigration Studies takes a look at how the New York Times has moved from a thoughtful pro-immigrant paper to a destructive force that encourages illegal immigration and demonizes the other side:\nFar from seeking to turn the illegal tide, the Times welcomes it, defends it, and encourages it. Rather than advocating compromise on immigration policy, the Times stokes confrontation. Adding insult to injury, it attacks the character of those who disagree.\nFor instance, Lawrence Downes, the lead Times editorial writer on immigration, heaps scorn on those who express worry about the ability of unskilled and poorly educated immigrants to integrate into American life. He considers such concerns to be a mask for bigots, proof of nativist hostility. He calls them an “effective substitute” for the open racism that has been driven from the public square.”8\nIn late 2012, a Times editorial touted its inclusive ideas for reform with this warning: “The hard-liners against reform — including the white-culture alarmists and the closet racists — have not gone away.”9\nThis claim to see evil motivations among those it criticizes is the flip side of the editorial page’s ability not to see non-American flags waved by those it supports. It is a familiar trope at the Times.\nThe 2012 editorial provoked former New York City Mayor Ed Koch to write an angry response. Said Koch, “I have never seen a more intolerant editorial in language and tone appear in the New York Times.”10\nThis stridency matters because the Times represents the pinnacle of American journalism. Its editorials are followed by engaged citizens across the political spectrum, as the paper’s first public editor, Daniel Okrent observed in 2004.\nNRO’s Mark Krikorian adds:\nKammer’s deeply researched piece sheds needed light on how and why the Times descended into the “racism is everything” school of editorializing on immigration. Given the Times’ continuing status as the newspaper of record, and the brewing amnesty debate, it’s important to give context to the flood of sanctimony on immigration sure to emanate from the editorial page over the next six months or so.\nScreaming “racism” is nothing more than the latest form of McCarthyism, a way to demonize the other side and their arguments. The goal of screaming “racism” is to kill debate and silence the opposition. With the Times leading the way, we’re seeing this phenomenon with same-sex marriage, as well.\nThe sad thing is that it’s working. The political left is seizing the moment, and doing so by any means necessary. Screaming racism is a potent political weapon, especially when it can turn out college-aged voters.\nFollow John Nolte on Twitter @NolteNC", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "John Satira and Rhonda Bates Named Homecoming King and Queen\nOnly two students out of nearly 40,000 are endowed with Homecoming royalty each year. During halftime on Saturday, John Satira and Rhonda Bates became the newest Penn State Homecoming King and Queen suitors in front of more than 107,000 people.\nThe halftime announcement was chosen in lieu of the Friday night pep rally, which had been a staple of previous Homecomings but was canceled this year because of the Pegula Ice Arena opening.\nSatira, from Murrysville, PA, is the President of Lion Ambassadors and an RA in East Halls.\nBates, from Philadelphia, is the president of the Student Minority Advisory and Recruitment Team (SMART) and is the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Day of Service Director.\nCongratulations to the new King and Queen and everyone on this year’s Homecoming Court!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Seventy or so supporters of the United Russia party joined an unauthorized protest over the results of the Oct. 14 local election outside the city administration building in Aramil, the Sverdlovsk region.\nThe protesters expressed their disagreement with the victory of a candidate from A Just Russia Party in the city's mayoral elections, a source in law enforcement agencies told Interfax on Friday Twenty-six policemen patrolled the venue. Protocols of administrative offences were compiled against eight demonstrators.\nElections were held in 24 municipalities of the Sverdlovsk region on Oct. 14.\nAll rights reserved by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.\nto our newsletter!\nGet the week's best stories straight to your inbox", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The odds remain strong that the Chicago Bulls won’t trade top scorer Zach LaVine, largely because executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas and company seem intent on making very few changes this offseason.\nThe Bulls re-signed starting center Nikola Vucevich and guard Coby White to three-year deals and brought in free agents Jevon Carter and Torrey Craig, but unless they trade away at least some of their top talent, they won’t be able to afford much. They only have $6 million left of their non-taxpayer mid-level exception and a $4 million bi-annual exception (numbers via Spotrac) and those cannot both be used on the same player.\nBut if Chicago traded away LaVine, who is its highest-paid player? That would free up $40 million in cap space this year alone and give the team far more options. In his July 5 column, Bleacher Report’s Greg Swartz put together a trade he believes would work for both Chicago and the Philadelphia 76ers that would involve swapping LaVine for superstar point guard James Harden.\nInsider Recently Linked Bulls to Harden\nJake Fischer of Yahoo! Sports wrote on June 30 that the Bulls were a “trade partner to keep in mind” where Harden is concerned, noting LaVine or veteran DeMar DeRozan could be potentially included in a deal for Harden, who wants out.\nWhile The Athletic reported that Harden wants to play for the L.A. Clippers, that’s not a done deal by any means and some analysts, including Swartz, think a Harden-LaVine swap is possible — although they’re not the only two players involved in his trade proposal.\n- Chicago Bulls Receive: PG James Harden, PF P.J. Tucker\n- Philadelphia 76ers Receive: SG Zach LaVine, F Patrick Williams\n“A swap of Harden and LaVine (as well as Tucker and Williams) works for a number of reasons,” Swartz wrote. “For the 76ers, a starting five of Tyrese Maxey, LaVine, Williams, Tobias Harris and Joel Embiid packs a ton of offensive punch, with a bench of De’Anthony Melton, Patrick Beverley, Furkan Korkmaz, Danuel House Jr. and restricted free agent Paul Reed providing some defense to mix in.”\nHow Would This Trade Benefit the Bulls?\nGiving up the 28-year old LaVine and the 21-year old Williams in exchange for Harden, who turns 34 in August, and Tucker, who turned 38 in May, certainly wouldn’t help the Bulls in the long term.\nHarden led the NBA in assists last season, also averaging 21 points, and he’d be an unquestionable upgrade at point for the Bulls, but giving up Williams in the deal would hurt Chicago more than help. The young forward has shown a good deal of potential in the last two seasons, and the Bulls may want to see if he develops further.\nSwartz, though, thinks the Bulls could contend with the likes of Harden. “For the Bulls, this is a chance to be competitive in 2023-24 while also clearing future salary-cap space for a potential rebuild,” he wrote. “Harden is still one of the best playmakers in the NBA, breathing life into a Bulls offense that ranked just 24th overall with Lonzo Ball missing the season with a knee injury. With Ball once again projected to be out for 2023-24, Harden takes over as the team’s starting point guard,”\nSwartz did make a good point about the Bulls being able to start over and rebuild after next season if Harden doesn’t pan out. “This trade removes LaVine’s remaining four-year, $178 million contract from Chicago’s books,” Swartz noted. “Harden and DeRozan will both become free agents next summer, opening up $64.2 million worth of cap space for the Bulls in 2024.”\nA 14-time All-Star, Harden still has plenty left in the tank, but he’s nowhere near the player he was when he won league MVP in 2018. If the Bulls do end up trading LaVine, they would likely want some younger talent and additional draft picks in exchange.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|An employee at Company 74 in the Central Highlands Province of Gia Lai works on a rubber production line. — VNA/VNS Photo Duong Giang\nHA NOI (VNS) — The rubber industry is expected to continue struggling this year, with profits declining or even reporting losses, owing to the sharp fall in rubber prices in the world market.\nExperts said the sector must reduce exports of raw material and diversify export markets to avoid reliance on a single market to overcome this difficult time.\nAccording to the Viet Nam Rubber Industry Corporation, the rubber industry's profits will narrow as rubber prices in the market are forecast to slip to VND31,000 (US$1.5) per kilogramme this year, while production costs will hover around VND30,000 ($1.4).\nThe rubber industry of Viet Nam had a hard time last year when prices fell to a five-year low of $1,500 per tonne. The group pointed out that the fall in rubber prices was partly due to China - one of the biggest rubber import markets for Viet Nam - cutting rubber imports at some point of time.\nStatistics from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development also showed that Viet Nam exported 1.07 million tonnes of rubber last year, the same as in 2013, but earned only $1.8 billion, 28 per cent lower than 2013's export value, due to the price drop.\nThe average export price for rubber during the first 11 months of 2014 was $1,695 per tonne, falling by 27 per cent from the same period last year.\nVo Sy Luc, Chairman of the Viet Nam Rubber Industry Corporation was quoted by Thoi Bao Kinh Doanh (The Business Times) as saying that rubber prices had been slipping since 2012 from more than VND100 million ($4,670) per tonne to around VND29 million ($1,355).\nThis has hit rubber farmers hard, with many in the south-eastern region cutting down their trees to switch to other crops. The total area under rubber tree plantation that was cut down is estimated to be more than 4,000 ha.\nAccording to the group's General Director Tran Ngoc Thuan, Viet Nam currently exports rubber in raw form, mainly latex or rubber with just preliminary processing, which can result in low added value.\nIndustry insiders estimate that rubber values could increase by up to 20 times if raw materials are processed into finished products.\nDoan Xuan Hoa, Deputy Director of the Department of Processing and Trade for Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Products and Salt Production, pointed out that only 18 per cent of the latex from Viet Nam is processed, adding that if the rate is increased to 25 per cent, Viet Nam will become less dependent on foreign markets.\nExperts have urged rubber companies to invest more in latex processing to boost added value, warning that the industry will continue to be at a disadvantage in case no improvements are made.\nThe Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat said that in the long term, the rubber industry must restructure for sustainable development, and focus on enhancing quality and efficiency. — VNS", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Today an old game with some new tricks hit Android. It's Duke Nukem, the 15-year-old classic console game. The object of the 1991 shooter is still to save the women from the invading aliens — \"save our chicks\" — but there are some new features to take advantage of 2011-era mobile tech. Those include the ability to install from an SD card, multi-touch controls and compatibility with an array of Android screen sizes, from phone to tablet and beyond. The game's current owner, Machineworks Northwest, did a version for iOS this summer.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Third largest carrier CMA CGM and A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S are currently in talks for the potential sale of shipping company Neptune Orient Lines NOL, according to Bloomberg.\nNOL said: “NOL has a duty to assess all options to maximize shareholder value and improve its competitiveness”, adding that the discussion are still in the early and nothing has been confirmed yet.\nCMA CGM has made a preliminary offer of US$1.9 billion for NOL.\nMaersk is also in talks regarding the acquisition of NOL, though the discussions are said to be less advanced.\nA deal is unlikely to be struck soon, as the slumping shipping sector damps the appetite for aggressive bidding.\nSingapore state investment company Temasek Holdings currently owns 67% of NOL, of which the company may not willingly sell.\nNils Smedegaard Andersen, CEO of Maersk group, said: “We’ve always said that we will look at everything that comes up for sale in the market but our base strategy is to grow organically. In general we welcome any consolidation – that would only be healthy for the container line industry.”\nAcquiring Neptune Orient would help consolidate CMA CGM’s number three position in container shipping as it competes with market leaders Maersk and MSC, both of which own more than 2.5 million TEU in fleet capacity.\nCMA CGM has recently announced that it is building the world’s smart ship, and will be the first ship to be equipped with TRAXENS technology.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Huawei has recently unveiled a new smartphone in Thailand called as Huawei Y9 (2018). The phone brags specifications identical to the previously launched Honor 9i and Huawei Mate 10 Lite smartphones. The new Y9 (2018) is expected to be made available at a price of EUR 200 (roughly Rs 16,000).\nHuawei Y9 (2018): Specifications\nThe new Huawei smartphone comes with a 5.93-inch Full HD+ (1080×2160 pixels) FullView display with 18:9 aspect ratio. It runs on Android 8.0 Oreo operating system powered by EMUI 8.0 skin. The handset comes equipped with a 2.3GHz Kirin 659 octa-core processor paired with 3GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage, and external storage of up to 256GB via microSD card slot. The Kirin 659 SoC has previously used on Huawei Mate 10 Lite and Honor 9 Lite.\nThe highlight of the device is the dual camera setup on the front as well as the rear panel. The primary rear camera setup includes 13MP + 2MP sensors with LED flash. In contrast, the front camera setup has a combination of 16MP + 2MP sensors, making it a great smartphone to pick from the dual front camera mobiles price list. The smartphone is powered by a 4000mAh battery.\nThe Huawei Y9 (2018) model offers a dedicated fingerprint scanner at the rear. We expect the regular connectivity options such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and others on the device. The phone will come in Black, Blue, and Gold colour options. The Y9 (2018) comes with 7.9mm of thickness and weighs 170 grams.\nSeparately, Huawei is anticipated to be planning for the launch of P20 series of smartphone. This series will include Huawei P20, P20 Pro, and P20 Lite handsets. These smartphones are rumoured to come with iPhone X-like notch on the top of the display. The Chinese OEM has scheduled a launch event on March 27 where these smartphones might get introduced.\nLike Huawei Y9 (2018), the Huawei P20 Lite is reported to pack a Kirin 659 octa-core SoC. The P20 Lite model will have 4GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage, Android 8.0 Oreo, a 3520mAh battery, dual rear camera module, and fingerprint scanner.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Study: Mississippi lacks 'economic freedom,' ranks near bottom\nIf freedom is truly \"just another word for nothing left to lose,' then perhaps the lack of freedom is just another way to say there's nothing left to gain.\nAt least that what seems to revealed in a report released this week by the Fraser Institute, a non-partisan Canadian public policy think tank The report ranked all 50 U.S. states, 32 Mexican states and 10 Canadian provinces based on \"economic freedom.\" Rankings are measured by size of government, taxation and labor market restrictions.\n''The freest economies operate with minimal government interference, relying on personal choice and markets to decide what's produced, how it's produced and how much is produced,\" said Florida Gulf Coast University professor Dean Stansel, a co-author of the report. \"As government imposes restrictions on these choices, there's less economic freedom.''\nOnce again, Mississippi didn't fare well, tying with Maine for the U.S. state with the least level of economic freedom.\nThe North American rankings were based on government, taxation and labor market restrictions (using data from 2012). Maine is the least \"free\" state, followed by Mississippi, Vermont, New York, Rhode Island, West Virginia, New Jersey and California. Mississippi and Maine also were tied with the following Mexican states: Guanajuato, Quintana Roo, Queretaro and Morelos.\nTexas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Virginia, New Hampshire, Louisiana, Nebraska, Delaware and Tennessee were among the top states.\nIn the most-free states, the average per-capita GDP in 2012 was roughly $55,000, compared to roughly $48,000 for the least-free states.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Relatives of Michael Clohessy are seeking compensation from the ESB for negligence.\nAt an inquest at Dublin City Coroner’s Court this month it was established that his cancer was asbestos-related. Clohessy worked as a linesman for the ESB for 33 years and died on December 6, 2003, aged 53.\n“In the wake of that finding I’ve made a claim on their behalf,” said Peter Duff, the family’s solicitor.\nThe main part of the claim against the ESB will relate to the loss of earnings. A father of three, Clohessy was the main source of income for his family.\nClohessy died from a mesothelioma tumour in the lungs, which is often associated with asbestos. He spent two years at Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross, Dublin,…", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|AIRPORT NOISE LAW|\nNaples (Florida) Ban on Noisy Jets Upheld by U.S. Court of Appeals\nJUNE 3, 2005\nOlder, noisy jets can be banned from the skies over Naples to maintain quiet in the community, a federal appeals court said Friday. In its ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sided with the Naples Airport Authority and against the Federal Aviation Administration in a years-long dispute.\nThe banned aircraft, called \"Stage 2\" jets, were made in the 1970s and 1980s and are generally noisier than aircraft built since. The authority restricted them from using Naples Municipal Airport after receiving complaints from the community about their loudness.\nThe FAA contended the ban unjustly discriminated against users of a particular type of aircraft. The agency also argued that the rules let aircraft noisier than Stage 2 jets land in Naples, and it chastised the city for letting subdivisions be built so close to the airport, which increased the number of aircraft noise complaints.\nBut the Washington court said the \"Airport Authority and the City of Naples introduced ample evidence -- much of which went unrebutted -- demonstrating that the Stage 2 jet ban was justified.\" The court returned the case to the FAA to carry out the ruling.\n\"We are overjoyed,\" authority executive director Ted Soliday told the Naples Daily News. The ruling was released late Friday and calls to FAA officials for comment were not immediately returned.\nOther airports around the country considering similar noise restrictions have been watching the Naples case, the newspaper reported.\nSource: Associated Press, Naples Daily News", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Approximately 700 New York City public school cafeterias inspected by health officials were cited for at least one health code violation in 2017, according to a report.\nIn a report titled “Food Plight,” student journalists from the City University of New York compiled data from the New York City Health Department and found that about half of the 1,400 public school health officials inspected in 2017 had at least one critical health code violation.\nNew York City health officials place health code violations into three different categories: general, administrative, and critical.\nGeneral violations are issued when an inspector notices that an establishment has poor ventilation, improper flooring, or other structural fixtures around an area of food preparation.\nAdministrative violations are issued when establishments fail to display posters with information on what to do in a choking emergency or if inspectors find issues with trash bins or toilet areas.\nThe critical violations—health code violations that could put people at risk for foodborne illnesses—are the ones that are most likely to harm students.\nHealth inspectors found that more than half of the 1,150 critical health code violations noted the presence of rodents, roaches, and other insects in areas where food is prepared or served.\nIn the borough of Brooklyn, six schools had been cited for five critical violations, and one school racked up seven critical violations. Most of the schools cited for these violations had issues with roaches, mice, or food protection.\nHeaven Santiago, a student at John Jay/Millenium School in Brooklyn, shared his experiences of eating the food at the Brooklyn school that had been cited for seven critical health violations.\n“It doesn’t taste good and it doesn’t look good,” Santiago told the CUNY students authoring the report. “If the intention is to create food for us to be healthy, it’s been skewed. It’s highly unhealthy and unsanitary.”\nThe student journalists found that the four dozen schools that got the worst marks for inspection in 2017 were in the city’s poorest areas, according to the report.\nNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law in September 2017 requiring schools to post their health inspection results online at the beginning of each school year. It is unclear whether that law has prompted these schools to improve their conditions.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Korea wants to develop software for drones\nThe technologies will be used to monitor illegal fishing by Chinese boats in Korean waters and oversee scenes of disasters.\nThis is part of the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning’s 14 new creative economy R&D projects that start this year. Of the 17.7 billion won ($16 million) budget for all 14 projects, almost 15 percent, or 2.6 billion won, will be dedicated to three drone software development projects.\nBy investing in software, the government hopes to make drones a new area of industrial growth.\nThe government aims to complete development of the software by the end of this year and test the system on regular drones early next year. It wants to ultimately use the software in a locally developed tilt-rotor UAV, a kind of high-speed drone that takes off and lands vertically, scheduled to be developed by 2020.\nThe software will be jointly developed with the state-run Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI). It will control surveillance cameras and sensors on the drone’s body, analyzing and transmitting data to a main control room.\nThe software will automatically identify illegal fishing boats by analyzing the captured video and comparing data with lists of Korean fishing vessels.\nThe disaster rescue software will be able to analyze 3-D geographic information. The forest surveillance system will feature an infrared sensor to locate specific parts of forests that were damaged by diseases and pests.\nKorea hopes to expand the local drone industry’s hardware and software, which is extremely small compared to the UAV industry in the United States. It is with drones used by governments rather than individuals.\nAccording to a recent report by the Institute for ICT Promotion of Korea, more than 960 models of civilian drones are produced by 270 companies in 57 countries. However, only 11 models have been commercialized or are still being developed by four Korean companies.\nThere were 380 drones registered with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport for civilian operations last year, up from 170 units in 2012. The drones are used for purposes like spraying agricultural pesticides and taking photos and videos.\n“IT-related technologies are important in drone projects because the software that controls the drone’s movement and telecommunication technologies account for more than half of the whole research process,” Moon Seung-wook, director general of the System Industry Policy Department at the Industry Ministry said at a press briefing. “So the government’s civilian-use drone project can be a creative economy project providing new business opportunities to local aerospace and IT industries.”\nAccording to Teal Group, military drones accounted for 89 percent of all drones produced last year.\nHowever, aerospace industry analysts forecast in the report that the demand for civilian drones will continuously rise over the next decade to at least 14 percent.\nIn the civilian sector, the agriculture industry is estimated to have the highest demand for drones, followed by the public sector, which will drones for safety and surveillance purposes, as well as individual hobbyists and entertainment industry, which use drones for photographs and video.\nBY KIM JI-YOON [firstname.lastname@example.org]", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Please stand by, while we are checking your browser...\nPlease enable Cookies and reload the page.\nCompleting the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the\nNew Jersey, United States – The Verified Market Reports released the latest competent intelligence market research report on the Woodworking Equipment Market, The report aims to\nMay 30, 2022 04:48 ET | Source: Research and Markets Research\nHOLLAND, Mich. -- Choice Machinery Group has named Ed Strahota as their national sales manager. Strahota has more than 25 years experience in the woodworking industry managing machinery sales fo\nSYDNEY, March 8 (Reuters) - Qantas Airways Ltd (QAN.AX) expects airfares will need to rise to cover the cost of higher fuel prices as its oil hedging contracts expire, its chief executive said o\nTo properly run a meat department in the supermarket, having well maintained equipment is vital when it comes to food safety, as food slicers, meat grinders and other machines may cause serious\nThis is in reference to the Saturday, May 14, 2020 article “Voter fraud adherents to speak” and letter to the editor “Reader decries political ‘histrionics’.”\nApp digitises daily crane inspection\nPlastics processors report sales growth beset by uncertainties", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A case of mistaken identity is under investigation.\nThe Royal Cayman Islands Police Service is trying to figure out how a broken BB pistol was mistaken for a lethal barrelled gun.\nThe mistake caused Rhondell Powery of West Bay to be charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm. He was facing 10 years in prison if found guilty.\nBut just as his case was to begin Monday morning, the Crown amended a charge against him to reflect the fact that, legally, the gun was an imitation firearm.\nHe pleaded guilty to possession of an imitation firearm with intent to commit an offence of threatening violence. He was fined and ordered to attend anger management counselling.\nThe result of the police investigation could help determine whether future firearms evidence is presented in court by an experienced local officer or an overseas expert.\nChief Superintendent John Jones said police will look at case papers and the role of the investigators to find out what went wrong so that it doesn’t happen again.\nThe Crown Counsel said the initial report on the gun indicated it was a lethal barrelled weapon, fired by means of a carbon dioxide cylinder.\nThe gun was later sent to a lab in the US where it was found unable to be fired because the seating device for the carbon dioxide cylinder was broken.\nMr. Jones said he was keeping an open mind about what will happen following his investigation. Appropriate action will be taken if misconduct is found, he said.\nHe said he would not rule out discipline.\nReview teams acknowledge that officers are human and mistakes are made, Mr. Jones said. They have to balance whether the mistake was honest or made out of negligence.\n‘We have to explore standards of evidence for court, especially expert evidence whether that is provided externally or internally,’ he said.\nHe will be working with the Legal Department, which is responsible for prosecuting cases.\nMr. Jones said that in the past experienced police officers have been accepted as experts when the issue related to whether a gun is a lethal barrelled weapon capable of being fired.\nHe said officers typically examine the gun and take it to the firing range to fire off a few rounds.\nEquipment for more technical testing is not available on island, Mr. Jones said. Any detailed examination of bullets or markings is done by an expert abroad, usually in the US.\nThere are cost implications in bringing experts from overseas, he said. ‘But when individuals’ liberties are at stake, we’ve got to get it right.’\nThe quality of evidence has to be the best, Mr. Jones said.\n‘We can’t afford to make mistakes,’ he said.\nThe Firearms Law contains a long list of items that are firearms and includes the term lethal barrelled weapon. It does not, however, define this term.\nMr. Jones, who joined the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service in May after 30-plus years experience in the UK, shared his understanding of what lethal barrelled means.\nHe said that if someone is hit by a projectile, the fact of whether it can have lethal consequences will determine if the item discharging the projectile is lethal barrelled.\nA typical water pistol would not be lethal. A gun capable of firing bullets would be. Where the distinction gets difficult, Mr. Jones said, is with an air gun or a gun operated by gas pressure.\n‘Then it gets technical as to whether it’s lethal or not,’ he said.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Online sales on Cyber Monday surged nearly 20% from last year, according to findings from an analytics group released Tuesday.\nCyber Monday is the first Monday after Thanksgiving and is a relatively recent retail phenomenon, compared to Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. Many retailers traditionally open their doors at midnight on Black Friday, attracting shoppers with heavily advertised discounts.\nCyber Monday online sales in the U.S. were up 19.4% in 2010 compared to last year, reported Coremetrics.\nMore people were shopping online and the individual orders were larger than last year. Coremetrics said the average order value on Cyber Monday was $194.89, an increase of 8.3% from last year's average of $180.03.\nCyber Monday sales also outdid this year's Black Friday online sales by 31.1%, according to Coremetrics.\nShoppers also used mobile devices to make their purchases, with nearly 4% of all Cyber Monday shoppers using smartphones and other devices.\nMobile phones play a key role. \"People are using their mobile phones to compare prices, look for store locations and inventory in stock locally and find deals,\" read the Google blog.\nJetBlue is offering to fly police to New York for the funeral of slain NYPD officers and is working to have the family of one of the officers flown in from overseas. More\nAccording to data from Google Trends and GrubHub, Chinese food remains the most popular type of food order on Christmas. More\nAfter losing their daughter to liver failure and getting hit with $200,000 in student loans, the Mason family is finally getting financial relief. More", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ross County have confirmed the signing of goalkeeper Mark Brown.\nThe 31-year-old has joined the newly-promoted Clydesdale Bank Premier League side on a deal which will run until January.\nBrown spent last season at Hibernian and had previous spells with Motherwell, Inverness and Celtic.\nCounty boss Derek Adams said: \"Mark is a talented and experienced player which is what we need at this stage.\n\"Michael Fraser has had a superb start to the season, with three clean-sheets already, but there is no doubt it was an area we needed to strengthen.\n\"Goalkeeper is such a crucial position in the team that attracting the right individuals, with top level experience, is always a challenge.\n\"I am therefore delighted that we've been able to secure Mark's services.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Acadia’s world-class research facilities rival the largest institutions. With our unique location and small campus, Acadia fosters collaboration across disciplines and with industry, community, and sister institutions.\nAcadia University has welcomed students back to campus for a COVID-19-ready Fall 2020 term with a hybrid approach to teaching and learning that includes a mix of in-person, online, and virtual course delivery.\nGet the latest information and updates on campus efforts.\nAcadia University is proud to announce a $2-million gift in support of the Campaign for Acadia from Nancy McCain (’82) and her husband, The Honourable Bill Morneau, dedicated to enhanced facilities and services for Acadia students.\nRemembrance Day is marked in Canada every year on November 11. It is a national commemoration day for the more than 118,000 Canadians who have died in military service.\nAt Acadia University, we traditionally join with the Royal Canadian Legion's local branch to remember the service, sacrifice, and loss of those who served. Because the global pandemic has prevented us from having large gatherings, there will only be online and private opportunities to show respect.\nAcadia University's Department of Athletics revealed today it's fall plan to offer its student body an opportunity to engage in sport and fitness during a COVID-19 altered setting on the Acadia campus.\nReferred to as the Alternate Sport Model, the project is a collaboration of several groups on campus to utilize the skills of Acadia Athletics' coaches and student-athletes by offering sport and fitness opportunities to the Acadia campus and Wolfville community.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Backgrounder: Life of late DPRK leader, Kim Jong Il\n28 (Xinhuanet) -- The late leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Kim Jong Il, died of heart failure ten days ago. He served as leader of the Workers' Party and was a close friend of the Chinese people, helping improve DPRK-China ...\nChinese ambassador to N. Korea attends Kim's funeral\nNorth Korea to Begin 2-day Memorial for Kim Jong-il [ PHOTOS]\nKim Jong-il's funeral clouded in secrecy", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "AN ALTERNATIVE to the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), the country’s largest union, is being formed and is being named after a Numsa forerunner, the Metal and Allied Workers Union (Mawu).\nThe entrance of a new union to the sector that Numsa has dominated is likely to intensify organised labour rivalry. Several unions are already in the sector, but relations have been cordial.\nHowever, Mawu looks set to aggressively take on Numsa because of the latter’s negative posture towards the alliance between the ANC, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party (SACP).\nNumsa is concerned about the economic policies adopted by the alliance, which it believes are unfriendly to workers. Former Numsa president Cedric Gina is said to be behind the formation of the union.\nGina on Wednesday denied spearheading the attempt, saying workers themselves were “strongly expressing” a desire for an alternative to Numsa .\n“My sense is that there is a lot of anger over how things are unfolding in Numsa,” he said. Gina resigned as president of Numsa late last year.\nNumsa said workers in Ekurhuleni, Tshwane, Vanderbijlpark and parts of KwaZulu-Natal were being lobbied to join the new union.\nIts new rival has a strong presence at Nissan’s Rosslyn plant, where workers were frustrated by Numsa ’s alleged failure to address concerns over possible retrenchments and being placed on short time, according to Jacob Mashego.\nMashego is a former Numsa chairman at the Rosslyn plant and is sympathetic to the new union.\nThe Department of Labour has confirmed that the new union had applied to organise in the sector.\nNumsa deputy general secretary Karl Cloete said the new union had more to do with politics than with worker issues. He described the new movement as well-financed, small” and vociferous in its efforts to grow.\nNumsa resolutions adopted at its special congress in December last year, to find an alternative to the alliance in the form of a possible workers’ party, have placed it on a collision course with the alliance partners.\nNumsa is also at risk of expulsion from Cosatu due to its hard-line stance on the alliance.\nThe new player could replace Numsa in the Cosatu fold. – Natasha Marrian is political editor of Business Day\nKen Manners writes that South Africa is the biggest loser in the steel strike. Numsa claimed a huge victory following its sustained strike, but were there really any winners he asks?\nWho won? Numsa ’s political aspirations were hugely boosted by endless press coverage. Numsa ’s leader, Irvin Jim has greatly enhanced his public image. He will certainly have won favour among the more radical elements of the political spectrum, and his future in politics is now assured. Who lost?\nEvery one of the 60 000 Numsa member employees in the industry. It’s on the public record that the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of SA and even the National Employers Association of SA would have conceded an upfront 8% or 9% settlement to prevent a strike at the end of last month, when the main agreement expired.\nSo it is clear that four weeks of sustained strike action yielded an extra one or two percentage points for employees. An average worker in this industry earning R35 an hour lost R1 400 a week for four weeks, which equals R5 600, plus lost shifts, accruing leave bonuses, benefits, etc.\nSo the 2% “improved” increase achieved by Numsa yielded workers an extra R112 a month for three years, which amounts to R4 032. So, monetarily, workers lost R1 568 each over three years.\nAll 220 000 employees in the industry, of whom 70% were not Numsa members and a great majority of whom wanted to continue working yet were forced to support Numsa ’s strike.\nThey lost financially in terms of the same calculations, but some also suffered physical abuse trying to go to work.\nAbout 10 000 businesses that were forced to close their doors and lost untold sales and profit.\nNon-aligned industries such as the automotive sector that had to close because their Metal and Engineering Industries Bargaining Council-aligned suppliers were forced to stop.\nThe collective bargaining process, which has been tarnished, perhaps beyond recovery.\nWages. About R1.3-billion worth.\nSouth Africa’s economy, which lost about R6-billion in gross domestic product.\nThe government, who lost face. Numsa underscored the signal by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union and Economic Freedom Fighters that, since the fallout between the ANC and Cosatu last year, the ANC no longer holds sway with the working class. Wages. About R1.3-billion worth. South Africa’s economy, which lost about R6-billion in gross domestic product.\nWho won? Politics. Who lost? South Africa. — Ken Manners is CEO of the SP Metal Forgings Group", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "While visiting her grandmother in Pakistan, Fatima Qutab ’21 noticed something surprising about the impoverished children her grandmother cared for: they watched English-speaking television shows despite not knowing the language.\n“It bothered me that those children lacked the education I had been learning for years in America,” said Qutab, a biology major. “I couldn’t take my mind off them. I wanted to break the barrier between us. I wanted to teach them English.”\nQutab recently received at $2,500 Ambition Grant from the Kurt Giessler Foundation for starting “Education Without Borders.” Twice a week, with help from her siblings and cousins in Pakistan and using the video calling service Skype, she teaches the children to speak, read and write short sentences in English. In the last four years, her classroom has grown from four to 10 students, ranging in age from 5 to 18. The grant will be used for better equipment, including a new webcam, speakers, and Chromebooks or iPads with Wi-Fi for each student.\n“The most rewarding part is to see their happy faces,” Qutab said. “I am proud of myself for teaching them something they will use in their daily lives.”\nRunning a classroom from her residence hall at Stonehill, more than 6,700 miles from her students in Pakistan, away doesn’t come without its difficulties. The Skype connection sometimes fails, but more than that, Qutab has to mentor through a computer screen.\n“I have to keep them focused,” she said. “I am determined because I know these children really need the knowledge that I am willing to share with them. They make me feel like more than just a teacher.”\nNow that their English is improving, Qutab hopes the Stonehill community will teach them more subjects like grammar and math. Some of her plans on campus include forming a club to help tutor students, starting a Twitter account and raising money to improve the resources for the students in Pakistan. She also plans to expand the project to help other poor communities around the world.\n“I have not only taught them, but they have taught me to appreciate the privileges I have,” Qutab said.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "TORRANCE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Compex Legal Services, Inc., a leading national provider of record retrieval and insights services announced today that Paul Boroditsch has been named Chief Executive Officer.\nPaul brings more than 20 years of strategic management experience, most recently as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Optum (UnitedHealth Group). During his tenure at Optum, Paul led large scale businesses driving substantial organic growth and differentiated products and services- improving quality, and reducing costs across providers and payer constituents. Prior to Optum, Paul held executive roles at Anthem and began his career leading large scale consulting engagements. Paul holds a BA in Management Information Systems and an MBA, both from the University of Michigan.\n“Paul brings an impressive track record building high-performing organizations, implementing new operating models, and harnessing technology to drive top- and bottom-line growth,” said Ryan Pertz, Principal at Windjammer Capital Investors who partnered with Compex in early 2020. “Paul is the right leader for Compex, and his experience will serve Compex well as the company continues to scale.”\n“Paul has hit the ground running,” said Tony Bazurto, Compex’s Executive Vice President. “His tremendous insight and a fresh perspective have already proven invaluable as we chart the course for our next phase of growth.”\n“I am incredibly honored to lead the Compex team,” Paul said. “With nearly 5 decades of experience, Compex has built a strong foundation and talented team poised to drive innovation, create new sources of value, and deliver the industry’s best experience to our clients and partners. I’m looking forward to continuing our evolution and exceeding our clients’ expectations. ”\nCompex’s outgoing CEO, Arvind Korde retired earlier this year.\nCompex is the nation’s leading record retrieval provider. We serve thousands of law firms and the largest insurance carriers to provide record retrieval, record summarization, IME interface, and deposition reporting solutions that reduce cost and cycle time. We empower our clients to make faster, more informed decisions by streamlining across claims, legal, and third parties.\nFounded in 1972, Compex leads the industry in years of experience, technology, and client service. With 36 offices nationwide, Compex obtains records in all 50 states and abroad. Our leadership in geographic reach and technological innovation make Compex well-known for improving efficiency, simplifying processes, and delighting our customers.\nFor more information visit www.compexlegal.com\nFollow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/compex-legal-services\nDir. of Marketing & Partnerships", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "17-year-old sentenced to probation for plea in battery case\nURBANA — A Rantoul teen who hit a cab driver in the mouth has been sentenced to probation.\nRaymon Haugabrok, 17, whose last known address was in the 400 block of Marco Drive, pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated battery, just a couple of hours after a jury had been selected to hear his trial on charges of attempted armed robbery and aggravated battery.\nHaugabrok admitted to Champaign County Judge Harry Clem that on March 8, while a passenger in a Green Taxi cab in Rantoul, he hit the male driver in the face, giving the man a bloody lip.\nThe driver told Rantoul police that he felt something in the back of his head and turned to see the passenger with his face covered and a gun in his hand. The driver grabbed the gun. The passenger then punched him in the face, got out of the cab and ran.\nPolice later learned it was an Airsoft pellet gun and that Haugabrok was the one with the gun.\nEven though he is 17, Haugabrok was charged as an adult.\nHe was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to have no contact with the victim or the cab company.\nAssistant State's Attorney Scott Larson said Haugabrok had no previous criminal convictions. Larson dismissed the other count of attempted armed robbery in return for Haugabrok's plea.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Peter Hain reignited the controversy over the death of David Kelly yesterday by saying it would have been impossible for the Government to protect his anonymity.\nThe comments from the Leader of the Commons undermine claims that the Government tried hard to stop Dr Kelly's name getting into the media after he confessed to his superiors at the Ministry of Defence that he might have leaked information about the Government \"sexing up\" its Iraq weapons dossier.\nOfficially the Government's tactic up to now has been to deny responsibility for leaking the name.\nBut yesterday, at a seminar at the Institute for Public Policy Research, Mr Hain suggested that Dr Kelly's name was inevitably going to be made public from the moment he came forward as a source for the BBC's story.\n\"With the media pack in full cry, the very idea that David Kelly's name could have been kept a secret is absurd,\" he said. \"If it hadn't emerged, doubtless the media would have spun it into a cover-up story.\"\nOliver Letwin, the shadow home secretary, accused Mr Hain of undermining the Government's previous denials. \"This comes very close indeed to an admission that the Ministry of Defence led journalists to Dr Kelly,\" he said.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Presented by Iron Bow | Dell Technologies | Intel\nAmid the rise of remote work, government leaders are seeking to leverage reliable, cost-effective and sustainable cloud operations. Here’s how they’re doing it.\nWhen social distancing took effect in March, employees across the country began working from home. For many private sector organizations, the transition was relatively straightforward: They already had the cloud infrastructure and processes in place to enable staff to work from anywhere.\nGovernment employees, meanwhile, are facing a different reality. Many agencies may not have had the speedy, reliable infrastructure necessary to manage a remote workforce on demand. What’s more, a number of federal employees have access to classified information, meaning they cannot work from remote locations without the proper security measures in place. As a result, many government leaders have had to act quickly, migrating their applications to a public cloud once they reach IT capacity.\nThis approach, known across the industry as “cloud bursting,” may serve as a short-term solution — but it isn’t necessarily sustainable as a long-term strategy. That’s according to Troy Massey, Director of Enterprise Engagements at Iron Bow Technologies. He recommends a more strategic alternative.\n“It can be tempting for government agencies to feel like they have to make decisions quickly, especially in this challenging and uncertain time,” he said. “A single cloud approach can serve the needs of customers right now, but it won’t necessarily be useful once employees return to the office. Instead, a multi-cloud solution, combining the use of the public cloud with an on-premises private cloud, can offer agencies greater flexibility and scalability, so they can continue to serve citizens now and in the future.”\nA Smart Approach to Public Sector Cloud Services\nIn 2019, the Office of Management and Budget released a strategy that would impact the way federal IT leaders managed their cloud infrastructure — and, in turn, their workforce. Known as Cloud Smart, the strategy offers specific implementation guidelines for cloud adoption across government. In the release, OMB identifies hybrid or multi-cloud environments as effective and efficient ways to manage workloads. By leveraging the efficiency of a public cloud, while maintaining control of their on-prem private cloud, agencies can comply with Cloud Smart recommendations, as well as set employees up for remote work success by providing an IT infrastructure that enables productivity across locations.\n“Flexibility is key when it comes to setting up your cloud infrastructure,” Massey said. “A multi-cloud strategy allows federal customers the ability to move to the public cloud with ease and move workloads back and forth between the public and private cloud as they wish.”\nThis hybrid approach also empowers federal IT leaders to rapidly implement an organization-wide virtual desktop infrastructure, guaranteeing a consistent user experience for remote workers, no matter where they are or what device they’re using. That’s an important element for public sector leaders: In a recent report of 150 federal IT decision-makers, 89 percent ranked consistency across cloud platforms as key to multi-cloud success.\nAssessing Cloud Costs\nReconfiguring your agency’s cloud infrastructure, of course, is no simple task. Every organization has different needs and requirements; there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to cloud migration efforts. But one key consideration that remains constant across the public sector is cost. When it comes to the cloud, agencies need to ensure they’re getting the most bang for their buck.\nTo quickly meet the current needs of their workforce, many federal IT leaders have migrated to a single-cloud approach. But according to Massey, the costs of a single-cloud approach can add up.\n“If a cloud provider charges $30 per employee and you have a workforce of 15,000, that’s over $6 million a year for cloud services,” he said.\nMigrating to a single public cloud often involves several hidden costs, too. For example, many migration efforts require agency staff to rewrite or refactor legacy applications. These manual, labor-intensive processes can result in lost time and productivity. Instead, a multi-cloud infrastructure gives organizations the option to decouple legacy applications from their hardware, making them cloud-ready.\nFor Intel Chief Data Scientist Melvin Greer, who has partnered with Massey and his team to drive smart, multi-cloud adoption across government agencies, that capability isn’t simply a nice-to-have — it’s a necessity.\n“The ability to virtualize legacy applications and move them into cloud environments has required a lot of change management on behalf of agencies,” Greer said. “It’s absolutely critical to be able to move data in and out of the cloud and leverage those capabilities.”\nGreer also urged federal IT leaders to look beyond just cost savings and consider growing mission requirements.\n“The cheapest solution may not be the best solution,” he explained. “Sometimes it’s about investing in innovation if you have the budget to do so.”\nLeveraging People and Partnerships to Drive Multi-cloud Adoption\nThere are several steps public sector leaders can take to successfully drive multi-cloud adoption agencywide. To start, they need to engage internal stakeholders to assist in the process.\n“The Evidence-Based Policymaking Act is the Federal law that requires agencies to have a chief data officer,\" Greer said. \"The CDO can help create a multi-cloud adoption strategy and oversee migration processes from start to finish.”\nMassey added that agency leaders should also develop a comprehensive communication plan that outlines these initiatives and engages staff about the process. That means educating the workforce about cloud-enabled tools and technology.\nAs more agencies prepare for a multi-cloud future, they will need the resources and technical expertise to achieve their IT goals. Establishing partnerships with the private sector and industry leaders can help them make smart decisions about how they leverage the cloud — now and in the future.\nLearn more about how Iron Bow can help your agency manage a smart, multi-cloud adoption strategy at ironbow.com/irontarget/.\nThis content is made possible by our sponsor. The editorial staff was not involved in its preparation.\nNEXT STORY: Webcast: Putting Cloud Smart Into Practice", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "After a successful release in the United Arab Emirates,\nSuperstar Mammootty's \"Street Lights\" is set to release in North America and\nSingapore on Friday.\nDistributed by Zee Studios International, \"Street Lights\" is a bilingual entertainment thriller, simultaneously shot in Tamil and Malayalam, produced by Mammootty under his banner Playhouse Motion Pictures.\nThe film released in India and the UAE on January 26 and has received a remarkable response already. Now, Zee Studios International is all set to take \"Street Lights\" to North America and Singapore, read a statement.\n\"It is a common misconception that only Hindi language films grab eyeballs. India produces approximately 2,000 films a year on an aRead More", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "India set up England final\nIndia brushed aside Sri Lanka by eight wickets at Cardiff to book an ICC Champions Trophy final meeting with England.\n4:37 mins |\nYou are :\nEngland must believe Selector Ashley Giles says England can beat Sri Lanka in World Cup quarter-final\nyou-must-be-registered you-must-be-subscriber you-must-upgrade\nforgotten-username-success click-here-to sign-in", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "27 March 2012\nTwitter criminals: useful idiots\nThe prosecution of writers of racial and gratuitously offensive comments is a cover for the British state in its attempt to stiffle free expression on the web.\nAt a moral level it is utterly impossible to defend people who gratuitously insult others – and make matters worse by adding racist abuse. For that reason many progressive people will remain silent when idiots like Liam Stacey are jailed for doing just that.\nYet we should stop and raise two issues: one a matter of principle, the other of policy.\nAs a matter of principle, no-one should face legal sanction merely because s/he has said something offensive. If you harass somebody, threaten them, blackmail them etc., then, yes, you commit a legitimate crime. But merely expressing an opinion, however obnoxious, should not in itself be a crime. That is an essential ingredient of free speech.\nLet us ask a question about state policy. Why is the state so pro-active in clamping down on Twitter insults, when it cares so little about the economic well-being or political liberties of ordinary people in general?\nIt is far more credible to think that what motivates this kind of prosecution and the imposition of disproportionate punishment is a state strategy of intimidating free expression on the net. The claim to be fighting racism is the pretext.\nNothing makes that point more clearly than a case which came to light just as Stacey began his prison sentence; London police officers were recorded racially abusing a black suspect, yet the IPCC and CPS have dragged their feet and have so far declined to prosecute. The contrast with Stacey’s case could not be starker.(see details)\nTwitter and similar technologies are highly effective means of communication for ordinary people, but they are also excellently tailored for state surveillance and manipulation of all who use them.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Security administrators are in for a busy holiday season after Microsoft confirmed that the December Patch Tuesday release will include 14 bulletins covering 20 vulnerabilities in a range of products.\nMicrosoft said in the Security Bulletin Advance Notification for December 2011 that three of the 14 bulletins are rated 'critical', the highest severity rating, and could allow remote code execution on infected XP, Vista and Windows 7 systems.\nBulletins 1 and 2 also affect Windows Server 2003, while Windows Server 2008 is affected only by the first critical bulletin.\nThe remaining 11 bulletins are rated 'important' and cover remote code execution and elevation of privilege flaws.\n\"Five of the 'important' bulletins affect Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 including all Office versions for Macintosh as well,\" explained Wolfgang Kandek, chief technology officer at vulnerability management firm Qualys.\n\"One of the remaining bulletins addresses Internet Explorer 6 through 9, and the remaining bulletins apply to all versions of Windows.\"\nAlthough not specifically referred to in the security bulletin, it is also believed that Microsoft will patch the flaw in TrueType font parsing which was exploited by the Duqu Trojan.\nSystem administrators are likely to be kept doubly busy as Adobe is set to release an update for Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows this week to address a critical vulnerability which could cause a system crash and allow attackers to take control of an affected system.\nThe flaw is actively being exploited in the wild via malicious PDF email attachments, according to security researchers.\nCotton seedling freezes to death as Chang'e-4 shuts down for the Moon's 14-day lunar night\nFortnite easily out-earns PUBG, Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Red Dead Redemption 2 in 2018\nMeteor showers as a service will be visible for about 100 kilometres in all directions\nSaturn's rings only formed in the past 100 million years, suggests analysis of Cassini space probe data\nNew findings contradict conventional belief that Saturn's rings were formed along with the planet about 4.5 billion years ago", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Update news art\nParis show includes contemporary treatment of woman France loved to hate in mangas, fashion and film\nNowadays, elderly people are more engaging in social activities than ever. Long gone are the days they stayed at home to take care of their grandchildren or do housework.\nAn oil-on-canvas painting featuring a nude woman by master painter Lê Phổ (1907-2001) was sold at nearly US$ 1.4 million (HK$10,925,000) at an auction sale at Christie’s Hong Kong on May 26.\nSouth Sudanese activists are using music, poetry, theater, comedy, dance and fashion to preach tolerance in the world's youngest nation which has been divided by years of civil war.\nVietnam Gold Trading Association (VGTA) asked the State Bank of Vietnam to allow local producers of gold jewelry and fine art to import gold materials.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Food & Culture\nProgressive Northwest? White Supremacists Think It’s the Perfect Place to Sow Hatred\nOur progressive region may seem like an odd place for the alt-right. But Knute Berger explains why that’s a myth.\nBy Knute Berger January 22, 2018\nHere it is, 2018, and we’re talking about Nazis.\nIt’s hard to believe. Divisions over race in this country suggest that the American Civil War is not yet settled more than 150 years after Appomattox. But there’s unsettling evidence that that isn’t our only unresolved war: We’re apparently still fighting WWII.\nThe Pacific Northwest has long been a sought-after enclave for people with extreme views and utopian, or dystopian, fantasies. On the far right this has included wannabe Nazis, dating back at least to the 1930s, when fascist William Dudley Pelley of the so-called Silver Shirts declared himself America’s Hitler and ran a campaign for president from Seattle in 1936. In the ’80s and ’90s, the Nazi presence emerged with various groups in Washington and what some dubbed “the Fourth Reich of Idaho.”\nThat died down by the end of the century, but lately there’s been a boom of white supremacism, militant nationalism and outright Nazism, even in liberal Seattle. Over the last months, there have been a number of demonstrations, protests, fights, a shooting at the University of Washington and other incidents.\nLast fall, for example, a Seattle man went out in public wearing a swastika armband, and was knocked cold by a man offended by it. The swastika man was subsequently interviewed on KUOW-FM, during which he was allowed, anonymously, to tell his side of the story. Listeners were outraged that he was given such a public platform to air his views. It’s the 21st century, and a topic of local conversation over coffee is: Is it OK to punch a Nazi?\nSeattle journalist and author David Neiwert has long tracked America’s far right and continues to do so for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups. In his new book, Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump (Verso, $29.95), he traces the trends that are bringing us this revival of hate, intolerance and anti-democratic ideology.\nThe far right has been active for decades, but according to Neiwert, has been boosted by a number of recent factors. One was the election of our first black president, Barack Obama, in 2008, which energized and reawakened racial animus among many whites. The far right has always required an alternative universe in which to thrive, one that sees conspiracies and threats everywhere. Exhibit A is the “birther” movement to delegitimize Obama, an African-American Christian who was accused of being a foreign-born Muslim and an illegitimate president.\nThis tactic was previously tried by the American right wing and pro-Nazi groups in the 1930s. They claimed that Herbert Hoover was not a citizen, and Franklin D. Roosevelt was Jewish. It’s well known, of course, that one of the main proponents of the false and racist birther movement was Donald Trump, who fanned the flames of paranoia.\nWhich brings us to a second major factor in the far right’s resurgence: the election of Trump. His embrace of white nationalism and his appointment of its avatars to White House posts, has sent more than a dog whistle to extremists like neo-Nazis, anti-immigration activists and the Ku Klux Klan. Trump is not merely sympathetic—he is mainstreaming their beliefs, putting them at the core of a major party, the Republicans.\nIn talking with Neiwert, he told me that the one reason the fractious far right has not coalesced before was the lack of a single charismatic leader. Now, however, many see Trump, with his authoritarian impulses, as that new leader. No wonder some neo-Nazis celebrated his election with their arms raised in Hitler-style salutes.\nThere are other trends that have caused things to build, Neiwert contends. The attacks on 9/11 fueled anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant hate and suspicion.\nNeiwert says the new alt-right followers are largely recruited from a younger generation: millennials. That could explain why social media has had a key role in this. Neiwert reports that actual hate groups—guys who meet in person as an organization—have given way to websites, chat groups, flash mobs and “organizations” that exist primarily online.\nThe neo-Nazis have websites like the Daily Stormer (protected now by a Washington state internet security company in the name of free speech); there are also many far-right trolling events during which online thugs abuse people they disagree with, ranging from Jewish journalists to female gamers. Nazis now feel that they don’t need to operate from compounds in Idaho anymore.\nWhile many people in Seattle believe that Nazis and white nationalists are antithetical to our region’s values, a lot of them are attracted to the region. One is Harold Covington, novelist and podcaster at the Northwest Front website. Covington is a longtime, unabashed Nazi-admiring white supremacist who promotes white settlement in the region—Washington, Oregon, Idaho and western Montana—to form an all-white ethno state that will one day fight for its independence.\nCovington argues the Northwest is good territory for white supremacist designs, and sadly, he has a point: This is one of the whitest regions in America, long known for its racial exclusion efforts, including Oregon’s infamous anti-black laws of the 1840s, the Chinese exclusions of the 1880s and the Japanese internment of the 1940s. And let’s not forget massacres and displacement of Native Americans.\nA faction of survivalists has pegged the rural eastern portions of the region as part of the “American Redoubt,” a refuge for those who seek to escape cities and multiculturalism and to prepare to defend themselves if and when American society collapses.\nIndeed, Seattle and the Northwest can seem like bubbles of progressivism where Hillary and Bernie voters can feel relatively safe, but we shouldn’t be surprised that there are Nazis and far-right extremists among us. It’s the place and the time we live in. I asked Neiwert if it was OK to punch Nazis, and he said no, that’s just the kind of reaction they want to provoke. Saving America from the far right will mean rededicating ourselves to saving our Democratic institutions, he said. Instead of punching, we should organize and protest, but most of all vote and help others to vote. And don’t take any of our freedoms for granted.\nJoin The Must List\nSign up and get Seattle's best events delivered to your inbox every week.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A judge has found enough basis for the claims of a Spanish woman, claiming she is the child of Salvador Dali, that the body has been ordered to be exhumed from its current resting place underneath a theater in Dali's hometown, so DNA testing can be performed, according to the Washington Post in \"Judge in Spain orders Salvador Dali's body exhumed for paternity test.\"\nDali, who was well known both for his eccentric art and lifestyle, was not known to have any children. However, one Spanish woman claims that she is Dali's child.\nThe only problem is that she cannot prove her claims, since Dali passed away in 1989 at the age of 85.\nThe woman makes her living as a professional tarot card reader, so perhaps she could prove her paternity by reading the cards. However, she refuses to do such a self-reading. Instead, she has asked the Spanish courts to intervene.\nIt is not clear what the woman hopes to gain from the testing. Dali's estate has long been closed and all of his valuable artwork donated to the Spanish government.\nEven though the artwork is valued at hundreds of millions of dollars, it is unlikely the woman could lay claim to any of that money. For her part, she seems uncertain of what she wants, if Dali does turn out to be her father.\nShe has only stated that she wants \"what corresponds to her.\"\nReference: Washington Post (June 26, 2017) \"Judge in Spain orders Salvador Dali's body exhumed for paternity test.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "I assume by now, you may have heard the news of Sweet Bee's opening a new location on Westnedge providing our gluten free and vegan community with goods.\nSome of us may have the luxury of eating whatever we want, whenever we want with little to no consequences... But as we have seen over the last few years, gluten sensitivities in America have been on the rise. In Kalamazoo, MI we also have a strong vegan community. To have an option for those who have to out of necessity, or choose to live a gluten free vegan lifestyle- this is a BIG WIN!\nHere is what we know regarding the launch of this new business...\nThe new shop will feature sandwiches, soups, charcuterie, salads & more!\nThe new location will be 7083 S Westnedge Ave, Kalamazoo\nThe name of the new eatery is Glofoods\nThey are estimating to be open for business THIS FALL!\nFeel free to share this with anyone you feel would benefit, and let's get ready to support them when they launch!!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "PRINCETON, NJ -- Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, declined to 8.8% at the end of November -- down from 9.2% in mid-November and 9.4% at the end of October, and a new low for the year. While the government's unemployment report on Friday will include seasonal adjustments and is less timely than Gallup's Daily monitoring, Gallup modeling suggests that it will also show a decline.\nThe percentage of part-time workers who want full-time work declined slightly to 8.4% of the workforce in November -- also a new 2010 low. The smaller decline for this measure compared with the unemployment measure suggests that the jobs situation is improving primarily among the unemployed right now.\nUnderemployment at Lowest Level of 2010\nThe decline in the unemployment rate and the slight decline in the percentage of part-time workers wanting full-time work combine to bring underemployment down to 17.2%. This is a third consecutive new 2010 low, down from 17.7% in mid-November and 18% at the end of October.\nUnemployment Situation Improving\nGallup's unemployment measure reflects what is actually taking place in the U.S. job market as more people are getting hired and fewer are being let go. However, it is not adjusted for seasonal trends, and companies hire more employees during the holiday season. For example, the new pop-up store phenomenon creates added employment for holidays like Halloween and Christmas. As a result, the decline in Gallup's estimate of the unemployment rate is likely more pronounced than what the government will report on Friday. Further, Gallup's Daily tracking is more up-to-date than the government's measure, which is based on mid-month job market conditions.\nAs a result, and as noted previously, Gallup estimates that the government's unemployment rate for November is likely to show a decline, into the 9.3% to 9.5% range. This is below the 9.6% current government unemployment rate as well as the consensus forecast of 9.7% for November. On the other hand, it appears to be consistent with Wednesday's ADP report showing increased private-sector job growth in November.\nIf the decline in Gallup's U.S. unemployment measure persists, it suggests that the government's unemployment rate for December could show a further decline when reported in early January. In turn, prospects for an improving jobs situation suggest good things for the nation's retailers -- particularly late in the holiday sales season -- and for the U.S. economy overall going forward.\nGallup.com reports results from these indexes in daily, weekly, and monthly averages and in Gallup.com stories. Complete trend data are always available to view and export in the following charts:\nDaily: Employment, Economic Confidence and Job Creation, Consumer Spending\nWeekly: Employment, Economic Confidence, Job Creation, Consumer Spending\nRead more about Gallup's economic measures.\nGallup classifies American workers as underemployed if they are either unemployed or working part time but wanting full-time work. The findings reflect more than 18,000 phone interviews with U.S. adults aged 18 and older in the workforce, collected over a 30-day period. Gallup's results are not seasonally adjusted and tend to be a precursor of government reports by approximately two weeks.\nResults are based on telephone interviews conducted as part of Gallup Daily tracking Oct. 31-Nov. 29, 2010, with a random sample of 18,272 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, selected using random-digit-dial sampling.\nFor results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±1 percentage point.\nInterviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking. Each daily sample includes a minimum quota of 150 cell phone respondents and 850 landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents for gender within region. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.\nSamples are weighted by gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, adults in the household, cell phone-only status, cell phone-mostly status, and phone lines. Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2009 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population living in U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design.\nIn addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.\nFor more details on Gallup's polling methodology, visit www.gallup.com.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Opera for Android Exits Beta\nMay 21, 2013, 9:44 AM by Eric M. Zeman\nOpera today announced that its WebKit-based Android browser has graduated from beta status and is now available to all from the Google Play Store. The browser had been in testing for the last several months so Opera could fine-tune the WebKit rendering engine. Previously, Opera used its own Presto rendering engine. Opera's customizations include a revised Speed Dial screen, simplified tab management, and deep browsing history support. The browser also offers server-side compressions should users wish to conserve mobile data usage. The browser is free to download and runs on devices with Android 2.3 and up.\nSep 7, 2022\nApple has revealed the iPhone 14 series, with new features, improved specs, and new size options. In place of a Mini option, the iPhone 14 will come in the same 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch screen size options as the Pro models.\nFeb 9, 2022\nSamsung today announced its lineup of flagship phones for 2022: the Galaxy S22 series. The top-end S22 Ultra sees the biggest changes as it essentially absorbs Samsung's Note series with an integrated S Pen stylus and a more Note-like shape and design, instead of the Contour Cut design of the other models.\nJan 14, 2021\nSamsung today officially unveiled its Galaxy S21 series of flagship phones for 2021. All three models sport a distinctive new \"Contour Cut Camera\" design where the metal frame extends around one corner to surround the rear cameras.\nJan 8, 2021\nMotorola today unveiled a full lineup of four new affordable phones, including three g-series models ranging from $169 – $299 and one 5G model for $399. All four feature large batteries (4,000 – 5,000 mAh) and large displays (6.5 – 6.8 inches).\nJun 22, 2020\nApple has revealed iOS 14, which brings a number of new features to the OS for Apple's iPhones: Widgets : Apple has promoted Widgets to the main home screen. Just as Android has always allowed, you can now mix re-sizable widgets in with your app icons.\nStill kind of flaky\nThis new non-beta webkit version replaces Opera Mobile as an update (though it is not labeled as Mobile). The previous version is still available from the Amazon app store if anyone has been tricked into this \"update\" and wants to revert to th...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "More Dusty Rhodes news\namerican dream dusty rhodes, Augusta Free Press, Dusty Rhodes, dusty rhodes died, news, wrestling, WWE\nWrestling icon Dusty Rhodes passes away at age 69\nWWE has confirmed that Virgil Runnels, known to millions of wrestling fans as “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes, died on Thursday, with multiple published reports saying the death was the result of complications from a fall in his home early...\nChris Graham, Cody Rhodes, Dusty Rhodes, WWE\nAnalysis: Will we see Goldust vs. Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania 30?\nIt seemed from the get-go that the teaming of half-brothers Goldust and Cody Rhodes was destined to end with them feuding and coming to a payoff match at WrestleMania 30. Then Goldust started tweeting about how The Brotherhood wasn’t going...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hirelings hit marginalized camp in Jawf\nJAWF, June 21 (Saba) – The Riyadh’s hirelings targeted on Tuesday a camp of marginalized people in Jawf province with mortars and artillery shells, a local official said.\nA fire broke out at the camp, which is located in al-A’adhaba area in al-Moton district, and many tents were burnt, the official said.\nNo human casualties were reported in the camp. However, the official said all the people who were in the camp, have fled the camp and with no shelter now.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- The price of gold climbs inside a bullish chart pattern as 2023 begins for traders.\n- US Dollar weakness supports XAU/USD strength even as holiday mood limits bullish momentum.\n- Gold buyers will be looking for clues on the Federal Reserve pivot, may also encourage a softer nonfarm payroll in the US.\nThe price of gold (XAU/USD) begins 2023 without major surprises as it hovers around $1,825 in the early hours of Monday’s Asian session. While the New Year holidays in several markets appeared to have limited the metal’s immediate moves, the vastly weaker US Dollar kept hope among bright metal buyers ahead of this week’s high-profile data and events in the US. United. Even so, fears emanating from China and worries surrounding global moves in 2023 are probing XAU/USD bulls.\nGold Applauds Mixed US Data Weighing on US Dollar\nIn 2022, the US Dollar Index (DXY) recorded the biggest annual gain since 2015. Even so, the gauge of the greenback against the six major currencies signaled that the past three months have been in deficit. The reason may have to do with recently weaker data from the United States (US) which fueled expectations of a Federal Reserve (Fed) pause in rate hikes. It should be noted, however, that the strength of the price of gold, due to the weakness of the DXY, seems to have recently been called into question by the fears of Covid emanating from China, as well as by the pessimistic comments of the director Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva.\nOn Friday, the Chicago Purchasing Managers’ Index broke through the market consensus of 41.2 and the previous 37.2 reading to print December’s figures of 44.9. Despite this, the activity gauge signaled a contraction for the fourth consecutive month.\nMarket fears probe XAU/USD bulls\nDespite the overall weaker DXY over the past three months, recent fears emanating from worsening coronavirus conditions in China appear to challenge gold buyers, primarily due to Beijing’s status as one of the largest users. of raw materials in the world.\nOn Saturday, Chinese President Xi Jinping appeared in a televised address to mark the New Year and called for more effort and unity as the country enters a “new phase” in its approach to fighting the pandemic. .\nFollowing this, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said the new year is going to be tougher than the year we are leaving behind. The IMF chief also added: “Why? Because the big three economies – the US, EU and China – are all slowing down simultaneously.\nGiven the global economic fears, XAU/USD bulls may experience further difficulties in thinned markets over the holidays.\nGold traders await Federal Reserve minutes and US nonfarm payrolls\nAlong with the challenges facing Chinese gold traders and global economic concerns, the cautious mood ahead of the minutes of the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting and monthly US employment data could also challenge the rise of XAU/USD. .\nThe scheduled events and data become more prominent as there has been a week-long gap since the US signaled major catalysts and the US Dollar declined mostly during the said time frame. Moreover, the receding hawkish bias on the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) next move also inflates the importance of the predicted factors.\nThat said, the FOMC minutes will be closely watched for any hints on the Fed’s pivot as the US central bank has signaled lower rates for longer, which could help the price of gold hold firmer.\nOn the other hand, weak US employment numbers could help the US dollar remain calm and propel the price of gold.\nGold Price Technical Analysis\nThe price of gold represents a month-old bullish channel formation on the four-hour chart. Bullion’s bullish momentum also justifies bullish signals on the Moving Average Convergence and Divergence (MACD) indicator, as well as the upbeat Relative Strength Index (RSI) line, located at 14.\nIt should be noted, however, that the RSI is approaching overbought territory and suggests the XAU/USD pullback, which in turn highlights a three-week horizontal hurdle around $1,825 as the key to watch for buyers. Golden.\nFollowing this, the aforementioned upper trending channel upper line near $1,835 at press time may challenge the metal’s further upside.\nIn an event that gold bulls ignore the likely overbought RSI and break through resistance at $1,835, the June 2022 peak of around $1,880 will be in focus.\nAlternatively, an upward sloping support line from Wednesday limits the immediate drop in gold price near $1,820, a break of which could take the metal towards the 100 exponential moving average (EMA) level. close to the $1,800 threshold.\nEven so, gold remains on the bull’s radar unless it stays above the indicated bullish channel support line near $1,785 at the latest.\nTherefore, the price of gold is technically strong even though a pullback is brewing lately.\nGold price: four-hour chart", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In early December, California-based Bolt Threads launched its latest product, a knitted hat. Read more here.\nThis year, for the first time in my life, I’ll be hosting my family for the holidays. Read more here.\nLeathermaking is an ancient craft. The oldest leather artefact found so far is a 5,500-year-old shoe from a cave in Armenia, but paintings in Egyptian tombs show that, 7,000 years ago, leather was being turned into all manner of things, from sandals to buckets to military equipment. Read more here.\nMeat that doesn’t require the slaughter of animals. Fashion that provides an eco-friendly alternative to leather. Read more here.\nCurious about how a GMO is made? How scientists create GMOs is one of the top questions we get about GMOs. This video shows how GMOs are made, through the story of the Hawaiian Rainbow Papaya. Watch here.\nWinter is no time to flower, which is why so many plants have evolved the ability to wait for the snow to melt before investing precious resources in blooms. Read more here.\nIN THE pharma business, Juno Therapeutics, a small firm based in Seattle, is just a stripling. It is three years old, has not a single drug approval to its name but is nonetheless valued at $2.8 billion. That value is derived from the fact that it is on the forefront of the most promising area […]\nOne of the world’s newest breed associations has effectively doubled in size overnight after welcoming Spanish cattle into its livestock registration system. The British and Irish Wagyu Breeders Association (WBA) has this week announced that Spanish breeders of pure-bred and crossed Wagyu cattle can benefit fully from going through the WBA registration book, in the hope […]\nSome 1,400 Australian Suffolk sheep have been shipped to China to help and improve the genetics of China’s sheep flock, ABC Australia has reported. China’s sheep flock stands at around 250m head and the sheep will be used for meat production. Read more here\nResearchers have made an advance in the fight against a deadly virus that affects pigs. The team used advanced genetic techniques to produce pigs that are potentially resilient to African Swine Fever – a highly contagious disease that kills up to two-thirds of infected animals. The new pigs carry a version of a gene that […]\nA 2013 documentary claiming to explore how genetically engineered food affects our health and environment, GMO OMG spouts fallacies that anti-GMO activists still love to wield in 2016. The film follows director, producer and father Jeremy Seifert as he examines the relationship between genetically modified food and his three young children. With organic and non-GMO […]\nThe so-called Arctic apples are genetically altered to suppress browning and may be offered for sale as bagged slices in up to 400 stores in the Midwest and Southern California, according to the company. Read more here.\nGerman conglomerate Bayer, together with Boston biotech startup Ginkgo Bioworks, announced this morning that they’re creating a new company that could make it possible for crops like corn, wheat and rice to produce nitrogen fertilizer. Read more here.\nGenetically engineered salmon has reached the dinner table. AquaBounty Technologies, the company in Maynard, Massachusetts, that developed the fish, announced on 4 August that it has sold some 4.5 tonnes of its hotly debated product to customers in Canada. Read more here.\nThe quest for artificial meat inches forward—the company Memphis Meats announced today it has developed chicken and duck meat from cultured cells of each bird, producing “clean poultry.” Read more here.\nYou should never look a gift horse in the mouth, but you just might want to look in its genes. Just as humans artificially bred bulldogs from domesticated wolves, they’ve also tampered with equines, selecting particular horses for their pedigrees, athletic abilities, and looks. Read more here.\nTomatoes are already an ideal model species for plant research, but scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) just made them even more useful by cutting the time required to modify their genes by six weeks. Read more here.\nMore than 100 Nobel laureates have a message for Greenpeace: Quit the G.M.O.-bashing. Genetically modified organisms and foods are a safe way to meet the demands of a ballooning global population, the 109 laureates wrote in aletter posted online and officially unveiled at a news conference on Thursday in Washington, D.C. Opponents, they say, are […]\nNearly 80% of U.S. dairy cows have their horns removed each year to protect their handlers and fellow cattle. But the practice, which is both painful and expensive, has come under increasing scrutiny from animal rights activists. Now, science may be coming to the rescue: A group of researchers announced last week that they successfully edited […]\nAlmost 2 years ago, a group of 20 scientists began hashing out a consensus on the risks and benefits of genetically engineered (GE) crops. Since the launch of their study, sponsored by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, the public debate around the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and whether to label them […]\nThe social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum has both solitary and communal life stages. As long as food is abundant, it lives on its own, but when food is scarce the amoebae seek one another out. Together they form a slug that migrates toward the light and then a fruiting body that disperses spores from atop a […]", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "State to Partner with Federally Qualified Health Centers and Local Health Departments to Bring Pop-Up Vaccination Sites to Farms and Food Production Facilities\nState Will Provide Initial Allocation of 500 Doses to Sun River Health to Vaccinate Workers at Angry Orchard and Other Orange County-Area Facilities Beginning April 21; Migrant Workers Will Be Served\nGovernor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a new targeted effort to vaccinate workers at New York State farms and food production facilities. The state will coordinate with local health departments and Federally Qualified Health Centers to bring pop-up vaccination sites to workers, including migrant workers, at their places of employment.\nThe Governor also announced that as part of the new vaccination effort, New York State will provide 500 doses to Sun River Health, a local health care network, to administer to Angry Orchard employees, as well as farm and food production workers from other facilities in the Orange County area. Vaccines will be administered beginning Wednesday, April 21.\n\"As we continue to expand eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine and establish more pop-up sites to reach New Yorkers in underserved communities, it's critical that we bring the vaccine to every part of the state, not just those with high populations. That's why we're making sure food production workers and farm workers in rural areas, including migrant workers, get vaccinated for COVID-19,\" Governor Cuomo said. \"This new effort to bring the vaccine directly to farmers and food production workers at their places of employment is an important step forward to reaching a population that lives in more remote parts of the state. COVID remains a threat to all of us, but we have the weapon that will win the war — we just need to make sure it's available to everyone who is eligible across New York.\"\nSun River Health Chief Executive Officer Anne Kauffman Nolon, MPH, said, \"We are thrilled to support Governor Cuomo in providing access to the COVID-19 vaccines for New York State's agricultural workers. These individuals grow and harvest the food on our tables. The vast majority of New York's essential food production goes on year-round, and much of this work is done indoors. Working with growers and our community partners to overcome the barriers to vaccine access for this vital part of our community is a big step forward in bringing an end to the COVID-19 pandemic.\"\nNew York Farm Bureau State Director Chris Kelder said, \"Farm workers are essential to the success of agriculture and to feeding millions of New York's consumers, from St. Lawrence County to Manhattan. It is critical that workers have ongoing access to COVID-19 vaccines to ensure their health and safety as they do their work. Access to vaccines has been the leading priority of New York Farm Bureau and farmers from across the state. We appreciate Governor Cuomo highlighting the importance of this issue and we appreciate Sun River Health, and health care professionals across New York, for their efforts to vaccinate farmworkers.\"\nThis new effort to bring the vaccine directly to farmers and food production workers at their places of employment is an important step forward to reaching a population that lives in more remote parts of the state.\nThe effort to vaccinate food production workers and farmworkers builds on New York's efforts to combat food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic. The FY 2022 Enacted Budget adds $50 million to Nourish New York for a total $85 million investment to extend the program through 2021. This critical program helps people who are food insecure access the nourishment that they need, leveraging the vast agricultural industry of New York State to connect food banks and providers to purchase locally grown and produced food.\nSince the Governor launched Nourish NY at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020, 21 million pounds of surplus agricultural products have been purchased from New York farmers and delivered to more than 1.3 million households in need across New York State. Purchasing and food distribution using this third round of funding — which was first announced during the Governor's 2021 State of the State Address — are currently underway.\nRural & Migrant Ministry Executive Director Reverend Richard Witt said, \"It is important for all of us involved in the food system: farmworkers, farmers, consumers, the health system and the State continue to work diligently to ensure that farmworkers are protected and vaccinated. Today's announcement is a critical step forward.\"\nRural & Migrant Ministry Catskill Regional Coordinator Juanita Sarmiento said, \"I have seen first hand, while translating and helping our local rural and migrant communities with testing and vaccines, the impact of this pandemic. We need to continue to uphold not only the efforts to keep New York healthy but to establish an accessible educational campaign on the importance of the vaccination and testing efforts. I'm glad to see us take these steps forward.\"\nContact the Governor’s Press Office\nContact us by phone:\nNew York City: (212) 681 - 4640", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Libya might be known for having Africa’s largest oil reserves but it’s coffee that really fuels daily life here. Some scholars suggest that coffee grown in east Africa and Yemen was brought to Venice via Tripoli – so it could be argued that Libyan merchants introduced coffee to Italy. Either way it’s clear that Libyans take their morning cup very seriously: some drink the silty traditional version found elsewhere in the region but most prefer the brew as it was prepared by the former colonial powers across the Mediterranean.\nToday, Tripoli’s cafés boast sleek Italian espresso machines and customers can be a discerning bunch. The most popular choice is a nus-nus: a shot of espresso splashed with lightly foamed milk. It helps everyone – from politicians to militiamen and mothers – get through their day and beyond.\nIt’s also not unusual to see Libyans sipping coffee well into the night. In a country where alcohol has been banned since the late 1960s, socialising is centred around the café. After the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, many young entrepreneurs opened their own. When I lived in downtown Tripoli’s old Italian quarter in 2014, I could have my morning nus-nus to take away from a street kiosk or savour it while sitting under the elegant arches of Algeria Square.\nLater that year the country tipped into a civil conflict that continued in various iterations until a ceasefire was agreed last October. A fragile peace prevails for now; elections are planned for December and there are some renewed signs of optimism. Foreign companies are once again taking notice too. Earlier this month the inaugural Libya Coffee Expo took place, drawing 43 exhibitors and 10,000 visitors. Whatever happens, Libyans will always have their nus-nus.\nMary Fitzgerald is a Monocle correspondent based in Marseille and a regular visitor to and expert on Libya.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "New limits on microloans to kill off most micro lenders in Russia, say expertsBusiness & Economy July 25, 3:45\nLavrov says astonished to watch mass hysteria among US politiciansRussian Politics & Diplomacy July 25, 1:35\nLavrov comments on Syrian de-escalation zone agreementRussian Politics & Diplomacy July 24, 20:15\nIraq calls for closer cooperation with RussiaWorld July 24, 19:09\nRussia develops laser-guided automatic landing system for dronesMilitary & Defense July 24, 18:22\nCommunist propaganda ban not aiming to dismantle Soviet WWII memorials, vows Polish envoyWorld July 24, 18:16\nSituation with Siemens won’t affect Russian companies — energy ministerBusiness & Economy July 24, 18:11\nRussian energy minister says oil prices may grow in 2017Business & Economy July 24, 17:31\nPutin fills in Normandy Four on Russia’s approaches to key Minsk accord provisionsRussian Politics & Diplomacy July 24, 16:57\nInternational law needs to be seriously reformed, said State Duma deputy Alexander Sidyakin of the United Russia party during an international parliamentary forum in Moscow on Thursday. He added that international law contained two conflicting principles — the principle of territorial integrity and the principle of nationalities' right to self-determination.\n“I support the proposal for holding an international conference to negotiate reforms of major international institutions, which make decisions today and draw up an agenda determining, among other things, global security,” Sidyakin said, adding that it was impossible to talk about sustainable development of institutions of international law without a serious reform.\n“This refers also to the United Nations' Security Council, comprising five states [permanent members of the UN Council — Britain, China, Russia, the United States and France],” he said. “It is unclear why India, Brazil, Spain and South Africa are not in the UN Council [as permanent members] now. It is not clear why the UN Council refuses without any criticism at all to consider the attack on the Russian embassy in Kiev.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As she was about to check out, the cashier asked her to pay a huge tip for the grocery bill and the internet was not having it.\nIt's quite reasonable to offer a certain amount of tips to service workers. It's a common practice in America, especially considering the minimum wage is still very low in many states. However, recently tablet tipping has become widespread in many retail stores and is receiving a lot of backlash on the internet. Ev, @incrediboii, was one among the many who hated tablet tipping and she shared one of her shocking experiences on TikTok. In the video, Ev spoke about how a grocery store tried to collect a 25% tip from her and people were astounded by how they expected a tip despite not doing any kind of service.\nEv made this video as a stitch with Minna (@livingminnaly) who also shared the same opinion about tablet tipping. Minna posted a video saying that she decided not to unnecessarily tip battling with the people pleaser in her. For people who thought she was stingy, Minna said, \"For service, I will definitely pay 20 to 25% on all of it - restaurants, coffee, beauty services and things like that. But the tablet tipping culture has gotten so out of control.\" She pointed out how even if she shopped for a small greeting card, she was suggested to tip 20% on the bill. She highlighted that it wasn't okay for customers to compensate for the low wages that businesses pay to the employees.\nFollowing Minna's lead, Ev too expressed her disapproval of unnecessary tipping and captioned her video, \"No more! Hold the line.\" So, when Ev and her boyfriend were visiting a grocery store called Tiny Grocery in Austin, they just picked up a few things like cheese, wine, and cured meat. They were going to have a little date night and had to shop for it. \"I expected it to be more expensive than your regular grocery store,\" said Ev. But what she didn't expect when the cashier rang her up was, being asked for a 25% tip during the checkout. Ev was so flabbergasted that she gave the cashier a shocked look.\nThe woman simply bought the stuff she needed and left the place still in a state of astonishment. She couldn't believe that she was expected to give a $10 tip for a $40 grocery bill. Ev said that she couldn't get this incident out of her mind for days. Not just Minna and Ev but there are many people out there who believe that such unfair tipping for a service that wasn't provided is absolutely unnecessary. Some of them expressed their disappointment in the comments section and rallied around Ev's viewpoint.\n\"I would have laughed because I’m a server part-time and like, you scanned my food items I was the one that walked around and got them myself!\" commented @katue.1. \"My Botox/lip filler NURSE PRACTITIONER had a tipping option. Like what?? You make $125k a year,\" wrote @cj_gillis85. \"I recently purchased my wedding dress at a boutique, and they asked me for a tip when I paid. Outrageous,\" commented @vannanori. \"I’ll tip for delivery and for being served by a waiter/waitress. Tipping has gotten out of hand!\" wrote @oliviaincolor.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Community Unity Dinner to laud Carol Everhart Dec. 3\nThe Rehoboth Beach Main Street team is proud to introduce the 2023 Citizen of the Year, Carol Everhart.\nAll are invited to come and celebrate with her at this year's 29th Annual Community Unity Dinner, set for 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 3, at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center, 229 Rehoboth Ave., Rehoboth Beach.\nEverhart is the well-known president/CEO for the Rehoboth-Dewey Beach Chamber of Commerce, located in downtown Rehoboth Beach. For over 30 years, Everhart has been of service to hundreds of thousands of guests, and generations of locals and visitors alike. Through her hard work and dedication, she has supported and helped countless small businesses and organizations, and created successful events to draw people to the downtown areas.\nEverhart came to the chamber with combined experience in the events, recreation, paralegal and creative consulting fields. She has not only been a strong supportive voice at the city, county and state levels with issues of legislation in all areas, but also been recognized as one of the top 50 most influential people in Delaware. Community members are grateful for her time, inspiring ideas, creativity, generosity and leadership.\nAlso, Jenny Burton will be receiving the Champion Award for 2023, recognizing her volunteerism, effort, dedication and commitment in supporting the downtown business community throughout the past six years through Rehoboth Beach Main Street.\nTickets are $20 and can be purchased at the door for an all-you-can-eat pasta dinner complete with rolls, salad, desserts, nonalcoholic beverages and ice cream bar. Guests can pay an additional $5 for unlimited wine and Dogfish Head beer.\nEntertainment includes a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus, along with entertainment by the Sussex Dance Academy dancers and the Cape Jazz Band.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "“We heard they are from Mexico.” That is the first line when we meet Mayor, one of the narrators of “The Book of Unknown Americans,” the novel that hundreds of Titans are reading as part of the university’s One Book, One CSUF program.\n“That line stuck with me,” said Cristina Henriquez, author of the novel, who met over Zoom with more than 400 readers last week. “Who’s we? Who are they? Are they from Mexico?”\nIt took Henriquez five years and about 20 drafts to complete her novel.\n“Twice, I almost put it aside,” she said. “I originally started it as a short story and sent it out to different magazines. The editors kept saying, ‘There seems to be more of a story here.’ So I decided to dig deeper.”\nThe narrative focuses on different families who share the same apartment building in Delaware. Most are immigrants from Mexico and Central and South America.\n“People ask if this is an immigration story and I say ‘no.’ It’s about immigrants — the people, not the systems and policies,” Henriquez said. “Although the characters are not based on specific people I know, some of the actions or characteristics of people in the story are things my family has experienced.\n“My father immigrated to the United States from Panama in 1971,” she explained. “His idea was to get his degree in chemical engineering and return. Then he met my mother … so he stayed. He’s a citizen now and has lived here for 40 years.”\nShe recalls frequently visiting her father’s family in Panama, where her grandparents would leave their front door open and friends and neighbors felt free to drop in any time.\n“There was such a sense of life,” she said. “People would be sitting, visiting and laughing, sharing stories, jokes. To me, that feels like home — a sense of belonging. I became a very keen observer during those trips. Many of the characters in the story have been uprooted from their homes and are trying to re-create that sense of family and community in the United States.”\nHenriquez decided to set her story in Delaware because that’s where she’s from, and she wanted to set her story in a place she knew and loved.\n“I plotted out the apartment where the families lived, specific details about what each unit would look like — I call it ‘world building.’ Then I knew they’d need to get food, but this place was sort of in the middle of nowhere, so I had them shop at a gas station that also sold groceries since they didn’t know where else to go.”\nOne of the first scenes in the book involves the Riveras, a family who recently arrived from Mexico, shopping in the gas station/grocery store and trying to figure out what the different foods are.\nThe character that Henriquez feels closest to is Mayor — a 16-year-old boy who sees the new family moving in and wonders about them. He is immediately focused on an attractive young girl, Maribel. In fact, Maribel is the reason this new family, the Riveras, is here. A beautiful teenager, she suffers from a traumatic brain injury.\n“I wanted there to be a medical reason for the Riveras to come to the United States … and I’m a sucker for a love story,” she said. “I wanted Mayor, from the first time he saw Maribel, to appreciate her and not focus on her injury.”\nThe book hits many cultural touchstones — the role of food, religion, language, education and work, as well as coping with misunderstandings, poverty and a sense of loss.\n“I guess I could say the story is about people who live in an apartment in Delaware and how their lives intersect,” Henriquez said. “I want readers to recognize there is humanity in every person … everybody has a story. One reader told me that she used to see the same group of Mexican men standing by a bus stop near the freeway and she never paid much attention to them. After reading the book, she wondered what their hopes and fears and dreams are.\n“I’ll bet they have a story.”\nCSUF launched its One Book, One CSUF program this year, as part of the Titans Together initiative. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and community supporters are invited to read the same book and gather virtually throughout the year to explore the topics raised in the book. With a student body of about 40,000 students, the campus is one of the most diverse in the country.\nContact: Valerie Orleans, email@example.com", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- As the coronavirus pandemic rages on in New York City, fitness experts are recommending a major change to your routine: cover your nose and mouth on that outdoor run.\n\"Our job is to make sure we are doing what's best for the greater good, and I think wearing the protection, it doesn't hurt,\" New York Road Runners President and CEO Michael Capiraso said.\nThe recommendation reflects a rapidly evolving view. On Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recommended all New Yorkers wear a face covering outside when social distancing was not possible.\n\"At first I wasn't sure,\" Capiraso said. \"I don't usually run with something like this...But I tried it out, and there were a few times where I may have taken it down and back up. But the last few days, I've been doing my entire run with it on there, and it's been perfectly fine.\"\nOn a brisk, sunny Thursday morning in Central Park, a handful of the runners and cyclists were wearing some sort of face covering, but many others still went without one. One rule most appeared to follow, though, keeping that recommended six feet of distance.\n\"New Yorkers are getting it,\" New York City Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver said. \"The world is getting it.\"\nSilver said he had no plans to recommend shutting down the parks, like New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy did in his state. But he is urging park goers to exercise good judgment by using the park off peak or perhaps even choosing a different route.\n\"People are teleworking, but you notice a big increase after 6 p.m.,\" he said. \"I ran last night. A little too many people for me not wearing their face coverings, so I was very uncomfortable. So I cut my run short.\"\nHe said he now typically runs Monday, Wednesday and Friday, around lunchtime when the park is less crowded.\nThe parks department is also offering at-home fitness videos for people who prefer to do their exercise and meditation indoors, and the NYRR is hosting some events as well, including a virtual 5K and at home classes.\n\"You can go out anytime and do it from now to the end of the month,\" Capiraso said.\nThe NYRR has also been active in the fight against COVID-19, donating $100,00 Mayor Bill de Blasio's fund to help feed healthcare workers.\nThey also donated gloves and rain ponchos, many of which went unused after the NYC Half Marathon was canceled in March. Capiraso is hoping for the best, that the 50th Anniversary of NYC Marathon will still happen come November.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "3 Mins Read\nAmerican consumers have new meat-free chicken options for the dinner table thank to U.K.-based vegan fried chick*n brand VFC, which has officially expanded into the U.S. market via online retail partners including GTFO and Vejii. The announcement comes after the company closed a $10.2 million seed round last month earmarked for global growth.\nVFC’s products, included fillets, bites, and popcorn vegan chicken, are created using wheat protein and feature a Southern-style crispy cornflake coating that will be familiar to US consumers. The company cites high protein levels and comparable taste to longtime favourite fast food brands.\nVeganuary co-founder Matthew Glover and chef/restaurateur Adam Lyons co-founded VFC in 2020 to prove that there is no need to include animals in the food system. With activism at its core, the brand has placed a blanket ban on the term ‘plant-based’ being used in its communications, preferring vegan instead.\nVFC is prolific about its mission to disrupt the meat industry in the U.S. The company cites the ongoing climate crisis and cruel factory farming system as primary motivations for developing an alternative to fried chicken. It goes so far as to say that its products are a way of “sticking it to [KFC’s]The Colonel”.\n“I am a businessman turned activist and love great food, and VFC is very much a marriage of the three,” Matthew Glover, co-founder of VFC said. “There are many ways to dismantle unjust systems, and we intend VFC to be part of the movement that puts an end to factory farming for good.”\nVFC claims that so far, it has saved close to 75,000 chickens entering the food system. It aims to significantly increase this number as it makes its mark in the fried chicken-loving U.S.\n“The U.S. gave the world KFC, and we’re keen to return the favour with VFC – an alternative which is kinder to animals and our planet,” added Glover.\nA growing appetite for vegan chicken\nThe U.S. appears to be acquiring a taste for meat-free chicken. Earlier this month it was revealed that TiNDLE, Next Gen Foods’ flagship brand, has scooped a record $100 million Series A. Investment was raised for continued development, ahead of planned U.S. distribution. The chicken will be available across 50 states, with new products being formulated alongside.\nThe Super Bowl, which aired earlier this month, saw consumers eat an estimated 160 million vegan chicken wings, according to Compassion in World Farming who conducted the research. Last year’s Super Bowl event saw almost 1.5 billion conventional chicken wings consumed.\nEven big names, including VFC’s target, KFC, have been getting in on the plant-based chicken game. Timed to coincide with Glover’s Veganuary project, KFC U.S. announced all of its locations would serve Beyond Chicken products, claiming it was “time”. However, they are all cooked in the same oil as regular animal meat, making them unsuitable for vegan consumers.\nAll photos by VFC.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "NASA just released video of a rocket being test fired that was constructed from some of the most complex 3D printed parts ever used. The rocket is being tested for their new heavy payload manned vehicle Space Launch System being developed to replace the now defunct Space Shuttle Program.\nrocket parts 3d printing NASA\nNASA seems to really be on a 3D printing bender lately. While any company can potentially benefit from the lower costs, fast turn around and development of previously impossible complex parts involved with 3D printing and rapid prototyping, for NASA it’s actually vital to their survival. But businesses are driven by profit and financed with private funds. Because NASA has no profit motive and is financed entirely by the US government, they are under an incredible strain to produce an ever-increasing number of technological advancements for an ever decreasing amount of money.\nNASA budgetThe general public tends to believe that as a government agency NASA has all of the money it could ever need to develop new rockets, in fact in a poll from 1997 many Americans incorrectly guessed that NASA required about 20% of the entire US budget. The reality is far more depressing, at the time NASA’s budget was only about 1% of the total US budget. Sadly, as of this year it’s fallen to a staggering low of 0.48%. NASA has been heavily exploring additive manufacturing because it really have no other options. Being able to reduce the costs involved with space flight is simply good for their budget.\nWhen they decided to end the aging Space Shuttle program, the need for a replacement was obvious. However in a post recession world they needed to develop a program that would be considerably more cost-effective, and have a longer shelf life. While the Space Launch System (SLS) is controversial because it is more expensive to develop than other options, it is being designed to be highly adaptable to multiple types of missions. The SLS could be used for docking with the International Space Station all the way to facilitating a manned mission to Mars. An engine that powerful isn’t going to be cheap to develop, but laying a solid foundation that allows for future enhancement not simply replacement is necessary. Especially if the depressing trend of hemorrhaging federal funding continues.\nNASA says that the 3D printed fuel injection system contained in the rocket that NASA just test fired at Alabama’s er is one of the most complex rocket engine parts ever designed. It was printed using a Selective Laser Melting (SLM) process that uses an extremely powerful laser to liquefy a very fine metal powder into highly complex and durable parts. The process has been used selectively by the automotive and aerospace industries for a few years now, however it has only recently been used for a new line of advanced rocket engines. According to the engineers who are developing the rocket’s injector had NASA attempted to manufacture it using traditional methods it would have required 163 separate parts, however the 3D printing process required the production of only two components. Not only is that going to drastically reduce the cost of development, but less individual parts reduces the chances of catastrophic failure.\nFor the development of the injectors, NASA teamed up with two industrial 3D printing companies; Valencia, California’s Solid Concepts and Direct Manufacturing out of Austin, Texas, each producing a single prototype. The injectors are similar in design to the RS-25 engines on the original Space Shuttle that will need to be used for the first few SLS launches. It’s going to take four of the massive RS-25’s to get the SLS into low Earth orbit. Replacing an engine that large and complex isn’t going to be easy.\n“One of our goals is to collaborate with a variety of companies and establish standards for this new manufacturing process,” Marshall’s propulsion engineer Jason Turpin explained. “We are working with industry to learn how to take advantage of additive manufacturing in every stage of space hardware construction from design to operations in space. We are applying everything we learn about making rocket engine components to the Space Launch System and other space hardware.”\nrocket testfire 3d printing\nThe test engines containing the 3D printed injectors were test fired for five seconds, each producing 20,000 pounds of thrust and reaching almost 6,000 degrees fahrenheit. Or really, really hot for our European readers. Here is a video of the rocket’s test fire\nWhen it comes to 3D printing, NASA is not messing around. Not only are they testing the feasibility of 3D printing their rocket engines, but they’re currently testing other less essential, but still vital components.\nNASA has always been a forward thinking organisation, not only in terms of technology, science and space exploration, but in terms of maintaining the safe and secure development of their various missions when their budgets are often treated as political footballs. Exploring 3D printing isn’t just about NASA using new technology that’s available to them, it is also pretty clearly about securing a future where NASA can do what it’s always done, launch big awesome machines into space, only now on a tighter budget.\nJarrett Neil Ridlinghafer\nFounder & CEO/CTO\nSynapse Synergy Group, Inc.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Thursday, July 27, 2017\nFalafel Den reopening in larger Saratoga Springs venue\nFalafel Den, owned by Zouhir Lian, has relocated from 6 Phila Street to No.10, which gives him about 400 square feet ofm space compared to the microscopic 100 square feer he has had for the business's first three yeares of operation, And, he will be able to seat people at 15 tablea rather thn just four.\n“Hopefully in the future I’m going to have 50,” Lian told local news media on the eve of reopening his business after a four-month hiatus. Falafel Den will again be offering Mediterranean cuisine including gyros, hummus, stuffed grape leaves, and, obviously, falafel. Lian also will offer catering services along with eat-in and takeout food.\nHours: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week. Phone: 518-886-9192.\n• Go here to visit the Capital Region Brew Trail\n• Go here to visit Dowd On Drinks\n• Go here to visit Dowd's New York Wines Notebook\nStaff William M. Dowd at 3:31 PM", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Wall Financial Group’s Michael Wall, Recon Capital Managing Partner Kevin Kelly, UNTL Capital Partner Maged Bishara and AverageJoeOptions.com founder Todd Horwitz on the state of the markets.\nETFTrends.com Publisher Tom Lydon, Needham Growth Fund Co-Manager Chris Retzler and Athena Advisor Services’ Dan Stecich on the outlook for stocks.\nCapitalistPig Asset Management’s Jonathan Hoenig on the pros and cons of investing in ETFs.\nWells Fargo senior economist Mark Vitner and Charles Schwab chief investment strategist Liz Ann Sonders give their outlooks for the markets.\nS&P Capital IQ analyst Scott Kessler, Issuer Advisor Group CEO Patrick Healy and FBN’s Jo Ling Kent give their expectations for Alibaba.\nFBN’s Charlie Gasparino with breaking news on Alibaba’s upcoming IPO.\nHedgeye Risk Management CEO Keith McCullough and Merrill Lynch’s Mary Anne Bartels on what’s moving the market.\nFOX Business: Capitalism Lives HereStock-index futures indicated the tech-heavy Nasdaq could open higher by more than 1% after heavyweights Apple and Facebook reveal...\nFOX Business: Capitalism Lives HereU.S. stock-index futures fell slightly on Wednesday as traders analyzed earnings from a slew of big-names companies. Today's Marke...\nFOX Business: Capitalism Lives HereU.S. stock-index futures were little changed on Tuesday as traders eyed a slew of merger activity in the pharmaceutical sector. To...\nOneStopOption’s Alan Knuckman on energy leading the stock market.\nETF Outlook for the Week of April 21, 2014:PowerShares QQQ (NYSE:QQQ)It is a big week for earnings, especially the NASDAQ 100 stocks. Of the 100 stocks in the index,...\nFOX Business: Capitalism Lives HereU.S. stock-index futures drifted higher on a sleepy Monday morning after Wall Street's best week since July 2013.Today's MarketsAs...\nInvestorPlace.com Editor Jeff Reeves on how to simplify your portfolio.\nFBN’s Maria Bartiromo, Jo Ling Kent and Liz MacDonald discuss the Nasdaq hitting 5,000.\nEagle Bay Capital Founder J.C. Parets on being bullish in the technology and internet sector.\nRecon Capital Managing Partner Kevin Kelly, Wall Financial Group’s Michael Wall and AverageJoeOptions.com founder Todd Horwitz on the outlook for oil prices, stocks and gold.\nEagle Bay Capital founder J.C. Parets and Zor Capital Managing Director Joe Fahmy on the outlook for the markets.\nOld Blackheath Companies Managing Partner Jeremy Hill discusses big tech trends that will spillover into the new year, and the markets.\nLerer Hippeau Ventures Managing Director Eric Hippeau explains why tech is a good investment and why Time Warner should be investing in the future of news.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "He added that the group has a Walk/Bike Kettering email it uses for sending updates on walking and bicycling activities in Kettering, and more than 250 residents have signed up to receive the emails.\nMORE: National Nurses Week: From ballerina to nurse, area woman fulfilling life’s calling\n“We sent a Walk/Bike email last month to encourage everyone to relieve some stay-at-home stress by either walking or bicycling — while maintaining social distancing — on the local walking paths or bicycle routes near their home,” Draeger explained. “The email contained information about how to social distance while walking or bicycling, bicycle traffic safety tips, and links to maps of the local bike routes and walking paths.”\nThe Kettering City Council is still committed to making the city more bicycle friendly. At the last council meeting, Mayor Don Patterson proclaimed May to be Bike Month in the city to help encourage bicycling to be used for both recreation and as an alternate form of transportation.\nMore than 340 miles of paved trail connect 10 regional counties. Many of those path users are not only walkers and runners, but families out on their bikes or competitive cyclists. Whether using the trails for recreation or transportation, safety on the paths is a top priority for the city.\n“Kettering is fortunate to have two of the regional trails pass through our city,” Draeger said.\nMORE: Premier Health, CompuNet to offer up to 1,500 coronavirus tests per day\nKettering and Centerville have partnered to build the Hewitt Avenue Bikeway Connector, which will begin at the Iron Horse Bike Trail and continue east to tie into an existing trail.\nCenterville signed a cost participation agreement in 2017 for the project prior to Kettering submitting for Transportation Alternative funds from the Miami Valley Regional Planning Planning Commission.\nThe project was awarded TA funds with construction through MVRPC. The actual construction cost have estimates have come down from $670,000 to $475,000 as more detailed designs have been completed. Construction is estimated to start in the spring of 2022 and should take six months.\nCenterville Mayor Brooks Compton said the project will help Centerville and Kettering connect to a larger bicycle network.\n“By helping to create bikeway connectors like this one, we are able to capitalize on a great asset in the Miami Valley’s larger bicycle network and ensure our streets contribute to community life and our overall livability,” he said.\nMORE: E-bikes are coming soon to Dayton. Here’s when they hit the streets", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Talent runs deep on 2013 roster\nFirst scrimmage is Friday at 4 p.m.\nWhittingham, Lotulelei, White represent the Utes.\nUtes have firepower on offense, defense\nWynn, Hays and Schulz throw for touchdowns, Oliver runs for a pair of scores.\nUTAH: International rugby star walked on to the Utah team in the spring of 2011 and was awarded a scholarship ... lettered all three seasons ... first tried out at running back before moving to defensive end.\n2013-Backup defensive end played in all 12 games ... also played on special teams ... 13 total tackles included a half sack ... four tackles vs. Oregon State ... three tackles vs. Utah State.\n2012-Played in nine games, mostly on special teams ... five tackles ... two tackles against Northern Colorado.\n2011-Played in 12 games on special teams ... six tackles and a forced fumble ... two tackles against BYU.\nHIGH SCHOOL: Did not play competitive sports until he was 17 years old ... played two years of football as a sophomore and junior at Davis HS (Calif.) in 2005 and 2006 ... all-conference ... captained the USA Rugby Sevens in the 2009 World Games ... became the youngest player to participate in the Rugby World Cup in 2007 at age 19 ... played on the USA's 2008 U20 Junior World Cup team ... competed in the U19 Junior World Cup for Samoa in 2006 and 2007, and played on the 2007 men's seven's national team ... also played rugby for the French club Biarritz Olympique, San Francisco Golden Gate and Northern Virginia RFC ... led the Utah rugby club team to a win in the inaugural USA Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship in 2010 ... also played basketball, participating in the U16 Junior Olympics Basketball Tournament in San Diego in 2004.\nPERSONAL: Son of Arona and Alofisa Palamo ... father was the captain of the Samoa rugby team and played rugby collegiately at UC-Davis ... the youngest of three siblings ... brothers Seta and Toshi Palamo have also played for USA Rugby ... scheduled to graduate this summer with a bachelor's degree ... full name is Thretton Davis Palamo (pronounced threaten pa-LA-mo) ... born Sept. 22, 1988.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Stop the Criminalization of Immigrants, End Racial Profiling!\nDemand that Governor Brewer Veto SB 1070\nThis week, Arizona could make history and protect human rights by VETOING one of the worst anti-immigrant and racially targeted laws our nation has seen in decades.\nSB 1070 was passed by the Arizona state legislature and awaits the signature of Governor Jan Brewer.\nRaise your voice now for justice & equality: We are all Arizona\nClick here to read and sign the petition to tell Governor Brewer to VETO SB 1070.\nIn no small coincidence, on Thursday, April 15,the Department of Homeland Security carried out multiple massive raids in Arizona, terrorizing hundreds of workers, families, and children. Over 800 ICE agents were joined by U.S. Marshals and local law enforcement, causing fear and panic across several Arizona communities while the state legislature passed SB 1070, which permanently criminalizes the immigrant community.\nWith one click, help our sister communities in Arizona to stop DHS attacks on our rights and the new Arizona law. Click here to tell Gov. Brewer to veto SB 1070, the anti-immigrant racial profiling law.\nIf signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer, SB 1070 would:\nWe are ALL Arizona\nThe repercussions of such a law will be devastating for immigrants and all communities of color in Arizona. Moreover, SB 1070 will have dangerous consequences, setting a national precedent for states and federal law, permanently criminalizing immigrants.\nThe DHS raid and SB 1070 law in Arizona are a turning point in our fight for socially just immigration reforms. The \"immigration blueprint\" announced by Senators Schumer and Graham last month is a proposal that allows such criminalization of immigrants. It promises to \"fill gaps in apprehension capabilities\" that will likely lead to the use of local police nationally to terrorize immigrant communities.\nThe VETO of SB 1070 will send a historic signal to Congress, the Obama Administration and the country that the further criminalization of immigrant workers, families and communities will not solve the problem.\nTell Gov. Brewer to VETO SB 1070 and raise your voice for socially just immigration reforms that uplift human rights and dignity.\nThanks to folks at presente.org for their support of the petition process.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Washington, DC (Vocus) May 22, 2010\nIndependent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) Chairman Jim MacPhee, CEO of Kalamazoo County State Bank in Schoolcraft, Mich., and Camden R. Fine, ICBA president and CEO, issued this statement today following Senate passage of S.3217, the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010.\n“The recent financial and economic crisis clearly demonstrates that some reform of Wall Street is needed to safeguard our financial system and the nation’s taxpayers from a future catastrophe. ICBA appreciates that this legislation includes measures that hold accountable the too-big-to-fail megafirms and nonbanks that were the root cause of this crisis—measures for which ICBA has been a leading proponent. ICBA thanks Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) for his leadership on this legislation and for considering the needs of our nation’s more than 8,000 Main Street community banks.\n“ICBA appreciates the Senate's recognition of the differences between Main Street and Wall Street by ensuring megabanks pay their fair share for the risk they pose to the FDIC’s Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF), and ultimately our entire financial system. This is a major victory for ICBA and community banks. This measure will alleviate the disproportional burden on community banks, will reduce the assessments of 98 percent of banks with less than $10 billion in assets and will keep nearly $4.5 billion in community banks and their communities over the next three years—something that is critical to aiding America’s economic recovery. ICBA thanks Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) for their efforts to create much-needed parity between large and small banks.\n“ICBA still has grave concerns about a separate Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). While we appreciate that community banks will have some exemptions from the proposed CFPB, the changes do not go far enough. We are disappointed that further changes were not included in the legislation. Community banks have always viewed consumer protection as a cornerstone to their business model, so it makes sense that the CFPB focus on those too-big-to-fail and shadow institutions that were at the heart of the financial crisis. ICBA will continue to work for additional revisions to the CFPB.\n“ICBA is pleased that the bill maintains the Federal Reserve’s examination authority over state member banks, which allows the regional Federal Reserve Banks to keep their finger on the pulse of the Main Street communities that community banks serve each and every day. These communities have diverse regional economies, and the insights provided by the current system are crucial to the ability of the Federal Reserve to exercise its monetary functions and gauge the impact of banking regulations across various institutions. ICBA thanks Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) for their efforts to maintain the Fed’s examination authority.\n“While ICBA is pleased with several measures in the Wall Street reform bill, we continue to have critical concerns with language that will inadvertently harm Main Street community banks. ICBA opposes the interchange language that will harm community banks that offer credit and debit card products to their customers. The current interchange system makes it possible for small community bank issuers to serve their customers because card networks apply the same interchange rates for small issuers that they do for large issuers. By reducing interchange fees through government regulation, consumers will face higher costs through annual fees and increasing interest rates, as well as fewer choices as community banks are forced to exit the market, thereby leaving consumers with few options and ultimately forcing them to use cards provided by the megabanks.\n“ICBA also has significant concerns with language that was originally intended to ensure that large banks and bank holding companies would have to meet capital standards that are as strict as those that apply to small banks and bank holding companies. However, the language is worded broadly enough so that it excludes capital instruments such as trust preferred securities from the consolidated Tier 1 capital of bank holding companies. This will cause serious harm to community bank holding companies and their underlying banks—the very institutions it originally aimed to avoid burdening. ICBA will work with the House and Senate to ensure that these onerous measures are not included in the final legislation.\n“ICBA looks forward to working with the Senate and House to ensure that the final legislation contains meaningful measures that hold Wall Street accountable and allow Main Street community banks to continue to fulfill the needs of their local customers and communities.”\nThe Independent Community Bankers of America, the nation’s voice for community banks, represents nearly 5,000 community banks of all sizes and charter types throughout the United States and is dedicated exclusively to representing the interests of the community banking industry and the communities and customers we serve. For more information, visit http://www.icba.org.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "With this new 2000L SUB, the Berkeley facility has tripled capacity over the last three years, and now offers cell culture manufacturing in scales from 100L to 3000L, with both SUBs and stainless steel bioreactors. In addition to cGMP manufacturing, the facility provides cell bank manufacturing and storage.\nWhile focused on early-phase, the Berkeley facility operates within the global AGC Biologics integrated platform, with support from each AGC Biologics site. This structure is designed to create a seamless transition from early-phase through commercial production.\n\"We've carefully assembled an experienced team that is tuned in to the unique needs of customers within the critical early-phase development stage,\" said Vy Nguyen, site head of AGC Biologics, Berkeley. \"We continue to expand capacity and capabilities to meet the diverse requisites within the early-phase manufacturing arena, and we value the opportunity to support companies developing tomorrow's breakthrough treatments.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- iPhone 4S\nNorth and Western Europe were the leading markets in the mobile communications department, but it seems the US have pulled ahead, thanks to the increasing popularity of smartphones and mainly the iPhone. Currently just 5% of the world’s mobile users are located in the US, but 17% of the income from mobile services and 21% of the that from the data traffic services are realized by US operators.\nThe number are even higher for smartphone sells – 40% of the smartphones sold worldwide are sold in the US. Overall this market is growing with a staggering speed. The US network operators have made $67 billion from data traffic last year and expectations are for this number to reach $80 billion this year. The amount of data used has doubled over the past 12 months too, for the eight time in a row and analyzers are expecting it to double once more in 2012 – quite a realistic forecast, considering the fact, that over 30% of the US users use more than 1GB of data per month. B. A.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ten minutes before Jamie T took to the stage for his 95-minute set at a house-full Alexandra Palace, the latecomers were getting out of hand. As several hundred people attempted to move from the food court to the main hall, the lack of access began to cause friction. “This is bulls–t,” said one concert-goer, trapped against a wall. “Calm down,” said his friend, “it’ll be worth it”. Upstairs, the ladies had crashed the gentlemen’s toilets. “We’re smashing the patriarchy,” one interloper said. “Because if we don’t,” said her friend, “we’ll miss Jamie T”.\nWith a resume that encompassed punk, indie rock and a loose-fitting variant of hip hop, over the course of five studio albums the 36-year-old Jamie T has fashioned a vocabulary with which to describe city life in a manner that is both vibrant and resolute. “Sheila goes out with her mate Stella, it gets poured all over a fella,” he sang during a three-song encore that managed to encompass both a night out in a teeming metropolis and the state of a proportion of his audience in the “People’s Palace” of suburban north London. In front of the stage, young women were sat atop the shoulders of their boyfriends. Ropes of lager arced into the air.\nDespite the hoopla, though, Jamie T – dressed in jeans, a denim jacket and a black baseball cap – isn’t an especially charismatic performer. Even when beamed onto a giant screen positioned on either side of a vast stage, one could reasonably wonder if the 36-year-old was at all aware of the manic audience that had paid £35 to see him.\nWhen at last he did address the 10,000 people crammed into one of the loveliest venues in the capital, it was only to remind them to look after one another. At other times, he seemed content to crack jokes. Certainly, the claim that his backing group “is the tightest band in the world” can’t possibly have been serious.\nWhile at times – during Back in the Game, say, or Between the Rocks – the night took flight in a manner that seemed designed to electrify, elsewhere, problems of stuttering momentum were highlighted by long pauses between songs that suggested a jam session in a smoke-filled flat in the headliners’ home of Wimbledon that had somehow spilled out into a public gathering.\nAfter more than 15 years on the scene, one could argue that it is to Jamie T’s credit that the dividing line between artist and audience is all but invisible. But in terms of projecting himself into the nooks and crannies of one of the largest indoor venues in the city, the star turn still has much to learn.\nJamie T is on tour in the UK until October 22; tickets: jamie-t.com/live", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Tuesday, December 13, 2011\nCOP 17: Envoys slam SA 'incompetence'\nCOP 17: Envoys slam SA 'incompetence'\nClimate deal 'took delicate touch'\nDurban deal - too little, too late\nCanada withdraws from Kyoto Protocol\nJohannesburg - Envoys at the global climate conference ended on Sunday in Durban left late-night sessions shaking their heads about their South African hosts, saying in rather undiplomatic speech they had let the process go off the rails.\nPretoria, however, hailed its diplomacy as a rousing success, saying SA showed it could punch above its weight in the global arena.\nSuch is the disconnect between SA, which sees itself as an emerging power championing African causes, and other nations which question its ability to keep pace with global affairs.\nThe gap is expected to grow larger as Africa's biggest economy tries to exert more authority on the international stage by pressing for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council and having one of its former foreign ministers elected head of the AU.\nSA has already found itself this year on the wrong side of the mainstream argument over Libya and Ivory Coast.\nWestern powers also raised their eyebrows when, to please China, Pretoria blocked a visit by the Dalai Lama to attend the 80th birthday of South African hero and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu.\nSouth Africa's diplomacy in Durban, where two weeks of talks failed to finish on time and many delegates had to leave before proceedings concluded, did little to change minds.\nEnvoys said the Department of International Relations and Co-operation failed to learn crucial lessons from UN negotiations that have been going on for about 20 years on how to push delegates to wind up discussions and start drawing up deals that will be approved.\nMany envoys said a deal was only done in Durban despite SA and not because of it.\n\"There was no leadership; no idea of how to run this thing. It was chaos,\" said a diplomat from a leading country who asked not to be named.\n\"South Africa went into this with the idea if we negotiate all through the night on the final day we would get a deal,\" another diplomat said.\n\"They should have learned from previous meetings to start high-level talks on the most contentious issues as soon as the ministers arrive so that we would not be here two days after this process was supposed to end,\" said the diplomat who asked not to be named.\nIn what may be seen as a vote against the process, Canada on Monday became the first country to announce it would withdraw from the Kyoto protocol on climate change, dealing a symbolic blow to the already troubled global treaty.\nWhile powers such as China and Japan called the move \"regrettable\", South African foreign ministry spokesperson Clayson Monyela said there was no reason for the hosts of the Durban talks to respond because it was a UN matter.\nNel Marais, managing director of risk consultancy Thabiti Africa, said a reason South Africa's diplomats have trouble keeping up with changing times is that the bureaucracy has been transplanted into government from the ruling ANC, where posts are often given to reward political stature rather than ability.\nFor many in the ANC, the liberation struggle to end apartheid leads to continued support for African leaders who helped, such as Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, even though they now face global isolation for suspected human rights abuses. It also shapes the ANC worldview.\nForeign minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, who chaired the Durban talks, said she wanted to hold open discussions where she would keep a neutral position. Several diplomats said she put off too many pressing matters until the last minute and did not do enough to push for agreements.\nAnger started to build on Thursday night when she hosted the first major meeting of ministers a day before the planned end of the talks and let discussions drift into a series of speeches from delegations instead of making it a bargaining session.\nIt boiled over when two late sessions followed on the next two nights. The culmination was a dispute over language on the legal mechanisms to enforce emissions cuts that threatened to scuttle the entire process on Sunday morning.\nMashabane called for a huddle among the main players to iron out their differences on the plenary floor, in full view of media cameras and within earshot of microphones.\nIt was either a high stakes gamble or a bit of stagecraft, but either way, many did not approve of a diplomatic scrum where envoys had to force their way in to have a say in the outcome.\n\"Negotiations should be held around the table and not on the table,\" the Russian delegation told the plenary session.\n\"Elbowing doesn't comply with the dignity of diplomats and diplomacy.\"\nRead more on: un | durban | climate change | cop 17", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Cigna Corp. has truly chosen Noelle Eder because the insurance coverage protection titan’s brand-new worldwide principal particulars police officer, environment friendly Sept. 14.\nEder will definitely lead Cigna’s worldwide trendy know-how approach. That consists of managing development in addition to distribution of digital capacities, similar to digital mentoring options in addition to on-line sources, that get in contact with the enterprise’s individuals, purchasers and likewise medical care suppliers.Eder will definitely perform as a participant of Cigna’s enterprise administration group in addition to report to the agency’s Chief Govt Officer in addition to head of state, David M. Cordani.” Noelle brings a definite mixture of organisation acumen, deep technological experience, in addition to customer-centered structure experiences, “Cordani acknowledged in a declaration revealing Eder’s brand-new responsibility Wednesday.Eder modifications Mark Fighter, that left his features as government vice head of state in addition to worldwide CIO at Cigna in June, after 9 years on the agency. Fighter has as a result of signed up along with his college, Faculty of Hartford in Connecticut, as government vice head of state in addition to principal working officer.Eder most only in the near past acted as major information in addition to digital police officer at resort and likewise lodge agency Hilton Worldwide Holdings, the place she supervised framework, cybersecurity, software program software design in addition to merchandise administration. Previously, she operated at Funding One Monetary Corp. as major card shopper expertise officer.Eder is an unbiased supervisor for electrical enterprise Ameren Corp. in St. Louis.Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna reported a 22 %rise in earnings from procedures all through the 2nd quarter of 2020, pushed by decreased software of medical care options as individuals averted remedy all through the COVID-19 pandemic. For the very same issue, Cigna’s medical-loss proportion, which mirrors the % of prices invested in remedy, dropped to 70.5%.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|Still Closed! As tempting as it is to explore the new look|\nof the Rushbrook Trail, the city is asking residents to stay\noff the trail until the project is complete\nWith work getting ever so close to completion on the Rushbrook Trail, many Prince Rupert residents are taking to the walkway for their first glimpse of the new and improved walkway to Seal Cove.\nAnd while the interest in the work is welcome, the City of Prince Rupert is still however advising that for now the Trail is still officially Closed.\nThe City posted an advisory to their Website on Wednesday making note of the situation and asking for the patience of the public to allow for the project to be completed, adding that as it is at the moment there are a number of safety issues still in place that the public should be aware of.\nThe Notice from the City did not provide for any update as to when the trail may be open, but when it does the City plans for an official opening.\nFor more items of interest from Prince Rupert City Hall see our Council Discussion archive page.\nTo return to the most recent blog posting of the day, click here.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Jesse Knutson -\nHistory was made today in Hershey with the first every underwater marathon.\nAnson Flake, CEO and Co-Founder of Hydroworx: \"We've had over 200 runners come out and support this event, the underwater marathon, the first ever.\"\nToday people gathered at Troegs Brewery in Hershey to witness history as over 200 people ran to raise money for a good cause.\nNicholas Robillard, Air Force Para-rescue: We're out here supporting the eagle fund which has helped me in my journey to my recovery from being injured in Afghanistan without that I wouldn't be the same mentally or physically nor would I be going back to my job.\"\nThe goal was to raise $250,000 to help 50 wounded warriors. Anson: \"Knowing that every 5000 dollars heals a warrior and that we've broke through that 250k barrier by a lot, that gives me a lot of pleasure.\"\nAbout a dozen warriors from across the country flew in to be at the event.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As pressure builds to repeal the Dodd-Frank Act, one lawmaker pushed back by formally requesting an analysis of the rulemaking effort and financial consequences under the financial legislative overhaul.[IMAGE]\n\"\"Sen. Tim Johnson\"\":http://johnson.senate.gov/public/ (D-South Dakota) wrote \"\"two letters\"\":http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Newsroom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=8a132c27-0eb1-c338-2d46-4626a5743305&Region_id=&Issue_id= to public officials Thursday to make the request, with clear intentions to secure a formal, objective analysis that lends credibility to the financial law and overall rulemaking process.\nOne letter obliged the \"\"Government Accountability Office\"\":http://www.gao.gov/ (GAO) to perform an impact analysis of the U.S. economy in the wake of the financial crisis, attending to factors like long-term unemployment, capital losses, and other setbacks for state, local, and national governments.\nThe other asked the \"\"Federal Housing Finance Agency\"\":http://www.fhfa.gov/ and \"\"Consumer Financial Protection Bureau\"\":http://www.consumerfinance.gov/ (CFPB) to deliver reports about their rulemaking processes under Dodd-Frank.[COLUMN_BREAK]\n\"\"Repealing or undermining these Wall Street reforms, as some have proposed, would take us back to the same weak financial system that led to the worst economic crisis in generations and whose painful costs continue to devastate many Americans,\"\" he said in a statement.\nHe tallied up a list of predicted outcomes from any potential repeal, saying, \"\"Systemic risks would remain unsupervised. Consumers would have no focused watchdog looking out for them. Investors would be exposed to more Ponzi schemes. Reckless financial firms would undermine those who played by the rules. Taxpayers would be on the hook for more bailouts.\"\"\nOne of the requests in particular will pledge the CFPB to undertake an analysis and explanation of such long-term programs as \"\"Know Before You Owe.\"\"\nThe lawmaker specifically petitioned both the bureau and independent federal agency to present reports about any improvements in rulemaking processes under the \"\"Financial Stability Oversight Council\"\":http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/FSOC/Pages/default.aspx, and whether interagency coordination has undergone any facelift in the process.\n\"\"Efforts to repeal or undermine these new Wall Street reforms threaten the stability of our financial system at a time when we can least afford it,\"\" he added.\n\"\"These efforts to slow down Wall Street reform prevent responsible businesses, including community banks and credit unions, from having the certainty they deserve with finalized rules that fully honor Congressional intent behind the new law,\"\" Johnson said.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A partnership between a top magazine publisher and a major ad buyer is advancing magazines' long push to get measured just like most other media: by their audiences, not just paid circulations.\nTime Inc. and Starcom MediaVest Group began the partnership last year to find a way to promise advertisers that certain numbers of people would recall their ad campaigns or take action on them. That effort, which they called the Alliance for Magazine Accountability, has now progressed beyond the development phase and is available to any interested Starcom MediaVest client making a big enough buy with Time Inc.\nGuaranteeing effectiveness is notable, and more than most media players will do, but the program is also significant because it emphasizes audience over paid circulation.\n\"Moving forward, all of our clients have the option to participate and replace their traditional circulation guarantee with an ad-audience and ad-performance guarantee,\" said John Muszynski, chief investment officer at SMGX, a Starcom MediaVest unit where the group's agencies share resources and try new models.\n\"It was getting everybody to believe that magazines can give an audience guarantee,\" said Stephanie George, exec VP and chief marketing officer at Time Inc. \"We're not this fractured medium that has to be evaluated by just our circulation.\"\nPaid circulation remains an important measure, Ms. George said, and one that's available to any Time Inc. client that wants it. But using the same metric as other media -- audience -- makes it easier for advertisers to stack magazines' reach up against everyone else and consider them for pieces of big multimedia campaigns.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Former Ghana international Emmanuel Armah, nicknamed Armah Senegal, does not agree with calls for Asamoah Gyan to be added to Ghana’s squad for the 2022 World Cup.\nThe former Hearts of Oak defender believes call-ups should be strictly based on performance and nothing less.\nHe described calls for Gyan to be invited as “jokes”, highlighting that the veteran striker is currently without a club.\n“Which team Asamoah Gyan is playing now? Give me the answer. Then I can also come and play. Let’s put the jokes aside and gather the players for them to be serious. God will bless you when you are serious. If you are not serious God will not bless you,” Armah Senegal said, as quoted by Ghanaweb.\n“We have to stop making noise and stop the politics in football. Football is not politics. It is a game of passion. We should not envy the players who are performing but we should rather invite those who are performing in their various leagues. In the final squad, some will make it and others will be dropped.”\nHe added: “I don’t follow certain things. Those who are talking about it I want to tell them that football is based on your performance. We will use your performance to call you before you play the national team.\n“The players that they’ve mentioned their names to rejoin the Black Stars how many league matches have they played? Which team are they playing now?\n“They are just joking. To be able to play football your performance must be good. You have to perform at the club level. That will create the chance for you to be called. They are just joking and gossiping. That’s what I can say.”\nIn August, Gyan was in the news after his interview with the BBC, where he compared his possible return to that of Roger Milla, who came out of retirement to play for Cameroon in the 1994 World Cup.\nThe 36-year-old was a regular fixture in the Black Stars for almost two decades, having made his international debut in 2003.\nHowever, he has not featured for the national team since playing at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt.\nIn the last three years, Gyan has battled with niggling injuries while his time with Ghana Premier League outfit Legon Cities also didn’t go according to plan.\nDespite his inactivity, though, he insists he hasn’t retired and has opened his doors to a return to the Black Stars ahead of the World Cup in Qatar.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It was a catch worth lakhs of rupees! Two fishermen brothers in Maharashtras Palghar district netted a ghol fish – known for its medicinal value and in high demand in various countries – and sold it for a whopping Rs 5.5 lakh in a mega auction. Mahesh Meher and Bharat Meher, natives of Morbe village in Palghar, set out for fishing in the Arabian Sea last week and returned on Sunday late night with a huge 30 kg ghol fish. While the siblings were startled to have netted a giant-size fish, they did not realise then that they were going to make a fortune out of their prized catch. The brothers, elated over their precious possession, said after they brought the fish ashore, it got auctioned in just 20 minutes yesterday. An export house bought it for Rs 5.5 lakh, they claimed. The duo said they had set out for fishing last week after a long break due to the 45-day ban on venturing in the waters during the monsoon season. This was really a good catch. We were delighted as it was like striking gold in our fishing net along with other fish varieties, the siblings told reporters at the sea shore in Morbe yesterday. We are into fishing since the last two decades and had only heard about such a huge ghol fish. But, with this fish catch, we actually had a wonderful experience and it also got sold for a good price, they said. Usually, a good quality fish sells for a few thousands of rupees in the market, but the Meher brothers are happy to have earned Rs 5.5 lakh with a single catch. The two fishermen, who were reeling under financial crisis, said now they would be able get their boat and net repaired. The ghol fish, a type of croaker, has a good market in countries like Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. It is considered among the most-expensive variety of the marine fish. Its heart is known as the sea gold, which is said to have medicinal properties and is an important ingredient in making a variety of medicines.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "KYLE, Texas — A Texas mother who stabbed and then decapitated her 5-year-old daughter has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.\nYesterday, March 6, 2020, following a two-week trial, a Hays County jury found 27-year-old Krystle Concepcion Villanueva guilty of capital murder of a child under 10 in the stabbing death of her daughter and guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for stabbing her father-in-law. She was sentenced by 428th Judicial District Court Judge Bill Henry to life in prison without parole on the capital murder charge and 20 years on the aggravated assault charge.\nOn January 5, 2017, Villanueva called police and said she killed her daughter because \"she asked for cereal,\" and that she also stabbed her father-in-law. SWAT officers responding to the call found Villanueva nude in the front room of the home, apparently freshly showered.\nFollowing her arrest, Villanueva was taken by Hays County Sheriff's deputies to a hospital where blood testing revealed the presence of alcohol and marijuana in her system, according to the Hays County District Attorney's Office, which issued a statement following yesterday's verdict.\nDuring the trial, Villanueva's defense team conceded she had killed her daughter and stabbed her father-in-law — claiming, at the time of the attacks, she had been under the delusional belief her daughter and father-in-law had been replaced by clones and had to be killed to bring back her family. In doing so, they urged the jury to find her not guilty by reason of insanity.\n\"While evidence indicated that Ms. Villanueva had been treated previously for mental problems, the prosecution pointed out that all such treatment coincided with prior drug abuse, and that the symptoms described by Ms. Villanueva at trial had never been observed in her prior to or after her arrest,\" read the statement from the Hays County District Attorney's Office. \"The defendant’s psychiatric expert also conceded on cross-examination that marijuana use can exacerbate existing mental conditions and interfere with treatment.\"\n\"The jury returned a verdict of guilty on both counts this afternoon, rejecting the insanity defense,\" continued the statement.\n“A case like this leaves an unforgettable mark on everyone involved, especially the child’s family.” stated Hays County District Attorney Wes Mau, who led the prosecution with assistance from Assistant Criminal District Attorney Michael McCarthy. “Every law enforcement member who worked on this case will forever be traumatized by what Ms. Villanueva did to her innocent daughter. I commend all the investigators and officers who endured this horror with calm professionalism so that justice could be done.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "ASOS has announced the global app roll out of its sizing tool, ASOS Fit Assistant, which works to help customers find their right size the first time.\nThe Fit Assistant uses machine learning to provide bespoke sizing recommendations on the online retailer’s product pages. Powered by Fit Analytics, ASOS has created a native in-app tool which gives the customer a size recommendation based on previous purchases and returns. If the customer chooses to answer three short questions about their height, weight and fit preference, a more accurate result will be displayed.\nAndy Berks, digital product director at ASOS, said: “We want to do all we can to make sure our customers are getting the right size, first time. This is where ASOS Fit Assistant comes in – we can now offer personalised size recommendations across ASOS collections, exclusive labels and fashion favourites.\n“Ultimately, we’re here to make our customers’ lives easier, giving them the confidence to shop with us and minimising the risk of disappointment when their ASOS parcel arrives.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "ATLANTA — Miami-based Banyan Street Capital plans to implement large-scale renovations to the retail portion of Peachtree Center, a mixed-use, transit-oriented development located in downtown Atlanta. Situated over the underground Peachtree Center MARTA station, Peachtree Center comprises six office towers, three hotels, three parking garages and the Mall at Peachtree Center. Amy Fingerhut and Sara Pepper of CBRE have been tapped to lease the redeveloped retail center, which is currently home to over 50 restaurants, retailers and service tenants. Along with the addition of new restaurants and shops, renovations to the center will include changes to the indoor mall area and outdoor courtyard. Construction is set to begin this summer. Beck is serving as the architect on the project.\nBanyan Street Capital to Redevelop Retail Portion of Peachtree Center in Atlanta", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "VanGuilder sixth, Bauer 13th at Red Dragon\nBEMUS POINT-The Eisenhower Knights cross country teams took part in the Red Dragon Invitational on Saturday, with the girls finishing ninth out of 12 teams and the boys finishing 10th out of 12 at Long Point State Park.\nDevin VanGuilder was the lone medal winner for Eisenhower, finishing sixth out of 95 runners in the boys race with a time of 17:26. Julia Bauer just missed out on a top ten finish, coming in 13th out of 85 female runners.\nRounding out the runners for the Lady Knights were Kate Daugharthy (41st, 24:06), Lacey Stanko (43rd, 24:11), Grace Thompson (59th, 25:59), Hannah Bortz (65th, 26:32), and Emily Rutsky (85th, 46:31).\nFollowing VanGuilder in the boys race were Tim Lange (45th, 19:37), Ben Morrison (49th, 19:44), Jacob McCool (56th, 20:17), Derek Lasecki (85th, 24:15), and Jason Morine (88th, 24:38).\n“Obviously, we would like to do a little better teamwise,” said Eisenhower coach Darlene Beach. “On the girls side, Kate Daugharthy improved her time from last year as did Jacob McCool for the varsity boys. The kids enjoy running the course and we had nice weather on Saturday.”\nThe Knights will return to action on Tuesday, competing along with Youngsville at Corry. Eisenhower and Warren will compete at the Sharpsville Invitational on Saturday.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Much has been made of the internal memo to Clear Channel managers from President & CFO Randall Mays that has been published on the website of the Wall Street Journal. But it doesn’t seem to change much from the hold-the-line-on-spending memo that Clear Channel Radio CEO John Hogan sent out in January. Belts have been tightened and they’ll remain that way until the delayed buyout closes.\nMays’ memo reminds managers that because of certain provisions of the merger agreement, it is “extremely important for us to be as judicious with cash as we possibly can between now and closing.” Potentially, Clear Channel shareholders could be forced to take stock in the new company, CC Media Holdings, if there is an equity gap at closing. As it stands now, the rollover into that new stock is expected to be a voluntary option for current shareholders.\n“It is the preference of our board that no one be forced to roll (everyone has the option to roll and the board would prefer that this remain an option rather than a requirement). There is a certain level of cash which we will need to have at closing in order to insure that no one has to do anything that is not of their choosing.\nAdditionally, the debt provided by the banks to fund the transaction was fixed at the time of signing the amendment to the merger agreement. Thus, any additional cash outlays between now and the deal closing, have to be funded 100% with equity. For those of you that have run levered return models, it is very difficult to make deals attractive when you have to fund them with 100% equity. Post closing this will not be the case and we will go back to our normal procedures so don’t infer anything in this other than there are timing issues with respect to capital before closing,” Mays said in the memo posted by WSJ.\nRBR/TVBR observation: This is basically a math problem. In fact, we ran through the math just a few days ago. The parameters for getting the buyout deal to closing are very tight and can’t and won’t be changed. The equity money from Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners is in escrow. The debt money from the banks is in escrow. The debt assumption is capped. So, Randall is right, any shortfall at closing has to come from somewhere and the contract specifies that if there is still a gap after counting in the voluntary rollovers into the new CC Media Holdings stock, it will be filled by involuntary rollovers.\nThe anticipated Q4 closing is still quite far off. Even strict penny-pinching may not be enough if the ad markets get even worse before closing and Clear Channel’s revenues fall short of expectations. In that case, there could be a gap to fill no matter what they do. Also, in such a situation, the $36 per share buyout would look pretty good and not many shareholders would voluntarily seek CC Media stock, so they would have to be dragged along unwillingly into the new company.\nOn the other hand, if the economy turns around before the closing date the $36 per share price may look less attractive and the CC Media option may be oversubscribed. As we noted, it’s all math.\nWhat we will be most interested in seeing, though, is what “normal” looks like at Clear Channel once the closing is done.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dr. Jodi O’Brien: A follow up.May 11, 2010\nMcAdams has been all over the MU fall out and further news since the first story broke. Feel free to read the MU-Warrior for more emails between faculty and far better analysis.\nProfessor of Marketing and former Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs Gene Laczniak put this letter of support out on facebook.\nThe events of the past week are a grave and serious matter to all of us because they reflect on Marquette University’s national reputation as an academic institution–specifically, whether we are open to the diversity of leadership, opinions and ideas that the “sifting and winnowing for the truth” in all serious universities demands. The fallout from the withdrawal of a formal offer of the A&S deanship to Dr. O’Brien (notably, a full professor and department chair at a companion Jesuit, Catholic university!) will greatly influence Marquette’s ability to recruit and retain faculty (especially women), will diminish our intellectual standing in the eyes of other institutions of higher education and, depending on how Dr. O’Brien decides to proceed, possibly result in censure (again) for Marquette from the AAUP.\nFor starters, let me say the following, for purposes of complete disclosure. If I had been Provost, and two “acceptable” dean candidate names had been forwarded to me (as reported in this instance), after reviewing the record, I might not have selected Dr. O’Brien. It would NOT have been because her research is somehow contrary to Catholic Church teachings or unsuitable methodologically, but rather, given all the daunting fiscal challenges that Marquette already faces, her writings could prove to be an avoidable distraction to completing other important tasks as dean. That said, after a full review cycle by Marquette University, including (presumptively) the required dossier analysis about what candidate O’Brien contributes to the Catholic, Jesuit nature of our university, an offer of employment as A&S dean was made to her–supported by the search committee and Provost. According to Dr Snow, O’Brien in fact accepted that offer.\nNow, some specifics, all of which imply deeply troubling questions for our university. To these, senior faculty should press for answers. Meaningful involvement in university governance, a faculty responsibility, requires no less at this defining moment.\nThe “objectionable” excerpts of Dr. O’Brien’s scholarship, drawn from on-line postings by gay females and conducted by her as a sociologist involved in scholarly gender studies, include explicit vignettes of lesbian sex, that no doubt some readers would find offensive or off-putting. At one point in those writings, Dr. O’Brien implies empathy with such practices, but that clearly ought NOT be a problem, given that our Marquette University diversity statement explicitly prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. The more potent objection may lie in Ms. O’Brien exploring areas of sexuality that do not reflect well on our “Catholic identity”, a term used in the University press release on this matter and, perhaps, also utilized as a synonym for Christian “family values”. This is not the place for a detailed tangent directed to those gentle (Alumni?) souls offended by Dr. O’Brien’s quotations, but it is worth noting that that the God of the Old Testament, at one time, calls on his followers to murder of all the people of Jabesh-gilead, except for the virgin girls who are to be taken and forcibly raped; at other times that same God seems to allow for slavery, including selling your own daughter as a sex slave, child abuse and bashing babies against rocks.\nThe point is, exactly what are the “family values” of Judeo-Christian religiosity that cannot be intellectually discussed and debated within the confines of a university?\nIn a letter to A&S faculty, Prof. Nancy Snow of the Philosophy Department states that Provost John Pauly favors this appointment. Does he now NOT support it? Was the Provost told to change his mind or resign OR did he quietly acquiesce? Did he protest on behalf of faculty prerogatives at all? It seems to me that Dr. Pauly also owes the university faculty a clear explanation concerning precisely where the objections to this appointment originated since I would assume that his name, and perhaps Rev. Wild’s as well, were on the appointment offer.\nIn the University news release on this matter, the administration also states that the work of the search committee unfolded “without as much due diligence as was warranted.” Yet members of the A&S dean search committee have consistently and forcefully maintained that the nature of Dr. O’Brien’s scholarship was precisely laid out for all to discern. This “blame the search committee” strategy, disturbing in itself as an independent event, seems now to have been abandoned.\nIs the post facto “veto” to Dr. O’Brien originating from “big” donors or influential trustees? Dr. Snow has implied this could be the source of the reversal. If so, who exactly are these individuals and what is the nature of their objection? If it is to Dr. O’Brien’s sexual orientation, they seem to advocate Marquette violating Wisconsin law as well as its own HR policy. If the university takes such advice fearing a reduction in donations, that speaks devastatingly to the motivations and moral courage of our upper administration.\nOr, are these events based on an intervention from Bishop Listecki? Fr. Wild reportedly hinted at this in a recent meeting with A&S department chairs. A strict reading of Ex Corde Ecclesiae (The Vatican document on the Catholicity of universities) would put decisions that affect the Catholic nature of the university under the jurisdiction of the local Bishop. But universities with firm moral grounding have regularly resisted such interference, with Notre Dame, refusing to rescind their campus speaking invitation to President Obama (despite his pro-choice policy), being a recent example. Indeed, in the past 60 days, Marquette itself has reiterated the academic freedom of theologian Dan McGuire, who calls for the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI for his alleged role in the decades long cover-up of pedophilic priests. Should the O’Brien reversal flow from the local prelate, does the Archbishop Listecki now have veto power over future academic appointments at Marquette University OR is this just another blame deflecting ploy by administration? Faculty should press the question.\nAnd finally, how did all this come about at the eleventh hour? Who exactly convinced Rev. Wild to become suddenly engaged and, what precisely was the nature of those overt persuaders’ objections and/or veiled contingencies? The Journal-Sentinel reports that Marquette University canceled a scheduled interview on this matter because this situation had now become a legal issue. One hopes Marquette’s strategy of last resort is not to pay off Dr. O’Brien for her future silence on this matter, while hoping another round of campus “listening sessions” will mollify the faculty before they disperse for the summer. While I do not begrudge Prof. O’Brien some compensation from this shameful matter, Marquette faculty members need only surf on-line comments and Twitter postings about these events to ascertain how much perceptual damage to our university reputation has been done by this magnificent ineptitude.\nIt is often said, but with varying levels of belief depending who says it, that “the university is its faculty.” Any current internet search (see recent articles in the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education) will reveal that our university standing has been palpably damaged around the country by this clumsy and unfortunate set of events. The faculty of Marquette deserves a detailed response concerning how our leadership intends to go about rectifying the damage to our most precious possession–our university integrity.\nLaczniak’s letter does bring up some good points but it is full of vague words, faulty arguments, cheap shots at alumni and seems to use common talking points of people that attack Christianity.\nThere was a meeting of the Academic Senate yesterday. It was quasi-live blogged by Word Warrior. The thing to take away from that is:\nAftermath: I was struck by the outpouring of support at the busiest time of year. Moreover, the diversity of the students showing support was heartening for the future–I saw an acquaintence deeply involved in liturgical choir, and possibly the most devoutly Catholic women I know spoke of being “fired up,” and brainstorming possible gestures of protest at graduation.\nThis isn’t just secular humanists protesting. (Ahem.) The Catholics also see this as an affront of Marquette’s stated values, Jesuital ecclecticism, and basic human decency.\nResults: The Senate did pass a resolution condemning, among other things, a lack of transparency and committment to shared governance on behalf of those responsible for the rescinding of O’Brien’s offer. I will post the full text of the resolution when it becomes available. MUMay6Protest is not pleased:\nNo censure. No vote of on confidence. Thex reaffirmed the non discrimination policy. Considering a vote of no confidence in the fall.\nDr. Nancy Snow, probably O’Brien’s fiercest advocate on campus, described the decision as “weak” and encouraged students to “keep the pressure on.”\nNote the tweet above from MUProtestMay6. Nice to know there are all of 74 people following this account, even though I hope they don’t all believe in the concept of Protesting whenever they don’t get their way is a good diea.\nWe, the University Academic Senate\nReaffirm our strong support for the official non-discrimination statement of Marquette University;\nExpress our approval of and support for the work of the A&S Dean Search Committee;\nCondemn both the process and decision to rescind an extended offer, and we express our regret for the immense harm that this has caused to Dr. O’Brien, our fellow faculty, staff, students and alumni;\nRequest that Father Wild & Darren Jackson, Chair of the Board of Trustees, meet with the UAS at some time prior to the September 2010 Board of Trustees Meeting to discuss Marquette’s commitment to both academic freedom and shared governance;\nDemand adoption of a revised search protocol that clearly affirms academic freedom and no disqualification from leadership positions for candidates pursuing legitimate lines of academic inquiry professionally recognized in their discipline;\nCondemn the lack of transparency in sharing the reasons for the decision; and\nRecommend that the UAS evaluate whether there has been demonstrable progress in achieving these objectives when considering whether to entertain a vote of no confidence in the President in fall 2010.\nApproved May 10, 2010\nIn talking to some of my friends, they’ve suggested that O’Brien will sue over this. Now, will their be some sort of settlement between MU and O’Brien? Yes. Will it go to court? I highly doubt it. It would be professional suicide of O’Brien were to sue. The burden of proof is on her to prove that MU did not rescind her offer because of her sexuality (which it wasn’t). MU would easily be able to argue that her CV and a lack of competent vetting was the case. It would be damning to her own case to give lawyers a chance to pour over her CV and whatnot.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "OR WAIT null SECS\nAs politicians focus on drug cost reduction, biopharmaceutical companies in the US are moving to states with lower taxes, and relocating some facilities that had been offshore.\nPublic pressure to reduce drug costs has led to a number of proposals to reduce drug prices. Among the alternatives discussed so far have been de facto price controls and synching prices to those in other global markets. In December 2019, the United States Department of Health and Human Services introduced a Safe Importation Action Plan outlining two pathways for allowing the safe reimportation of lower cost drugs from Canada (1).\nAlthough these proposals have not yet become law, biopharmaceutical company executives are reacting to regulatory uncertainty by focusing more intensely on reducing operating costs, according to John Boyd, CEO of the Boyd Company, a site selection advisory company. “Operating costs have always been important for life sciences site selection, but they’ve never been as important as they are now, as the industry focuses on price reduction. Many of our pharma clients see site selection as a preferred market-based way to reduce operating costs,” he told Pharmaceutical Technology.\nOperating costs vary highly among major life sciences sites (Figure 1), and labor costs (Figure 2) make up roughly 60% of those costs, says Boyd. In the US, Austin, TX and Raleigh, NC are currently among the fastest growing metropolitan areas, and both are attracting biopharma investment. So far, the Raleigh-Durham area in North Carolina offers the lowest operating costs of any US location, Boyd says, and boasts the presence of some leading universities such as Duke, University of North Carolina, and North Carolina State. Eli Lilly recently selected Raleigh as the location for a new $474-million, 462-employee facility to manufacture injectable and other diabetes therapies (2). The Austin area, meanwhile, is seeing increased investment in biopharma, due to life sciences developments such as the University of Texas’ Dell Medical Campus and facilities affiliated with nearby Texas A&M.\nBoyd’s latest analysis compared major operating costs in 2019 for a representative 300,000- square-foot biomanufacturing facility employing 300 hourly staffers. Examining costs for 25 US, European, and Asian locations research found that they ranged from $58.7 million in Copenhagen to $13.7 million in Bangalore. In the US, costs ranged from $55.4 million in New York to $37.2 million in Raleigh/Durham, NC.\n“In the US, there has already been a mass exodus of human capital to states that have right-to-work laws,” says Boyd. These laws establish “at will” employment and make membership in labor unions voluntary, reducing union power as well as labor costs for employers (3). There has also been a trend to “reshore” some operations and bring them back to the US in lower-cost labor states, he says. “For areas such as Bangalore in India, the initial numbers may be compelling, but investors have found additional hidden costs,” he says, including training and, in the US, boosting corporate participation in federal procurement programs has become a political issue that has both Republican and Democratic party support, he says. Boyd notes that new life science regional hubs may be on the horizon, depending on how new regulations take shape in the US. Amgen, for example, is building a new 1600-employee facility in Greenwich, RI. Oher potential areas for future development could include Southern Florida, Phoenix, AZ, Las Vegas, NV, and the Winston-Salem area of North Carolina near Wake Forest University.\nIn the meantime, many municipalities are getting the message loud and clear, to hold the line on new corporate taxes, says Boyd. New Jersey, which is the nation’s largest biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical development and manufacturing center, may offer a cautionary tale.\nThe state recently increased corporate and personal income taxes, on top of high property taxes, making it more difficult for companies located in the state to remain competitive and reducing disposable income for working professionals, says Boyd. Over the past 15 years, he noted in a December 2019 interview (4), higher taxes in the state have resulted in $30 billion in personal income moving to lower cost, more corporate friendly locations. New Jersey officials have also proposed a millionaire’s tax that would impose 10.75% in income tax on individuals earning $1 million per year or more. The proposed regulations could affect 20,000 state residents, many of them business owners, and could decrease investment in the state. New York, California, and Massachusetts already have similar laws in place.\n1. \"HHS Announces New Action Plan to Lay Foundation for Safe Importation of Certain Prescription Drugs,” Press Release, July 31, 2019.\n2. North Carolina Biotechnology Center, “Lilly Building $474M Pharma Factory in RTP, Hiring 462 Workers,” Press Release, Feb. 11, 2020.\n3. Vittana, “20 Pros and Cons of Right To Work,” vitanna.org, Feb. 11, 2020.\n4. New Jersey News Network, “Murphy Renews Hope For Millionaires Tax,” newjerseynewsnetwork.com, Feb. 11, 2020.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Saturday, November 19, 2005\nNew York Times obit of Gaynor McCown. More here.\nWhy Bush’s Iraq Policy Is Not Like His Education Policy\nLook for an announcement on a pilot program for growth models from US DOE later today…administration rollout already starting. Pretty straightforward parameters for participation though some vague language and a lot of concern that this opens the door for a lot of mischief because of where the states are on data etc....\nThat said, if they’re serious about allowing a few states that have the capacity to try something new try to without retreating on standards then that’s good. Their willingness/ability to hold the line is questionable though because as opposed to Iraq, it appears that the Administration is pretty willing to accommodate insurgents here (or, to mix metaphors, has an emerging Stockholm syndrome situation at the top levels).\nNot much of an exit strategy in either case though…\nRusso has useful links on this including the advance to AP's Feller.\nUpdate: There is some promise with growth models but the haphazard way that the Department has put this pilot together could end up discrediting the idea rather than bolstering it. Some key Dems on the Hill not thrilled about this announcement and here's the statement from the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights:\nWe support Secretary Spellings’ willingness to take on the complicated challenge of exploring whether so-called “growth models” can be a useful substitute for or addition to current accountability requirements in the No Child Left Behind Act.\nNonetheless, we are skeptical that the experiment, as we understand it, will be rigorous enough to yield valid and useful information for the next reauthorization of Title I. The issue here is not whether the adults in the system will be pleased – and clearly many of them are – but whether children ultimately will benefit. We are particularly worried about how the children who are most behind and most often left behind will fare when states change their accountability systems. These students include: homeless and other students who move from school to school; students who enter schools significantly below proficiency standards for their age; students with disabilities who have been taught below grade level despite their capacity to achieve at higher levels; English language learners; and students who have been promoted from grade to grade without mastering essential literacy and math skills.\nWe fear that too many school board members and educators will view the growth-model approach as an invitation to water down expectations for student achievement in order to reduce the numbers of schools identified for improvement under Title I. But we believe a growth model system done right would actually surprise many in the education establishment who hold this view. This is because a growth model system with any integrity would require far more growth from year to year than is currently being made by many students trapped in high-poverty, low-performing schools.\nCCCR also suggests limiting the pilot to five states (a very sensible recommendation considering the current capacity of states to do this well), including a third party evaluation of the pilots after they're implemented which the Dept's proposal inexplicably leaves out (aren't these the evidence-based guys?), and ensuring real transparency in the review and approval process. Link to the entire statement coming when it is online.\nThe great political philosopher Bob Weir tells us that \"you ain't going to learn what you don't want to know\" [Friday Contest: A free copy of Joe Williams' new book \"Cheating Our Kids\" to the first reader who correctly ID's the reference] and if this story in USA Today is any indication it's true. Despite structural deficit problems (pdf) and the demographic crunch in a lot of states, tax cut fever is again taking hold...amnesia or ideology, you decide. Either way, bad news for schools.\nSteve Barr and hundreds of parents marched in LA on Tuesday:\nArmed with about 10,000 signatures from South Los Angeles parents, students and other residents, hundreds of marchers converged on school district headquarters Tuesday, calling for the district to relinquish control of struggling Jefferson High School and transform it into six independent charter schools...\nUnless the two reach a compromise, Barr and the district could be headed for a showdown over Jefferson. If the board turns down Barr's charter applications, he could appeal to the state Board of Education. On Tuesday, Barr said he would prefer to work out \"a local solution.\"\nMarchers began their spirited but orderly two-mile march at a church parking lot south of downtown. Police closed off streets as marchers moved through traffic, waving signs in Spanish and English and chanting, \"What do we want? Small Schools!\" and other slogans. Barr held his 3-month-old daughter in a carrier strapped to his chest, while many others pushed their children in strollers.\nDunno...sure seems like there is a message here that those who care about public education ought to heed, those who were there say this was something to see...\nSo, at Jefferson we're going to find out if a revolution every generation or so is a good idea after all...Sac Bee's Weintraub weighs-in here.\nThere Is Something To See Here! And, Updated: Is This The End Of New Unionism?\nVery important report (pdf) from the New Teacher Project about the impact of seniority and excess rules in teacher collective bargaining contracts. Yes, yes, we always hear how \"there is nothing to see here...\" and this is not an issue. But in fact there is something and it's worrisome. Summary here (pdf).\nPunchine: Hard to run a school in this environment, hard on new teachers (yes, the same ones everyone ostensibly wants to support and retain), and not real good for the kids. 40 percent of vacancies in the five urban districts that NTP surveyed were filled by transfers that schools had no say or limited say over and about half of principals surveyed said they hide vacancies to try to evade this system. And, pretty damning evidence that the teachers being forced on schools often are the low-performers because the excessing/transfer process is easier than the termination process...\nHopefully the information in this report, coupled with its sober tone and sensible recommendations will spark a serious discussion that moves past charges of \"teacher bashing\" because these issues can be addressed without either fundamentally damaging teacher unionism or treating teachers unfairly. Besides, is this really what unions are supposed to be about? Sure seems like it makes it harder to get health insurance for janitors or a decent pension for firefighters marching under the same banner as this stuff...paging Andy Stern.\nThe report, additional information, and statements of support can all be found here.\nPS--Don't shoot the messenger, the lead author is a Clinton alum.\nUpdate: Wash. Post here, Ed Week here ($). Lots of angst about this one...more later.\nUpdate II: Is \"new unionism\" officially dead now? New Unionism patron saint and TURN leader Adam Urbanski resigned from The New Teacher Project's board saying that allowing schools to choose to hire new teachers they want instead of excessed ones is employer disloyalty. That basically shows the outline of this debate though Eduwonk speculates that the resignation has more to do with Urbanski's own politics than anything else...a lot of displeasure about this report in the teachers' union community and surely a lot of pressure to go to an \"us and them\" posture even though this is not an us and them report as these statements of support illustrate.\nHave not had time to write about the goings on in Dover, PA but Leo Casey does at Edwize and makes the apt point that Darwin was proven right in more than one way in the recent school board election…\nA new Carnivial of Edublogs is up at the EdWonk site.\nISO: Married White Eduwonk Seeks National Commission To Tackle Current Property Tax Policies And Propose Reforms. Must be fit and active, nationally recognizable, and enjoy cooking, in particular a witch’s brew that will offend the political right and left. Appreciation of other cultures also a big plus.\nThe recent report from the President’s tax commission is getting a lot of attention and sparking some interesting discussion (for instance this NY Times essay by Eduardo Porter about homeownership which interestingly flirts with one of the causes of today’s school segregation problem) and surely the tax code can use some work on both the fairness and simplicity fronts.\nHowever, there is another tax issue that just does not get the attention it should: localized property taxes as a key source of funding for schools. Eduwonk is not opposed to property taxes per se, but when they’re drawn from localized areas to fund schools in those communities they do introduce obvious disequities (pdf) into school funding.\nBasically, though school funding debates - especially at the national level- focus on spending per-pupil, when thinking about a community’s ability to pay for adequate schools it is the assessed value per-pupil that matters (this is the amount of taxable property meaning less abatements, less than 100 percent assessments, etc...divided by the number of students in the community). In a community with more property wealth, say an affluent suburb or town with thriving businesses there is more property value per student to assess to finance schools and it is consequently easier for these communities to raise money for schools. Conversely, in communities with a lot of agriculture, few businesses, major property tax abatements, or mostly lower-end housing there is much less property value to asses.\nFor example, assuming a hypothetical tax rate of 1 percent, in community A with an assessed value per-pupil of $500,000 and community B with an assessed value per-pupil of $100,000 community A will raise $5000 per student and community B $1000. In other words community B will end up working a lot harder to raise the same revenue as community A. In theory most states will make up for these differences though state foundational programs but that's often not the case in practice. Now what's really perverse here is that all else equal, communities with a lot of low-income students actually need more resources to deliver a top-flight educational program so in essence they're doubly penalized.\nThe solutions here are not easy politically or substantively, for instance statewide property to spread the load more evenly or other taxes and revenue schemes so states kick-in a greater share of school funding. And, while such policies do not have to explicitly penalize high-spending school districts there is no escaping their redistributionist nature.\nYet both sides of the political spectrum have something to gain by tackling this problem and there is something of a grand bargain out there. Conservative choice schemes (and centrist charter school schemes) will never be serious solutions as long as school finance remains a district by district affair. But, given the country’s political contours it’s hard to envision a political solution to these problems that doesn’t give at least the center-right enough reform to put together durable state-level coalitions a reality the left must acknowledge. Resources will come with reform. Besides, it’s hard to envision serious and sustainable educational improvement that does not involve attention to how we finance schools, so everyone has a stake.\nThere are both commonalities and differences across states meaning that a singular solution from such a commission would have limited utility. But that’s an advantage not a road block because clarion calls and guiding principals with powerful endorsements, not unlike what The Teaching Commission (pdf) did, rather than a detailed policy proposal is what these sorts of commissions do best. And, although litigation will still precipitate most activity on finance reform, having good ideas for remedies out there will help states when they have to act and increase public awareness of this issue.\nBut, since there could be a meeting of the minds such a commission seems like a great way for left-leaning foundations like Ford, Carnegie (big players in the original school finance reform efforts), and MacArthur along with centrist foundations like Gates, Broad, and Joyce, and pro-voucher foundations like the right-leaning Bradley and the Walton Family Foundation to all support an independent commission with a broad mandate: School Finance for the 21st Century. Essentially, get smart people with a variety of perspectives from inside and outside education together and then let them run. For national stature and expertise have it co-chaired by a smart, serious, middle-of-the-road team like Paul O’Neill and Jim Guthrie.\nWorth mentioning, though the choice stuff will send chills down many spines, this also seems like a good way for the left to get ahead of this emerging issue (more here) and help proactively shape remedies rather than be reactionary and ensure they address issues like segregation.\nWendy Kopp: Anti-Dolt\nIn Sunday's LA Times TFA honcho Wendy Kopp discusses this recent report and juxtaposes the views of the TFA'ers and the public.\nYesterday the Supreme Court issued a 6-2 ruling in Schaffer v. Weast (pdf) an important special education case focusing on who bears the burden of persuasion in hearings about special education services.\nThough it's being played in the press as a big victory for school districts at the expense of parents*, in fact it's not a little guy against the big guy sort of thing but rather a fair decision because the court held that it is the plaintiffs in such cases, whether parents or a school district, who bear the burden. That's a sensible standard.\nIn practice, however, it is more often than not parents bringing these actions but as the court noted this law gives parents a variety of substantive and procedural rights so although the school districts may have access to greater resources and knowledge in these cases, parents are not without recourse.\nIDEA is a vitally important law and parents of children with special needs do need protections and exceptional rights but balancing those against other legitimate interests (scarce resources, the need to run orderly schools and serve a variety of students etc...) necessitate hard choices.\nSchaffer v. Weast will help ensure that this tough balancing is in fact closer to being in balance.\nNYT's Greenhouse here, Washington Post's Lane here. Background on IDEA here.\n*Sloppy editing: When this post first went up this sentence was not clear because \"parents\" and \"school districts\" were flipped during editing. Sorry for any confusion.\nGaynor McCown 1960-2005\nGaynor McCown, executive director of The Teaching Commission passed away early this morning in New York. Along with seemingly inexhaustible energy Gaynor brought a wonderful mix of grace and grit to her life and her work. She will be sorely missed professionally and personally. Among other positions prior to taking the helm at the Teaching Commission, Gaynor worked in the Clinton White House and for Edison Schools. While at first blush those might seem like odd bedfellows, it's just indicative of how Gaynor was not a slave to orthodoxy, was unafraid to swim against the tide, and stood up for what she thought was right and would benefit others. She did not live nearly long enough but she did live fully and many are better off for her professional efforts and friendship.\nRemembrances from The Teaching Commission here and from NCTQ, whose board of directors she chaired, here.\nHere's a handy talking point for critics of elected school boards, this fellow just got elected from jail. But don't worry, he gets out soon and can serve. Via Intercepts.\nRusso has the links to a blogosphere - MSM discussion going on to the effect that perhaps there was a point of view in Hedrick Smith's recent documentary...Whoa, stop the presses! It comes through pretty clearly in this interview and frankly...who cares? Everyone has a point of view...the differentiation is who is upfront about it and who pretends to be fair and balanced.\nThe other issues up for debate are whether some folks in the documentary were not properly ID'd in terms of their affiliations and whether the presentation of NYC issues was balanced. Can't remember about either and like Russo don't have the time to watch it again but (a) undisclosed conflicts of interest are a common problem in education reporting because sources often don't disclose real or potential conflicts and it's pretty damn hard for journos to keep tabs on them and (b) the Daily Howler is all over the NYC angle so you can read up there if you're interested.\nPer a note from CRPE, there appears to be some misunderstanding from West Coast readers about this post. The CPRE-UI event next Monday is in Washington, D.C. not Washington the state. Sorry for any confusion, it was that insidious East Coast bias showing through.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Charlie’s Cookies snack boxes fly on Qantas\nCharlie’s Cookies snack boxes are now being offered on selected domestic Qantas flights.\nThe box comprises Black Jack Aged Cheddar Cheese, Tucker’s Natural rosemary lavosh, Beerenberg caramelised onion dip and a dip-pack of Charlie’s gingerbread heart biscuits.\nCharlie’s Cookies says the package is a feature of its own “Proud to call Australia home” campaign and 5 cents from every box sold will be donated to the Banagarra indigenous dance theatre. As the campaign progresses Charlie’s will partner with and donate profits to other Australian organisations and initiatives.\nThe Charlie’s Cookies company was launched in 1994 under the name Uncle Charlie’s Cookies. The company was acquired by former property developer and film producer, Ken Mahlab, in 2004 after it went into administration.\nCharlie’s Cookies “Proud to Call Australia Home” snack boxes are a complimentary offering on selected domestic Qantas flights.\nOAK has launched a new high-protein version of its flavoured milk range.\nBakers Delight is now selling FODMAP Friendly bread. It is the first certified FODMAP Friendly bread...\nArnott’s and Messina Gelato have teamed up to create an ice cream inspired Tim Tam range.\nAn IGA exclusive range has won ‘Ready Meal of the Year’ at the 2017 National Food & Beverage Industr...\nH2Coco has designed a special line of coconut and melon waters to fit in lunch boxes.\nGriffith University (Queensland) Eating a diet with high omega 6 in the lead up to pregnancy, co...\nPopular New Zealand Oob Organic smoothie mixes are now available in Australia.\nAllen’s is now selling “one piece, one portion” lollies in Australian supermarkets.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "While lots of folks flocked to the beaches, golf courses, an picnic grounds over the course of the summer, some 17 students elected instead to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams by attending a special camp on the campus of Southwestern Michigan College last week to advance those dreams.\nIn a collaboration between the Southwestern Michigan College Educational Talent Search and Michigan State University Extension those Future Entrepreneurs of Southwestern Michigan were provided with a day camp from August 5th-to-the-8th in Dowagiac.\nSeventeen students met to learn all aspects of creating and selling new products. They met Louisville, Kentucky author Amanda Rotach Lamkin, from Decatur, on Monday and heard a panel discussion on Wednesday featuring Andrew Grieshop of Utilimaster, Jordan Anderson of Baker’s Rhapsody in downtown Dowagiac, SMC School of Business and Advanced Technology Dean Dr. Stacy Young and Dubelsa Mata-Garcia of the Women’s Business Center at Cornerstone Alliance, in Benton Harbor, serving Berrien, Cass, and Van Buren counties. The 15-year-old center offers business startup counseling and early-stage operational support, and most services are free.\nThe panel discussion followed a presentation by SMC Vice President Mike O’Brien on marketing. The students did some networking with real entrepreneurs at Dowagiac’s Farm and Artisan Market and then set up storefronts on Thursday to sell the products they invented in the David C. Briegel Building upper commons.\nSeven startups included:\n- Tea Time Tiles\n- Tumble and Go drink containers\n- Classic Auras bath bombs\n- Triple A Jewelry\n- The Paint Splash (“Our rocks rock”)\n- Doggone Dog Toys\n- The Bucket Brothers\nBetween them, the seven start ups made $542.25 in just two hours. They considered 13 beneficiaries before voting to donate to an environmental charity to plant 542 trees.\nStephanie Bigelow, a June Marcellus High School graduate who was accepted to attend SMC this fall, created unique hand-painted coasters with Dowagiac freshman Taven Livingston. Bigelow, returning from the first camp in 2018, said Lamkin “has a really big personality and is a great storyteller. I really liked her.”\nPanel member Grieshop likes fast cars, but his automotive inventor sideline moves more slowly, so he keeps his test engineer day job in Bristol, building parcel-delivery vehicles. Grieshop, from Harlan, Kentucky, came to Michigan to earn a Ferris State University automotive engineering bachelor’s degree. This year he replaced funnels with 3D-printed parts.\nGrieshop says, “Accomplishing these things take time,” and adds, “This is where computers meet the real world. I call it the Funnel Ram. It increases horsepower and fuel efficiency if you put it behind the throttle body,” which is a flap controlling the amount of air entering the engine.\nGrieshop notes, “I have a device like this on a car that went from 500 horsepower to 550. On the other end of the spectrum, a four-cylinder car went from 44 miles to the gallon to 58,” and admits, “I’m still just a startup and am not going anywhere fast at this point. I’ve got a provisional patent. This has taken (since 2011) because I work on it in my spare time.”\nMata-Garcia cautioned the students that too many budding business people are impatient and want their products on shelves before adequately preparing a business plan, which “helps you do your research and holds you accountable to your goals.” She came to Michigan from Texas in 2007, and says, “You never want to mingle your money. Have a business account and a personal account and keep everything separate. It takes doing things in strategic phases and testing the market before launching a product.”\nYoung has a bachelor’s degree in accounting, a master’s degree in business and a leadership doctorate. She “flew around the world” as an auditor, then ran a group of small businesses, and says, “We teach a class on 17 areas of small-business management that’s more extensive, but similar, to what you’re learning this week. Great ideas fail if a person doesn’t know how to run the business side. (As a girl) I wanted to be Mattel’s CEO” and even interviewed with the toy giant before realizing she didn’t want to live in California.\nResearch shows a high percentage of their Generation Z is interested in starting businesses. SMC this fall introduces an Associate in Arts in Entrepreneurship degree.\nYoung says, “We used to talk about careers as climbing a ladder, but now they’re jungle gyms with lots of high points.”\nAnderson, the baker who grew up in South Haven, studied theatre and music at Central Michigan University, says, “I worked in restaurants through school, so that became my career path” rather than teaching. Attending culinary school in Phoenix, Arizona, he discovered his passion for baking and cake decorating.\nBaker’s Rhapsody opened in 2015, progressing from his apartment kitchen to a rented Marcellus commercial kitchen, filling online orders and selling cupcakes at the farm market. Growth added three employees.\nAnderson says, “Entrepreneurs are always working or thinking about their next move. You always feel clocked in.” Now, contemplating expansion, he notes, “I would rather open a different-style restaurant than another bakery. Figuring out the next step is definitely on our radar in a few years. You have to know when to ask for help, like an accountant to help with payroll. Things fall through the cracks if you try to do it all yourself. In creative fields like art and photography, it’s hard to judge what your time is worth.”\nIn the photo accompanying this story on Moody on the Market, presenter Andrew Grieshop shows off his Funnel Ram.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "MIn pursuance of decision taken in the 21st Meeting of GST Council held on 9th September, 2017 at Hyderabad, the Union Finance Minister, Mr Arun Jaitley today constituted a Group of Ministers and a Committee on Exports.\nThe Group of Ministers (GoM) has been constituted under the convenorship of the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, Mr Sushil Kumar Modi,in order to monitor and resolve the IT challenges faced in the implementation of GST. The Members of the GoM are Mr Amar Agarwal, Minister for Commercial Taxes, Government of Chhatisgarh; Mr Krishna Byregowda, Minister for Agriculture, Government of Karnataka; Dr. T.M. Thomas Isaac, Finance Minister, Government of Kerala and Mr Etela Rajendar, Finance Minister, Government of Telengana. The GoM will be assisted in its work by the Chairman, Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) and the Chief Executive Officer, GSTN.\nThe Committee on Exports has been constituted under the convenorship of the Revenue Secretary to look at the issues of export sector and to recommend to the GST Council suitable strategy for helping the export sector in the post-GST scenario. This Committee consists of the Chairperson, CBEC; Member (Customs), CBEC; Director General, DGFT; Addional Secretary, GST Council; Director General, DG Export Promotion from the Central Government and Commissioners of Commercial Taxes from the States of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The parents of the Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley broke down in court as their charges were read aloud Saturday morning.\nJames, 45, and Jennifer, 43, Crumbley were captured early on Saturday in the basement of a building on the 1100 block of Bellevue Street in Detroit, less than half a mile from the Canadian border, police said. They were taken into custody after leading authorities on a large-scale manhunt.\nBoth the Crumbleys pled not guilty to all four charges of involuntary manslaughter – one for each high school student who was killed in the school shooting Tuesday.\nEach count is punishable by up to 15 years in prison along with a $7,500 fine and mandatory DNA testing.\nJudge Julie Nicholson announced that their bond must be paid in full, and they will be required to wear a GPS tether if they make bail. The couple has been booked at Oakland County Jail and remained there following the arraignment.\nJames and Jennifer were arraigned first around 9:30 a.m. as they joined the video conference from separate rooms at the jail. They called into the 52nd District Court, 3rd Division District Court with their legal counsel Shannon Smith and Mariell Lehman.\nBoth Crumbleys broke down as Jennifer’s charges and potential jail time was read by the judge. Jennifer was noticeably distraught and sat hunched over with her face in her hands for most of the virtual meeting.\n‘I understand,’ Jennifer replied through tears as Nicholson read each charge. James shook his head in disagreement as prosecutor Karen McDonald summarized her version of the case implicating the parents in their son’s deadly rampage.\n‘These two individuals could have stopped it and had every reason to know he was dangerous,’ McDonald said. She claimed that not one person in the community would vouch in favor of either Crumbley.\nBut Smith denied that the Crumbleys had any responsibility for their son’s alleged crimes. She adamantly declared that it is ‘absolutely not true’ that they gave their child ‘free access’ to the weapon he used to kill several students at his Michigan high school.\nThe defendant’s legal counsel noted the Crumbleys’ employment and quickly brushed over their past criminal history in a plea for bail to be set.\nSmith and Lehman denied that their clients were attempting to flee prosecution and told the judge that they plan to fight the charges.\nSmith claimed that the ‘facts that have been presented have been cherry-picked’ by the prosecution ‘to make an example’ out of the Crumbleys.\nThe Crumbleys will be required to appear in person for the probable cause conference on the afternoon of December 14. The preliminary examination will take place on the morning of December 22.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "David Beckham’s hair has kept the nation transfixed over the years.\nLike wife Victoria Beckham, the UK has desperately been Keeping Up With The Beckham’s ever-changing ‘do’s in salons nationwide.\nFrom his iconic curtains in the late nineties, to his cornrows in 2003, David Beckham has kept fans hooked.\nBut recently, the dad-of-four shocked as his normally perfectly-coiffured thick and luscious locks looked noticeably thinner in Miami.\nBecks was snapped poolside in the sunshine state as he enjoyed some downtime away from launching new football team Inter Miami.\nIn stark contrast however, just weeks later the 43-year-old was back to his fuller locks in China/\nGiving a talk in Hong Kong for an insurance company, David sported a close cropped hair ‘do with a suspiciously-looking straighter hairline.\nDavid’s thicker hair sparked speculation that David had undergone a hair transplant.\nAs David hasn’t addressed the rumours publicly, Hair Loss expert Spencer Stevenson at Spex Hair gave his verdict on Becks’ barnet to Daily Star Online.\nHe said: “It’s evident David is wearing some form of hair thickening fibres or concealers such as Nanogen fibres.\n“These are keratin fibres which magnate to the hair to give it a thicker appearance. The tell tale sign is the seemingly darker appearance to his hair as well as the slightly 'matted' look due too far much product being used in my experienced opinion.\n“You don't have to be a hair loss expert like me to figure that out. Who ever applied to him needs the boot in my opinion. Less is more and Nanogen is incredible when used correctly.”\nSpencer continued: “David may well continue to use daily concealers such as Nanogen or turn to a more permanent one such as ATP ‘Advanced Trico pigmentation’ which I’ve performed.\n“ATP, works by tattooing hundreds of dot-like pigments onto the scalp – it was barely known just a few years ago but has really gained popularity over the last few years, especially in the film and television industry.”\nHe also thinks that “hair icon” David would never go \"bald Becks\" as it could tarnish the Beckham brand.\nSpencer divulged: “He has been a hair icon for countless years and wants to do all he can he keep the illusion of his hair when in the public eye and maintain his iconic status.\n“Hair thinning is a massive deal for anyone, never mind someone like David who is a trend setter and influencer.”\nHe added: “Will David be as marketable bald? Does his future depend on his hair - I think so! I doubt the Beckham brand will be anywhere near as powerful if he is bald..\n“On the other hand, if he chooses to go bald gracefully however he will empower a great number of men going through the emotional trauma of hair loss as if its ok for David it's got to be ok for Average Joe right?”\nSpencer also thinks celebrities such as Wayne Rooney and Robbie Williams being open about their hair transplants, helps normalise the procedure.\nHe said: “Thanks to celebrities such as Wayne Rooney and Robbie Williams to only name a couple who have come out and spoken openly about it and how if has affected them, [has helped normalised hair transplants].\n“Hair loss is a reality and we speak to hundreds of people a month on the live call in radio show specifically dedicated to hair loss called The Bald Truth.\n“Shows like this break down stigmas and enable people to know it’s ok to talk about hair loss and hair transplants and it’s normal for men to feel the anxiety they are feeling.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "EXCERPT: \"The mystery still remains as to what the source of the contamination is.\"\nGM WATCH COMMENT: Does anyone believe this is a controllable technology? And there's a lot at stake. As one farming expert told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation recently, being GM-free has been critical to helping Australia escape very low oilseed (canola) prices: \"Where Australia has been benefitted is that our rapeseed is GM-free, free of genetically modified organisms, so we have been their preferred supplier into that EU market for the past 18 months or so.\"\nHuman error 'probable cause' of GM canola mix-up\nAustralian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), 7 September 2006 http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/2006/s1735224.htm\nHuman error has been identified as the most likely cause of the genetically-modified contamination of conventional canola two years ago.\nLow level contamination of the commercially-grown 'grace' variety was discovered in 2005 during routine sampling of canola exports.\nA trial of GM canola was conducted in Tasmania in 1998, and a year later grace canola was grown on a separate site three kilometres away, but an investigation by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator has found that is not how the contamination occured.\nAlex Schaap from Tasmania's Department of Primary Industry says there is not enough evidence to provide a definite answer.\n\"The mystery still remains as to what the source of the contamination is,\" he said.\n\"The only hypothesis left standing is some form of human error, perhaps something as simple as somebody not labelling seed bags correctly, and seed hence being mixed.\"\nThe peak grains research body says it is continuing negotiations to try to secure the commercial release of genetically modified crops.\nThe Grains Research and Development Corporation is funding research into GM canola, which cannot be released to farmers because of state-imposed bans on the technology.\nChairman Terry Enright says the benefits of GM crops, such as disease tolerant wheat and barley, need to be proven.\n\"We're positively working with industry and with governments in a dialogue to make sure that we overcome these issues that are there,\" he said.\n\"And we're hopeful in the long term that if crops become available and can be assessed on a crop by crop basis, if they demonstrate benefit to the industry, that ultimately we'll be able to grow them, if that is what is required.\"\nMeanwhile, Nufarm has bought the licence to develop and commercialise genetically-modified canola.\nThe agribusiness company has paid $10 million for Monsanto's Roundup Ready canola licence and germ plasm.\nMonsanto was not able to commercialise the variety in Australia, due to the State Government moratoriums on GM crops.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Official: Navy to Maintain Maritime Superiority Despite Smaller Budget (UPDATED)\nSAN DIEGO — Despite proposed cuts to the Navy’s budget in the president’s fiscal year 2017 budget request, the service is still well positioned to meet much of its acquisition goals and respond to challenges in the future, said a Navy official Feb. 17.\nWith this budget request, “we can maintain our maritime superiority in a dynamic security environment,” said Vice Adm. Joseph Mulloy, deputy chief of naval operations for integration of capabilities and resources. “We can strengthen naval power by focused investments.”\nThe Navy requested a total budget of $139.9 billion for fiscal year 2017 including $7.9 billion for overseas contingency operations and $18.4 billion for shipbuilding procurement. The $132 billion base budget amount is $4.9 billion less than was appropriated for the service in fiscal year 2016.\nThe Navy’s OCO funding would increase $200 million in 2017, from $9.3 billion in 2016 to $9.5 billion. Total funding for the department — which includes money for the Marine Corps — would be $8.2 billion less than the president’s fiscal year 2016 budget anticipated for 2017.\nMulloy predicted that Congress would establish two more Bipartisan Budget Acts to help alleviate the so-called sequester, he said. One would be enacted for the fiscal year 2018 and 2019 budgets and another for 2020 and 2021 budgets, he said.\n“We’re going to have, I believe, two more BBAs, because I don’t think anything in this country will drive us to lift this budget control law that ends in ’21,” he said during a keynote speech at the annual AFCEA/U.S. Naval Institute WEST 2016 conference in San Diego.\nThat would give the Navy between 87 to 94 percent of the funding it needs each year, he said. “That’s a good thing — except I really [need] 100 percent of my money.”\nIn the 2017 budget request, the Navy received about 90 percent of the funding it required, he added.\nIt has become increasingly difficult for military officials to make due with the funding it has, he said, noting that it has been “exhausting” dealing with budgetary ups and downs.\n“Every chief in here, every first class petty officer, … I’m asking you all to toe a line, hang on, look carefully at what you’re spending on,” he said. “It gets hard to keep rubbing nickels.”\nMulloy said the fiscal year 2017 budget request was a mixed bag, but many critical programs were protected. Over the course of the future years defense plan, or FYDP — which covers fiscal years 2017 to 2021 — the Navy included funding for an Ohio-class replacement ballistic missile submarine program and procurement of the lead ship. The program — which is also known as SSBN(X) — will eat up a big portion of the service’s budget, Mulloy said.\n“It will be an amazing submarine, but a significantly expensive submarine,” he said. “It will shake up a fair amount of our dollars going ahead.”\nThe replacement is necessary because both China and Russia have their own advanced ballistic missile subs, he said.\nSeven new-build ships were included in the fiscal year 2017 budget request including two Virginia-class nuclear attack submarines, two Arleigh Burke class destroyers, two littoral combat ships; and one amphibious warfare assault ship.\nAdditionally, Navy aviation requested four F-35C joint strike fighters, two F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, six E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes and 11 P-8A Poseidons.\n“The last three years of my job has been cutting aviation weapons … to be able to balance the Navy through … tough times,” he said. “This time what we said was, ‘We need more.'”\nMulloy also touted the Navy’s new initiative to rework the former unmanned carrier-launched surveillance and strike program. Service leaders announced in February that UCLASS would transition from a strike and surveillance drone to an unmanned refueling tanker. The carrier-based aerial-refueling system, or CBARS, program would keep fighter jets in the air longer and more affordably, he said.\n“This is something we need now as fast as we can get it in the fleet and have it integrated on our aircraft carriers to give us surveillance at a distance,” he said.\nLast year, the Navy used F/A-18s to track an Iranian vessel that they suspected was delivering weapons to Yemen, Mulloy said. If the Navy had had CBARS at the time that could have freed up five or six fighter jets, he said.\n“If we had one of the vehicles we could have 13 hours a day of rotation, continuous eyeballs on it,” he said.\nIn fiscal year 2017, $3.2 billion was allocated toward weapons procurement, including Tomahawks, Standard Missile-6s and MK 48 torpedoes. Mulloy called the SM-6 an “amazing capability.”\nThere were also difficult cuts, he said. The Navy took a 4 percent reduction in procurement and research, development, test and evaluation funding. “That’s a difficult choice, … ’17 is a tough year,” he said.\nOne major reduction in the Navy budget included a cut to its littoral combat ship program, reducing vessels from a planned purchase of 52 to 40 ships.\nThe military’s budget cuts come at a time of increased threats globally, he said. “The world we live in is the most challenging and turbulent since World War II,” he said. “Everyone is pursuing technology … and that really brings tremendous risk and danger.”\nRussia, China, North Korea and Iran are all beefing up their military prowess and pose a threat to the United States, he said.\nCorrection: The name of the conference has been corrected.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Tamra Judge announced that she would be leaving the reality show earlier this year — and now thinks that Season 15 could be a dud.\n“[RHOC] has changed so much. It’s so different now [and] we’ve had so many cast members that didn’t work out,” Tamra said.\nTamra Judge said that she believes that viewers might not be on board with the newbies on the cast.\n“It’s hard for the viewers too. They’re not really invested,” Tamra added. “That’s my concern for the show right now. There’s a lot of new people on the show. A lot.”\nKelly Dodd, Shannon Beador, Gina Kirschenheiter, Emily Simpson, and Braunwyn Windham-Burke are slated to return for Season 15. Bravo has not yet revealed who will step in for departed RHOC vets, Tamra and Vicki Gunvalson. Filming season was halted due to the coronavirus shutdown, leaving Season 15 a production question mark.\nTamra Judge told People in January that she shot down a limited role offer in the upcoming RHOC season. Tamra was a full-time fixture on the franchise for 12 years. Her decision was influenced her ex-husband, Simon Barney’s throat cancer diagnosis.\n“In my mind, I knew there was going to be a phone call during filming where someone needed me — where Simon was in the hospital, or one of my kids were upset — and I’d need to handle all that stuff, away from the cameras,” Tamra told People.\nThe Real Housewives of Orange County is expected to premier later this year.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In the midst of an all-out attack on trans participation in sports, a new report has outlined the crucial importance of allowing trans youth equal participation alongside their cisgender peers.\nA 41-page report released by the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Monday argues that banning the trans community from sports deprives an already vulnerable group of the overall health benefits of athletics, which include lower risks of anxiety, depression, and suicide attempts, as well as decreased rates of tobacco and drug use. The report also finds that trans-inclusive sports policies don’t harm cisgender youth, contrary to the rhetoric that is deployed by politicians who have introduced legislation targeting transgender kids in more than 20 states, such as Montana and South Dakota.\n“These bills cloak transmisogyny in inflammatory language and scare tactics that distract from the policies’ discriminatory intent,” the report reads. “Notably, many do not lay out restrictions for transgender boys and men, focusing solely on regulating women’s bodies.”\nAlthough these bills purport to “save women’s sports,” CAP finds that these proposals have proven detrimental to that cause. In states that force trans students to compete in school athletics in accordance with their “biological sex,” participation among cis female athletes actually decreased from 2011-2019. Conversely, the report found that some evidence suggests that trans-inclusive policies may increase overall girls’ sports participation: Since California established legal protections for trans students in 2014, participation in girls’ sports hit an all-time high in 2020.\nThe report observed similar trends in Connecticut, which has been the site of lawsuits seeking to prevent two transgender runners, Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood, from competing in women’s track and field. The state is one of 17 that allows trans students to participate in school athletics consistent with their gender identity.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "13 hrs ago\nSix challengers take on incumbent DelBene\nDemocratic U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene faces six opponents in her bid for re-election in a congressional district where Democrats and Republicans are evenly divided.\nTue Jul 22, 2014\nThe Washington Post\nSyrian death toll and extremist threat increases, but the U.S. does little\nTHE FIGHTING in Gaza has served to obscure developments in another Middle East war that is far bloodier and more important to U.S. interests.\nMon Jul 21, 2014\nIn Our View/Gaza, Israel and Ukraine: The long, hard road to peace\nThe greatest virtue of international politics is the capacity to de-escalate and limit war.\nFri Jul 18, 2014\nFederal Way Mirror\nReturn Adam Smith to Congress | Editorial\nNow in his ninth term, the former prosecutor has a firm understanding of Federal Way and has shown leadership in Congress for years.\nWed Jul 16, 2014\nWho Has Time for Legislating Anyway? | K Street Files\nJeb Hensarling, chairman of the House Financial Services panel, was in a rush to recess a lengthy markup so he and the other lawmakers could make it across the street to the Capitol for evening floor votes.\nHouse Lawmakers Critical of Proposed Counterterrorism Fund\nPentagon leaders faced heavy opposition from the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday to the Obama administration's requested counterterrorism partnership fund, with members from both parties raising concerns that the proposed $5 billion account amounts to little more than a slush fund for the Defense Department.\nStars and Stripes\nDOD proposes wider use of Afghanistan war fund\nRep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., speaks during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on DOD's fiscal year 2015 Overseas Contingency Operations budget request, at the Rayburn Building in Washington, D.C., July 16, 2014.\nTue Jul 15, 2014\nDOD official defends EELV block buy, endorses launch competition\nWhile the Senate gears up for a joint hearing Wednesday on space access , some members of the House Armed Services Committee used a July 10 hearing on Defense Department acquisitions issues to grill a top Pentagon official on the topic of the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle \"We don't seem to be as encouraging of competition in this area as I ... (more)\nMon Jul 14, 2014\nEditorial: The Times recommends to return Reps. Jim McDermott and Adam Smith to Congress\nRe-elect incumbent Reps. Jim McDermott in the 7th Congressional District and Adam Smith in the 9th Congressional District.\nEsty's STEM bill gets House\nRep. Elizabeth Esty's bill to support science- and math-based education and teachers in those disciplines sailed through the House with bipartisan support Monday.\nFri Jul 11, 2014\nOfficial Says Pentagon Wants Satellite Launch Competition; Lawmakers Unsure\nThe Pentagon's acquisition boss took some guff at a House hearing over a massive satellite launch contract that has prompted a lawsuit by a company that thinks it got shoved aside unfairly.\nThu Jul 10, 2014\nBenghazi: Attack on CIA Annex showed 'clear military training'\nPreviously unreleased testimony by defense officials given to congress behind closed doors shows that there were two separate groups of fighters who attacked the diplomatic compound and CIA Annex in Beghazi on September 11,2012.\nWed Jul 09, 2014\nThe News Tribune\nSmith, three challengers vie for 9th Congressional District seat\nPrior experience: First elected in 1996, Smith now is the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.\nMidday open thread: UK rendition files destroyed 'accidentally', tallying voting errors in Congress\nVeterans in Congress vanish : In the 1970s, more than 70 percent of the members of Congress had served in the military.\nWed Jul 02, 2014\nMunicipal League ratings: A big boost for some Senate candidates\nA bipartisan group of five Washington State Senate incumbents and challengers have received a major boost in just-published candidate ratings by the Municipal League of King County.\nTue Jul 01, 2014\nThe Miami Herald\nThe day women, too, became human\nFifty years ago today President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the landmark legislation that prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in the areas of employment and public accommodations.\nMon Jun 30, 2014\nObstacles to critical thinking\nRandal Keynes, great-grandson of Charles Darwin, is interviewed during a preview of the new 'Darwin' exhibition at the Museum of Natural History.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "To contain the rise in jet fuel prices and its cascading impact on air ticket prices, Civil Aviation Ministry will urge the Finance Ministry to bring the particular fuel type under the ambit of GST.\nCivil Aviation Secretary Rajiv Nayan Choubey on Tuesday said, a proposal will be made to the Ministry of Finance to bring air turbine fuel (ATF) under the ambit of GST to contain the rise in jet fuel cost due to high global crude oil prices.\nSince January 2017-May 2018, the rise in global crude oil prices have pushed ATF cost by 40 per cent. Currently, state levies add anywhere from 2 to 30 per cent extra on the sale of jet fuel. Under the GST regime the cost is expected to come down substantially.\nHowever, the decision to bring the particular fuel type under the GST ambit will depend upon the Finance Ministry as the same will be required to be mooted by it in the GST Council. Read More…", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "With countless businesses admitting they have struggled to survive during the coronavirus crisis, one British beauty brand has gone from strength to strength – not only seeing its online sales soar but also finding the time to launch its first vegan anti-ageing cream.\nHeaven Skincare founder Deborah Mitchell has put lockdown life to good use; while she wasn’t able to treat clients in her famous Shifnal salon for a number of months, instead she has driven impressive online orders across the globe and even unveiled a powerful plant-based moisturiser that has already seen record sales for the company.\nDeborah’s new Nettle Venom Anti-Ageing Cream launched last month and has quickly taken the beauty industry by storm. Having spent five years investigating how to create a vegan-friendly version of her world famous Abeetoxin bee venom creams, she used her self-isolation to put the finishing touches to this innovative product.\nContaining her powerful Nettatoxin, she has created her latest skincare essential using the carefully extracted sting of the common British nettle.\nShe has kept this newly patented ingredient a very carefully guarded secret, working tirelessly to create the most impressive vegan anti-ageing product on the market.\n“I’m not one to sit around,” explains Deborah, “so for me lockdown meant doing everything possible from home to ensure Heaven continued to be a successful global business.\n\"It also gave me the time away from the salon and the office to really concentrate on the launch of my Nettle Venom, which has seen amazing sales figures in the first few weeks.\n“Due to our appeal to a whole range of demographics – we hit every age and gender – we have acquired many new customers over the last couple of months. They may not have been able to physically walk into our salons but thanks to my daughter Ella Jane, our Marketing Director, we have continued to push our products online, through our website and social media, and have remained at the forefront of people’s minds.\n“It has been vital to us that that not only have our loyal customers been able to continue to purchase their favourite products, but those new to the brand have been able to experience our bestsellers too.”\nOne of the areas that has seen a real increase is Heaven’s male grooming collection, with a 40% increase in sales since lockdown started.\n“It seems that our male clients increase our sales through word of mouth,” says Deborah. “Many men feel more comfortable buying online and when they are impressed with their purchases – as they are with Heaven – they tell their friends about it.\n“We have all needed a little affordable luxury to get us through the current crisis, and that is exactly what we are able to offer.”\nYou can shop the complete range of Heaven Skincare online at heavenskincare.com.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Have you ever wanted to see if you’re a good enough gamer to beat the guys who designed the game? You can get your chance with Quantum Rush, because the developers of that futuristic PC racing game will take on all comers on Friday.\nAccording to a press release from developers GameArt studios, to take part in the event\n“just log in and join matchmaking for Death Race on tier 1 on Friday, 21/3/2014, at 4:00 p.m. (CET).” That’s 11 a.m. ET, if you live in the United States.\nThe game is still in closed beta, but it sounds like it’s easy to get in.\n“If you would like to participate but have no beta key yet, you can contact the developers via Twitter or Facebook to see if you can still get one in time. Signing up for the Quantum Rush Newsletter can also get you a beta key,” the press release says.\nFind out more at http://www.quantum-rush.net/.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Sunday said it may take six to nine months to stop radiation leaks and stabilize reactors damaged in the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.\nTokyo Electric Power Co. (9501)\nThe AP said the plan will be carried out in two stages. Tepco will first cool the reactors and spent fuel pools, with the aim of cutting the amount of leaking radiation. It will also decontaminate water that has become radioactive, said the AP.\nThe second stage will see Tepco try for a cold shutdown of the reactors and to cover the reactor buildings with what the AP said may be a type of industrial cloth.\nThe report added that Tepco will also create a system to recycle cooling water that will remove radiation and also any salt that remains after seawater was used to cool the reactors.\nAn adviser to Kan was quoted by the AP as saying he hoped the plan would take less than the six to nine months suggested by Tepco, but admitted that the company’s timetable was “realistic.”\nDespite the unveiling of the plan, there is still no indication of when residents evacuated from area around the plant will be able to return home.\nAlso Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Tokyo in a show of U.S. solidarity with Japan. Clinton met with Japan’s emperor and empress, as well as the country’s foreign minister, and other government officials.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As the final seconds of Alabama’s national title win ticked harmlessly off of the Hard Rock Stadium clock, my mind immediately wandered back to the season that almost wasn’t.\nEli Drinkwitz picked up in 2021 right where he left off with regards to recruiting when he added Ohio State transfer and former four-star WR Mookie Cooper to the roster.\nThe Missouri Tigers could be on the verge of landing a major commitment from 2021 4-star WR Dominic Lovett from East St. Louis. Lovett was originally committed to Arizona State … Read More\nIt had been six years, three coaches and four quarterbacks ago that Missouri last beat Kentucky in football. On Saturday, first year head coach Eli Drinkwitz employed an effective, physical … Read More\nAs Missouri (0-2) gets set to take on #17 LSU this Saturday in Columbia, it’s clear that the mission statement for 2020 is keep improving and establish an identity. A … Read More\nA crowd of about 25,000 witnessed the Tennessee Volunteers control Mizzou from the opening possession inside a sun-drenched Neyland Stadium. An impressive opening drive led to a Ty Chandler three … Read More\nEach week, Noble Apparel LLC presents “Saturday Rewind” on which I will share five thoughts from the college football Saturday that was. This week marked the beginning of the SEC … Read More\nThere were no surprises under the lights of Faurot Field Saturday night as Alabama toppled Mizzou 38-19 to open the SEC football schedule for both teams. Alabama rolled to a … Read More", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Didier Reynders organized yesterday at the Egmont Palace a conference with the theme “Belgium in the heart of the United Nations , today and tomorrow” . This event was organized in collaboration with the MUN ( Model United Nations Society Belgium ) , which consists of young people who have a passion for the United Nations and global issues . Minister Reynders took a few days ago part in the ministerial week of the 68th General Assembly of the UN in New York .\nDuring the conference, Minister Reynders today his views on Belgian politics at the United Nations. He responded to questions about international relations . Besides youth of the MUN Society Belgium , also officials of the UN agencies in Belgium took part and several belgian universities .\nThis event is the beginning of a collaboration between Minister Reynders and the MUN Society Belgium . The prestigious Harvard University trusted the MUN Society Belgium to torganize WorldMUN 2014. That 23rd session of the International Diplomatic Conference will be held in Brussels. 16 to March 21, 2014 They will bring thousands of students around the world together to talk . On international issues\nWorldMUN is a project that originated at the end of the Cold War. The objective was to discuss the evolution of international relations. Views of East and West from The principle of WorldMUN has remained the same : the challenges of the twenty-first century, discuss and come to a common goal . Each year WorldMUN in another part of the world is organized by a local Model United Nations . MUN Belgium won four times the first place at this conference .", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Creative director and co-writer on the Last of Us Part 2, Neil Druckmann, has taken to Twitter to tease that the game’s ending scene has been shot.\nNaughty Dog’s Vice President took to Twitter today to The Last of Us Part 2’s final scene been shot. “Just shot this scene... so... ?”, he wrote\nJust shot this scene... so... ? pic.twitter.com/uyjbpTdfxC\n— Neil Druckmann (@Neil_Druckmann) April 17, 2019\nWhether this means that Naughty Dog has finished up shooting all of the the game’s cinematics is unsure at this point as it isn’t uncommon for development teams to shoot scenes out of order. However, motion capture actress Laura Bailey recently wrapped up her mocap shoots for the highly anticipated sequel which could imply that Naughty Dog is indeed finishing up filming.\nRecent reports suggest that The Last of Us Part 2 will be releasing later this year, and following Druckmann’s tweet, many fans believe that the sequel is indeed coming this year.\nSony and Naughty Dog have yet to announce a release date for the game. The game was announced during Sony's 2016 PSX event.\nWill The Last of Us Part 2 release later this year? Will Naughty Dog release it on Sony’s PS5? Will the game be released on both the PS4 and PS5 as a cross-gen title? Hit the comments below.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Months after it was teased by Paramount, the first official teaser for the God of War-inspired TMNT: The Last Ronin video game has been revealed by THQ Nordic. As initially revealed, the game is a third-person adventure based on a post-apocalyptic future where New York City has been ravaged by war, and only one Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle remains alive.\nThe Last Ronin comic storyline debuted in 2020, and was swiftly showered with praise for its worldbuilding, art, and writing. It was lauded as one of the best modern TMNT tales, and dominated conversations in the comics world on release. Its quick path to adaptation is fairly well-earned – and there is hope this upcoming video game will do the plot justice.\nHere’s the official description for the game, which is currently in development at Black Forest (Destroy All Humans!), and set to be published by THQ Nordic:\n‘Who is the Last Ronin? In a future, battle-ravaged New York City, a lone surviving Turtle embarks on a seemingly hopeless mission seeking justice for the family he lost.’ The game is based on the comic story by Eastman, Waltz, Bishop, Delgado, and the Escorza Brothers.\nAn early teaser for the game has taken the metaphorical route, with a grim black-and-white scene revealing four candles, with three being snuffed out against a backdrop of a battlefield littered with arrows. A single screenshot reveals a lone Turtle facing off against an army of heavily-armoured warriors, as a building burns in the background.\nTMNT: The Last Ronin will release for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. It does not currently have a firm release window.\nElsewhere in its latest showcase event, THQ Nordic has also given a look at a number of other upcoming projects, including a new co-op multiplayer South Park game, known as Snow Day!, alongside Titan Quest 2, and new looks at the upcoming Gothic remake, Trine 5, Wreckreation, and Alone in the Dark.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, Sarah Palin said, he would probably go on Fox News to complain about the war on Christmas.\nNy Travis Gettys – The Raw Story\nThe former half-term governor of Alaska and failed vice presidential candidate appeared Thursday at Liberty University to promote her new book Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas.\nShe told the audience of students that the U.S. Constitution was written by and for moral and religious people, and that nonreligious people probably were incapable of appreciating its principles.\n“If you lose that foundation, John Adams was implicitly warning us, then we will not follow our constitution, there will be no reason to follow our constitution because it is a moral and religious people who understand that there is something greater than self, we are to live selflessly, and we are to be held accountable by our creator, so that is what our constitution is based on, so those revisionists, those in the lamestream media, especially, who would want to ignore what our founders actually thought, felt and wrote about in our charters of liberty – well, that’s why I call them the lamestream media,” Palin said.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Search the BBC\nBBC News about Sharks\nFunding for shark drug research\nA team developing anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory drugs from research based on the immune systems of sharks receives a £1.5m funding boost.\nShark ID training for fishermen\nFishermen are being trained to record shark species in more detail in order to help manage stocks more sustainably.\nShark sanctuary area in vast jump\nThe Cook Islands establishes a 1.9-million-sq-km shark sanctuary, shortly after neighbouring French Polynesia - together creating the world's largest.\nUK monitoring 'vulnerable sharks'\nDecades of over-fishing have led to a sharp drop in shark numbers in the UK, according to conservationists.\nThresher shark is caught off Looe\nA 12ft-long thresher shark is caught off Looe in Cornwall before being released and tagged, an angling club says.\nAustralia shark attacks: Would cull work?\nWhat is behind the recent cluster of fatal shark attacks in Western Australia, and would lifting a ban on shark fishing make any difference?\nShark attacks: A magnetic solution?\nWhy sharks don't like some metals and magnets and how these might be used to save them, and even some of us.\nHow do Australians respond to shark attacks?\nThree attacks in as many weeks have put sharks back on to Australia's front pages, as a nation again confronts its demons.\nVast shark sanctuary for Pacific\nThe Marshall Islands creates the world's biggest shark sanctuary, covering nearly two million sq km of ocean, with a ban on commercial shark fishing.\nShark tows kayak man out to sea\nA man fishing from a kayak is towed half a mile out to sea after he hooks a 6ft (1.8m) tope shark.\nShark fishing ban in the Bahamas\nThe Bahamas bans shark fishing and prohibits the sale, import and export of shark products, turning its territorial waters into a shark sanctuary.\nHygienic sharks go to cleaners\nThresher sharks visit cleaning stations on shallow tropical reefs to rid themselves of nasty parasites, say researchers.\nWorld shark attacks 'up in 2010'\nSharks launched 79 unprovoked attacks on humans worldwide in 2010, the highest number in a decade, US researchers report.\nSharks journey using 'inner maps'\nOcean-going sharks can find familiar sites over distances of many kilometres by apparently using \"mental maps\", research suggests.\nWhat is making the Red Sea sharks attack?\nInternational shark experts are arriving in Egypt to help investigate the attacks off the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. What questions will they be asking?\nLouth man becomes shark wrangler\nA Lincolnshire man has landed what many would consider to be one of the scariest jobs in the world.\n'Jaws' comes to a US beach\nHome video taken at Seaside Park Beach in New Jersey in the US shows a shark causing a furore by swimming ashore briefly before turning away and returning to open seas.\nUnusual premature eggs are laid\nA shark has laid unusually shaped eggs in an aquarium in Tynemouth quicker than expected.\n(To use the \"Find\" box, you need to have", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "People steal all sorts of strange things – but a newborn calf?\nOnce again, the Ravalli Republic’s Perry Backus gets a tip of the hat (a bang of the gavel?) for this one:\nCody Lee Hill was arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing a newborn calf from a Corvallis ranch on that same day.\nThe limits of chutzpah are always being tested. Take, for instance, the accusations against a Billings woman.\nThe Billings Gazette reports that Brittany Marie Lanaghan’s father-in-law became suspicious when he saw a $1,600 motel bill on his credit card that happened to coincide with his son’s wedding day.\nA detective questioned Lanaghan on [...]\nMy undisclosed location looks a little like this. See you next week!\nPaper blow darts tipped with HIV-infected saliva or blood can kill?\nWell, no. Not really. Despite what Republican Rep. Janna Taylor, of Dayton in Lake County, said in a hearing on a bill to repeal the death penalty this week.\n“There’s new ways to kill. You know, if a prisoner [...]\n“Today, we’re not talking about medical marijuana. We’re talking about marijuana. It has gotten so far out of hand. We’re talking about a totally uncontrolled epidemic by the drug trade industry. It’s starting to undermine the very fabric of our state that we so greatly cherish.”\nMontana House Speaker Mike Milburn, R-Cascade, [...]\nA lawsuit that might have seemed the very definition of hubris – a young woman who crashed her car into another car, killing a pregnant woman and her son, sued the woman’s estate – is being dropped.\nNot at all coincidentally, that same young woman, Justine Winters, was just convicted in Flathead County [...]\n“You have a young lady of 16 who gets in a fight with her boyfriend, and as a teenager reacts emotionally to the situation – she acts impulsively, without taking the consequences of her action into consideration. .. It may not have been her intention to kill anyone, but because of her actions [...]\n“Prescribing medication over the Internet … I think that’s bogus and I’m not going to allow it.”\nMissoula County District Court Judge Dusty Deschamps, telling a defendant why he’ll have to have a doctor testify in court as to the necessity of using medical marijuana.\n(Read the Missoulian story)\nImage: Billings [...]\nMolly B is one of Montana’s most famous outlaws.\nThe feisty black cow was headed for the slaughterhouse a few years back when she went on the lam, dodging traffic in Great Falls and swimming the icy Missoula River to freedom.\nThen, as Perry Backus of the Ravalli Republic reports, the story [...]", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "21 Feb, 1924: Mugabe born in Kutama, Jesuit mission station in Rhodesia.\n1934: abandoned by father following deaths of two brothers.\n1949-52: attends Fort Hare University in South Africa, gaining a BA in History and English Literature.\n1952-60: works as a secondary school teacher in Rhodesia and Ghana.\n1960: enters black nationalist politics, joining the National Democratic Party.\n1963: helps found the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu).\n1963-74: jailed by Rhodesian authorities. Son dies, aged three, and he is denied parole to attend funeral.\n1974: released from prison. Becomes leader of Zanu.\n1974-79: leads largest black guerrilla army in war against white Rhodesia.\nDec 21, 1979: signs Lancaster House agreement to bring peace and create the new nation of Zimbabwe.\nMarch 4, 1980: wins first election victory.\nDec 22, 1987: Zimbabwe becomes de facto one-party state.\n1990: Mugabe elected president with 83 per cent of vote.\n1996: re-elected with 93 per cent\nAugust 1997: onset of Zimbabwe's economic crisis after Mugabe awards an unbudgeted payout to \"veterans\" of the war against white rule, provoking a general strike led by Morgan Tsvangirai.\n9-10 Jan, 1998: riots in Harare leave 10 dead as economic crisis worsens.\n11 Sept, 1999: Tsvangirai founds the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.\n12-13 Feb, 2000: Mugabe suffers a devastating defeat in a referendum on a new constitution.\n16 Feb, 2000: First invasion of a white owned farm.\nMarch-June 2000: more than 1,700 white-owned farms occupied by Mugabe supporters.\n24-25 June, 2000: Mugabe's Zanu-PF party loses almost half its seats to the MDC in parliamentary election.\n2001: 48 political killings in year.\n9-10 March, 2002: Mugabe wins the presidential election with 56 per cent of the vote.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Longtime former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz will lead the coffee behemoth once again after the current chief executive retires next month, the company announced Wednesday.\nKevin Johnson said he will step down on April 4 after five years as president and CEO and 13 years with Starbucks. Johnson, a former executive at Juniper Networks and Microsoft, succeeded Schultz as CEO in 2017.\nSchultz, who helped turn the company into a global giant during his 30-year tenure, will assume the title of interim CEO as the company board searches for a permanent replacement. Schultz, 68, is taking on the position as a volunteer, the company said, and will receive $1 in compensation. He will also be rejoining the Starbucks board.\nIn a letter posted to the Starbucks website, Johnson indicated that he was already looking forward to his post-corporate life.\n“A year ago, I signaled to the Board that as the global pandemic neared an end, I would be considering retirement from Starbucks,” Johnson wrote. “I feel this is a natural bookend to my 13 years with the company.”\nHe added, “As I make this transition, we are very fortunate to have a founder who is able to step in on an interim basis, giving the Board time to further explore potential candidates and make the right long-term succession decision for the company.”\nJohnson will continue to serve as a Starbucks partner and special consultant to the company and board of directors through September, the company said.\nThis is the third time Schultz will lead the Seattle-based corp. as CEO, Al Jazeera reports. He stepped down from the role in 2000 and became Starbucks’ chairman, but reclaimed the title during the 2008 recession. Schultz stepped down again in 2017 to become the company’s chairman in 2018.\nSchultz said he had not planned to return to Starbucks, but he understands that the company must “transform once again.”\n“Our success is not an entitlement,” he said in his statement. “We must continue to earn the trust of our people and our customers every day by how we deliver the Starbucks Experience, how we treat each other and how we act as a responsible community member and corporate citizen. With the backdrop of COVID recovery and global unrest, its critical we set the table for a courageous reimagining and reinvention of the future Starbucks experience for our partners and customers.”\nStay on top of the latest in L.A. news, food, and culture. Sign up for our newsletters today.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "LAST UPDATED : Sep 09, 2019, 03:50 PM IST\n- Maharashtra drought: Sugar output may drop 40% this year\nThe fierce drought in in the state has crushed sugar output, with production set to plunge by a steep 40% this year.Sugar output is expected to fall from an all-time high of 107.2 lakh tonnes in 2018-19 to just 64.4 lakh tonnes in 2019-20, said officials.\n- Priyanka Chopra feels 'everything about Nick Jonas is special' after he opens up about his battle with Type 1 Diabetes\nPriyanka Chopra's fiance Nick Jonas revealed that he has been suffering from Type 1 Diabetes since the age of 13.Jonas shared a then and now picture of him, which showed Nick a few weeks before his diagnosis, and the new one had a happy and healthy present-day Nick. Within hours of him uploading the post, Priyanka wrote, 'Everything about you is special with or without diabetes'.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Trio of storms to parade through West Coast, shut down wildfire season\nA bomb cyclone that looks almost like a hurricane in satellite imagery will be the catalyst for a series of storms poised to bring an end to wildfire season -- and also pose a slew of hazards across the region.\nWorried and elated? Bomb cyclone prompts strong reactions\nSome have been praying for rain as drought has worsened and another fire season has taken its toll. On social media, the reaction to the big weather forecast was something of a catharsis.\nStorm Aurore blasts western Europe with flooding rain, damaging winds\nThe powerful windstorm slammed northern France with winds equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane. In the U.K, the Thames Barrier was closed for the 200th time to prevent serious flooding around the capital.\n16 outdoor Halloween decorations that'll impress your neighbors\nWhether you're going for downright spooky or just plain silly, here are some great options -- including some decorations that are in between.\nHistorians pinpoint the very 'worst year' ever to be alive\nNext time you think we have it hard today, remember what life was like during this truly terrible year. Even after it ended, a decade of pain and suffering followed.\nDiver uncovers 'beautiful, rare find' off Israel coast\nA diver exploring the floor of the Mediterranean Sea last weekend discovered an object that allows one’s imagination to travel back to a time of knights, armor and swords.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The mystery surrounding the end to fictional British boy wizard Harry Potter’s saga deepened on Wednesday with a computer hacker posting what he said were key plot details and a publisher warned the details could be fake.\nThe hacker, who goes by the name “Gabriel,” claims to have taken a digital copy of author J.K. Rowling’s seventh and final book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” by breaking into a computer at London-based Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.\nFor months now, leading up to the book’s July 21 release, legions of “Harry Potter” fans have debated whether Rowling killed Harry or one of his best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, in the final book.\nGabriel has posted information at Web site InSecure.org that, if true, would answer that question.\n“We make this spoiler to make reading of the upcoming book useless and boring,” Gabriel said in the posting.\n“Harry Potter” publishers have taken great pains to keep the conclusion a secret and preserve the multibillion-dollar entertainment enterprise surrounding the boy wizard.\nA Bloomsbury spokesman declined comment on the hacker’s claims.\nKyle Good, a spokesman for U.S. distributor Scholastic Corp., would not say whether the posting was accurate, but did warn readers to be skeptical about anything on the Web that claims to have inside information on the book’s plot.\n“There is a whole lot of junk flying around,” she said. ”Consider this one more theory.”\nDavid Perry, a spokesman for computer security company Trend Micro, said there was a good chance Gabriel’s claim could be a hoax.\n“We’ve had hypes like this on the last couple of Harry Potter books,” he said. “There is a very high level of spurious information in the hacker world.”\nBut if true, it could be a problem for Bloomsbury. The “Harry Potter” books have been global best-sellers with fans buying some 320 million versions worldwide, and anticipation for “Deathly Hallows” is high.\nIn April, U.S. retailer Barnes & Noble said advance orders for the book had already topped 500,000 copies, setting a chain record. Scholastic plans to release a record 12 million copies of “Deathly Hallows” to meet demand.\nA stolen copy of the sixth Harry Potter novel, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” surfaced in Britain about a month before its official release in July 2005. Two people were charged after reportedly trying to sell a copy to the London tabloid the Sun.\nFour “Potter” movies made by Warner Bros. film studio, a division of Time Warner Inc., have brought in $3.5 billion in global ticket sales, and a fifth film is due in theaters in early July.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Vatican City, Sep 21, 2004 (CNA) - In an address to a meeting at the United Nations yesterday in New York, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican Secretary of State, expressed the Vatican's support for an initiative proposed by the president of Brazil to fight hunger and poverty around the world.\nAfter expressing \"the personal adherence of Pope John Paul II to this important initiative,\" the cardinal noted the \"vast humanitarian action of the many Catholic institutions in the world, especially in missions and in the poorest countries,\" saying that \"the Holy See has always supported the many personal and collective initiatives that have been proposed to solve the drama\" of hunger in the world.\nThe Cardinal mentioned the support of the Holy See for previous initiatives by U.N. bodies to alleviate poverty and hunger such as the 1996 Report of the World Food Summit and the 2000 U.N. Millennium Declaration, and, referring to a speech he made in 1996, outlined the principles that inspire Holy See action: human dignity, solidarity, the universal destination of the goods of the earth and the promotion of peace.\nNotwithstanding a world alliance against hunger and poverty, he stated, \"it was discovered bit by bit that there were not sufficient funds to finance a program of world food security.\"\nAcknowledging that although there have been emergencies in recent years that have drawn funds away from these initiatives, Cardinal Sodano said that \"the problem [of hunger] is far greater.\"\n\"The fight against hunger,\" he continued, \"and I would also say against thirst, goes beyond mere emergencies; this fight must face a series of complex factors such as, for example, the need to invest in the human capital of the local populations (in the fields of health and education) and to ask for the transfer of appropriate technologies and the guarantee of equality in international trade.\"\nCardinal Sodano also reminded \"donor countries of their commitment to underwrite public aid for development equal to 0.7 percent of the GNP of each State.\"\nTucson, Ariz., Sep 21, 2004 (CNA) - The Diocese of Tucson filed for bankruptcy yesterday, becoming the second U.S. diocese to seek court protection in recent history. The Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon was the first, July 6.\nThe filing is a result of the high number of sexual-abuse claims. Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas told parishioners in a letter that filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy offered \"the best opportunity for healing and for the just and fair compensation of those who suffered sexual abuse by workers for the Church in our diocese.\"\nThe Tucson Diocese settled 11 abuse lawsuits filed by 16 plaintiffs for an undisclosed sum two years ago. Since then, 22 more molestation claims with 34 plaintiffs have been brought against the diocese, reported The Associated Press.\nA plaintiffs' attorney said the diocese was going into bankruptcy partly as a public relations move aimed at making victims appear overly aggressive.\nBut Bishop Kicanas said his diocese would continue working toward settlements in the cases against it, despite the filing.\nAccording to its financial statement, the diocese had $4.65 million in long-term debt and a $7-million deficit in unrestricted net assets as of June 30, reported AP.\nThe reorganization plan under the filing calls for most creditors to be paid through the diocese's regular operation. Plaintiffs in sex-abuse cases, however, would be paid from a special pool, which would include $3.2 million from the diocese and money from insurance companies, reported the AP.\nQuebec City, Canada, Sep 21, 2004 (CNA) - Late-term abortions should not be made available in Quebec, said the Assembly of Quebec Bishops in a statement Sept. 16. The bishops issued the statement after Quebec’s Ministry of Health announced Sept. 10 that it hopes a newly trained doctor will set up a practice in the province and provide late-term abortions next year.\nThe procedure, which entails aborting a child after 22 weeks gestation, is one, which Canadian doctors have avoided for ethical reasons. Up until now, Canadian women have been traveling to Kansas, Colorado or Washington to obtain late-term abortions, and the various provincial governments have been paying for it at a cost of $5,000 US per woman. Last year, 30 Quebec women obtained late-term abortions in the U.S.\nIn its statement, the Assembly of Quebec Bishops (AEQ) noted the absence of an abortion law in Canada. “This judicial void is not synonymous with an ethical void, for all our actions have ethical significance. Abortion illustrates this well,” reads the AEQ statement.\nThe bishops underlined that most countries recognize the need to protect embryos and have enacted legislation that bans the creation of human embryos for research purposes. They also pointed out the apparent contradiction in Canadian law, which recognizes the need to protect the human embryo regarding reproductive technologies and yet allows for abortion.\nThe Quebec bishops said there is a need to develop a mentality that favors adoption rather than abortion in the province. They issued an invitation to all Christian communities to develop alternatives to abortion, such as counseling and adoption services, and help-centres for pregnant women. They also urged educators to teach values and the importance of the meaning of life.\nAbout 106,000 abortions are performed each year in Canada, 31,000 of them in Quebec.\nWinnipeg, Canada, Sep 21, 2004 (CNA) - The fifth Canadian jurisdiction legalized same-sex marriage last week. Manitoba follows Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and the Yukon Territory in redefining marriage as the union of two persons rather than as the union of a man and a woman.\nThe lack of legal opposition helped push the case, which was filed by three lesbian couples, through the court in a little more than three weeks, reported the Winnipeg Free Press. The Manitoba case was also the first time the federal government did not present legal opposition.\nCourt of Queen’s Bench Justice Douglas Yard said he reviewed the case in light of the precedents set by the four cases in the other provinces and territories. He said the cumulative effect of the four decisions meant restricting marriage to a man and a woman in Canada is unconstitutional, reported the Free Press.\nThe Atlantic province of Nova Scotia is set to make a decision on the issue within the next three weeks.\nThe federal government asked the Supreme Court of Canada to review draft legislation that would alter the definition of marriage to include same sex couples. The review is scheduled to take place next month.\nThe Archdiocese of Winnipeg said the court’s decision was regrettable and that marriage should be recognized only as the union of one man and one woman with the aim of procreation and the raising of children.\nRome, Italy, Sep 21, 2004 (CNA) - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said this week the possible entry of Turkey into the European Union would be “anti-historical” and that it would be better for the country to remain as a bridge between Europe and the Arab world or to form a “cultural continent” together with that world.\nAccording to the ANSA agency, Cardinal Ratzinger said that culturally and historically Turkey has little in common with Europe, and therefore, “with all due respect,” it would be a “grave error” to grant the country EU membership.\nThe Cardinal made his statements during a gathering with religious educators in Velletri, south of Rome.\nAsunción, Paraguay, Sep 21, 2004 (CNA) - Archbishop Pastor Cuquejo of Asuncion, Paraguay, encouraged young people this week to defend life, saying those who argue that “overpopulation” is the cause of poverty are simply wrong.\n“Life is a value which we should promote and you are the ones who should defend this immense gift of God,” the Archbishop said, reminding young people that they are between two worlds: the old world, dominated by corruption and lies, and the new world, which seeks to bring fulfillment and fullness to the human person.\nArchbishop Cuquejo stated that “everyday you are challenged to choose between one world or the other.”\nLikewise, he explained, “Today we are almost drowned in the depths of misery because of corruption. Those who rob are the ones who create poverty and ensure that there are poor people,” despite the fact that the “higher-ups” in the world want to convince people that the problem is not corruption but overpopulation.\n“Life itself suffers the consequences of this dishonesty. The evil people who mismanage their own lives tell us today: ‘we must kill in order for there to be less people; we must kill the unborn so that we have enough food to eat’. This is a fallacy, a corruption of the mind and the heart,” the Archbishop said, adding that the morning after pill is abortifacient and causes harm to women.\nArchbishop Cuquejo criticized the campaign that is promoting the use of the pill. “We know it is abortifacient, that it causes harm; nevertheless, we hear these discourses that are full of fallacies, and science has proven the opposite. Yes, pseudoscience tries to deceive us by saying it is not abortifacient” he stated.\nTherefore, he went on, “when they lie to us and their speeches do not reflect the truth, they are dishonest. Honesty is based on justice, and those who do not impart justice as they should are dishonest people.”\nOver 5,000 young people participated this past weekend in the Jubilee of Young People, which took place at the Archdiocesan seminary and culminated in a pilgrimage to the Cathedral where the Archbishop of Asuncion presided at Mass.\nMexico City, Mexico, Sep 21, 2004 (CNA) - In an editorial this week in the Archdiocesan newspaper, the Archdiocese of Mexico issued a new call to Mexicans to increase their efforts to bring about national reconciliation.\nAccording to the editorial, more than a truce, the country needs to enter into the dynamism of reconciliation in order to ward off threats of social unrest. It also argued there is still time to overcome discord, and it exhorted Mexicans to show they have the will and the capacity to handle democracy.\n“It’s not enough to say ‘Long live Mexico,’ we must demonstrate our patriotism through responsibility, with personal and collective work that brings about better development,” said the article.\nLikewise, the editorial issued a call to “overcome the authoritarianism and populism which have done us so much wrong, and to seek consensus and to respect agreements, but above all to bring dignity back to political life. ”\nThe editorial also underscored that disappointment and discouragement “regarding our young democracy should teach us that we cannot put all of our hope in any one system.”\nIt added that elections teach us that the responsibility of Mexicans does not end at the ballot box, that the great structural problems are not magically solved, but above all that the country is not only built by the politicians, but by the citizens as well.\n, Sep 21, 2004 (CNA) - Bishop Tulio Duque Gutierrez of Pereira, Colombia, has lent his support to President Alvaro Uribe’s ultimatum against militias in the province of Meta, after a giant cocaine laboratory associated with the United Self-Defenses of Colombia was found.\nBishop Duque said the militias “are not helping the country” and that therefore the President “is right in getting upset and demanding acts of good will.”\nThe bishop lamented that “the coffee-producing region is experiencing these problems” and he encouraged authorities “to continue combating the drug trafficking associated with illegally armed groups” that “are enclosing themselves in various municipalities of my ecclesiastical jurisdiction.”\nDenver, Colo., Sep 21, 2004 (CNA) - Catholic political leaders have left a flawed legacy, which instructs politicians that it is okay to be personally opposed to abortion and not “impose” that view on the nation, says Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver.\nIt is a legacy that says a Catholic can be in the public service as long as he or she is willing to abandon what is “inconveniently Catholic,” adds the archbishop.\nWhat these politicians pitch as a compromise between personal and public interest is actually “a deal with the devil, and it has a balloon payment no nation, no public servant and no voter can afford,” says the archbishop in his column, published today, in the Denver Catholic Register.\nIn his column, Archbishop Chaput reflects on the legacy of Catholic politicians who severed their public identity from their faith and rationalized that it was okay to maintain personal beliefs and not “impose” them on the nation through federal legislation. He focuses in particular on President John F. Kennedy and New York Governor Mario Cuomo.\nHe refers to John F. Kennedy’s speech in 1960 to the Houston Ministerial Association, in which he said he would not let the Pope or the Church dictate his actions and decisions if he were elected president.\n“In pledging to put the ‘national interest’ above ‘religious pressures or dictates,’ Kennedy created a template for a generation of Catholic candidates: Be American first; be Catholic second,” the archbishop said.\n“The Kennedy compromise seemed to work pretty well as long as the ‘religious pressures’ faced by Catholic elected officials involved issues like divorce, federal aid to Catholic schools or diplomatic relations with the Holy See,” said the archbishop, but it doesn’t work with the “jugular” issue of abortion.\nAfter the Roe vs. Wade decision in 1973, Catholic elected officials had to face a choice, said the archbishop: Either work to change permissive abortion laws or “abandon the unborn and look for a way to morally sanitize their decision.”\nIn a speech in 1984, New York Governor Mario Cuomo rationalized the perspective that a Catholic politician could privately oppose abortion but had no right to \"impose\" that belief on others, says the archbishop.\nThe archbishop calls Cuomo's speech “a tour de force of articulate misdirection”, which “refuses to acknowledge the teaching and formative power of the law” and “implicitly equates unequal types of issues.”\nCuomo also argued that \"approval or rejection of legal restrictions on abortion should not be the exclusive litmus test of Catholic loyalty.\"\n“With those words,” said the archibishop, “he wrote the alibi for every ‘pro-choice’ Catholic who has held public office since.”\nVatican City, Sep 21, 2004 (CNA) - On receiving the Letters of Credence of the new ambassador of Portugal to the Holy See, Joao Alberto Bacelar da Rocha Paris, this morning, Pope John Paul II took the opportunity to express his appreciation to the Potuguese government for \"highlighting the Christian identity of Europe\" in the new European constitution.\nThe Pope also expressed the desire that \"the convictions that come from this [Christian] identity be affirmed in every national and international sphere.\"\n\"In this sense,\" he continued: \"the signing of the new Concordat between the Holy See and Portugal is the great expression of a mature consensus to reinforce the presence of this Christian 'soul' founded on the 'deep historical relations between the Catholic Church and Portugal, according to mutual responsibilities that bind the parties, in the sphere of religious freedom in order to continue with its service to the common good and to collaborate in building up a society that promotes the dignity of the human person, justice and peace.\"\nThe Holy Father expressed his hope that Portugal will be a country that is \"always open to the new challenges of our society and one that knows that the Almighty will not leave those who trust in His ways with empty hands.\"\nReferring to challenges in modern society, the Holy Father emphasized that the \"intensification of regional, cultural and economic differences, the desire to safeguard peace,\" natural disasters as well as \"the disparity between rich and poor with the consequent lack of respect for human rights, are, among other things, a reason for great concern for every leader.\"\nThe Pope indicated that these challenges can be better presented to the public \"if they are part of a project of development in which the vital forces in local society make up a substantial, unified effort. Associating citizens with projects in society and giving them confidence in government leaders and in their nation is the foundation for peaceful coexistence in societies.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Aaron Ramsey’s rapid transition from Championship youngster to Premier League starlet was made at the perfect time, according to Arsène Wenger. Arsenal’s summer signing has made 15 appearances this season, including eight starts, and helped himself to his first Arsenal goal in the Gunners’ 5-2 victory against Fenerbahce in October. Wenger believes that he was right to pluck the Welshman from Cardiff at such a young age, describing his development as “ahead of planâ€. “I believe that it’s better to make the step at that age than five or six years later,†the manager told the Official Arsenal Magazine. “He has not only made the step up from the Championship to the Premier League, but also to a Premier League team that wants to be at the top and who fights in the Champions League, and that means it’s a massive difference at such a young age. “I believe he did extremely well because he has drive and he can push the team forward. He is always available, he wants the ball and he is very dynamic in his play. “Overall I’m very pleased with his progress because I must say that he is ahead of where I planned for him to be in January. You have to remember though that he is still only just 18 years of age and you need to be a little bit patient with him. “He has shown that every time we’ve picked him, he has responded in a very positive way.†This is an extract from the full-length Arsène Wenger interview which features in the February issue of the Official Arsenal Magazine, now available. To subscribe, 12 issues for £33 (UK), call the hotline on 0845 88 00 445.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "According to insiders, Mel B is “seriously ill” and is being treated in a private hospital.\n“She is in hospital and is seriously ill,” a friend told the Mirror. “We are awaiting the result of tests and then we will know exactly what is wrong.\n“If I had to predict it, having seen her, I don’t think she will be able to do the show.”\nIt’s believed producers are now looking for a replacement to stand in for the former Spice Girl on the show tomorrow night.\nYesterday Mel wasn’t able to attend the show’s press conference but no one at the event seemed to know what was wrong with her.\nWe will keep you updated on as this develops.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By all accounts, snow removal efforts in the city of Harrisburg during the recent twin dumps has been hailed as a job well done. That's good news for Mayor Linda Thompson, since popular wisdom has it that snow removal and garbage pickup are some of the basic services by which a city leader is judged.\nUnfortunately, that is just popular wisdom. No snow dump can cover the scope and depth of the real problems facing Harrisburg. And no amount of good feedback on snow removal can be misconstrued as management ability to oversee the resolution of the city's massive debt load.\nOn Tuesday, Moody's dropped the city's bond rating. It was dropped from\na watch list for a possible downgrade and a negative outlook has been\n\"The final city payment on its outstanding 1995 (bond) is due on April 1, 2010,'' Moody's said.\n\"The downgrade to B2 reflects the city's weak plan to address the significant guaranteed debt service obligations to the (Harrisburg Authority) in 2010, which may result in the city's non-payment ...''\nThe city's bond rating was already junk, but the symbolism of this move is no less startling.\nLast week, a workout group from Assured Guaranty met with Mayor Thompson and officials from Dauphin County, which is the third guarantor of some of the incinerator debt. Sources say that Thompson began the meeting by berating the bond insurance representatives for meeting first with Dauphin County officials the previous week.\nInstead of a session to begin hammering out potential rescheduling of debt payment, the bond insurers are said to be back in New York, contemplating its options. The bond insurers are on the hook for the debt, too.\nThis is a big story, at least in financial circles. The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News are updating Harrisburg's march toward a fiscal emergency. They're calling this one of the the biggest municipal failures in Pennsylvania history, which is pretty odd coming from a state where Gov. Ed Rendell recently praised former Mayor Stephen R. Reed as the greatest mayor in the state.\nHyperbole can be a dangerous thing. So can handing the keys of a big business like Harrisburg to a person or bodies not qualified or too politically conflicted.\nThat's why news that Thompson will try and push a budget vote tonight that sticks $68 million in debt on the backs of city taxpayers should be met with raised eyebrows, if not alarm.\nThis fiscal crisis is three decades in the making. It is such that the newly reconstituted City Council is in no position to manage, not when this very dire debt crisis was created when, in 2003 and 2007, City Council and Harrisburg Authority board members signed off on incinerator bond deals cobbled together in desperation by lawyers, bond counselors and former Mayor Stephen R. Reed.\n\"No, we are not in a position to handle the city's financial problems,'' City Council member Wanda Williams said. \"We are only getting our information from one firm.''\nIndeed, the city's future rests in the hands of Thompson and the Ohio-based consulting firm whose emergency financial plan does not offer a workable time line for the city's escape from insolvency nor does it offer appraisals of the city's assets it says should be sold to cover debt.\nCity residents who aren't sure whether the current mayor or council members are worth betting the city's future on should ask again: Where was the performance bond for the 2003 incinerator deal?\nWhy did the Harrisburg Authority chairman and board agree to extend this city-sinking debt crisis until 2010, when the incinerator debt was a political football in 2007?\nThese two boondoggle bond deals are at the core of the city's problems. And the Harrisburg Authority's mysterious use of water, sewer and bond funds are, too.\nHarrisburg Authority chair James Ellison and the mayor he helped get elected won the political battle by using the incinerator and Harrisburg Authority to their advantage. Now they want city taxpayers and residents to sell off city assets to clear the debt-laden ground onto which they'll rebuild Harrisburg in their image.\nThe danger is, however, that without a full vetting of the Harrisburg Authority, to whom this $288 million in debt belongs, any resolution to the city's financial crisis is incomplete.\nIf Thompson was serious about demonstrating that the way forward must be done without regard to politics and what the ways of the past, she would request the resignation of Ellison as chairman of the Harrisburg Authority.\nLikewise, for the city to be able to demonstrate to residents and outside interests that it is undertaking the smartest and the most politics-free path back from the fiscal brink, it must consider the appointment of a special, outside counsel.\nThis special counsel could negotiate on behalf of the city and its creditors.\nThe other question is at what point does the trustee for the 2003 bond deal, which is now operating as Metro Bank, come to the table and take control of the Harrisburg Authority?\nThere are constructive steps to be taken before City Council signs off on a debt-laden budget that seeks to sell its assets in a fire sale.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Coronavirus Shutdown: Georgina launches $250K emergency fund for businesses\nGrants ranging from $2,500 to $7,500 administered through South Lake Community Futures\nApril 30, 2020\nLocal businesses will soon be able to apply for the new Emergency Response Benefit established by the town.\nThe $250,000 Emergency Response Benefit is to support local businesses that have seen a 30 per cent reduction in revenue.\nThe grant, ranging from $2,500 to a maximum of $7,500, will be administered through South Lake Community Futures, an arm's-length organization.\n“As a result of the Ontario government’s mandatory closure of all non-essential businesses, many throughout our community are experiencing financial strain and hardship,” said Mayor Margaret Quirk.\nAccording to the 2019 Employment Survey conducted by York Region, Georgina is home to more than 800 businesses. Of those local business, more than 85 per cent employ fewer than 10 people -- the importance of the small business community to Georgina’s economy can’t be underestimated.\n“Town staff have been working to get targeted programs to support [the] local economy now and into the recovery period,” Quirk said.\nThe Georgina grant, along with other federal and provincial business funding programs, provide short-term financial assistance to the business community, with the hope of additional programs to support longer term recovery efforts.\nFunding for the business grant program came from the town’s tax rate stabilization reserve and is modelled after similar financial assistance programs launched in the County of Wellington and Bradford West Gwillimbury.\nEligibility criteria for the Georgina Emergency Response Benefit include:\nIneligible businesses include:\nThe town is also considering modifications to several existing grant programs including the Development Application Rebate and Community Improvement Plan programs.\nApplications are still being finalized and will be available online at southlakefutures.ca", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lakewood Ranch no. 1 in the nation for housing starts in second quarter\nLakewood Ranch, located on Florida’s west coast, led the nation in housing starts for the second quarter of 2019, according to Metrostudy, a leading research and consulting firm specializing in U.S. residential markets. The Ranch’s 1,561 new home starts exceeded those of other top-selling communities in Florida, Texas, Nevada and California.\n\"With a broad offering of new homes for every stage of your life coupled with a long standing reputation for amenities and lifestyle, Lakewood Ranch became the ‘Most Active Community’ in the United States for new housing starts as of 2Q 2019, surpassing The Villages for top spot,\" said Tony Polito, director of the Tampa/Central Florida region of Metrostudy.\nEarlier in the month, Lakewood Ranch was named the second fastest-selling community in the nation (first multi-generational community), according to Maryland-based real estate consulting firm RCLCO’s 2019 Mid-Year Ranking.\n“Lakewood Ranch’s sales – and subsequent starts success – is a result of its exceptional location, multi-generational approach, and diversity of neighborhoods, as well as an ever-growing list of daily conveniences and social engagement opportunities,” said Laura Cole, senior vice president, LWR Communities, LLC.\nLakewood Ranch is being developed by Schroeder-Manatee Ranch (SMR). Since the early 1900s, the Uihlein family, one of the original owners of the Schlitz Brewery, has owned the 31,000-acre property, with previous ranch activities including cattle ranching and citrus, tree and turf farming, and aggregate mining.\nSMR transitioned into community development in February of 1994, and, today Lakewood Ranch is home to more than 15,000 households (including rentals) with an estimated population in excess of 36,000 residents. Last year, 1,482 new homes were sold in Lakewood Ranch, ranking it the country’s best-selling multi-generational community by John Burns Consulting and RCLCO.\nLakewood Ranch is Sarasota/Bradenton’s economic development hub with approximately 5.6 million square feet of non-residential, mixed-use space constructed since 1997. This includes two major office parks, Lakewood Ranch Hospital, three hotels, five grocery-anchored shopping centers, Main Street and The Green lifestyle centers (with Waterside Place opening soon), and numerous smaller neighborhood shopping centers. More than 1,500 large and small businesses call Lakewood Ranch home and over 16,000 people work in the community.\nLakewood Ranch’s recreational opportunities include miles of trails, six community parks, and the Lakewood Ranch Golf & Country Club featuring 54 holes of golf, two clubhouses, tennis center, fitness center and related amenities. In addition, there are 18-hole golf courses at both The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club and the Legacy Golf Club.\nHome prices in The Ranch range from $200K to more than $1 million, providing a multitude of options for buyers, including condominiums, paired villas, and single-family homes.\nSales in Lakewood Ranch continue to come from throughout Florida, as well as from high tax markets in the Northeast, specifically New York and New Jersey. There has been growing activity from the Mid-Atlantic, including Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland, as well as from California.\nMetrostudy is the leading provider of primary and secondary market information to the housing and related industries nationwide. In addition to providing information, the company is recognized for its consulting expertise on development, marketing and economic issues, and is a key source of research studies evaluating the feasibility of residential and commercial real estate projects. Services are offered through an extensive network of offices strategically located in major metropolitan areas throughout the country.\n# # #\nLakewood Ranch is the 31,000-acre award-winning master-planned community in Sarasota and Manatee counties on the West Coast of Florida. Just minutes from the Gulf Coast beaches and cultural assets in Sarasota, Lakewood Ranch is already home to more than 36,000 residents and features A-rated schools, the Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, the Sarasota Polo Club, the 75-acre Premier Sports Campus, its own Main Street with theaters, shopping and dining, and more than four million square feet of commercial property, including CORE, a life science business campus that focuses on research, health, and education. For more information visit www.lakewoodranch.com.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "[Expert commentary] There appears to be a concerted, well-funded campaign out there spreading the myth that Congressional GSE reform is bad for small lenders. As a small-to-midsize lender myself, I promise you that this idea is false. In fact, the single biggest risk to small lenders is that Congress doesn’t act and the GSEs are allowed to recapitalize and are released from conservatorship without first being reformed.\nIn the wake of the financial crisis, nonbank lenders and servicers have witnessed a significant emergence in the mortgage business. In fact, independent mortgage banks are heavily dominating the single-family market. Yet misperceptions persist about the capacity of these IMBs and other nonbanks.\n[Subscribers only] Multigenerational living, where two or more adult generations live under the same roof, is becoming a growing trend in the U.S. Currently about 19% of Americans now live in a multigenerational household, the highest level since 1950. That amounts to about 60.6 million adults in 2014, up from 57 million adults in 2012. And homebuilders have taken notice, designing houses specifically catered to this segment.\nWould-be homeowners are inundated with picture-perfect examples of new and remodeled homes brimming with upgrades. But in the real world, homebuilders and investors must calculate the rate of return on these sometimes fleeting trends, weighing what buyers want with what they can actually afford. This feature looks at which features buyers of different age demographics consider the most important, and what that means for sellers.\nWe’ve found that the handling and posting of payments during bankruptcy has been a widespread issue in our testing environment. Specifically, there is increased risk exposure in pre-and post-petition payment application and treatment, both inside and outside of the bankruptcy plan. Servicers and sub-servicers have created manual workflow workarounds to address the issue, however, it does open the servicer up to more exposure to calculation errors.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Delhi High Court handed down the judgment in the National Herald case, dismissing the petition of Congress to not appear in front of the Patiala Court. News from the High Court is that the Congress is rushing to the Supreme Court to file an appeal. Otherwise Rahul and Sonia would have to appear in person in the Patiala District Court.\nIt has been observed in the past that the Supreme Court rarely overturns the ruling of 2 lower courts unless there is compelling evidence to the contrary.\nWith this the stature of Dr. Subramanian Swamy will rise significantly as a crusader of just causes. The complete judgment is given below:\nDelhi High Court Judgment on NH.pdf\nLatest posts by Sree Iyer (see all)\n- Why did Rajat Sharma of India TV not declare that Adani owns more than 16% shares in his channel? - January 29, 2023\n- Prannoy Roy to get Rs.605 crore from Adani as per Stock Exchange filing. Why is Income Tax not acting on Roys’ dues of over Rs.800 crore? - January 4, 2023\n- Is MCX misleading the public about its New platform? Part 2 - December 4, 2022", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SPARKS will be flying on Saturday, November 7, when Wilmslow Round Table stages its annual bonfire and firework display.\nAlways a sellout the bonfire party at Carnival Field promises to be the biggest and best with extra entertainment for families this year.\nFairground rides for the children and tents selling hot and cold food and drink, including mulled wine complete the programme which starts at 5.30 for juniors followed by the main display at 7.30pm. The big bonfire will be lit at 6.30pm.\nThere is a free park and ride scheme running from Broadway Meadow Car Park (next to The Leisure Centre).\nA major event on the fundraising calendar for Wilmslow Round Table, last year more than £8,000 was raised for local charities, including Christie’s Hospital and Francis House appeals.\nGates open at 5.30pm, and the cost of tickets has been held at 2007 prices.\nTickets booked in advance can be bought at a discount at local schools or at shops including Chocolate Whirl, Wilmslow, Jackson’s Supper Bar, Wilmslow, Mark Rogers Shoe Repairs, Wilmslow, and Rick Green Cycles, Handforth.\nFor more information contact Paul Barney, Mobile: 07767 311427, email: firstname.lastname@example.org .", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "After a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Charlotte magazine’s Greg Lacour asked healthcare professionals what they’ve learned. Tryon CEO Dr. Dale Owen shared his thoughts, looking back at the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, how Tryon quickly pivoted to put a plan in place and what’s in the future (hint: it’s not over yet).\nBelow are highlights from Dr. Owen’s answers. Read the entire Charlotte magazine article published March 11, 2021.\nWhat are the most important lessons you and your team have learned in the past year?\nOwen: “A historical perspective of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was critical. I have had a keen interest in infectious disease since residency and have read dissertations on the pandemic. We still have trouble listening now to what they said then: ‘Wear your masks and don’t open your schools.’ What happened here with COVID-19 was very predictable based on our country’s response to the 1918 Spanish flu. We made the same mistakes and didn’t learn from history.”\nHow differently would you approach an outbreak of lethal disease based on what you’ve learned since March 2020?\nOwen: “The worst thing we can do is assume it’s over when this particular pandemic is under better control. The mechanisms we have put in place to fight coronavirus cannot become extinct; otherwise, we will continue to make the same mistakes again. That level of preparedness has to always be there. We should never have to build from scratch again.”\nWhere do you think you and your team’s response was strongest? Where do you think it’s most in need of adjustment? Why?\nOwen: “Our team was nimble and pivoted quickly before the pandemic. Well before the national emergency was declared, Tryon Medical Partners’ Coronavirus Task Force had a plan in place for everything from ramping up virtual visits to setting up satellite COVID testing clinics. This strategy was accomplished and put into place in five days. We didn’t have to form 16 committees to discuss and decide. We just did it. Establishing our practice in 2018 taught us how to move from strategy to operation very quickly. Tryon Medical Partners’ whole response to COVID-19 has been strong, and this practice will remain ready because history has taught us that a similar crisis is going to happen again.”\nWhat advice would you have now for local, state, and federal public health agencies that would help in a response to another epidemic?\nOwen: “I was asked to consult with the Biden Administration transition team on this issue. Here’s what I said:\n1. We have to have a coordinated national plan, and I personally believe it should not be left up to interpretation by 50 different states and their counties.\n2. We need to be able to source all testing material components from inside the United States, which guarantees supply chain. This is how, throughout the pandemic, Tryon Medical Partners was able to maintain a one- to two-day turnaround on COVID-19 testing results.\n3. Federal and state systems need to stop relying on outdated means to deliver health care. Relying solely on hospitals and health departments to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine is taking too long. Smaller, more nimble organizations like ours don’t rely on the status quo. We need to get these vaccines out sooner to prevent mutations that will render these vaccines ineffective. The phased rollout has been too slow to accomplish this goal.”\nAnything else you’d like to add?\nOwen: “We’ve been here before. Don’t forget.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dean Foods Co. said it appointed Eric Beringause president and CEO and a member of the board of directors, effective July 29, 2019. Beringause succeeds Ralph Scozzafava, who stepped down as CEO and resigned from his position on the board.\nBeringause brings to Dallas-based Dean Foods more than 30 years of transformational leadership and operational experience at a broad range of blue-chip brands in the food, beverage and consumer products industries, including expertise in food processing and branded and contract manufacturing. Most recently, he served as CEO of Gehl Foods LLC, a producer of dairy-based beverages and food products, Dean Foods said. Prior to that, he served as CEO of Advanced Refreshment LLC, one of the largest U.S. producers of private label bottled water and water-based beverages, and as CEO of Sturm Foods Inc., a producer of private label food products, specialty food brands and contract manufactured products.\nEarlier in his career, Beringause held various business development, finance and sales and marketing roles at Alcoa Consumer Products, Gerber Infant & Baby Products, ConAgra, Inc./Grist Mill, Nestle Inc., Nabisco Brands and The Pillsbury Co., Dean Foods said.\n“We believe Eric is the right leader to drive the transformation of the business as the company continues to execute on its enterprise-wide cost productivity plan and its previously announced exploration of strategic alternatives,” said Jim Turner, non-executive chairman of the Dean Foods board. “He has a long track record of creating value in dairy and consumer products companies, as well as a unique combination of turnaround and operational expertise.”\nBeringause said he is honored to join the company.\n“Dean Foods is the nation’s largest dairy processor and a leader in the industry, and I am excited to work with the board and management team to leverage our scale and substantial assets to realize the significant opportunities available to transform our company,” he said. “My top priority will be to ensure we have the right footprint and strategies in place to drive sustainable growth and profitability for the benefit of our shareholders, employees, customers and other stakeholders.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "(LAWRENCE CO.) – Local residents have formed the Lawrence County Independent Schools following the North Lawrence Community Schools Corporation vote to consolidate.\nAccording to Albert Cross, a group of local residents toured several charter schools around the state to see how their schools got started and operated. Those included schools in Dugger, Graysville, and Pike County. Organizers also talked with a charter school in Rush County.\n“The decision by the North Lawrence Community Schools has already been made. However, in the State of Indiana, the choices for education and school choice remain with the parents,” said Cross.\n“Following any consolidation over the years in Lawrence County, you look at the communities of Huron, Tunnelton, and Williams and you see what a negative effect it had on those communities,” added Cross.\n“We hope to keep the sense of rural community alive, especially after the fire that destroyed at the old Springville gym. We want to keep our community alive and keep our local school operating,” said Cross.\nAfter visiting the charter schools, the group approached Perry Township Trustee Bob Phillips and the advisory board to see if they were interested in trying to acquire the Springville School.\n“Perry Township Trustee Bob Phillips and the advisory board took their time in making that decision. And they finally agreed to help us with acquiring the Springville Elementary School,” explained Cross.\nFayetteville and Springville are unique in that the two schools came from township property and the school corporation must first offer the property back to the township.\nAt this time, the Indian Creek Township Trustee has not expressed interest in trying to acquiring the school property, according to Cross.\nSpringville Elementary school sits in the middle of both Indian Creek and Marshall Townships with an increasing population between Oolitic and Bloomington.\nAccording to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population is between 2,700-2,800 in Indian Creek Township, between 4,600-4,700 in Marshall Township, and between 2,300-2,400 in Perry Township.\nThe newly formed school has a board of directors of nine people with Albert Cross serving as Chairman of the Board. The board members are from Indian Creek, Perry, and Spice Valley North townships.\nLawrence County Independent Schools released the following press release:\n“Lawrence County Independent Schools is a state-authorized, not-for-profit organization which came into being in March of 2020 with the stated purpose of providing public education options for students in northwestern Lawrence County, as well as any other area student looking for additional choices in education.\nLawrence County Independent Schools is working with Perry Township to obtain access to the former Springville Elementary School building and open a K-8 elementary and middle school in the fall of 2021.\nThe group had hoped to open this fall to provide a seamless transition for those students whose schools were closing this year, but necessary approvals were delayed by the coronavirus crisis, forcing a delay in opening.\nThe mission of Lawrence County Independent Schools is to inspire each student to reach his or her greatest potential personally and academically in a peaceful rural school learning environment by providing a challenging and life-focused curriculum.\nStudents enrolled in Lawrence County Independent Schools will develop essential life-long skills, critical thinking skills, character building skills, and knowledge to ensure that they will be adequately prepared to achieve success in high school and in an ever-advancing global society.\nLawrence County Independent Schools can be found on Facebook; postal inquiries may be submitted to P.O. Box 27 Springville, Indiana 47462. For more information contact Lawrence County Independent Schools at firstname.lastname@example.org.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "— Cindy Long, USDA Administrator for the Food and Nutrition Service\nROUND ROCK, TX, USA, April 19, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — The National CACFP Sponsors Association (NCA) is honored to present the award this year to the Administrator of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service, Cindy Long, on April 19, 2022 at the National Child Nutrition Virtual Conference.\nThe Friend of CACFP Award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated a commitment to supporting and improving the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) through leadership and initiative. In the past, this award has been presented to Congressman David Trone, Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, Congressman Bobby Scott, Congressman James McGovern, Senator Robert Casey, Representative Marcia Fudge, Senator Debbie Stabenow and Senator Amy Klobuchar. These individuals have made significant and demonstrable contributions to the CACFP through advocacy, legislation, education or professional endeavors that exemplify a positive impact or advancement of the national child nutrition programs.\nIn September of 2021, Ms. Long was appointed Administrator for the Food and Nutrition Service. She most recently served as Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Acting Administrator, and has had extensive experience with FNS, including serving as Deputy Administrator for Child Nutrition Programs. In this role, she led FNS’ implementation of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act, the most significant restructuring of these programs in decades and a legislative centerpiece of the Obama-Biden Administration’s nutrition initiatives. Previously, she held various other program management and research positions in FNS.\nMs. Long is pleased to accept the Friend of CACFP Award commenting, “It is an honor and a privilege to partner with these child nutrition ambassadors through my role at Food and Nutrition Service as we work together to combat hunger, improve nutrition, and lift up families for a better tomorrow. Thanks to the passion and dedication of the CACFP community, millions of our nation’s children have greater access to healthy meals and snacks that set them up to thrive.”\nNCA appreciates Ms. Long’s diligent work to protect and strengthen child nutrition programs in our country. Without her commitment, support, and leadership, CACFP would not be the program it is today.\nThe National Child Nutrition Conference will be held in New Orleans, LA, from April 18-22, 2022 where over 1,800 members of the child nutrition community will gather in person and virtually for an incredible few days of training. For 36 years, NCA has hosted this conference in order to provide unparalleled education and networking opportunities specific to the child nutrition community.\nSince 1986, the NCA is the leading national organization for sponsors who administer the CACFP. NCA provides education and support to thousands of members in the CACFP community and to sponsors of all sizes from across the country. NCA strives to improve communication between families, caregivers, sponsors and their supervising government agencies.\nNational CACFP Sponsors Association\nemail us here", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Kamil Sarah, GNA\nTamale, Aug. 30, GNA – Mr Mustapha Sanah,\nExecutive Chairman of Northern Ghana Aid (NOGAID) has congratulated Dr Daniel\nAsare,the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Korle-Bu\nHe said the criteria of competence, capacity\nto deliver, experience in hospital management and flexibility to adjust to new\npeople as basis for his qualifications to the position was heartwarming.\nMr Sanah was speaking to the Press at the\nsidelines of a day’s workshop on good governance in Tamale, organised by NOGAID\nfor some selected Unit Committee and Assembly members in the Northern Region.\nThe workshop was aimed at deepening the\nunderstanding of qualitative local governance, inclusive and participatory\ndemocracy of the Unit Committee and Assembly members.\nHe praised Dr Okoe Boye, Member of Parliament\nfor Ledzokuku Krowor led Board for their bold decision to engage Dr Asare,\nindicating that the future Board of the Teaching Teaching Hospital (TTH) must\nemulate this shining example.\n“I know Dr Boye and he is very tough. Our\nnation’s leadership must rest in the hands of people who can make good\ndecisions for the entire benefit of all Ghanaians” he said.\nThe NOGAID Boss caution the New Patriotic\nParty’s activists in the Northern\nRegions, especially, those attacking the\nTHH to be very circumspect, adding,\n“the leaders of Tamale are getting worried about the negative behavior of\nour youth irrespective of their political affiliations. NDC youth did it and\nNPP youth are now doing it. Whichever party is voted into office, their youth\nthink they have a blank cheque for lawlessness, we shall work with the security\nagencies and government to deal with this lawlessness.”\nHe said Korle-Bu was the nation’s final\nreferral hospital and was happy that facility was getting back to work and\npraised Dr Boye for his remarkable leadership.\n“TTH feed cases into Korle-Bu so we need equal\nlevel of leadership at the TTH to address the plethora of challenges at the\nfacility,” he said.\nAccording to Mr Sanah, the Eminent Leaders of\nTamale were ready to support government to make the hospital work again,\nindicating that healthcare delivery was the place to make politicking since\nsickness is no respecter of party colouration.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Thailand logged 4,000 new Covid-19 cases and 22 new fatalities during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Monday morning.\nOn Sunday, 6,450 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus.\nSince the pandemic started early last year, there have been 2,145,241 Covid-19 cases, with 2,055,265 complete recoveries so far. The accumulated death toll stood at 20,966.\nThe vast majority of coronavirus cases and deaths have occurred since the third wave of the coronavirus began on April 1.\nThe kingdom’s all-time 24-hour high of Covid-19 fatalities was 312 recorded on Aug 18. The highest number of cases was 23,418 on Aug 13.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Oakdale voters sent a message on Tuesday, Nov. 4 with a resounding \"Yes\" in approving Measure Y, the continuation of a local half-cent sales tax, passing it by a 70 to 30 percent margin.\nVeterans' Day now looks a bit different to Oakdale mothers Emmy McDaniel and Alicia London than it did two years ago. Both are now parents to sons who are on active duty in the military. That's a fact which prompted them both to become pro-active with Mid-Cal Blue Star Moms, a congressionally chartered Veteran Service Organization.\nA Sconza Candy Company employee has filed federal charges against a local bakers union and her employer for a litany of rights violations regarding mandatory union membership and a subsequent suspension she received for not joining the union in a timely manner.\nExtreme weather conditions have led to abnormally high pollution conditions rarely seen in the Valley this time of year.\nThe most prominent figure in sports to retire this year not named Derek Jeter lives right here in Oakdale.\nWith little fanfare and no public comment, the Oakdale Irrigation District raised the price of water for its 2,900 agricultural customers Tuesday. Later, board members moved to soften the financial impact of higher rates by supporting a proposal to help farmers pay for projects to improve irrigation efficiency.\nOakdale voters overwhelmingly approved continuation of a half-cent sales tax in voting on Tuesday, Nov. 4.\nLongtime Escalon Unified School District board member John Largent was returned to the board by an overwhelming majority in the Tuesday election.\nIn response to this growing incidence of distracted driving, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) has launched a yearlong, Adult Distracted Driving traffic safety campaign in partnership with the Office of Traffic Safety and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. A minimum of 80 distracted driving enforcement operations and at least 500 traffic safety presentations will be completed statewide by the end of September 2015.\nRiverbank Police and Emergency crews responded to a report of a pedestrian struck by an Amtrak train around 9:13 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 31 near the area of Terminal Avenue and Claribel Road.\nCostumes, jack-'o-lanterns, haunted houses and scary ghost stories mark this time of year as all kids of all ages enjoy the spirit of Halloween. But if precautions aren't taken, scary things can happen. Decorations that ignited are the reported cause in 900 home fires nationwide each year. Two of every five of those were started by a candle.\nWhile in the ag-rich Central Valley during a break from politicking in Washington D.C., Congressman Jeff Denham stopped by the offices of The Oakdale Leader to discuss certain federal issues that are affecting Central Valley residents he represents in California's 10th Congressional District.\nThe Zombie train rolled into Oakdale earlier this year and is now reaching a fever pitch, as we near the conclusion of the Halloween season.\nOakdale voters will be voting for mayor, two open city council seats and determining whether or not to extend a half-cent sales tax assessment on Tuesday, Nov. 4.\nCourt papers filed shortly after a sexual assault complaint was made against a local pizzeria owner give insight to the circumstances surrounding his Oct. 20 arrest by Oakdale Police.\nFor the second time the Stanislaus County District Attorney's Office has asked the court to grant them more time to decide if they will pursue criminal charges against a Turlock man accused of sexually assaulting an employee at his Oakdale pizzeria.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Kim Clijsters is getting into baseball with her two sons while she’s preparing for a delayed comeback in July.\nThe four-time Grand Slam champion Clijsters was supposed to compete at the Miami Open and the Volvo Car Open as a wildcard, but opted out of playing because of lack of physical preparation.\nThe 37-year-old Clijsters had ended an eight-year absence from competitive tennis last year, but she has played just three matches since. In October 2020, Clijsters underwent a right knee surgery to repair damage that accumulated through the course of her long career. The rehab progressed well, but in January 2021 she was diagnosed with COVID-19 and even though the symptoms were mild, the disease disrupted her training schedule, so she postponed her comeback.\nPosting a photo of the catcher’s box, the Belgian tennis ace revealed that she’s getting into baseball with her sons Jack and Blake:\nIt’s a different kind of clay and grass for me this year. It’s been a busy time with the family – I’m event learning a new sport with my boys!\nIn the social media post, Clijsters also said that her recovery continues and she’s planning a return in July. Her first stop will be an exhibition in Atlanta where she’ll face fellow former US Open champion Sloane Stephens. They will open a week celebrating the return of live professional tennis to Midtown Atlanta and Atlantic Station at the 2021 Truist Atlanta Open that runs from July 24 to August 1. The Clijsters vs. Stephens women’s exhibition will take place on July 25, 7 p.m.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Andrew Wiggins isn’t wasting any time. The Cleveland Cavaliers’ No. 1 pick from Thursday’s NBA Draft has already made a quick pitch to unrestricted free agent LeBron James about teaming up with him.\nFrom the New York Times:\n\"“I want to win,” Wiggins said. “If he wants to win, we’d be good together.”\"\nMore from Cleveland Cavaliers\n- NBA insider: Cavaliers should consider trading Donovan Mitchell\n- Predicting NBA’s Christmas Day Schedule: Lakers, Warriors highlight slate of postseason rematches\n- NBA Rumors: 3 teams that should trade for Joel Embiid\n- NBA rumors: How Donovan Mitchell could wind up on the trading block\n- The new NBA flopping rules explained\nThe Cavaliers are expected to be major contenders to land James, who spent seven seasons with Cleveland before heading to Miami in 2010. ESPN’s Chris Broussard reported on Wednesday that the Cavs are the Heat’s biggest threat in re-signing LeBron this offseason.\nOne would think snagging Wiggins certainly isn’t going to hurt their chances. The 19-year-old is among the best draft prospects we’ve seen in recent years. He averaged 17.9 points and 6.0 rebounds per game last season for Kansas, and has the type of elite athleticism that could make him an NBA star someday.\nStill, prying James away from Miami won’t be easy, considering all the winning he’s done there throughout past four seasons and the Heat possessing one of the best coaching and upper management situations in the league.\nAnd unfortunately for Wiggins and Cleveland fans hoping to see their once-favorite son return, LeBron made it clear his favorite prospect Thursday was taken by Miami in Connecticut point guard Shabazz Napier.\nTeaming up with the 22-year-old Kyrie Irving and Wiggins in Cleveland is sure to entice James, but the most likely option remains that the King stays in South Beach.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The interface will help BNP Paribas's custody clients to manage their migration to DLT without having to adapt their global operating platform.\nJP Morgan Securities Services and BlackRock are the first two organisations to use the new electronic messaging solution provided by IHS Markit’s ClearPar.\nOperational cost-cutting takes a back-seat for the buy-side in favour of expanding investment capabilities\nNew buy-side survey shows operational strategy priorities for the next two years, along with attitudes towards new technologies.\nDeploying ‘futuristic technology’ to clearing and settlement will achieve a ‘medieval result’, new report claims\nReport says DLT cannot replace clearing and settlement entirely, without imposing the very costs it was designed to reduce.\nMessaging system Symphony has raised more than $460 million in capital to date since it was established in 2014.\nTechnology, regulation, diversity, Brexit, T2S, the role of the network manager and much more discussed at the annual event, this year held in Athens.\nCustody industry is lagging behind the rest of the financial services sector for open source projects, according to industry experts.\nJP Morgan’s securities services division goes live with post-trade FinTech firm’s transaction status solution\nThe bank’s securities services division has been developing a single end-to-end data integration framework aiming to break down the barriers in the post-trade lifecycle\nRoman Regelman continues to build out digital team with hire of transformation expert with experience across the media and entertainment business along with financial services.\nIt is also planning a series of process enhancements in order to support both institutional intermediaries for global proxy voting.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Organizers of the “Protect Texas from Radioactive Waste Tour” plan to travel to five Texas cities over the next week in protest of a proposed plan to store used nuclear materials in West Texas.\nSeveral Texas organizations gathered in Houston on Tuesday to kick off their “Protect Texas from Radioactive Waste Tour,” the beginning of a renewed push to block a proposal to transport used nuclear fuel by train through Texas and store it in West Texas.\nThe tour’s organizers said they want to make people aware of the “high risk” implications of a proposal to build and operate a facility for 40,000 metric tons of irradiated fuel rods at an existing site in Andrews County.\nIf approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the project by Interim Storage Partners, a joint venture between Waste Control Specialists and Orano USA, would transport nuclear waste from around the country to the consolidated site in Texas and store it until a long-term storage site becomes available, according to the venture’s website.\nThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in an August letter it would begin reviewing Interim Storage Partners’ license application and that its safety, security and environmental reviews of the proposal could conclude as early as August 2020.\nInterim Storage Partners did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the tour, but on its website, it emphasizes the safety of its operations.\n“Since 1965, more than 2,700 shipments of used fuel have been safely transported nearly 2 million miles across the United States — and there has never been a radiological release caused by a transportation accident,” Interim Storage Partners’ website said.\nThe website adds that “the transport cask surrounding the canister is specifically engineered with multiple barriers, including containment boundary, structural shell, gamma shielding material, and solid neutron shield,” and that the canister is sealed in thick-walled concrete when it arrives at the storage facility.\nSmith said that after the news conference, the organizations planned to ask the Houston City Council to adopt a resolution against the proposed transportation of the nuclear material. He added that commissioners in San Antonio and Midland have already adopted similar resolutions.\n“We’re trying to raise awareness because a lot of people don’t know this is planned,” Hadden said. She also said she hopes the tour will encourage people to submit comments on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s website before the Oct. 19 deadline.\nSmith and Hadden said they have gone on nuclear waste tours before, one in West Texas last year and another this year for a separate proposed nuclear site in New Mexico. Over the next week, the current tour will continue at outdoor locations near railroads in San Antonio, Dallas, El Paso, Midland and Andrews, Smith said.\nInterim Storage Partners’ license application, which proposes a 40-year lease, is the second filed by the company. The first was submitted in April 2016, but its review was halted after Waste Control Specialists struggled to find the funds needed to continue with the application.\n“We look forward to an energized and timely process and continuing to provide high-quality responses to any NRC requests for additional information,” Interim Storage Partners said in a written statement last month.\nFederal lawmakers are mulling an amendment to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 that could accelerate the development of nuclear material storage sites. The amendment would require the Department of Energy to start its own program “to consolidate and temporarily store commercial spent nuclear fuel during the development, construction, and operation of a permanent nuclear waste repository.”\nThis story was originally published in the Texas Tribune.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to declare a state of emergency in the health sector to address the menacing brain drain.\nIt noted that while most doctors are competent and patriotic, the poor working environment, welfare, insecurity, among others, pushed many to seek greener pastures abroad.\nThe union insisted on at least a 200 per cent increment in the basic salary of its members, with the additional allowances, as contained in the letter it sent to the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Health on July 7, 2022.\nThe NARD expressed shock over the recent increase in the prices of petroleum products, following the removal of subsidy, saying this would propel an increased inflation rate and cost of living.\nThe union urged the government to put measures in place to cushion the effect of subsidy removal on poor Nigerians.\nThe statement by NARD President, Dr. Emeka Orji, reads: “We call on the President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to, as a matter of urgency, declare a state of emergency in the Nigerian health sector as the era of paying lip service to the monster called ‘brain drain’ should be over.\n“We urge the government to set up a high-powered panel to review and harmonise the reports from the former President Obasanjo Health Agenda for Nigeria Committee and the former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo-led Health Sector Reform Committee in order to generate a plan of action in the Health sector for the President Tinubu-led administration.\n“We insist on the demand for at least 200 per cent increment in the CONMESS salary structure and the associated allowances, as contained in our letter to the government, dated July 7, 2022. We have resolved to give the new government some time to quickly resolve this issue which is at the root of the current spate of massive brain drain in the sector.”\nNARD added: “We call on Governors Adedapo Abiodun of Ogun State, Alex Otti of Abia State, Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State, Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq of Kwara State and the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to urgently look into the situation in the Health sector in their states since these are capable of breaking down the industrial peace in their states.\n“We call on the management of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and the Lagos State Governor to discontinue the demand for bench fees as this contravenes the decision of the National Council on Establishment to abolish the fees.\n“We call on the West African Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians to immediately discontinue the practice of charging our members using parallel market exchange rates.\n“We call on the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria to stop the downgrading of the membership certificate as this is not the practice in sister African countries that share the same certificate.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "AMF Pensionsforsakring AB Has $55.35 Million Holdings in Schlumberger Limited. (SLB)\nAMF Pensionsforsakring AB raised its position in Schlumberger Limited. (NYSE:SLB) by 9.1% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The fund owned 1,534,070 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock after buying an additional 128,131 shares during the period. AMF Pensionsforsakring AB’s holdings in Schlumberger were worth $55,349,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.\nA number of other large investors have also recently bought and sold shares of SLB. Capital International Investors increased its stake in Schlumberger by 62.5% in the 3rd quarter. Capital International Investors now owns 33,296,194 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $2,028,404,000 after buying an additional 12,810,020 shares during the last quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp increased its stake in Schlumberger by 8.0% in the 2nd quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 29,461,493 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $1,974,805,000 after buying an additional 2,188,823 shares during the last quarter. American Century Companies Inc. increased its stake in Schlumberger by 20.1% in the 3rd quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 10,218,188 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $622,492,000 after buying an additional 1,707,050 shares during the last quarter. Schroder Investment Management Group increased its stake in Schlumberger by 31.5% in the 3rd quarter. Schroder Investment Management Group now owns 4,303,769 shares of the oil and gas company’s stock valued at $262,185,000 after buying an additional 1,030,579 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Sound Shore Management Inc. CT purchased a new stake in Schlumberger in the 3rd quarter valued at about $61,845,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 76.85% of the company’s stock.\nSeveral equities research analysts have commented on the stock. HSBC upgraded shares of Schlumberger from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Sunday, December 2nd. Credit Suisse Group decreased their price objective on shares of Schlumberger from $82.00 to $71.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, October 22nd. UBS Group decreased their price objective on shares of Schlumberger from $92.00 to $75.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, October 22nd. Barclays set a $58.00 price objective on shares of Schlumberger and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research note on Monday, December 10th. Finally, Citigroup decreased their price objective on shares of Schlumberger from $57.00 to $54.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, January 4th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have assigned a hold rating and thirteen have assigned a buy rating to the stock. Schlumberger presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $66.65.\nSchlumberger stock opened at $42.78 on Friday. Schlumberger Limited. has a twelve month low of $34.99 and a twelve month high of $75.43. The company has a market cap of $60.10 billion, a PE ratio of 26.66, a P/E/G ratio of 2.29 and a beta of 1.36. The company has a quick ratio of 0.87, a current ratio of 1.17 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.40.\nSchlumberger (NYSE:SLB) last released its earnings results on Friday, January 18th. The oil and gas company reported $0.36 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $0.36. Schlumberger had a net margin of 6.51% and a return on equity of 6.12%. The firm had revenue of $8.18 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $8.10 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.48 EPS. The company’s revenue was up .0% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, equities analysts expect that Schlumberger Limited. will post 1.62 EPS for the current fiscal year.\nThe business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, April 12th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, February 13th will be given a dividend of $0.50 per share. This represents a $2.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.68%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, February 12th. Schlumberger’s dividend payout ratio is currently 123.46%.\nILLEGAL ACTIVITY WARNING: “AMF Pensionsforsakring AB Has $55.35 Million Holdings in Schlumberger Limited. (SLB)” was first reported by Daily Political and is the sole property of of Daily Political. If you are reading this article on another site, it was illegally copied and reposted in violation of U.S. and international copyright and trademark legislation. The correct version of this article can be viewed at https://www.dailypolitical.com/2019/02/10/amf-pensionsforsakring-ab-has-55-35-million-holdings-in-schlumberger-limited-slb.html.\nSchlumberger Limited supplies technology products and services to the oil and gas exploration and production industry worldwide. The company's Reservoir Characterization Group segment provides reservoir interpretation and data processing services; open and cased-hole services; slickline services; exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services at the surface and downhole; software integrated solutions, such as software, consulting, information management, and IT infrastructure services; consulting services for reservoir characterization, field development planning, and production enhancement; and petrotechnical data services and training solutions, as well as integrated management services.\nSee Also: Short Selling Stocks, A Beginner’s Guide\nWant to see what other hedge funds are holding SLB? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Schlumberger Limited. (NYSE:SLB).\nReceive News & Ratings for Schlumberger Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Schlumberger and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lake Macquarie council CEO Morven Cameron has defended the refurbishment of the Speers Point administration centre and how the project has been communicated to ratepayers.\nMs Cameron said yesterday it had \"not been put under the radar\" and was a \"stock-standard piece of business\" that would help attract \"high-quality\" staff.\n\"All we've done is maintain the building since the 1970s,\" she said.\n\"Workplaces are very different [now].\n\"We have to have facilities for our workforce that recognise a modern way of working.\n\"If I don't build a workplace where younger generations want to come and work, in five or six years' time I won't be able to deliver the services that this community needs because I won't be able to get employees - they'll be looking to go and work in modern environments.\"\nAs reported Wednesday, the council has called for tenders to gut and refurbish three floors of workspace.\nThe renovation is considered an operational activity and has not been discussed in an open council meeting.\nIt was briefly listed in the 2020/21 budget which shows the council plans to spend $17.8 million on the project over the next three years.\nIt is also budgeting to spend $12 million on IT infrastructure and $2.7 million on computer workstations over the next four years.\nBut these costs were disputed in a staff memo to councillors yesterday, who were told they were \"not related\" to the refurbishment and would \"be funded irrespective\" of it going ahead.\nMs Cameron said the \"entire cost of the refurbishment, including the IT, is included in the [$17.8 million] budget line for the project\".\nStan Kiaos, a Boolaroo business owner, said the project had been \"hidden from the community\" and should have been \"on the first page of the budget, not page 87\".\n\"They claim to be transparent, but they're not,\" he said.\n\"This should be major news as far as the community is concerned.\n\"At the end of the day, we will be the one that is funding it so we really need to be alerted it's happening.\"\nAsked why the project had not been promoted to the community, Ms Cameron said she preferred to promote projects after they had been delivered.\n\"You deliver and then say you've done it,\" she said.\nThe Herald approached mayor Kay Fraser and the 12 councillors yesterday for their thoughts on the project.\nThe mayor did not return calls and only two councillors were willing to comment.\nCr Jason Pauling (LIB) said a refurbishment was appropriate given the building's age and there was \"no appetite whatsoever\" of \"building Taj Mahal somewhere else\".\nBut he acknowledged a lack of transparency, saying there had been a \"missed opportunity\" to tell \"a good news story\" that the council was not \"wasting money building something brand new with penthouses, but patching something up and making it more functional\".\n\"Fair cop, we didn't flag [with] ratepayers we're going to refurb the building. From a transparency view, it could have been better,\" he said.\n\"But that admin building ... it's certainly due for a refurb, there's no doubt about that.\"\nCr Barney Langford (ALP) said he was \"comfortable with the way things have gone\" and the project was part of \"ongoing maintenance or asset management\".\nCr Adam Shultz directed the Herald's questions to the CEO and mayor.\nMORE COUNCIL NEWS", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Unison vote for MHS deal\nMeat hygiene bosses have agreed a deal with union leaders over pay and terms of conditions. The Meat Hygiene Service said Unison members had voted to accept the deal, following a period of negotiation.\nSteve McGrath, chief executive of the MHS, said: “I am very pleased that the ballot was positive. The deal reached increases the flexibility available to MHS operational managers while ensuring MHS staff receive a fair wage for the work undertaken.\n“Notice periods for changing work patterns have been shortened considerably and there will no longer be a right for staff in the future to receive contractual overtime.\n“This is a fair deal for MHS staff, management, industry and the tax payer.\n“We will of course continue to work with industry to identify and implement further efficiencies in the delivery of official controls.”\n27 October, 2016, 8:30\nNext steps for tackling obesity: prevention, sugar consumption a\n01 - 03 November, 2016\nChina Foodtech 2017\n07 November, 2016\nButcher’s Shop of the Year\n01 December, 2016, 8:30 - 13:30\nPolicy priorities for the UK food, drink and farming industry", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Awesome news about digital innovation, virtual reality and augmented reality.\nExploring Virtual Reality and its effects on humanity.\nObservations, reflections & insight on VR, AR and mixed reality.\nA digital magazine exploring the new realities of immersive storytelling.\nUser Experience in Augmented and Virtual Reality\nA conversation on all things virtual, with a sprinkling of reality on top.\nMighty Things is a global strategy and business intelligence firm at the forefront of emerging tech: digital innovation, VR, AR, robotics, drones and artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Samsung has unveiled its newest flagship-grade Exynos SoC that will power its next generation of flagship smartphones. Called the Exynos 9820, the chipset will power the upcoming Galaxy S10 flagship from the company. The new SoC features fourth-generation custom CPU cores as well as a 2Gbps LTE Advanced Pro Modem. It also comes with a Neural Processing Unit (NPU), similar to what Huawei offers in the Kirin 970 and Kirin 980 chipsets. The chipset is manufactured using an 8nm LPP (Low Power Plus) FinFET process, which the company says can reduce power consumption by up to 10% as compared to 10nm LPP process. The Exynos 9820 chipset is expected to be in mass production by the end of this year.\n- ContestHot DealsAsk DigitDevworxPick a collegeAbout UsContact Us", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "420Patients.com is accepting qualified medical marijuana patients and caregivers to join our network. We value every registered member and we hope to serve you in Arizona. This article brought to you by 420 community friends mmjbusinessdaily.com\nThe Montana Legislature is gearing up for a new session of lawmaking, and on tap already are up to 10 bills related to the medical cannabis industry.\nAccording to the Missoulian, the measures vary from an outright overturn of Initiative 182 – which Montana voters approved in the election earlier this month – to pro-cannabis bills that would restore access for MMJ patients.\nThe legislature has immense power over the industry in Montana, given that I-182 is a state statute and not an amendment to the state constitution. That means legislators are free to adjust the", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- Bloemfontein Celtic coach John Maduka says that the departure of Lehlohonolo Seema was not \"good news\" for the team.\n- Maduka believes that the way the team operates will continue to be the same.\n- Players are used to the changing of coaches in football, says the new Celtic coach.\nNew Bloemfontein Celtic coach John Maduka believes football players adapt quickly around administrative issues as he openly spoke about the departure of Lehlohonolo Seema to Chippa United.\nThe 49-year-old Maduka, who was recently named Phunya Sele Sele's new mentor, believes that despite the shock exit of the former Celtic coach, not much will change in the way the club operates as it will take time for him to instil his philosophy into the Free State side.\n\"We won't change,\" said Maduka during a virtual press conference ahead of their Nedbank Cup semi-final clash against Baroka FC at Orlando Stadium on Saturday.\n\"Whatever you saw in those games previously it will be more of the same thing. So, there won't be much change on what we have been doing.\n\"It's been working on us. So, why would you fiddle with something that is not broken?\n\"There will be a slight change, depending on who we will be playing against but most of the things will be the same.\"\nHe added: \"Losing coach Seema, it was not good news for the team and the players. When you are used to working for somebody else, you want to continue with that particular person.\n\"At the same time players are professional and they do understand that it is one of those things in this industry there will be a time where the coach leaves and joins another team.\n\"It's something that is not new. We're not happy that he left but it is something that we expect in this industry.\n\"Life has to go on. One good thing is that it's not like Bloemfontein Celtic brought in a new person from somewhere else. I was around, I've been around.\"\nThe Premier Soccer League (PSL) will resume over the weekend following a nearly five-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.\nCup football will be first on the agenda as the Free State giants take on the Limpopo outfit, followed by Mamelodi Sundowns and Bidvest Wits in the Gauteng bio-bubble which the PSL created to complete the 2019/20 campaign.\nThe Celtic and Baroka match will kick-off at 14:00.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "On Wednesday night, verified Twitter was in the throes of a crisis.\nAfter the Great Hack of 2020 made it look like Joe Biden and Elon Musk tweeted out extremely sketchy bitcoin donation links, Twitter blocked many verified accounts from tweeting.\nFor a few hours, all of your A-to-D-list celebrity faves couldn’t post — but they could retweet.\nTo communicate from beyond the virtual grave, they turned to the account @everyword.\nFlashback to the days of the @everyword empire\nIf you’d heard of the account before this week, you’ve been on the internet longer than me.\n@Everyword launched in 2007 with the goal of tweeting all of the words in the English dictionary, one at a time.\nBut on Wednesday, the account re-entered the mainstream — blue-check users started retweeting old @everyword posts, one at a time, to talk to their followers.\nWhat were their all-important messages?\n- The Ringer writer Shea Serrano used @everyword to spell out “I will not be silenced.”\n- Video game developer Rami Ismail wrote “let me tweet again.”\n- Nate Silver stuck with “poll shows democrat leading.”\nThe whole mess felt a lot like that scene from Arrival, where Amy Adams tries to communicate with an alien species using a sign that says “Human.”\nDo you have a favorite weird or essential Twitter account you follow? Hit us up @TheHustle and we’ll make a list of ‘em.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A Wyoming man who kidnapped, raped and murdered a woman in 1988 and was convicted of the crimes more than a decade later could still be subject to the death penalty, according to a ruling from a federal appeals court in Denver.\nDale Wayne Eaton, 74, was Wyoming’s only death row inmate from his 2004 jury conviction on four felonies until 2014, when a federal judge in Cheyenne overturned the jury’s sentence of death. Judge Alan Johnson ruled that Eaton’s court-appointed defense lawyers had performed deficiently at sentencing and vacated his conviction but gave prosecutors the opportunity to again seek to sentence him to death.\nIn Eaton’s latest appeal, he had asked the Denver appeals court to deny prosecutors that option, but, in its July 23 opinion, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to do so.\nFormer Natrona County District Attorney Mike Blonigen, who tried Eaton in 2004, said Tuesday evening he was not largely surprised by any portion of the opinion. He said he expects any appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court before resentencing would likely not be heard. The trial prosecutor declined to say whether he would like to handle the sentencing hearing, saying that was a decision entirely up to Dan Itzen, who replaced him as district attorney in January. Itzen could not be reached by phone the evening of the decision.\nAttorney General Bridget Hill, whose office handled the 10th Circuit appeal, typically does not comment on ongoing cases. She declined by email Tuesday to diverge from that policy.\nSean O’Brien, the Kansas City lawyer and law professor who led Eaton’s appeal, did not immediately respond to a late afternoon call for comment.\nThe case began more than 30 years ago, when authorities began investigating Lisa Marie Kimmell’s death. The Billings, Montana, woman’s body turned up in the North Platte River, but investigators hit a decade of dead ends.\nIn 1998, after Eaton was convicted of assault and sent to Wyoming State Penitentiary, authorities took his DNA and found it matched evidence found on Kimmell’s body. Investigators, however, did not immediately make the finding public. In 2002, authorities unearthed Kimmell’s car on Eaton’s property in Moneta, about an hour from Casper.\nYou have free articles remaining.\nIn 2003, the Natrona County District Attorney’s Office charged Eaton with Kimmell’s death, and Blonigen took the case to trial in early 2004. After two weeks in the courtroom, jurors convicted him of every charge he faced — first-degree premeditated murder, felony murder, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated robbery and first-degree sexual assault — and Eaton’s case went to sentencing. Days later, the jury found Eaton should be put to death.\nThe Wyoming State Public Defender’s Office appealed the case in 2005, beginning a series of post-conviction proceedings that have not yet been resolved.\nJudges halted execution dates set for 2008 and for 2010, when Eaton appealed to the federal system. In 2014, Johnson, the Cheyenne judge, vacated Eaton’s sentence and gave prosecutors a 120-day deadline to seek a new sentencing hearing. Eaton asked Johnson to order the state court to sentence him to life without parole, but the judge declined to do so.\nEaton appealed to the 10th Circuit and the 120-day time frame expired. The federal district court ruled prosecutors, however, could still pursue a hearing to impose the death penalty. Eaton appealed the decision as well, and the 10th Circuit judges on Tuesday largely ruled against him on all four issues he brought.\nIn its 43-page ruling, a panel of three judges first considered a set of arguments born of an appeal to the Wyoming Supreme Court, where Eaton argued his lawyer had offered deficient representation at trial. The federal panel agreed with the state appeals court’s ruling, however, that because Eaton was mentally competent his trial lawyer could not be deficient when he did not contest competency. The opinion, penned by Judge Nancy Moritz, likewise denied an argument that Eaton should have been allowed on appeal to bring new evidence on the issue.\nA second set of arguments state that Eaton’s constitutional rights were being denied when Johnson allowed a new penalty hearing. The federal panel, however, ruled the state-level sentence would be able to fairly incorporate whether and how the passage of time has prejudiced the sentencing hearing.\nThe 10th Circuit likewise rejected the final two arguments brought by Eaton’s lawyers. Although they had argued Johnson improperly determined that Eaton is still subject to the death penalty, the appellate panel ruled his arguments before the state court contradicted his federal arguments. In response to his final argument, that prosecutors suppressed evidence of their connection to a trial witness, the judges ruled the issue as appealed was irrelevant upon reversal of the sentencing decision.\nProceedings will pick up where they paused in Natrona County District Court upon appeal to the federal system.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Parents gathered in front of the Buddha monument in Zaisan on April 16 to raise public awareness about the measles outbreak and to collect donations to support families with children currently hospitalized. Members of a group for Mongolian mothers on Facebook organized the event, bringing boitog, traditional felt shoes for children, to represent the children who have contracted the highly contagious disease. The group’s members encouraged parents to bring diapers, food, and other helpful items for distribution to the parents of children being hospitalized for measles. According to the group’s members, one child had died of complications from measles Saturday evening, adding to the reported 59 children who have died from measles since the beginning of 2016. Some parents who lost children to measles attended the event. They implored politicians and policymakers to pay attention to addressing the measles outbreak rather than politics and the election. The caretakers of several children being hospitalized at the National Center for Communicable Diseases stressed that there was a shortage of medical equipment and talked about the difficult conditions being faced by the hospitalized children. “My child was diagnosed with measles within a week after being vaccinated. It’s time the ministry inspects the vaccines being injected into children’s bodies,” said one parent. Singer and parliamentary candidate M.Narantuya took part in the event and met with some parents of children being hospitalized at the National Center for Communicable Diseases to draw public attention to what she said is an issue that “shouldn’t be neglected”.\nPrevious article Turkish doctor performs surgery on children with scoliosis\nNext article Snow blizzards expected", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Mogul, Jay-Z, just launched his full lifestyle website, Life + Times. The site covers everything from fashion, music, design, travel, and every other trapping that makes up your personal aspirations of becoming a more well-rounded person whose company is coveted at dinner parties.\nWe want to thank the brainchild behind this project, Shahendra Ohneswere, a long-time friend and collaborator. Congratulations on a beautifully curated site.\nFor the full GENTRY article with co-founder, Annie Imamura, CLICK HERE.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Robots. Artificial Intelligence. Automation. Machine Learning. All of these impact the modern supply chain.\nFor the cover story of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s June 2020 issue, Brielle Jaekel spoke with industry executives for their insights about “emerging technologies that claim to help companies in the supply chain.” Logistyx President Ken Fleming was among those interviewed and quoted in the article:\nLarge-scale technology launches can take up to seven years. But, smaller scale activations are what companies look to launch quickly to help increase demand and keep employees safe. Some even say that those who have failed to implement large-scale technology deployments are already too late, since the transition period is so long.\n“Many of the supply chain industry’s least desirable common practices are being replaced or circumvented with technology, but it’s almost too late for those that haven’t yet started planning for these transitions considering how long they can take,” says Ken Fleming, president of Logistyx. “With global retail holding companies mapping out 5- to 7-year transition plans and some of the most established U.S. retailers requiring as much as three years or more each time they update their warehouse management system, it’s easy to understand why organizations that haven’t already launched these initiatives would hesitate to go to such lengths to embrace new technologies, become more efficient and better serve customers.”\nGoing beyond tech adoption challenges, Ken also discusses success stories of adopting automation and technologies that speed up manual processes in both large and small operations, as well as the future role of artificial intelligence in data processing and analysis.\nTo read the full article, including Ken’s comments, visit Supply & Demand Chain Executive: https://www.sdcexec.com/software-technology/article/21133671/a-smart-supply-chain-is-an-efficient-one", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Knock, knock: Gertler slams the door on fossil fuel divestment\nOn March 30, U of T President Meric Gertler released a 43-page report titled “Beyond Divestment: Taking Decisive Action on Climate Change”—in other words, after a three school year-long campaign, U of T 350’s call for the university to divest from the fossil fuel industry was rejected.\nU of T’s decision not to divest should not come as an incredible surprise. While some universities like the University of Glasgow have fully or partially divested from fossil fuels, U of T’s Canadian peer institutions have not followed suit—UBC, the University of Calgary, Dalhousie, and most recently, McGill, have opted not to divest. McGill’s decision came roughly a week before U of T’s and proved particularly infuriating to 350 activists due to a McGill advisory brief claiming that the fossil fuel industry does not cause “ grave social injury.”\nYet, to many, Gertler’s announcement may still have come as a shock. His geography background had led to some casual speculation that he might be more environmentalist than other administrators. Despite his transcript and a recommendation from an expert ad-hoc committee that U of T should divest from at least some fossil fuel companies, the president firmly maintained the status-quo.\nWhile the ad-hoc committee did not call for U of T to divest from fossil fuels entirely, it did call for divestment from fossil fuel companies it deemed socially injurious. It focused on companies working in tar sands and fracking industries and companies that lobby against environmentalist policy-making. Though praising the recommendation, 350 did call for Gertler to consider how all fossil fuel companies are socially injurious and how fossil fuel development affects indigenous land rights, when deciding what companies to divest from.\nAmanda Harvey-Sanchez, a U of T 350 activist, expressed dismay with Gertler’s decision, saying: “The divestment campaign has the support of hundreds of faculty and alumni and thousands of students. The president’s own committee also recommended divestment. This makes the president’s decision all the more shameful, as it shows a disconnect from the broader U of T community and a disregard for the clear recommendation from his expert committee.”\nHarvey-Sanchez added that Gertler made his decision based on the advice of working groups composed of unnamed members of his executive staff. She lamented his turning to these groups, which made decisions in three months, rather than following the recommendations of the visibly qualified ad-hoc committee, which researched its decision over the course of a year. She explained that over the three-year course of the divestment campaign, Gertler met with students only once and did not even give them the chance to hear and refute any arguments his advisors were making.\nBut 350’s critique of U of T governance goes even further. Shortly after Gertler’s decision was released, U of T 350’s Facebook page leaked images of emails in which an unknown author called for U of T’s Office of the President to be locked so that activists could not occupy the building like divestment protesters did at McGill.\nHarvey-Sanchez speculated that Gertler’s decision ultimately came down to a fear of controversy. While Gertler has argued that supporting full divestment would be a breach of his fiduciary duty to U of T, Harvey-Sanchez, questioned the idea that fossil fuels represent a sound investment, citing a recent study that found U of T lost roughly $500 million over the past three years by not divesting from fossil fuels.\n“[The administration] is aware that the president’s decision is inadequate,” Harvey-Sanchez argues. “We can gather dozens of groups on campus that support divestment to discuss ways to address this horrible decision…. [The administration] has good reason to close their doors.”\ncomments powered by Disqus", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A woman mustering cattle has had to be airlifted to hospital after a fall on Wednesday morning.\nThe Mount Isa-based RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter has airlifted a horse rider to hospital, after she fell and injured her neck, while moving cattle.\nThe chopper was called to a cattle station north-east of Mount Isa, around 9:30am this morning.\nThe aeromedical crew said workers on the property did a great job of keeping the woman still and reassuring her medical help was on its way.\nWhen the chopper arrived, the Queensland Ambulance Service Flight Paramedic stabilised the woman, aged in her twenties.\nShe was then flown to the Mount Isa Hospital in a stable condition.\nWhile you are here subscribe to our weekly email to your inbox at 6am every Friday", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "21 June 2022.\nUnion government has banned the use of ‘single-use plastic’ from July 1, 2022.\n- Gazette notification was issued by Ministry for Environment, Forest and Climate Change in 2021, and announced the ban.\n- It has now defined a list of items that will be banned from July 2022.\nAbout single-use plastic\n- Single-Use plastic refers to plastic items which are used once and discarded.\n- It makes the highest shares of plastic manufactured and used, ranging from packaging of items, to bottles, polythene bags, coffee cups, face masks, trash bags, cling film, food packaging etc.\nShare of Single Use Plastic\n- As per 2021 report of Minderoo Foundation of Australia, single-use plastics accounts for one-third of all plastic produced worldwide, with 98% are manufactured from fossil fuels.\n- It also accounts for majority of plastic discarded worldwide in 2019 (130 million metric tonnes).\n- If this trajectory is followed, single-use plastic could make up 5-10 % of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.\nSingle-use Plastic Waste Generation in India\n- As per 2021 report of Minderoo Foundation, India is featured among top 100 countries of single-use plastic waste generation.\n- It is ranked at rank 94.\n- The top three countries are Singapore, Australia and Oman. Domestic production in India lies at 11.8 million metric tonnes annually.\n- Net generation of single-use plastic waste in India stands at 5.6 MMT.\nWhich items will be banned in India?\n- Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) have announced to ban items like earbuds, candy, balloon sticks, and ice-cream sticks.\n- Cutlery items including plates, glasses, cups, spoons, knives, forks, trays will also be banned.\n- It has also notified to ban sweet boxes, invitation cards, cigarette packs, PVC banners under 100 microns as well as polystyrene for decoration.\n- Polythene bags under 75 microns was already banned in September 2021.\n- From December 2022, polythene bags under 120 microns will also be banned.\n- These items have been banned because they are “difficult to collection” making its recycling difficult.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "David Moyes is fond of saying that Sir Alex Ferguson, far from being an unwanted distraction, has been a helpful source of advice during his first season as Manchester United manager.\nTalking about a man who gave Moyes the job and still sits on the board, he couldn't really say anything else. Ferguson is both his boss and, apparently, the head of human resources.\nIt would be dangerous for Moyes to pick Ferguson's brain too often. Moyes is in charge, and not just a messenger for the former manager.\nBut if he is going to pick up the phone, this summer would be the ideal time to do it.\nMoyes took on a huge challenge when he accepted the United job last summer. But given what has happened this season, you can argue he faces an even bigger task this summer.\nHe will be charged with rebuilding a squad that has been a long way off the pace this season and fielding a title-challenging team come August.\nFerguson didn't end up here very often.\nOver time, he became a master at tweaking his squad year after year to avoid having to make wholesale changes. After all, history suggests signing too many players in one go can have a negative impact rather than a positive one. Just look at Tottenham.\nBut in the summer of 1995—after United had narrowly missed out on the title and lost in the FA Cup final—Ferguson saw three key players leave.\nMark Hughes, Andrei Kanchelskis and Paul Ince all departed. Ferguson's solution was to promote from within. Namely, the Youth Cup winners of 1992. And no one, especially Alan Hansen, needs reminding how that turned out.\nThat's not to suggest the answer to Moyes' problems is simply to throw a bunch of youngsters in at the deep end. The issues with his squad run deeper than those of Ferguson's 19 years ago. Moyes will spend. He has to.\nBut there is still a lesson there.\nUnited have another group of Youth Cup winners waiting for their chance. The two stars of the team that lifted the trophy in 2011, Ravel Morrison and Paul Pogba, have left. But there are others.\nIf Rio Ferdinand follows Nemanja Vidic out of the door this summer, Moyes will be left with just Jonny Evans, Phil Jones and Chris Smalling at centre-half.\nBut waiting in the wings are Michael Keane and Tom Thorpe. Both currently getting experience in the championship. Both England Under-21 internationals.\nMidfielder Jesse Lingard is another member of the 2011 Youth Cup winners who is yet to get his big chance. He impressed on the pre-season tour last summer and has spent time at Birmingham and Brighton this season.\nThey are, of course, not ready to play in the Premier League every week. Probably not even every other week. Maybe just now and again.\nBut there should be places for them in the first-team squad. If not, then they have every right to ask why not.\nAll three are 21 years old. And, if Moyes doesn't see a future for them at Old Trafford, they should be allowed to leave.\nThey might make not make the grade. Not everyone does.\nFew remember that John O'Kane and Simon Davies were on the bench at Aston Villa on the opening day of the 1995/96 season. They just remember Gary Neville, Phil Neville, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Paul Scholes.\nBut at least they got a chance.\nThe Class of 1992 flourished because they were given a chance. A chance that presented itself when senior players moved on.\nThat is set to happen again this summer. And there should be opportunities for youth team products to be included in Moyes' rebuild.\nAll he can do is give them a chance. And hope, just like Ferguson, his faith is repaid.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "ISLAMABAD: Musa Al-Tamari, branded as Jordanian Messi, is here to make his presence felt during the World Cup 2026 qualifying round match against Pakistan today (Thursday).\nMusa Al-Tamari, a household name in Jordan, is already on the radar of leading European Clubs, watching each match progress before hiring him.“Yes Musa is here and will be seen playing against Pakistan on Thursday. He is the most popular name in our country and I am hopeful he would live up to expectations,” Al Hussain Al Musa, the Jordan coach when questioned, said.\nHe added that there are some others in the Jordanian team who would be seen making an impact in the match.\n“We have got a star-studded outfit and that they proved during their recent performance in the Asia Cup where our outfit defeated the best teams like Japan and Korea on their way to the final. We are here to make an impact,” he added.\nAl Hussain Al Musa said that the expectations of Jordanian people are sky high now.“Since we toppled the best teams of Asia on our way to make it to the Asia Cup final, the interest of the game and fan following has gone high. Now every Jordanian expects us to beat the best teams. We are capable of doing that, upsetting the best and making it to the World Cup finals.”\nOn football’s future in his country, the Jordanian coach said that every possible step has been taken to raise one after another tier of squads.“We have all kinds of domestic football including leagues and are in the process of investing heavily in soccer. In a few years you would see good players coming up in numbers to make a claim for the national side.”\nHe called on Pakistan football to generate activities at all levels and introduce leagues to raise their football standard.“Football at this point of time is not the most favourite Pakistan sport which I think is cricket. I would suggest activities at all levels to improve football standard and to generate interest among youth in the game which would help the country have a better future.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The future of mass transit in Indianapolis hangs in the balance after the House Committee on Roads and Transportation held a hearing on Senate Bill 141 on March 24.\nAuthored by Sen. Aaron Freeman, R-Indianapolis, the bill would require Indiana public transportation entities — namely IndyGo’s planned expansion of the Blue and Purple Lines — to raise a certain level of revenue before receiving local income tax revenue for projects. Currently, state law requires counties to raise 10% of annual operating expenses for projects and 25% of the project funding must come from fares and charges. These funds, Freeman said during debate, haven’t been met by IndyGo.\nIndyGo CEO Inez Evans, however, said the company has raised the necessary funds and Freeman and co-authors of the bill are ignoring information from the Legislative Services Agency (LSA).\n“The original contention from the author of the bill contended that IndyGo needed to be held accountable to taxpayers to raise 10% of the funding,” Evans told the Recorder. “They went to the LSA to do a financial assessment, and they came back and put a footnote in their review and said IndyGo was in compliance with the statute … but they don’t agree now with the LSA interpretation.”\nFreeman said that’s not the case.\n“In regards to the change in the fiscal note, as a state senator, I have no involvement in that process,” Freeman said in a statement. “The evaluation of the fiscal impact is done by the nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency. As I understand it, there was a misinterpretation of the law provided by a non-lawyer, and it has since been rectified, resulting in the revised fiscal note.”\nAccording to the fiscal note on the bill, IndyGo in 2019 was required to raise 25% of Red Line operating expenses from fares. However, the fare revenue is not specific to Red Line riders, meaning any fare revenue IndyGo receives was counted toward the 25% requirement, and financial analyst Bill Brumbach concluded fare revenue from IndyGo satisfied that requirement.\nDuring the House committee hearing, Rep. Robert Behning, R-Indianapolis, raised concerns that the Blue Line, which would cut through the west side of the city, would impact traffic flow due to designated lanes for buses. He introduced an amendment that would prohibit IndyGo from creating designated lanes, which would reduce the number of lanes available to drivers on both Washington Street and 10th Street.\nDuring testimony Evans said the need for designated lanes is twofold.\nFirst, the federal grants received for the Blue Line were designated for a fixed guideway project, which has five components necessary, including designated lanes. If the bill passes with the amendment prohibiting designated lanes, IndyGo communications director Lesley Gordon said the company would lose the money it’s already spent on the project. If the company decided to go forward with the project without designated lanes, IndyGo would have to apply for grants for corridor projects, which do not require designated lanes and are more competitive. Further, Evans said fixed guideway projects have long-term benefits for the whole community, not just IndyGo riders.\nOne of those benefits is revamped and safer streets.\nAs part of the Blue and Purple lines, the former expected to cost $200 million and the latter $168 million, Indianapolis streets would be repaved, sidewalks reconstructed and the septic systems updated.\nKarlee Macer, former Democratic member of the Indiana House of Representatives, testified against the bill, describing the planned projects as being about more than mass transit.\n“Everything is still the same in the community,” Macer said regarding her childhood in Indianapolis. “Same well water, same septic system, some people even use oil to heat their homes 15 minutes from here. This is more than mass transit to our community. This is a generational lifeline.”\nEvans views this bill not just as an attack on IndyGo, but as an attack on Indianapolis’ poor and minority communities.\n“Of the population IndyGo serves, 70% are persons of color,” Evans said. “When you look at the Purple Line alone, 61% of the population it serves is a minority population, and 30% are low income. The money that’s on the table from the Federal Transit Administration will significantly help bring our infrastructure to a higher standard.”\nFreeman said during testimony Marion County can’t afford these expansions, and argued the focus should be on improving roads, not mass transit. However, Evans said the money that’s already been spent on the expansion projects can’t be reimbursed.\n“The entire project for the Purple Line is about $168 million with 50% coming from the federal government,” Evans said. “IndyGo has already spent $37 million on the Purple Line in anticipation of getting 50% back. If the bill passes, we don’t get anything. Citizens have paid $37 million and don’t have anything to show for it but 15 buses.”\nThe bill, which passed in the Senate 32 to 17 on Feb. 23, was held by committee chair Jim Pressel, R-Rolling Prairie, after debate went over the allotted time. Pressel now gets to decide if the bill will get another hearing. If a vote isn’t held by April 8, the bill will die. At this point, Pressel said he hasn’t decided if there will be a second hearing.\nContact staff writer Breanna Cooper at 317-762-7848. Follow her on Twitter @BreannaNCooper.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Fly-in fly-out employee charged with rape of lady at outback mining camp owned by one of many world’s greatest corporations\n- Fly-in fly-out employee at one among WA’s greatest mines allegedly raped lady onsite\n- The 35-year-old man accused of following lady in her 20s again to room\n- The incident occurred at BHP’s Pilbara mine connected to $4.64billion challenge\nA fly-in fly-out employee at one among Western Australia’s largest mines is dealing with rape fees after he allegedly adopted her from the village’s pub again to her lodging.\nThe 35-year-old from Vasse within the state’s south-west allegedly sexually assaulted the lady in her 20s on the Pilbara BHP mine in November, 2020.\nThe $4.64billion South Flank mine, which incorporates the Mulla Mulla village the lady was allegedly raped, is the mining big’s most numerous manufacturing with girls making up 40 per cent of the workforce.\nThe 35-year-old from Vasse within the state’s south-west allegedly sexually assaulted the lady in her 20s on the Pilbara BHP mine in November, 2020\nBHP in a press release stated they had been serving to with investigations and that ‘sexual assault or harassment is unacceptable at BHP, full cease’.\n‘We’re completely clear on this, and all workers, contractors and those who come to our websites are made conscious of their obligation to help a protected and respectful office.’\nThe mining big has not too long ago launched a ‘stroll to room service’ scheme the place girls uncomfortable strolling dwelling alone might be escorted both from the location, eating halls or pub.\nThe $150million Mulla Mulla village the place the rape allegedly occurred is essentially the most luxurious BHP has offered for its websites – together with a three-storey cafe, cross-fit fitness center, 2,500 rooms, a swimming pool, sports activities fields, digital golf course and a 3,000 e-book library.\nBHP in a press release they had been serving to investigations and that ‘Sexual assault or harassment is unacceptable at BHP, full cease’\nBuilding, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Power Union state secretary Mick Buchan stated the alleged incident was ‘unacceptable’ and slammed the thought of needing an escort to get girls dwelling safely.\n‘You shouldn’t should depend on a chaperone once you’re dwelling away from dwelling.’\n‘As soon as upon a time once you arrived on a mine web site for a brand new building job, you got a donga, a room, and that room remained your room till you left that challenge… for as much as 24 months, even longer,’ he instructed The West.\n‘You developed the group inside that block that you simply lived in, and everybody sorted one another.\n‘9 instances out of 10, it is a completely different room in a special space. It type of takes that group really feel away from the camp web site.’\nThe person has been charged with two counts of sexual penetration with out consent and can face Perth Justice of the Peace’s Courtroom tomorrow.\nBHP say they will not touch upon ‘particular incidents’ however try to introduce ‘stricter controls on alcohol consumption’.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "1 - Only revenge Tre'Davious White wants is on the scoreboard\nJust over two weeks ago, Bills rookie Tre'Davious White was placed in the concussion protocol after an unnecessary hit from the Patriots Rob Gronkowski. The two teams are set to revisit each other this Sunday in New England.\n\"I just want to go into Gillette Stadium] and win. That’d be the biggest revenge of it all,” White said on [the John Murphy Show. \"For us to go in there in a tough environment and win would be a big deal.\" !(https://goo.gl/qiMD1M)\nGronkowski served a one-game suspension in Week 14. He returned to the field in Week 15 against the Steelers. The tight end had his typical performance, tallying nine receptions for 168 yards. White discussed covering the 6-6, 265-pound TE.\n\"It's a tough task. He's a wide body, strong guy,\" White said. \"Earlier, a couple of drives before that (Gronkowski's hit), I had an interception in my hands that he took from me. That just shows the strength and the athleticism that he has. He's probably the best tight end in the game right now.\"\nUnfortunately, since Gronkowski's hit on White, the NFL's seen more plays resulting in suspension. The most recent case came this Sunday. Panthers linebacker, Thomas Davis, dealt a helmet-to-helmet hit on Packers wide receiver Davante Adams. The shot resulted in a two-game suspension for Davis, opposed to the one-game suspension on Gronkowski.\n\"I didn't see the Thomas Davis hit, but I've been getting a lot of tweets about it. How he got two games and Gronk got one,\" said White. \"It doesn't come down to what I think or anybody else thinks. The league has a strict policy on how they handle things like that and they felt one was more severe than the other.\"\nNFL VP of football operations, Jon Runyan, put out a statement explaining how Davis being a repeat offender resulted in the increased penalty.\nWhen Gronkowski struck White, he was lying out of bounds and the play was over. Bills players didn't retaliate too much, and for some reason received criticism for remaining disciplined. White was encouraged with his teammates response.\n\"Yes, I feel like one player is not more important than the team,\" he said. \"If we were to start a brawl, who knows how that thing may go. We might've lost Preston [Brown], [Lafayette] Pitts, Jordan [Poyer], and Micah [Hyde]. Those are three key guys that we need, so if we started a brawl and get suspended for a couple of games it wouldn't be worth it. The poise that we had just shows the character that we have.\"\nThe chatter surrounding Gronkowski and White will be inevitable come Sunday. For the Bills rookie, improving to 9-6 would be the biggest revenge.\n\"Nothing dirty. I've never been a guy who tries to get it after the whistle,\" said White. \"We're going to try to get it on the scoreboard. That would be the greatest thing.\"\n2 - Playoff race bringing publicity to Buffalo\nTwo games remain in the regular season, and the Bills are close to breaking their 17-season playoff drought. The national media is buzzing around Buffalo's postseason chances.\nBaltimore, Buffalo, and Tennessee are all 8-6 and fighting for the final two Wild Card spots. Sporting News discussed the Bills current seeding and the road ahead.\nThe Bills currently are the sixth seed in the AFC, but it won't be an easy spot to hold with road games against the Patriots and Dolphins remaining.\nThe Bills first-of-two road games to finish the season are against the Patriots. Per usual, it will be no easy task taming Tom Brady. USA Today shared a satisfying stat before Sunday's game.\nThey need a pass defense that's given up a league-low 11 TD passes to show up in a big way Sunday at Foxborough in order to maintain a playoff dream.\nYahoo Sports honed in on the hectic playoff race. They noted that a loss this Sunday wouldn't end Buffalo's playoff hopes.\n*The Bills are very much alive in the playoff race thanks to the Titans' collapse. There's still the issue of having one of their two remaining games at New England, but a loss to the Patriots doesn't ruin their chances. There are roughly a billion scenarios in play. *\nThe Titans have suffered back-to-back losses to the Cardinals and 49ers. That's benefitted the Bills greatly. Though Buffalo fans are cheering for certain teams to lose, you want to end the season at 10-6. That would almost guarantee a playoff berth for the Bills.\n3 - Power Rankings round-up heading into Week 16\nAfter Sunday's win over the Dolphins, the Bills remain in the middle of the pack in this week's Power Rankings. Buffalo's now 8-6 and face top-ranked New England (11-3) this Sunday.\nPete Prisco of CBS Sports has the Bills ranked at 14th heading into Week 16. He was encouraged by their recent performance and that resulted in a three-spot boost from last week (17th).\nThey dominated the Dolphins and kept their playoff hopes alive. Can they beat New England this week in Foxboro?\nChris Simms of Bleacher Report ranked Buffalo at 17th this week. He gave his insight on the Bills formula for their winning ways.\n*The Bills ran the ball well, Tyrod Taylor made some good throws, the offense protected the ball, and the defense didn't allow many big plays. This is the formula that has allowed Buffalo to win this year, and it's the one that got the Bills out to such a strong start to the season. *\nIt's never going to be pretty with the Bills, but that's not the kind of game they want to be in. Buffalo wants to be the more efficient and disciplined team in an ugly, physical contest.\nA Bills win over the Patriots this Sunday would surely boost their ranking next week. But more importantly, it would be a step in the right direction for making the playoffs.\nSOCIAL MEDIA POST OF THE DAY", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Apr 19, 2019\nHireology, the leading recruitment CRM for multi-location, decentralized enterprises, today announced it has closed $27 million in Series D financing led by Blue Cloud Ventures, with full participation from current investors Bain Capital Ventures and Baird Venture Partners, as well as Silicon Valley Bank.\nThis latest round of investment brings its total capital raised to $60.5 million and underscores Hireology’s momentum and position of strength in the market. Funds will be used to accelerate the company’s growth in new market verticals and to create features that further differentiate its product offering.\n“Hireology’s world class product and razor sharp focus on its customers’ success in attracting, recruiting and onboarding talent has positioned the company as the go-to recruitment management platform for the automotive and healthcare sectors,” said Mir Arif, Managing Partner of Blue Cloud Ventures. “We are excited to partner with Adam and the Hireology team on the next phase of their growth.”\nHireology has experienced sustained, rapid growth, recently surpassing 6,500 customers and 200 employees. New recruitment marketing and candidate CRM solutions have transformed how customers attract, hire and integrate talent in today’s competitive hiring market.\nThis spring further saw the release of new functionality including enhanced SEO capabilities, text-to-recruit options and passive sourcing solutions.\nSpur, a new and innovative employment platform that redefines the relationship between hourly workers and employers who depend on them, announced today that it raised $8 million in a Series A funding round led by Third Prime with participation from Mark Bezos and John Griffin, founder of Blue Ridge Capital.\nSpur also appointed Bezos to its Board of Directors. This investment marks one of the largest venture rounds ever raised by an Alabama-based company.\nSpur is addressing a significant market opportunity in the hourly worker economy, which is comprised of approximately 78 million workers or nearly 60 percent of all American jobs. Spur’s platform offers workplaces such as hotels, restaurants, and other businesses with hourly workforces a managed solution for all their employment needs that saves them time and money, while also improving the benefits and services available to the workforce.\n“We started Spur with a mission to provide workers greater access to opportunity and ultimately improve their quality of life. We’re doing that by partnering with businesses and other organizations to take on all the responsibilities associated with managing HR and payroll for their hourly workforces and then ensuring those workers are well taken care of over the course of their employment,” said Glenn Clayton, founder and chief executive officer, Spur. “We believe most businesses want to treat their workers well – we’re just making it easier and more cost effective than ever before to deliver on that goal.”\nSpur’s platform combines innovative employment technology with a focus on managing hourly workforces. Spur becomes the official employer of record of a business’s hourly workforce thereby helping them reduce costs and save time by eliminating all HR and payroll functions. Businesses using the platform simply schedule their employees and approve their time through Spur’s app, and then Spur’s platform takes care of everything else.\nSan Francisco startup TripleByte which uses coding quizzes and machine learning to match would-be employees with open jobs has raised $35 million in a Series B financing round led by YC Continuity, Y Combinator’s investment fund.\nAfter a year in which revenue grew three times (over $1 million monthly) and headcount doubled from 20 to 40, it’s attracted funding from a raft of investors including Y Combinator.\nHarj Taggar, CEO and cofounder said that the fresh funds will enable Triplebyte to expand beyond silicon valley into Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, and Boston later in the year.\nUncubed, a leading online talent acquisition and recruitment marketing platform, has announced the acquisition of New York-based Mediabistro, the premier careers site for the media sector and other digital professionals.\nFollowing the acquisition, Uncubed will provide new services and an expanded offering to the Mediabistro customer base, including employer branding video services, customized recruiting services, candidate experience technology, and events. Mediabistro members and jobseekers will get access to additional content and job opportunities.\n“Mediabistro has been the dominant careers site in the media sector for years,” said Chris Johnson, CEO of Uncubed. “We’re excited to bring our offering, technology, and events to Mediabistro customers – and to help them attract candidates with other skillsets. Similarly, we can now deliver a lot more value to Uncubed customers through the Mediabistro platform.”\nMediabistro will bring complementary jobseeker talent to the Uncubed network, which has traditionally been weighted towards software developers, data scientists, product managers, and others. With the Mediabistro community comprised largely of content creators, designers, and marketers, Uncubed will be able to provide a complete array of skillsets to customers.\nUncubed intends to operate the Mediabistro site independently, yet members of both communities will benefit from increased access to editorial and skill-building content, a wider set of job opportunities, and the candidate matching technology that Uncubed continues to develop.\nLondon based Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG), a provider of integrated talent management and learning technologies software and services, has announced the acquisition of Breezy HR in Jacksonville, Florida.\nBreezy HR provides small to medium businesses (SMBs) with feature-rich, intuitive and user-friendly recruitment software in order to optimize their processes and maximize productivity. The acquisition brings a range of benefits to LTG and Breezy HR itself.\nThe addition of Breezy HR to LTG’s best-of-breed talent and learning businesses is expected to further consolidate the Group’s position in the talent acquisition marketplace, extending its existing enterprise client base to include a new small to medium businesses audience. This move builds on LTG’s acquisition of PeopleFluent in 2018, which introduced transformational talent management capability into the Group.\nIntegration activity is expected to leverage components of Breezy HR’s software to support swifter and richer feature releases to PeopleFluent’s enterprise product customers.\nLTG Chief Executive, Jonathan Satchell, commented, “I am delighted to welcome our colleagues from Breezy HR into the Group. We are incredibly excited by Breezy HR’s exceptional talent acquisition software. Breezy HR has enjoyed strong organic growth and has excellent future potential, which we feel can be enhanced with support from LTG as part of our suite of integrated talent solutions.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The girls basketball team has seen a lot of success thus far in their 2018-19 season. However, winning their games this year has done more than adding another point to their own record.\nWith her win against Smithson Valley last week, head coach Triva Corrales recently received the 300th win of her coaching career.\nBefore coming to Judson High School, Corrales had already been a head coach at Burbank in SAISD.\n“I’ve been really blessed [with] where I’ve been [able] to be, to have great athletes cross my path, good people, great kids, and they’re the ones that put in the blood, sweat, and tears. You know, always just the beneficiary of it,” Corrales said.\nShe not only coaches but is also adamant about upholding the appropriate ethics of the team and making athletes better people. With the effort she has put into that, Corrales has gained a reputation for being the savior for many basketball programs.\n“Honestly, everywhere I’ve been, I’ve been brought in because the program needed to be rebuilt. So pretty much the struggle was laying the foundation, not just basketball-wise, but also fixing the culture,” Corrales said. “The culture was bad where there was a lack of discipline or a lack of commitment to what they were doing. [I try] to mold them into not just good basketball players, but good students and good people.”\nWhen Corrales is doing her job, she focuses and works on the present. She chooses not to think about what the future may have in store for her, even though she has proven to be successful in the programs she has been a part of.\n“I live in the moment. I worry about the process of getting to the top, not actually being at the top,” Corrales said. “I’m just not one of those people who I look ahead and I wonder what life holds. [I focus on] what my job is today, I indulge in that, and I do my best on that day.”\nThroughout her time as a head coach, Corrales has gone above and beyond to break boundaries and create well-working teams, giving her a great name for herself and the team. A total of 300 wins is a lot, but in terms of Coach Corrales, it is no less than what she deserves.\nKnowing Coach, it is just another number, as she works on the present to better the future of not only her own life but all athletes she has the pleasure of coaching.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "OSBORNE, Kan. (KSNW) — A man was killed in a house fire Monday in Osborne.\nAccording to the Osborne Police Department (OPD), they received a call just after 5 a.m. for the report of a fire in the 300 block of S. 3rd St.\nUpon arrival, fire crews found a home fully engulfed in flames and took immediate action to put the fire out.\nThe OPD says an investigation revealed that 32-year-old David Dean, who lived there, did not make it out alive. He was found in the northeast corner of the home.\nAn investigation by the State Fire Marshal’s Office is ongoing.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If you’re wondering if the Highland Park Giants are hungry, just ask senior Eli Secher and his family.\nSecher has hosted the team’s linemen — offensive and defensive — for barbecues and the proof is on the plates.\n“We go through a lot of food,” said Secher, who added the gatherings build more than just body mass. They serve as team-building moments for a senior-heavy group that won’t be satisfied with anything less than a playoff berth.\nThe Giants recorded their fourth straight 4-5 season in 2022 (not counting the shortened 2021-’22 spring campaign), each year finishing a game short of playoff qualification. Secher and company have bonded over the heartbreak for two of those seasons.\nWith three-year varsity starters all over the field, Secher said they are coming in ready.\n“I’m excited — real excited,” he said. “All the guys in our class who have two years of varsity experience, we are ready for our final year.”\nLast season, Highland Park began the season 2-0 and advanced to 4-3. It could not secure a win in either of its final two games (Vernon Hills, Maine West) and finished on the outside of the IHSA postseason.\nSecond-year head coach Anthony Kopp hopes with multiple years of varsity play under their belts, his leaders will be ready for the spotlight.\n“You certainly can hope and expect that the experience they’ve had, their experience playing varsity ball steps up,” he said. “And just confidence. They worked very hard in the weight room in the offseason. They look bigger, they feel a little confidence because of that. I’m looking for that to come through.”\nSenior David Finfer enters third year under center for the Giants.\nSecher mans a senior offensive line that includes fellow All-Conference standout Alex Knight. They will block for three-year varsity returners David Finfer (quarterback) and Nikko Rosenbloom (running back).\nFinfer was also all-league after throwing for nearly 1,600 yards and 15 touchdowns, while rushing for 180 yards and 4 more TDs. Rosenbloom gained 530 total yards with 5 touchdowns. Star receiver Nick Blumer (46 catches, 653 yards, 6 TDs) leads an experienced group that includes senior Johnny Walker and sophomore Lucas Gordon, who saw varsity time as a freshman.\nKopp said the returners will enable a balanced offensive attack.\n“Offensively, we can throw with David Finfer and we have some skill players around him,” Kopp said. “And we have a senior line. We feel good about running behind them, too. A lot of seniors. There will be times where there are 11 seniors are out there on the field.”\nMany Highland Park standouts play both sides of the football. Blumer will return as a starting defensive back, where he intercepted four passes and recovered two fumbles in 2022.\nWalker and Rosenbloom will also man the defensive backfield, along with senior Asher Stern.\nMiddle linebacker Tyler Gleyzer is the anchor of the defensive unit. He racked up 32 tackles (8 for loss) in an injury-shortened junior season (6 games). Sebastian Vrybal, also the team’s placekicker, will play outside linebacker for the Giants.\nSeniors Knight and Josh Pasternak return to the defensive line.\n“Defensively we have some playmakers behind that can go up and get balls. We have some ‘backers and D-linemen who are tough and gonna stop runs,” Kopp said.\nThe Giants open the 2023 campaign with a road tilt against Leyden, a team they beat with a comeback effort to open the ’22 season\nThen, it’s rivalry week, as Highland Park welcomes Deerfield to Wolters Field on Friday, Sept. 1. The Warriors and Giants are no longer in the same conference — Deerfield crossed over to the Central Suburban South — but the competition will continue.\nAs a league tradeoff, the Giants will host former CSL South team Niles West in Week 7, Oct. 6.\nRolling Meadows and Conant round out Highland Park’s nonconference schedule, while CSL North foes Maine West (Sept. 22), Niles North (Sept. 29), Maine East (Oct. 13) and Vernon Hills (Oct. 20) complete the 2023 slate for the Giants.\nHighland Park wants its shot at the CSL North crown and in doing so, Kopp said, “everything will take care of itself including making the playoffs.”\nHIGHLAND PARK 2023 SCHEDULE (2022: 4-5)\n|Opponent (2022 record)||Day, Date||Home/Away||Last year’s result|\n|Leyden (2-7)||Friday, Aug. 23||Away||Win: 28-25|\n|Deerfield (6-3)*||Friday, Sept. 1||Home||Loss: 20-0|\n|Rolling Meadows (4-5)||Friday, Sept. 8||Home||N/A|\n|Conant (5-4)*||Thursday, Sept. 14||Away||N/A|\n|Maine West (5-4)*^||Friday, Sept. 22||Home||Loss: 34-6|\n|Niles North (2-7)^||Friday, Sept. 29||Home||Win: 29-6|\n|Niles West (3-6)^||Friday, Oct. 6||Home||N/A|\n|Maine East (1-8)^||Friday, Oct. 13||Away||Win: 46-7|\n|Vernon Hills (5-4)*^||Friday, Oct. 20||Away||Loss: 50-34|\n* Playoff team. ^ Conference opponent\nThe Record is a nonprofit, nonpartisan community newsroom that relies on reader support to fuel its independent local journalism.\nSubscribe to The Record to fund responsible news coverage for your community.\nAlready a subscriber? You can make a tax-deductible donation at any time.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "An Israeli court refused on Sunday to prohibit a planned demonstration that night outside the wedding hall where a mixed Muslim-Jewish couple is celebrating their recent marriage, but ordered protesters to remain at least 200 meters from the venue.\n- The Jewish Ban on Intermarriage Has Become a Curse\n- Group Plans to Wreck Mixed Marriage\n- Where Is Bibi’s 'Mazel Tov'?\n- Protesters Face Off Outside Wedding\n- Flames of Hatred at Mixed Wedding\n- Worrying Opposition to Mixed Marriage in Israel\n- The Kids Are Alright. Confused, but Alright\nThe Rishon Letzion Magistrate’s Court issued the ruling after the couple, Morel Malka and Mahmoud Mansour, applied for an injunction to stop a planned demonstration organized by Lehava (a Hebrew acronym for “preventing assimilation in the Holy Land”). Mansour is a Muslim Arab, while Malka is an Israeli Jew who converted to Islam.\nIn court on Sunday, the representative of the police proposed holding the demonstration in a parking lot about 200 meters from the hall. Judge Iriya Mordechai ruled that the protesters must remain at least 200 meters from the building, even if they refuse the parking-lot space offered to them. She stressed that her ruling is aimed at presenting friction between the demonstrators and the guests at the event, which will be held under heavy police guard.\n“Regrettably, the respondents’ actions to prevent the wedding, which have been carried out at a sensitive time for Jewish-Arab relations in any case, have borne rotten fruit and have stirred up a turbid wave of hatred and violence that will peak at a moment that is known and predictable, like its results,” wrote attorney Yaniv Segev on Mansour’s behalf in his request for the injunction. “It is almost certain that the planned demonstration on the day of his wedding will spill over into violent lines.”\nPresident Reuven Rivlin addressed the wedding in a post on his Facebook page. “There is a red line between freedom of speech and protest on the one hand and incitement on the other,” he wrote. “Mahmoud and Morel from Jaffa have decided to marry and to exercise their freedom in a democratic country. The manifestations of incitement against them are infuriating and distressing, whatever my opinion or anyone else’s might be regarding the issue itself. Not everyone has to share in the happiness of Mahmoud and Morel — but everyone has to respect them. Among us and within our midst there are harsh and sharp disagreements but incitement, violence and racism have no place in Israeli society. These manifestations are undermining the foundations of our shared life here in the Jewish and democratic, democratic and Jewish State of Israel.” Rivlin concluded the post with a quotation from the early Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky: “In the beginning God created the individual,” and added: “We are a free people in our country, in opinion and action, and I wish the young couple health, satisfaction and happiness.”\nOver the past few days Lehava has been disseminating the invitation to the wedding, calling upon its supporters to show up at the venue and encouraging them to contact the couple and urge them to cancel the wedding. The two met five years ago and Morel has converted to Islam. Mahmoud relates that up until the past few days they had not experienced such blatant manifestations of racism.\n“We’ve been together for five years, but we’ve never encountered such racism. I always knew there were racists, but as long as you’re not affected by it, until you feel it in your own body, you don’t know what it is,” Mahmoud told Haaretz.\n“If it were someone from her family, I would understand, but these people aren’t related. Why do they care? Why are they getting involved? If they think they’ll get us to give up on each other, it won’t happen.” He added that many people have phoned them to express support.\nHowever, following the post on Facebook the couple received death threats over the phone, as have members of their families. Both Mahmoud and Morel have since changed their phone numbers. Nevertheless, they have decided to hold the wedding as planned. Due to the threats, the police have required the couple to hire 33 security guards at a cost of about 15,000 shekels ($4,330). The owners of the hall have agreed to pay half the cost of the security.\nMansour objects to having to pay for the security and directed his complaints at the police: “Why are they forcing me to spend out of my own pocket?” Mahmoud said. “If something happens, they’re supposed to take care of it, not me.\n“We feel great,” he added, “and that really gives us strength. They think they’ll break us, but we can’t be broken. The opposite is true – we’re getting stronger. The wedding will go on as planned – it will be great. I’m not worried, but it’s troubling that on this day, which everyone waits for their whole life, the happiest day of their life, I have to go to court in the morning.”\nOn Saturday night Morel was in the midst of the final preparations for the wedding. Her mother, her sisters and other relatives are slated to attend. Her father, however, is opposed to her marriage to a Muslim and has declared that he will not attend.\n“Please God, a lot of people will come,” said the groom. “There may be some people who are afraid to attend and we haven’t managed to convince her father but it will be a beautiful event.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By Onikepo Braithwaite\nThe election season is upon us. And, in Nigeria, this season is synonymous with election petitions.\nThe stage is already being set, with various pre-election issues. To be clear, these present controversies do not qualify to constitute election petitions, as election petitions arise only after an election has been conducted; but, the confusion emanating from the various pre-election imbroglios, is a prelude to what may arise from the off-season Gubernatorial elections in Ekiti and Osun State which will hold on June 18 and July 16, 2022 respectively, and the general elections in 2023.\nFrom the unending debates on the passing or non-passing of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill (EAMB); to which geographical area the two main political parties, APC and PDP are zoning the Presidency to, and why it should be or not be so; to the constitutionality or otherwise of zoning; to the debate about whether it is hypocritical to conveniently remember that zoning is unconstitutional now that it is the turn of the Southern zones to take the Presidency, according to the gentleman’s agreement that has been followed over the years versus the argument that where was the same gentleman’s agreement when President Jonathan from the South South zone ran for election in 2011 after completing late President Yar’Adua’s term, when it was still the turn of the North to produce a candidate to complete its quota; to disputes about who the authentic party flag bearers are for different elective positions, as we have already seen from the Anambra primaries that were conducted by the different political parties, and the Anambra State Gubernatorial election, which held towards the end of 2021; and the APC primaries that held recently in Ekiti State. These days, it is impossible to switch on the television or read any newspaper, without these issues being the topic of discussion. Meanwhile, the insecurity that has pervaded the country, and most other pressing matters, seem to have paled into insignificance, because of the coming of the 2023 general elections.\nIn Ojukwu v Obasanjo 2004 12 N.W.L.R. Part 886 Page 169 at 227 per Edozie JSC, the Supreme Court defined ‘election’ as “….the process of choosing by popular votes, a candidate for political office in a democratic system of government”. Elections in Nigeria are governed principally by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended), and INEC Guidelines. Sadly, since our return to democracy in 1999, how many times have Nigerians had the opportunity to truly ‘choose by popular vote’ their candidates for political offices, with all the election manipulation, rigging and malpractice that occur? Out of six elections so far, Nigeria can possibly only boast of two credible Presidential elections, 1999 and 2015 – two of out six – 33.3%. This is not a good score or report.\nDefinition of Election Petition\nAn election petition is the only means provided by Section 133(1) of the EA, by which an election can be questioned or challenged at a Tribunal or Court of Law. In A.N.P.P. v INEC 2004 7 N.W.L.R. Part 871 Page 16 at 55-57, the Court of Appeal held inter alia that: “What constitutes an election petition therefore, is a complaint by the Petitioner against an undue election or return of a successful candidate at the election….it is only an election or return of a candidate that can be questioned by an election petition, in which the person elected or returned is joined as a party” – per Mohammed JCA.\nCauses of Increase in Election Petitions\nInstead of the electoral process to have improved with each successive election, it worsened; and this is partly responsible for the phenomenal increase in election petitions. Of course, rigging, vote buying, greed and corruption are all contributing factors responsible for untrustworthy, questionable elections, and consequently, this unwelcome increase in election petitions. Nigerian politicians being bad losers is another cause, their desperation to win at all costs, even if it is to raise frivolous petitions, yet another. After the 2019 elections, the then President of the Court of Appeal, stated that there were about 805 election petitions in total!\nElements of Election Petition\nElection petitions are described as being ‘Sui Generis’, a latin phrase which means “of its own kind”. While some say they are neither ordinary civil or criminal proceedings, it has been decided in a plethora of cases, that election petitions are a different specie of civil proceedings. The online Law Dictionary defines the term ‘ Sui Generis’ as “of its own kind or class; that is, the only one of its own kind; peculiar”. In Orubu v NEC 1988 5 N.W.L.R. Part 94 Page 323, Uwais JSC (as he then was) observed that “an election petition is not the same as ordinary civil proceedings, it is a special proceedings, because of the peculiar nature of elections…”. In Buhari v Yusuf 2003 14 N.W.L.R. Part 841 Page 446 at 536 per Tobi JSC, the Supreme Court stated that, election petitions have no affinity with any action known to common law.\nTechnicalities v Substantive Justice in Deciding Election Petitions\nThe Supreme Court, in Jim Nwobodo v Onoh 1984 1 S.C.N.L.R. 1 Page 195 per Uwais JSC (as he then was) said about election petitions: “It is the duty of the courts to hear them without allowing technicalities to unduly fetter their jurisdiction”. The issue of shying away from technicalities in the hearing of election petitions was succinctly stated in Ikpeazu v Otti 2015 18 N.W.L.R. Part 1490 Page 47 at 71-72 per Oseji JCA (as he then was), that: “In all election matters, the use of technicalities merely helps to shut issues in controversy. Once it is agreed that election petitions are in a class of their own, the handling of the matter too must take a form devoid of legal technicalities, that tend to leave the litigants more confused”.\nFor instance, in the Adeleke v Oyetola Osun State Gubernatorial election case, the decision of the Tribunal giving Adeleke victory, was overturned by the Court of Appeal, and that of the Court of Appeal, upheld by the Supreme Court. In that case, the Supreme Court gave victory to Oyetola not on the merits of the case, but on a technicality – that Peter Obiora, one of the members of the Tribunal who delivered the lead judgement in the matter, did not sign the attendance sheet of the Tribunal proceedings on a specific day, meaning that he was absent from the proceedings on that particular day; on a day which it is said that, important evidence about the rerun election was heard.\nMany, including my humble self, still hold the firm belief that since election petitions have their own characteristics, such technicalities should not be used to perpetrate injustice. As much as possible, the will of the people and the evidence before the tribunal/court (merits of the case) should take precedence over technicalities. See the case of Ajadi v Ajibola 2004 16 N.W.L.R. Part 898 Page 91 at 168. A crucial question which should have been interrogated in deciding the Adeleke case, was whether the effect of Obiora’s absence/non-compliance, was substantial or occasioned any miscarriage of justice vis-à-vis the Tribunal’s decision. Based on the weight of the evidence, was the Tribunal’s decision per incuriam? Would the decision have been different, if Peter Obiora had been present that day? If the answer to these questions were negative, then the judgement of the Tribunal should have been upheld. It seems that in the Adeleke case, technical justice was taken over substantive justice.\nTechnicalities must however, be distinguished from cases in which, the shortcomings are of a serious nature, for instance, where constitutional provisions have clearly not been met. For example, the ANDP Bayelsa Gubernatorial election case. The issue of not meeting the constitutional threshold of 35 years is not a technicality or irregularity that could be corrected. It was the root of the case. Not meeting the age requirement, vitiated their candidature. We, as Lawyers, also have our part to play as officers in the temple of justice, by advising our clients not to waste the time of the tribunals/courts with frivolous, unmeritorious election petitions, for instance, like this ANDP case.\nOptimistically, this will not be the fate of upcoming elections, as a combination of innovations and technology being introduced by INEC this time around, and the passing of the EAMB into law with the electronic collation and transmission of results etc, should make our elections more credible and seamless; and hopefully, reduce the number of election petitions in the future. This time around, the Professor Yakubu-led INEC means business in their resolve to deliver stellar elections; so, who knows? The 2023 elections may end up being Nigeria’s best election, since the inception of the Fourth Republic.\nFor one, the phasing out of the Card Reader and the manual Incidence Forms which were used upon the failure of the card reader, in favour of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) is a step in the right direction, as the old Incidence Form system was one of the most famous parts of the electoral process used to rig elections. The new Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) will prevent people from doing multiple registrations, or using other people’s voter’s cards to vote. In the past, politicians would buy voter’s cards en masse, and have their people use them to vote for their preferred candidates.\nAs we go into the season of election petitions, aside from our hope that the improvement in the Electoral process will reduce the number of election petitions, it is imperative that the Election Petition Tribunals/Courts do justice to election petitions by deciding them on their merits, rather than on technical justice or other reasons.\nBe that as it may, the truth of the matter is, it is unlikely that there will be any significant improvement in the lives of Nigerians, since to the best of our knowledge, our country’s system is still the same. How can you do things more or less the same way, and expect a different result? Millions of Nigerians who could not wait to see the back of the Jonathan administration (PDP), imagining that a new dawn of ‘Utopia’ would be ushered in by the Buhari administration (APC), were disappointed.\nI hate to be the bearer of unwelcome news, but, come 2023, be it APC, PDP or XYZ, I don’t see too much of a silver lining behind the cloud for Nigerians. The entry point into elective positions remains extremely low (education up to secondary level), especially for this nuclear age that we are in, so much so that many of the decision/policy makers are ill-equipped for the tasks they have taken on. The other negative elements are still very much in existence – insecurity, Boko Haram, an inequitable system where for example, these same inadequately educated politicians (not all of them are poorly educated though) earn better salaries than well educated, overworked professionals like medical doctors and judicial officers; tribalism, shaky economy, corruption, pervasive poverty, unemployment, to mention but a few. However, nothing will make me happier, than for my conclusion to be proven wrong.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "On his way to his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club for a ten day vacation, Trump answered questions from the press and made a few comments on several pressing topics, including gun legislation, tariff wars, and Joe Biden.\nMany questions and comments focused primarily on gun legislation. Trump claimed he has the support for background checks from both Republicans and Democrats and that he has a great relationship with the NRA. “They’re beautiful people.” He also claimed the NRA will eventually come around and support background checks because they support Trump.\nTrump: I think a lot of really meaningful things on background checks will take place — including red flags, including a lot of other very, very important items. And the Republicans are looking at it very seriously https://t.co/aIBVcqAtrN pic.twitter.com/vOPMNl4tcZ— POLITICO (@politico) August 9, 2019\nTRUMP on gun control: \"The gun doesn't pull the trigger. A mind — a sick mind pulls the trigger.\" pic.twitter.com/hD44M6dbUl— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 9, 2019\nTrump offered a message to kids returning to school from summer vacation:\nReporter: What's your message to children who are nervous about going back to school after recent mass shootings?— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 9, 2019\nPresident Trump: \"Go and really study hard, and some day you'll grow up and maybe be president of the US … They have nothing to worry about.\" pic.twitter.com/sS57dIDdBU\nThe president also said he has a greater influence over both the Senate and the House and recently had a “great talk” with “Chuck and Nancy.”\n“I think with a lot of success that we have, I think I have a greater influence now over the Senate and over the House. I think we can get something really good done. I think we can have some meaningful background checks.”\nHe added that there was no need to bring the Senate back from recess since he believes a great package will materialize before Congress returns.\nPresident Trump says there's no need to bring the Senate back into session for gun control measures: \"I think we'll have a very good package by the time they come back\" pic.twitter.com/ZsXN9MK8su— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 9, 2019\nTrump also teased the press about receiving another “beautiful letter” from Kim Jung Un and alluded to meeting with the dictator in the near future.\nNEW: Pres. Trump says he got a \"very beautiful letter\" from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yesterday, adding that he believes they will have another meeting: \"Maybe I'll release the results of the letter, but it was very positive.\" https://t.co/Z0kLq3TFN0 pic.twitter.com/OSZev1wohE— ABC News (@ABC) August 9, 2019\nHe also commented on Joe Biden’s latest gaffe claiming “poor kids” are “just as talented as white kids.” Biden corrected himself immediately and said, “wealthy kids.”\nBiden in Iowa: “Poor kids are just as smart as white kids.”— Tania Singh (@TwinklingTania) August 9, 2019\nTrump picked up on the gaffe and went on to label Joe Biden a racist. He also accused Biden of “not playing with a full deck.” Trump’s re-election campaign is now using this snip to score political points but they’re not playing the speech in its entirety or full context.\nWhen asked if he was a White Supremacist or White Nationalist, Trump replied that he doesn’t like when it happens because he’s “not any of those things.” He then went on to label Hollywood as the real racists.\n\"I’m not any of those things,\" President Trump says when asked about being called a white supremacist and white nationalist by some Democrats. \"I think it’s a disgrace\" pic.twitter.com/mMzqIy5p5n— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 9, 2019\nTrump, sweating profusely, says \"Hollywood is racist … what they're doing with the kind of movies they're putting out — it's actually very dangerous for our country.\" pic.twitter.com/ALXznOJ1iv— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 9, 2019\nAnd to prove he’s not a racist, Trump said he would “love” to see Colin Kaepernick play in the NFL again, “if he’s good enough.”\nWhile speaking to reporters this morning, @realDonaldTrump was asked if @Kaepernick7 should get another opportunity to play in the NFL.— Mike Brest (@MikeBrestDC) August 9, 2019\nHe said, \"I would love to see [Colin] Kaepernick\" return to the league \"if he's good enough.\" pic.twitter.com/YssGstX5iK\nUpon hearing those remarks, Wall Street reacted:\nTrump also defended the ICE raids that happened in Mississippi yesterday that ripped even more families apart:\nTrump defends deportation raids at Mississippi food processing plants that left children abandoned because it's \"a very good deterrent,\" again floats idea of using white supremacist mass shooting & need for stronger background checks as leverage for hardline immigration reform pic.twitter.com/VshDSE8WEG— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 9, 2019\nTrump will now spend the next ten days at his Bedminster golf club.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Brexit, Trump and other recent populist movements have highlighted a major intellectual battle taking place in the Western world in recent years—namely, the clash between nationalism and globalism.\nNationalism emphasises the sovereignty of the nation-state—the right of a group of people who are united by their shared history, language or religion to govern themselves as a free nation among other free nations.\nNationalism is not a disregard for other nations; rather, it assumes that each nation is responsible for its own destiny. This may, of course, include rich partnerships with other nations for commerce, travel and more—but this will always be an agreement reached by both parties based on their respective national interests.\nGlobalism, by contrast, sees all people first as “world citizens”, and it downplays the sovereignty of individual nations. Shrugging off shared traditions as the basis for political stability, globalism assumes that values like individual freedom and human reason are equally embraced by all people in all places at all times—and that these values are therefore a better foundation for the world’s political order. The European Union and the United Nations are of course the two most prominent experiments to this end.\nWhile globalism is viewed as forward-looking and is embraced by academic, media, business and political elites, nationalism is increasingly dismissed by these same elites as irrelevant—and even morally suspect. Indeed, there is a widespread mood today that nationalism equals racism—so that, for instance, any American who supports Donald Trump and his “America First” agenda is by definition a xenophobe or a white supremacist.\nThis is plainly not true. For the vast majority of nationalists throughout the Western world—including in America—nationalism is unrelated to ethnicity. As Yoram Hazony points out, this traces all the way back to the Old Testament Scriptures, which profoundly shaped the West’s concept of nationhood.\nIn the Old Testament, we see Egyptians joining Hebrew slaves in fleeing Egypt, and outsiders like Jethro and Rahab being incorporated into the Jewish community. We see the same with Ruth the Moabite, who famously left her people and vowed to her Jewish mother-in-law, “Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.” (Ruth 1:16).\nIn the words of Historian Victor Davis Hanson, “the logic of Western civilization was never predicated on blood-and-soil chauvinism”. Rather, in the Western tradition, nationalism is about shared national values that anyone can embrace when they adopt a new nation as their own.\nBut consider that globalists benefit when nationalism and patriotism are portrayed as racist: love of nation is best set aside if the nations of the world are going to surrender their sovereignty to a global order.\nWhat many are yet to notice about the globalist doctrine is that it is by nature imperialistic. Just like the pre-modern expansionist empires of Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome, so globalists today imagine a future in which nation-states are subsumed under a more expansive political architecture.\nJust like the imperialist empires of old, globalists today can only see the benefits of this—whether fewer wars, increased trade and productivity, or greater geopolitical stability and peace. And perhaps they are right.\nBut like the nations overrun by those imperialist powers, everyday people rightly fear the creep of globalism. Peace and prosperity were indeed enjoyed by those conquering empires—but it came at the cost of submission, expropriation of property, national shame, and even slavery for the nations they conquered. As Hazony explains:\nLiberals do not seem to understand that the advancing liberal construction is a form of imperialism. But to anyone not already immersed in the new order, the resemblance is obvious.\nMuch like the Pharaohs and the Babylonian kings, the Roman emperors and the Roman Catholic Church until well into the modern period, as well as the Marxists of the last century, liberals, too, have their grand theory about how they are going to bring peace and economic prosperity to the world by pulling down all the borders and uniting mankind under their own universal rule.\nThis is not to say that the barbarity of the ancient world should be pinned on the globalist agenda today. But at the very least, proponents of globalism should be honest to themselves and to everyone else about their bent for imperialism.\nOne of the challenges for us in Australia is that both of our major parties are committed to the ideals of the liberalism born of the Enlightenment—the very wellspring of the globalist doctrine.\nMore than ever before, we need to rediscover ourselves as a nation. This begins with understanding the much stronger conservative traditions upon which Australia was founded. Only then can we stand fast in the face of an imperial globalist agenda.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If President Donald J. Trump surrenders to authorities on Tuesday, he may undergo a DNA collection process more befitting a murder suspect than a person falsely accused of paying hush money to a washed-up adult actress, a source in General Eric M. Smith’s office told Real Raw News.\nAccording to him, the general’s office, via U.S. Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER,) has obtained an email sent from Lisa DelPizzo, chief of the Manhattan D.A.’s trial division, to Alvin Bragg, in which she asks whether the office will collect a buccal swab, blood, and “at least 100 hair samples” from President Trump Tuesday afternoon. She also asked for Bragg’s thoughts on whether the Secret Service would try to block DNA collection.\nARCYBER, our source said, did not intercept a reply but forwarded DelPizzo’s email to Gen. Smith since it seemed like a portent that Bragg might entrap Trump with additional, albeit fictitious, charges.\nIn homicide and sexual assault cases, law enforcement routinely mouth-swabs suspects and collects hair follicles. In most cases, a suspect (or even a witness) is asked to surrender his DNA voluntarily; but refusal inevitably results in police hostility and a warrant compelling cooperation by force, if necessary. In specific DUI investigations, cops can get a warrant for a blood draw to check for intoxicants.\nHowever, there is no case law mandating the collection of DNA evidence from a person charged with financial crimes, attorney Bill Cullen of the Constitutional Law Foundation told Real Raw News.\n“Not only is there no precedent for indicting a president, but there’s also none that I’m aware of for swabbing or taking hair roots from anyone suspected of financial misdemeanors, and if indeed they intend to do that, no honest judge would sign a warrant—there’s no probable cause. The police can ask, of course, but no one should voluntarily talk to or help them. Alvin Bragg’s indictment is still sealed, which I find suspicious, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the charges against Trump are spurious,” Mr. Cullen said.\nOur source in Gen. Smith’s office speculated as to why Bragg wants Trump’s DNA.\n“It’s not outside the realm of possibility that Bragg, who is Deep State, wants to make sure the Trump he has in custody is the Real Donald Trump and not a clone, doppelganger, or body double. I don’t see how DNA could exclude a clone, but it could detect a double,” he said. “Or, of course, they might just try to frame him for something else once he gets in there.”\nWe asked our source to comment on theories that the real President Trump is stashed away at NORAD or AREA 51, while a doppelganger lives at Mar-a-Lago and makes public appearances at rallies.\n“If that were true, it would be outside the ambit of what I can say,” he said.\nRegardless, he said Gen. Smith forwarded DelPizzo’s email to President Trump and his legal team.\nAs reported yesterday, Gen. Smith implored Trump to hold fast at Mar-a-Lago and avoid traveling to New York, but Trump wouldn’t heed the advice. They plan to speak again Sunday, our source said.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Health Sciences Department in collaboration with the Undergraduate Research Committee launched a new initiative known as the Journal Club Series in Fall 2022. The Journal Club seeks to engage with a wide range of students including non-science majors as well as those having science backgrounds.\nWho will benefit and what are the actions to be taken in advance of the Journal Club session? Undergraduate students from all majors are welcome to attend. The students will need to read the selected article in advance of the Journal Club session. A link will be provided to access the article. The students will also need to complete the registration in Zoom in advance of our session. A link to register will be provided for each session.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "WASHINGTON - In a nondescript conference room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, First Lieutenant Elizabeth Whiteside listened last week as an Army prosecutor outlined the criminal case against her. The charges: attempting suicide and endangering the life of another soldier while serving in Iraq.\nHer hands trembled as Major Stefan Wolfe, the prosecutor, asserted that Whiteside, now a psychiatric outpatient at Walter Reed, should be court-martialed. After seven years of exemplary service, the 25-year-old Army reservist faces the possibility of life in prison if she is tried and convicted.\nMilitary psychiatrists at Walter Reed who examined Whiteside after she recovered from her self-inflicted gunshot wound diagnosed her with a severe mental disorder, possibly triggered by the stresses of a war zone. But Whiteside's superiors considered her mental illness an excuse for criminal conduct, according to documents obtained by The\nAt the hearing, Wolfe, who had already warned Whiteside's lawyer of the risk of using a \"psychobabble\" defense, pressed a senior psychiatrist at Walter Reed to justify his diagnosis.\n\"I'm not here to play legal games,\" Colonel George Brandt responded angrily, according to a recording of the hearing. \"I am here out of the genuine concern for a human being that's breaking and that is broken. She has a severe and significant illness. Let's treat her as a human being.\"\nIn recent months, prodded by outrage over poor conditions at Walter Reed, the Army has made a highly publicized effort to improve treatment of Iraq veterans and change a culture that stigmatizes mental illness.\nThe Pentagon has allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to new research and to care for soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder, and on Friday announced that it had opened a new center for psychological health in Arlington, Va.\nBut outside the Pentagon, the military still largely deals with mental health issues in an ad hoc way, often relying on the judgment of combat-hardened commanders whose understanding of mental illness is vague or misinformed. The stigma around psychological wounds can still be seen in the smallest of Army policies.\nWhile family members of soldiers recovering at Walter Reed from physical injuries are provided free lodging and a per diem to care for their loved ones, families of psychiatric outpatients usually have to pay their own way.\n\"It's a disgrace,\" said Tom Whiteside, a former Marine and retired federal law enforcement officer who lost his free housing after his daughter's physical wounds had healed enough that she could be moved to the psychiatric ward. A charity organization, the Yellow Ribbon Fund, provides him with an apartment near Walter Reed so he can be near his daughter.\nUnder military law, soldiers who attempt suicide can be prosecuted under the theory that it affects the order and discipline of a unit and brings discredit to the armed forces. In reality, criminal charges are extremely rare unless there is evidence that the attempt was an effort to avoid service or endangered others.\nAt one point, Whiteside almost accepted the Army's offer to resign in lieu of court-martial. But it meant she would have to explain for the rest of her life why she was not given an honorable discharge. Her lawyer also believed that she would have been left without the medical care and benefits she needed.\nNo decision has yet been made on whether Whiteside's case will proceed to court-martial. The commander of the US Army Military District of Washington, Major General Richard Rowe Jr., who has jurisdiction over the case, \"must determine whether there is sufficient evidence to support the charges against Lieutenant Whiteside and recommend how to dispose of the charges,\" said his spokesman.\nWhiteside became executive officer of an Army support unit in 2005. She was eventually assigned as a platoon leader in the 329th Medical Company (Ground Ambulance) at the Camp Cropper detainee prison near Baghdad International Airport.\nWhiteside, given the radio handle \"Trauma Mama,\" supervised nine medics who worked the night shift at the prison.\nThe hours were brutal. Whiteside ate one meal a day, slept in two four-hour shifts and worked seven days a week. Her superiors credited her for her unit's success.\nBut the dynamics outside her unit were rockier. From the beginning, Whiteside and some of her female soldiers had conflicts with one of the company's male officers. They believed he hindered female promotions and undercut Whiteside's authority with her soldiers, according to Army investigative documents.\nAs the tensions with the officer increased, Whiteside said, she began suffering panic attacks. She stopped sleeping, she said, and started self-medicating with NyQuil and Benadryl.\nInvestigators said Whiteside was later found with blood on her neck and hands. When armed soldiers approached her, she discharged her weapon into her stomach.\nAt Walter Reed, Whiteside was diagnosed with a severe major depressive disorder and a personality disorder.\nTom Whiteside said the criminal charges threatened to unglue his daughter's already tenuous grip on recovery. \"If they are doing this to her, what are they doing to those young PFCs without parents by their side?\" he asked.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Twenty-five percent of 800 tested sunscreens are effective at protecting your skin without the use of potentially harmful ingredients, according to the 2012 Sunscreen Guide released Wednesday by the Environmental Working Group.\nYou've been told a trillion times not to buy produce out of season. But that doesn't mean you have to skip the fruits you love this time of year. It's just a matter of knowing which version is the healthiest and tastiest.\nThey say that wild salmon is best, but what if you can't always get wild salmon? Is it safe to eat farm-raised or do you just not eat it ? I see farm-raised from Canada and always think maybe that's better, but is it?\nMothers sit propped against pillows and gym mats at the \"Real Birth\" baby clinic in New York City. It's a sea of unwashed hair, women of various ages and professions, complicit smiles and apologies for not looking more put together. The diverse women share a common drive: the desire to breast-feed their babies. They believe it's the best nutrition, but they have difficulty, for reasons ranging from low milk production to adopted babies to problems with some babies latching on.\nThere are few sure ways to avoid ingesting perchlorate, the chemical used in rocket fuel that researchers have detected in breast milk at levels five to eight times higher than those considered safe, experts say.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Last edited 11:58 a.m., July 8, 2021\nA six-story office complex is in the works in south Springfield.\nBiBi Investments and Development LLC is slated to develop a 41,000-square-foot building at 4103 S. National Ave., located at the southwest corner of James River Freeway and National Avenue, said Brent Stevens, principal with project architect H Design Group LLC.\n\"The building is being set up as shell office space for future tenants,\" he said via email of the project called BiBi Office Complex.\nBase Construction & Management LLC is serving as general contractor for the project, Stevens said. With views of Medical Mile, the building is designed with natural daylighting and a patterned brick facade.\nConstruction is slated to wrap by early 2023, and the project cost is undisclosed, Stevens said. The building would sit on the north side of the Los Cabos Mexican Grill and Cantina parking lot, he said, noting minor demolition would be conducted to make way for the project.\nThe developer, who does not wish to be identified, is in talks with multiple potential tenants including corporations, a bank, equity firms, and medical and law firms, Stevens added. Thessing Commercial Realty is serving as the listing agent.\nThe city of Springfield has released a draft of its comprehensive plan for the next 20 years.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- Special Sections\n- Public Notices\nCentral Hardin High School students Kaity Pashetto and Jakob Burnham were guests at the Elizabethtown Rotary Club meeting Sept. 6. Pictured from the left are Jakob Burnham, Central Hardin High School counselor Kim Kardin and Kaity Pashetto.\nIf you currently subscribe or have subscribed in the past to the The News Enterprise, then simply find your account number on your mailing label and enter it below.\nClick the question mark below to see where your account ID appears on your mailing label.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Bresha Meadows takes plea deal, expected release in 2018\nThe court proceedings that spurred the #FreeBresha movement have come to a close. Bresha Meadows‘s supporters, including her family and attorneys, attested that she shot her abusive father in an act of self-defense. To reunite with her family, she’s made a deal that could see her return home much sooner.\nMeadows, 15, has accepted a plea of “true” to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of her father. She was sentenced to one year and a day in the custody of the Department of Youth Services, including time already served, and six months at a mental health facility, according to WFMJ.\n“Today is a good day,” Bresha said while hugging her family after the hearing.\nTo date, the teenager has been in custody for 10 months. Given her time in custody so far, NBC reports that she’s set to be transferred to the Bellfaire JCB residential treatment center on July 29th for mental health treatment.\nDespite multiple claims of abuse from her mother, Bresha was initially facing charges of aggravated murder and was at risk of being charged as an adult.\n“In the 17 years of our marriage, he has cut me, broke my ribs, fingers, the blood vessels in my hand, my mouth, blackened my eyes. I believe my nose was broken,” Brandi Meadows wrote. “If he finds us, I am 100 percent sure he will kill me and the children…My life is like living in a box he created for me, and if I stepped out of that box, he’s there to put me back in that box.”\nAnti-domestic violence activists argued that Meadows shouldn’t have remained in custody even this long. They felt that her story reflected a narrative where survivors of domestic violence, including young ones, are punished for defending themselves and protecting their lives. Regardless, Meadows’ family view the plea deal as a reason to celebrate.\n“She smiled today, and for the first time you really felt that smile was genuine. She started to talk about her future for the first time,” said defense attorney Ian Friedman. “And she’s pleased to know that her case may help other kids in her same situation.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In 2020, the European Commission began a review of the EU’s rules on blood, tissues and cells (BTC) used for medical treatments and therapies. Now the Commission has published a draft legislative proposal to amend the rules.\nThe proposal does not recommend a complete overhaul: the EU will not change its definitions of blood, tissue and cell products. Yet it does promise a significant update to the two Directives published in the early 2000s that continue to govern the use of BTC components in the EU. Most importantly, the proposed legislation would be packaged as a Regulation rather than a Directive, meaning it would have a direct effect in the Member States.\nThe legislation sets out quality and safety requirements for all activities from donation to human application (unless the donations are used to manufacture medicinal products or medical devices, in which case the legislation only applies to donation, collection and testing).\nIn its press release, the European Commission states that every year, EU patients are treated with 25 million blood transfusions (during surgery, emergency, cancer or other care), a million cycles of medically assisted reproduction, over 35,000 transplants of stem cells (mainly for blood cancers) and hundred thousands of replacement tissues (e.g., for orthopedic, skin, cardiac or eye problems). These therapies are only available thanks to the willingness of fellow citizens to make altruistic donations.\nIn the EU, the collection, processing and supply of each individual unit is typically organized on a local small-scale by public services, (academic) hospitals and non-profit actors.\nAfter almost 20 years in place, the legislation no longer addresses the scientific and technical state of the art and needs to be updated to take into account developments that have taken place in the sector.\nHow is the Commission planning to change BTC legislation in the EU? Here are three key takeaways from the draft proposal.\nThe tissue and cell directive currently in force explicitly permits the Member States to compensate donors of tissue and cell products for their trouble. The corresponding blood Directive, however, contains no such provision: in its absence, different countries have developed their own guidelines on blood donor compensation.\nThat disparity is addressed in the draft Regulation, which would allow the Member States to reimburse donors of all human-derived products ‘for losses related to their participation in a donation through fixed-rate allowances.’ Improving access to plasma donation, advocates of compensation schemes hope, could help the EU to bolster its patchy stockpiles of the essential fluid.\nThe Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated the fragility of healthcare networks that rely heavily on external sources for their products. Supply chain disruptions are a particular threat to the availability of plasma-derived medicines in the bloc since much of the EU’s plasma is imported from the USA.\nWith this in mind, the Commission wants the Member States to develop emergency plans to cope with supply shocks. Countries would be required to maintain lines of communication that could be used in emergencies, establish authorities responsible for distribution in critical situations, and detect risks to their continued access to substances of human origin.\nAs might be expected, the draft Regulation introduces measures to protect the health and privacy of donors and donees. Screening is mandated to prevent patients from receiving diseased blood or cancerous cells. Technical systems should be in place to preserve the anonymity of all parties to a BTC transfer.\nThe burden of safeguarding is particularly heavy where assisted reproduction is concerned. It would be up to the Member States, under the draft legislation, to detect and mitigate genetic risks posed by donated reproductive cells.\nIf approved, it is thought that the revisions will be endorsed by 2023, with implementation beginning in 2024.\nFor further information, please contact Julia Gillert of our London office.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "…Says Decision aims at checking impunity, disaffection amongst members\nBy BOLUWAJI OBAHOPO, LOKOJA\nThe Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Kogi West Senatorial District has said no aspirant would be granted automatic ticket for any elective position in the 2019 general election.\nThe party also said it will not sponsor any candidate that emerge for the elections, said any aspirant who energed as candidate should be ready to finance their election.\nThe party decisions were taken at the residence of General David Jemibewon, (a member of the board of Trustee of the party) at Aiyetoro Gbedde at a meeting of major stakeholders and Party Executives of the party of the district.\nThe stakeholders meeting in a communiqué after the meeting resolved that a level playing field would however be created for all aspirants to slug it out for the party’s ticket in a free and fair primaries.\nThe communiqué read apart, “The decision is taken in the best interest of the party towards ensuring that it discourages impunity and any action that may likely create disaffection amongst it members.\n“We however urged newly joined members of the party to be ready to slug it out in a free and fair contest with the older members of the party; a level playing field would be created for the primaries.\n“We advised all aspirants to be ready to fund their election, no aspirant should expect manner from heaven, aspirants should therefore strive for effective funding of their elections, and appealed to all aspirants to be of good conduct, work and abide by the party’s rules and regulations.”\nThe PDP also condemned the conduct of INEC at the just concluded Lokoja/Kogi Federal Constituency election, described the election as a sham for falling below minimum standard, “We expressed worries at the level of violence during the election, fingered the state government for using political thugs, and security agencies to affect the integrity of the bye election.\n“We called on the federal government to put in place machinery that would forestall future occurrence, if such measures are not put in place, people would have no choice but to take laws into their hands.”\nSome of the major stakeholders at the meeting include: Gen. David Jemibewon, BoT Member of the party, Chief Sam Akande, former deputy governor, Sen. Tunde Ogbeha, Hon. Musa Ahmadu, Shola Akanmode, Chief Abiodun Ojo, Shola Ojo, Alh Hassan Salahu, Sam Abenemi, PDP Deputy Chairman. Mrs Margret Orebiyi, Bar. Kola Ojo, All Kogi West Zonal Executives, and all the seven Local government areas party chairmen in the district amongst others.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Darryl Boyce says he's proof that the war on drugs can only be won one life at a time.\nA one-time middle-school dope dealer and gang-banger, today Boyce is a 28-year-old community organizer for an anti-drug organization. Boyce wrote this poem to his father, a former crack dealer now serving time in a New York state prison.\nBoyce was on track to end up like his father — until he met a woman at his school one day who worked for a group called San Antonio Fighting Back.\nHe describes that meeting:\n\"She came to me. She said, 'I know who you are and I know what you're doing. I want you to come volunteer for my program.' And I was like, 'Lady, get out of my face. Please, I'm out here making $2,000 a day basically selling drugs, so why would I go anywhere and volunteer for free?' Well, Linda came to me and she said, 'You can do better for yourself.'\"\nThat was Linda Tippins, who is still with San Antonio Fighting Back; she's now the group's executive vice president. She believes there is potential in every child to be the kind of leader Darryl Boyce has become.\n\"When Darryl found out that he could be a leader, when Darryl found out there was something positive other than what he was doing, Darryl [said], 'I want to be on the other side; I don't want to be on this side, where I eventually may go to jail,'\" says Tippins.\nA Holistic Approach\nNow 17 years old, San Antonio Fighting Back is one of the best-known of some 700 community anti-drug coalitions around the nation. Located in a working-class section of East San Antonio lined with clapboard houses and mom and pop stores, the group works at the grassroots level to reduce demand for illegal drugs.\nThe coalition has helped reduce drug-related crime and alcohol-related fatal crashes, and increase the number of residents seeking substance-abuse treatment. The improvements are not particularly dramatic — few are in drug-prevention programs — but they're tangible.\nChairman Willie Mitchell explains, \"I see that people are starting to take over their neighborhoods, they're starting to come to neighborhood association meetings. They're starting to report drug use in their neighborhood. That's what I see, where they wouldn't do it before.\"\nA construction company owner and former professional football player, Mitchell is now sought out by other cities as an expert in building community anti-drug programs.\n\"The only thing I've learned that works is that it has to be a holistic approach,\" he says. \"You have no one program that's going to do it. It takes a multitude of programs. And you have to get grassroots people involved in making change.\"\nThe approach which the group has learned works includes a little bit of everything: parent anti-drug education, peer-to-peer counseling, drug courts, a halfway house.\nBoyce's activities include a recent presentation on methamphetamine to a gathering of clergy who were interested in warning their congregations. His group also produces public service announcements and works in local schools, giving presentations to children as early as kindergarten.\nFor San Antonio and other communities, treatment is another critical component of reducing demand. It also brings down the social costs of drug addiction, such as crime and hospitalization.\nPeter Reuter, a longtime drug policy researcher at the University of Maryland, says studies show that treatment — even \"not very good\" treatment — is cost effective.\n\"Just getting people to cut down from using heroin three times a day to just twice a week, which is what you get while people are in treatment, will cut down on their criminality a lot,\" he says. \"That reduction in crime has huge value, and the cost of providing treatment — particularly not very good treatment — isn't very high. Locking people up is very expensive.\"\nPrevention or Law Enforcement?\nFor years, Latin Americans have been asking the United States to fight drug abuse at home as aggressively as it fights smuggling abroad.\nAfter Mexican President Felipe Calderon brought the issue up again last month, President Bush agreed it is important. \"The United States has a responsibility in the fight against drugs,\" Mr. Bush said, \"and one major responsibility is to encourage people to use less drugs. When there's demand there is supply.\"\nYet for most of the 38-year war on drugs, the United States has put more federal resources into foreign operations and law enforcement than into demand reduction at home. According to experts, only a combination of strategies will work.\nCommunity anti-drug activists know they can't do it alone. The threat of a jail cell is often necessary to get an addict into treatment. And neighborhoods can't turn around without police targeting crack houses, open-air drug markets and violent dealers.\nWillie Mitchell is passionate on this question.\n\"If you don't have the demand, the supply is no good,\" he says, adding, \"If the demand is going to be there, the drug is still going to get here, because there's money generated. That's the whole key.\"\n'It's the American Consumer Fueling the Situation'\nMitchell has never met Jim Shedd. They've both fought the drug war in their own way, thousands of miles apart. And they've both reached the same conclusion. Shedd served as a Drug Enforcement Administration supervisory special agent in the U.S. embassy in Bogota, Colombia, in the late 1990s.\n\"I went there thinking it's us versus them. They're the bad guys. They're the ones who are polluting our country,\" Shedd says. \"And I came back with, I think, a more realistic understanding. I came back with the view that it's the American consumer that's fueling the situation. If people don't like Cadillacs, then General Motors wouldn't put it out there.\"\nThe White House Office on National Drug Control Policy asserts that it attempts to strike a balance between controlling the supply of dangerous drugs, and reducing demand. A spokesman points out that their current proposed budget includes large requests for coalitions like San Antonio Fighting Back, and for a national anti-drug media campaign — as well as money to fight the opium trade in Afghanistan, and for more federal agents along the U.S.-Mexico border.\nDavid Murray, a top policy adviser, insists this administration aggressively supports prevention efforts.\n\"The U.S. makes an unfortunate contribution to the world of drug use,\" Murray says. \"We are the largest consumer. Demand reduction in the U.S. is a primary vehicle for cutting off the value, the profits and proceeds, the violence, the damage that drugs do.\"\nCase for Prevention Harder to Make\nThe numbers tell a different story. Even as the overall commitment to the drug war has shrunk (because of the demands of the war on terrorism), the Bush administration continues a decades-old trend that favors supply control.\nOver the past six years, total federal resources dedicated to prevention and treatment have shrunk from 45 percent to 36 percent, while interdiction and foreign operations have grown correspondingly. That's according to an analysis published by John Carnevale, a former drug-budget official who served under three presidents and four drug czars.\n\"Under this drug czar, demand reduction has been deemphasized heavily,\" Carnevale says, \"and I think that's done great harm to our ability to respond to drug problems.\"\nCops can go before a congressional appropriations subcommittee and brag about tons of cocaine seized and traffickers convicted. Prevention has a harder time making its case.\nIt's difficult even for a success story like San Antonio Fighting Back to prove its accomplishments. And the program has a unique set of circumstances — such as strong leadership and 17 years of experience — that might not make it replicable elsewhere.\nA Message of Life and Death\nUniversity of Michigan scientist Lloyd Johnston directs the ongoing Monitoring the Future survey. For three decades, the study has tried to understand youth values and behavior -– and how to keep kids off drugs.\nYou can't accomplish much with supply reduction,\" Johnson says, adding, \"I don't think it's easy to reduce demand, either — so it's going to take a lot of work and a lot of creativity. But at least I think there's the potential there.\"\nJohnston says the most potent anti-drug message, sadly, is life and death. In 1986, top NBA draft pick Len Bias fatally overdosed on cocaine. Johnston says he watched in astonishment as cocaine use among youth dropped off 75 percent over the next several years.\n\"That's the trick,\" he says. \"Can you get that information convincingly to young people — without their having to have their own epidemic and find out the hard way?\"\nClimbing Out of Addiction\nJeffrey Pergament was 15 when he began a drug habit that continued every day for 34 years.\n\"I never wanted to sleep,\" he says. \"I loved life. I just wanted to be up all the time. Let me live a Hugh Heffner/Salvador Dali/hedonistic, self-indulgent lifestyle until the bills were due — and then I'd disappear. And that's how I lived.\"\nThese days, Pergament is an arts educator in Philadelphia and a recovering cocaine addict. Now 56, with gray, hippie-length hair and a subversive twinkle in his eyes, he says he's been drug-free for more than six years.\nAfter going to jail for a hot-check charge in 2000, Pergament attended his first Cocaine Anonymous 12-step meeting. Today, he sponsors other recovering addicts.\n\"I make them put a note on the bathroom mirror,\" he says. \"And the note says, 'You're looking at the problem.' When they call me up and complain about something, I say, 'Well, did you look at that note? If not, go back and read that note, and then call me back.'\"\nPergament has given much thought to the war on drugs — from spraying coca in Colombia to arresting addicts in Philly.\n\"To ultimately win the war,\" he says, \"we must deal with recovery and spiritual growth and development, and hold people accountable for their actions — and stop incarcerating people and making them more professional at being unlawful.\"\nThe United States will soon surpass a mile marker in the war on drugs—nearly a half-million drug prisoners are now locked up in local, state and federal jails, according to Peter Reuter. That's 10 times as many as in 1980 — and more people than Western Europe locks up for all criminal offenses combined.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "UK Government Guarantees Ineos Grangemouth Bonds\nThe Government has given a £230 million loan guarantee to secure the future of Grangemouth in a move that is being seen as highly political, as well as economic, just two months before the Scottish independence referendum.\nThe Treasury announced that Ineos, the Swiss owners of the Falkirk-based petrochemicals plant, had won one of the few loans under the UK Guarantee Scheme, designed by the Coalition to back its plans to unleash £375 billion of infrastructure projects.\nThe deal, which will secure thousands of Scottish jobs, will allow Ineos to raise Government-backed debt financing that will be used to fund the construction of the biggest ethane tank in Europe.\nJim Ratcliffe, the chairman of Ineos who threatened to close the plant last year amid an industrial dispute, said the tank was vital to allow the company to import cheap American shale gas which will make the plant economically viable.\n\"Our ability to import shale gas underpins the future of manufacturing at Grangemouth and across many businesses in Scotland,\" he said. \"It is a vital step towards preserving the long term future of the Grangemouth site and those businesses that depend upon its continued presence in Scotland.\"\nGeorge Osborne said the guarantee was part of the Government's plan to \"equip the whole country with the infrastructure it needs to compete.\" In a more obvious attack on the SNP, he added that the deal was \"only possible because of the credibility of the UK Government's balance sheet.\" He said the loan would allow Grangemouth to \"provide essential raw materials to industries across the UK\" and would \"secure thousands of skilled, well-paid, long-term jobs for the future.\"\nIneos has already launched a £300 million investment program designed to keep Grangemouth open beyond 2017 after winning a bitter industrial dispute last October which nearly closed the plant.\nThe plan to return the loss-making site to profit relies on the shipment and storage of ethane from America, which is 75% cheaper because of the shale gas revolution. Ineos has agreed a long-term to run its KG chemical cracker at full capacity of 700,000 t/y - twice the rate currently possible due to the decline in gas feedstocks coming out of the North Sea.\nGrangemouth was one of more than 40 projects to have already gained \"prequalified\" status, or eligibility for the UK Guarantee scheme. However, although many have spent two years on the waiting list, so far Drax Power Station and the Mersey Gateway Bridge have been among the very few projects to be actually processed.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Yakima democrats prepare for Saturday's caucus\nYAKIMA COUNTY, Wash. -- Yakima County democrats hope Bernie Sanders' visit will encourage more people to caucus on Saturday.\nThe caucuses will help determine which presidential candidate will be the democratic nominee.\nPeople will meet at 18 caucus locations across the county Saturday morning at 10 a.m.\nParticipants will break up into groups at their precinct and cast tallies. The tallies will determine how to allot delegates to each candidate.\n\"We tend to forget, as voters, about the initial vote, about the initial step. Everybody's going to be concentrated on the general election, but this process will determine whether we see Bernie Sanders on the ticket or whether we see Hillary Clinton on the ticket,\" Yakima County Democratic Central Committee Chair Susan Palmer said.\nAnyone who considers themselves to be a democrat can attend the caucuses. But only registered voters or people who turn 18 before the November election can cast tallies during the caucus.\nPrecinct locations will have voter registration forms on site so you can register and participate on Saturday.\nCaucuses could take a couple of hours depending on how many people show up.\nTo see a list of precinct locations, click here.\nTo find out which precinct you live in and pre-register, click here.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Ziomara Nazario looked up at Worcester Police Sgt. Jason Gaumond. Tears fell as she told the officer that police are doing a great job cleaning up the section of the city known as Main South.\nThe compliment took Gaumond by surprise considering he had just arrested Nazario for crack possession.\n\"The cops are cleaning up the streets little by little,\" Nazario said, her hands in cuffs. \"The addiction out there, the fentanyl, the drugs, it's crazy.\"\nThe 31-year-old who has struggled with drug addiction for eight years was caught as the Worcester Police Department's Neighborhood Response Team spent a recent Wednesday addressing drug dealing, prostitution and quality of life issues in Main South.\n\"I know I need help,\" she said, weeping loudly as the police wagon showed up.\nGaumond quickly grabbed the police radio on his shoulder.\n\"You need help?\" he asked Nazario. Within seconds he arranged for an officer to talk to Nazario about drug treatment once she reached the station.\nThe Neighborhood Response Team employs the boots on the ground theory to police work. Officers on the streets talk to local business owners to establish relationships, learn about neighborhood issues and help address those problems.\nMembers of the roughly 10-officer team attend crime watch meetings for seven Neighborhood Watch groups in Main South. The team covers other areas of the city as well, but of the more than 300 arrests made by the NRT, 75 percent have been in Main South.\nThe team has made 40 arrests in Main South between June 1 and Aug. 1. The majority of the arrests are for street-level drug dealing, but also trespassing, prostitution and warrants.\nLast year, police conducted several prostitution stings in Main South in an effort to address the issue.\nMain South has seen improvements thanks to the partnerships between the city and Clark University, the programs in University Park, the work of the Boys & Girls Club and YMCA, as well as the new housing created by the Main South Community Development Corporation.\nBut the longstanding issues of prostitution and drug dealing remain in Main South. Families feel safer heading to University Park and walking the streets, but the crime still has them looking over their shoulders.\n\"Most of the primary issues we get from the Neighborhood Watch meetings and some of the community organizations down there as well as the residents is quality of life issues, the big ones are street-level drug dealing, street-level drug use, trespassing, loitering, a big issue with opiate problems and the homeless,\" Lt. David Doherty.\nSome of Worcester police's presence in Main South is easily seen. Officers Luis Baez and Sean Lovely Sr. are constantly chatting with residents and business owners.\nBut there are officers in the shadows as well, hiding in discreet locations and driving unsuspecting cars.\nIt was that undercover work that resulted in Nazario's arrest. She was seen with a suspected dealer moments earlier.\n\"Yep, he's dealing,\" Gaumond said over the radio after Baez pointed out a suspected drug buy.\n\"They are still dealing,\" the 23-year veteran officer said. \"They are hiding more. They aren't doing it as open as they used to.\"\nThe cat and mouse game began. Officer Neftali Batista and Gaumond circled the area in unmarked cars and Baez continued surveillance. The suspected dealer slipped into a Murray Avenue building, but officers knew where Nazario went.\nGaumond continued to circle around behind Main Street. A woman on Murray Avenue twitched, her body convulsing as she hugged a mailbox. The movements were the telltale sign of drug use.\nEven though the officers see the underbelly of Main South more than others, they see the changes as well. Decades earlier, the area was depressed.\n\"There is a big difference down here for sure,\" Gaumond said. \"It's a lot better than what it was years ago. It has improved quality of life-wise. There aren't as many abandoned houses. There is still prostitution, but it isn't a blatant as it used to be. The drug dealing, street-level, has gone down.\"\nThe Neighborhood Response Team stopped at the Odd Fellows building on Main Street as a group of men smoked cigarettes and ate food on the front steps. Two men were put in handcuffs for trespassing.\nBatista then pointed at the mess of food left on the steps.\n\"The people that live here, they don't deserve that,\" he said. \"Look at the mess left here.\"\nGaumond hopped in his unmarked car and took a drive over to the Concordia Lutheran Church on Murray Avenue. The pastor said people were dealing drugs near the church.\nThe drug dealing stopped near the church with one simple step.\nPolice noticed the dealers were using the overgrown trees on the streets as cover, so Gaumond called the city's Public Works and Parks Department and had the trees trimmed.\n\"The good people in the neighborhood, they appreciate what we do,\" he said. \"You see them give us a thumbs up or a head nod. It's rewarding.\"\nOfficer Sean Lovely Sr. knows Main South well. The officer's family has decades of history here.\nLovely swiveled his head as he drove in marked cruiser down a side road in Main South. He noticed a man he knows has issues with heroin use. Lovely checks on him from time to time and reports back to the man's social worker.\n\"Percy, you need to go to the hospital?\" Lovely asks.\n\"No, I'm good,\" Percy responded while taking a drag from his cigarette. \"People like you, you are good people.\"\nLovely then checked some of the side streets around the area. He began taking mental notes about the blight of trash, mattresses and other items around the Mount Pleasant Street area. The officer will make a call to code enforcement to have the garbage cleaned up.\n\"There are a lot of elements working together,\" he said, noting the work done by police and the investments made by several organizations. \"We've done so much here, there are less opportunities for people to commit crimes.\"\nAfter checking on a home known as a shooting gallery - a place for drug dealers to shoot up - Lovely stopped at St. Peter's Catholic Church on Main Street.\nWithin seconds a woman working at the church told Lovely about a homeless encampment on the church grounds.\nA heavy and thick set of bushes in plain view of anyone passing by on Main Street has a hidden secret. Pillows, clothes and other items were inside a hollowed out section of the bushes.\nThe Rev. Monsignor Francis Scollen met the officer outside. He didn't want the homeless arrested, but agreed with the officer that if seen, the people should be asked to move along.\nA few blocks over, Baez walked along Main Street. He popped into JCA Beauty Supply and the owner, Victoria Wisseh, greeted him with a smile.\nWisseh told Baez a group of people recently stole some items from the store. She wanted the officer to know what was happening in the area.\n\"Sometimes he has meetings with us, he does a good job,\" she said. \"I trust him to tell him anything.\"\nEarning trust is a big reason the officers walk the beat. Baez, who speaks Spanish, was met with handshakes and hugs at some of the stores.\n\"Everything good, no problems?\" Baez asked one storeowner as he passed him in the streets. The man smiled, told him everything was good and shook Baez's hand.\nBehind the counter at Maria's Kitchen, the smell of freshly cooked meals wafted in the air. A woman behind the counter gripped Baez's hands and chatted with him in Spanish.\n\"For the most part people will let me know if there is something going on,\" Baez said.\nPolice work with the city's Quality of Life Team and their down Crisis Intervention Team to help drug users and prostitutes receive treatment. Without offering some help, the cycle is just going to continue, Worcester Police Chief Steven Sargent said.\nThe officers on the streets show the residents the city is invested in the area, the chief said. The relationship building is helping police respond to issues and residents feel that they do have someone they can reach out to for help.\nLittle things are being done in Main South to help the area and police. LED lights help save the city money, but city officials found the increased lighting has reduced crimes in other cities.\n\"This is old school policing. We are working with the people in the neighborhoods,\" Sargent said. \"If our officers feel responsible for the neighborhoods, the neighborhoods feel responsible for our officers.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "\"Far and Near Korea\" book published in Baku\nAzerbaijan, Baku, April 4 /Trend S.Agayeva/\nBaku hosted a presentation of Far and Near Korea book in the days of the 20th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Korea and Azerbaijan.\nThe authors of the book are the head of the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan Faig Shahbazov and assistant professor of the Azerbaijan Pedagogical University Agtay Alkhasov.\n\"This year the two countries celebrate the 20th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations. A good progress is achieved in bilateral relations during this period,\" Ambassador of Korea to Azerbaijan Lee Ji Ha said at a presentation.\nLee Ji Ha noted that the new book might be a good guide for Azerbaijanis in Korea and will provide an opportunity to get more information about the country.\nLee Ji Ha added that Azerbaijan and Korea have historical roots and similar culture. Historically, people of both countries were divided into two parts and both nations faced with similar problems. Based on these facts, the ambassador called the two countries both near and far.\nThe electronic version of the book is available on the website of the Embassy of Korea in Azerbaijan.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Tags: House T&I CommitteeKnife River Corp.\nDuring the past 11 years, Knife River Corp. has reduced its injury and illness rates by 83 percent, according to the company. In 2010, Knife River’s overall recordable-incident rate was 2.19, down 19 percent from 2009 and 50 percent ...\nSUBSCRIBE & FOLLOW\n- Product of the Week: Cat 988K loader511 Views\n- NSSGA names Michael W. Johnson as president, CEO212 Views\n- Supreme Court rules in favor of Vulcan mining project in Virginia179 Views\n- Rock quarry owner proposes expansion in Sitka, Alaska115 Views\n- Brant City Council approves water report for Dufferin gravel pit111 Views", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Share this article:\nDamaging wind incidents can occur with a few of the thunderstorms forecast Saturday from the northern and western Philadelphia and New York City suburbs to part of the St. Lawrence Valley.\nMetro areas that could be affected by the gusty, drenching thunderstorms Saturday afternoon and evening include Reading, Allentown and Scranton, Pa.; Albany, Binghamton and Syracuse, N.Y.; Burlington and Rutland, Vt. and Ottawa and Montreal, Canada.\nA strong cool front will push out of the Midwest and into the northern and central Appalachians during Saturday. Warmth will build ahead of the front, making the atmosphere unstable. As thunderstorms poke up into a zone of strong winds, downdrafts can bring gusts between 50 and 60 mph in a few locations.\nAccording to AccuWeather.com Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams, \"The severe weather event Saturday will not be nearly as widespread as this past Tuesday, but it has the potential to bring downed trees and power lines in some neighborhoods that did not experience problems recently.\"\nThe setup appears to taking shape as a straight-line wind event and not one that favors tornadoes. However, occasionally, a brief tornado can be produced in a severe thunderstorm.\nStraight-line winds can tear off shingles, push a tree into your home and cause other property damage.\nSince it is a weekend, there are many sporting events taking place, such as football, baseball, golf, soccer, field hockey and cross country.\nSpectators will want to have a rain poncho at their disposal, despite the breezy, warm, humid feel to the day.FYI:\nTake shelter indoors, in your vehicle or under a stadium superstructure as storms approach, due to the risk of a lightning strike.\nAvoid parking your vehicle, or standing under a canopy of trees due to the risk of large limbs coming down during strong wind gusts.\nTents, trees and golf carts do not provide protection from a lightning strike.\n\"The main energy for the storms will lift northeastward,\" Abrams said, \"For that reason we do not expect widespread severe weather reaching from Washington, D.C. and Richmond to Boston.\"\nHowever, spotty, less intense storms can reach these locations with localized downpours and brief wind gusts. The storms may also remain strong after dark as they cross northern New Hampshire, northwestern Maine and the eastern townships of Quebec.\nKeep checking in at AccuWeather.com for updates.\nMuch cooler air will roll eastward during the weekend. The cool air will make its presence known in the central Appalachians Saturday evening and then areas farther east by Sunday.\nComments that don't add to the conversation may be automatically or manually removed by Facebook or AccuWeather. Profanity, personal attacks, and spam will not be tolerated.\nA new tropical threat in the western Pacific Ocean will heighten the risk for flooding across the Ryukyu Islands and parts of eastern China over the next several days.\nAn area of downpours with a history of flash flooding will shift eastward to end this week then settle southward this weekend over the central United States.\nFlooding will continue to be a significant concern along the west coast of India from southern Maharashtra through Kerala into this weekend.\nFlorida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency for the ongoing toxic red tide bloom. The algae bloom is largely responsible for the deaths of tons of marine life on the state’s west coast.\nIn recent days, winds have been lifting and carrying smoke particles all the way across the country and landing in places like New York City.\nAfter a hot summer for much of western Europe and parts of the British Isles, warmth will keep on rolling into autumn.\nThe slow-moving tropical storm will bring a high risk for flooding and mudslides to parts of China and Vietnam into this weekend.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "We have twelve years to save the planet. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we have less than two decades to make the significant strides necessary to avoid catastrophic and truly irreversible impacts of global climate change accelerated by our use of fossil fuels.\nThat is just one of the headlines coming from the 24th annual meeting of the United National Framework convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) taking place in Katowice, Poland (COP24). The event has put the world’s biggest challenge front and center once again. Though climate change and its impacts need little help grabbing headlines, the conference is a good reminder of the global community’s shared responsibility for altering the unsustainable and catastrophic trajectory on which we currently find ourselves.\nI’ve Got a Bad Feeling About This\nWithout question, the news on global climate continues triggering alarms. Energy demand jumped in 2017 after years of remaining relatively flat, and efficiency levels dropped. The combination of the two lead to a dramatic spike in global greenhouse gas emissions despite renewable energy output rising 6 percent compared to coal and natural gas demand rising one and three percent, respectively. Add to that the fact that the last four years have been the hottest since record keeping began, this year is shaping up to best them all. In short, we’re failing. Badly.\nAdding insult to injury was the failure of COP24 participants to adopt the IPCC’s landmark scientific report briefly mentioned above. The report, released in October, shows just how perilously close the world is to destroying itself. It concludes the world is on track to shatter the 1.5 degree Celsius threshold that will trigger irreversible impacts of global climate change. COP24 was prepared to welcome the report and its findings, which would have stressed the urgency of the situation and continued the momentum of the 2015 Paris Agreement. But the United States, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait objected and demanded the report only be “noted” instead of “welcomed.” The result is that text referring to the pivotal report has been dropped altogether.\nHowever, failure to adopt the report does not diminish its importance in the eyes of the rest of the global community. Unfortunately it highlight’s America’s continued retreat from global leadership and its current trajectory of weakness that began when it announced its intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Given the withdrawal’s basis in faulty logic, half-truths, and misleading statements, it comes as no surprise to find the global community taking the United States less seriously on everything.\nNow For the Good News\nWhile the world’s largest economy and greenhouse gas emitter by historic standards sits idly by, the rest of the world continues dealing with reality as it is. There are good reasons for hope and optimism. Earlier this year the European Union announced its commitment to 32 percent renewable energy target by 2030 under a legally binding framework. Non-OECD countries (essentially those not deemed “developed”) have taken the lead in renewable energy installations. According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s annual Climatescope, developing countries are bringing more new renewable energy generation than they are fossil fuel-based generation and outpacing developed countries to boot.\nAnd for those who feel the transition to a more sustainable energy future is not happening fast enough (this writer is one of them), a recent study from the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment concluded that almost 140 countries could aggressively transition to a 100 percent renewables-based electricity system. Doing so would require an almost unprecedented level of infrastructure investment, but it also has the potential to create millions of jobs, save money, and make serious progress on the challenge of climate change. What’s more, this aggressive transition would pair nicely with the global retreat from coal-fired generation. Carbon Tracker Institute recently documented coal’s dire global predicament with its “Powering Down Coal” report and interactive web portal. Demonstrating coal’s difficult road ahead: 42 percent of the global stock of coal-fired generation has been unprofitable this year, a trend which will reach 72 percent by 2040 and one that is consistent with the current reality for US-based coal and nuclear plants.\nIn fact, coal plant retirement in the United States in 2018 has only been outpaced by retirements in 2015, which is a large reason why carbon emissions in the United States continue to decline.\nRounding out reasons to be hopeful, I’d be remiss if I did not highlight that Maersk, the global shipping giant, announced its plan to be carbon emission free by 2050. This would be a tremendous step forward for an industry responsible for just over 2 percent of global emissions alone, and that powers itself by burning bunker fuel, some the dirtiest on the planet. Lastly, though it seems like a pittance compared to the monumental task before us, Patagonia’s recent decision to give the proceeds of its $10 million tax cut to environmental groups, underscores that if we all do our bit, we just might have a chance.\nFirst, the important work done at the annual UN climate conference must be stressed and kept in the spotlight year-round. Sign up for newsletters and alerts to keep up with the topic and see the very real impact we are having on our environment.\nSecond, keep perspective. The Trump administration’s position on climate change grabs many headlines and camera flashes. For the second time this year, the entire world audibly laughed at the United States. (The first was at the UN General Assembly in September) But the truth is, there is plenty going on behind the scenes (as there has been for years) to advance real solutions and we should do what we can to be aware of them and support them.\nThird, when a major player such as the United States cedes leadership on a matter of global importance, it underscores the need for everyone to get involved! Just because the federal government is currently too weak and cowardly to take this issue seriously doesn’t prevent others from stepping in to fill the void. Therefore, get involved! Look all around you at what’s going on at levels big and small. Draw inspiration. Throw support behind big names, and throw your time and energy at something in your backyard. Yes, the splashy headline stuff is important and necessary, but so is the next person seeing you do your bit so that they might be inspired to do theirs. And so on. And so on. Get to it. Time’s a wasting.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Abdul Aziz is new MAIS chairman\nSHAH ALAM,. The Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah today consented to present the letter of appointment to Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof as the new chairman of the Selangor Islamic Religious Council (MAIS), effective Friday (Jan 1).\nThe appointment of the former chairman of the Election Commission (EC) was to replace Datuk Mohammed Khusrin Munawi whose tenure would end tomorrow after chairing MAIS since 2018.\nThe appointment was made in a ceremony to present letters of appointment to members of MAIS for the 2021-2023 session, Members of the Board of Trustee for the Selangor Zakat Board (LZS) and the Selangor Syariah High Court Judge at Istana Bukit Kayangan here.\nHe also presented letters of appointment to five new members of MAIS for the 2021-2023 session.\nThey were Selangor Deputy Mufti, Datuk Dr Anhar Opir, former Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Mazlan Mansor, Lembaga Permodalan Wakaf Nasional Berhad chairman Tan Sri Hashim Meon and two members of the Selangor Royal Family.\nThey were Tengku Seri Paduka Shah Bandar, Tengku Datuk Ardy Esfandiari Tengku Abdul Hamid Shah and Datuk Kurnia Bakti Diraja, Datuk Mohd Effendi Abdullah who is also the Pertubuhan Rumah Amal Cahaya Tengku Ampuan Rahimah (RACTAR) honourary treasurer.\nThe new appointments headed by Abdul Aziz, brought the total members of MAIS for the 2021-2023 session to 21 people.\nSultan Sharafuddin also consented to present letters of appointments to 11 Members of the Board of Trustees of LZS for the 2021-2023 sessions headed by its chairman Tan Sri Syed Anwar Syed Jamalullail, deputy chairman Tan Sri Ambrin Buang and Selangor Mufti Datuk Mohd Tamyes Abd Wahid as Member of the Board of Trustees of LZS.\nAll the appointments were effective this Friday until Dec 31, 2023.\nSultan Sharafuddin also handed over the letter of appointment to the new Selangor Syariah High Court Judge, Mohamad Khalid Share @ Shaii, effective Dec 16.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Anti-gambling activists have threatened legal action against the Jockey Club over its unprecedented practice of allowing children to attend daytime race meetings at the Sha Tin racecourse. They accuse the Jockey Club of trying to 'lure' young people into gambling and claim such a move may have breached the club's licensing conditions. But the club argued yesterday that it aimed to show children the positive aspects of horse racing. A dozen representatives from Hong Kong Gambling Watch, a coalition of about 10 local anti-gambling groups, rallied outside the club's headquarters in Happy Valley. Waving placards and shouting slogans, the protesters urged the government to step in to halt the Jockey Club's move, saying the practice was against the administration's anti-gambling policy. At the centre of the row is the club's new arrangement for children to attend daytime race meetings at the Sha Tin racecourse from the new racing season, starting tomorrow. The club said the move was in response to requests by racehorse owners, whose support had helped 'Hong Kong's racing industry to achieve the high international reputation that it has'. The club also said there would be measures to prevent children from placing bets or accessing betting counters. But coalition convenor Reverend Wu Chi-wai said: 'The racecourse is never a place for family day activities when race meetings are under way. Children can easily become addicted to gambling if they often follow their parents to the races.' Reverend Wu also said it was a licensing condition that the club should not allow minors to enter venues where bets were accepted. 'We may consider taking the case to the courts if the club does allow children to attend the Sunday meetings,' he said. The coalition urged the government to step in or it would step up its protests. The Jockey Club is the only authorised operator of horse racing. Similar family fun day arrangements were made in 1999 to mark the new millennium and in 2004 for National Day, events that also drew criticism from anti-gambling groups. In a statement, the Jockey Club said yesterday that many horse owners wanted their children to be allowed to go to race meetings to share the enjoyment of seeing their family's horse compete. The club said their requests were 'reasonable and legitimate', and it would be unreasonable to 'ignore the strong urging of its racehorse owners'. The club also said children were allowed onto racecourses in many countries including Japan, Australia, the United States and Britain. 'There is no evidence in these countries that allowing minors to enter racecourses leads to underage gambling,' the club said. The Home Affairs Bureau, which is in charge of gambling policy, said it was satisfied with the club's arrangements to prevent children from placing bets and thus the club was not violating the licensing conditions. A spokeswoman said the bureau would monitor the situation and review the arrangements with the club if needed.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "New Rules for Product Advertisements on Instagram\nOctober 26, 2020\n[caption id=\"attachment_5586\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\"] Photo Credit: CreativeNature_nl | Getty Images[/caption]\nPublished in The Catalyst Newspaper 2020\nFacebook announced that they will make it hard for Instagram users to hide the fact that they are posting advertisements without specific labeling.\nWhat better place to create exposure for your personal brands or services and potentially reach one billion users but Instagram? Thousands of business owners post content daily to gather more customers to buy from their brand and the app makes it easy for anyone to grow their audience. Instagram caters to business pages by creating tools for call to action, video and photo editing, and insights. But even with these helpers at hand, many business owners and content creators rely on promotions from influencers.\nInstagram influencers are users who share content and are involved in a specific niche or topic, like beauty, food, travel, etc. Depending on how long a user has been contributing to that community, they could gain trust and reliability from a large audience. Because of this trust that was built, businesses see that as an excellent opportunity to get their product in the hands of someone with a huge following base by paying them.\nAccording to CNN’s Hanna Ziady, “Social media influencers with thousands of followers often earn fees from companies to promote their products. Many businesses and major global brands are allocating a growing portion of their advertising budgets to influencer marketing, particularly to reach younger consumers who may not watch television or read newspapers.”\nBecause many businesses are getting their products or services promoted to a large platform, a lot of brands are getting sales and are seeing a huge return on investments from influencer marketing. According to Big Commerce’s Rochelle Bailis, “However, nearly 90% of all marketers find ROI from influencer marketing comparable to or better than other marketing channels.”\nAs this cycle of paying influencers and getting exposure continues, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) recognized that influencers are not saying if their post is an advertisement or not.\n“The CMA said it has been investigating whether too many influencers are posting content about businesses without making it clear where they have been paid or incentivized to do so, amid concerns that the platform was not doing enough to tackle the problem,” Ziady said.\nPosting a product without saying it is promoted can make a follower believe that the influencer uses the product and recommends it to others. Unfortunately, some products are not as good as they seem and affect online buyers.\n“If I see an influencer promoting a product or service, I go to the business website and go straight to the reviews. It’s crazy how some people can be so naive to believe every product someone with a large following post is actually being used every day,” says Zachary Dorcinville, a frequent online shopper.\n“For too long, major platforms have shied away from taking responsibility for hidden advertising on their site,” said Andrea Coscelli, CEO of the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).\nAs a result, Instagram will make users select whether the influencer was paid for the promotion or not and if so, they must click on the “paid promotion” tool. This will help buyers decide if they want to buy an item within paid promotion and could potentially decrease misleading sales. Companies will be able to see who promotes their items and how their items are being promoted across Instagram. Such measures are being seen by UK regulators who want to see a change and spread transparency across the application.\nA spokesperson for Facebook told CNN Business that it is “pleased to be working with the CMA on our continued efforts to help people be transparent about when they are paid to post content on Instagram,” according to Ziady. The spokesperson said Facebook will regularly report to the CMA on its enforcement measures regarding UK users.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Digg never became a billion-dollar company the way that its backers hoped, but founder Kevin Rose has had the good fortune to make early investments in start-ups that have since reached such prominent status.\nIn an interview, he admitted selling Digg shares during the company’s venture capital financing rounds, but said he “did not make a lot of money.” Where Rose did make a lot of money was in his angel investing. “The bulk of my success has been in angel investing,” he said.\nRose invested in Twitter in 2008, and as early as last year the Web messaging services was valued at more than $8 billion. A few years later, Rose said that he sold some of his Twitter stock for an undisclosed sum. Rose also invested in Zynga in 2009 at a reported valuation of $625 million — today the company has a market capitalization of $3.6 billion.\nOther notable investments in which Rose took part include a 2009 funding round of mobile payments company Square, now valued at more than $1 billion; OMGPOP, the mobile video game maker bought by Zynga for $200 million; Foursquare, the popular mobile check in service; Fab, the design sales product site; and Path, the mobile social networking app company founded by Chief Executive Dave Morin, a former Apple and Facebook employee. (For a full list of his investments, check out Rose’s About.me page)\nIf you’re noticing a lot of mobile companies in Rose’s portfolio, there’s good reason for the pattern. Rose has long recognized the transformation that smartphones would bring to technology, say some people who have worked with him, despite the fact that Digg’s mobile products never gained much user traction.\n“What he wanted to accomplish at Digg is being accomplished at a lot of his investments,” says Brian Wong, a former Digg employee and chief executive of Kiip, a mobile gaming rewards company where Rose is an adviser. “There was a huge mobile vision at Digg but it never came to fruition for many various reasons. Who knows what they could’ve done if they had made certain choices?”\nAfter resigning from Digg last year, Rose started up Milk, a mobile product development studio that raised $1.7 million before Rose and his team shut down the company to join Google this March. Rose was initially named a senior product manager on Google+, the company’s social networking project, but was named a partner at Google Ventures.\nRose has a reputation as an innovative thinker who can listen to other people’s ideas and improve them, something that makes him an attractive investor, says Wong. “You sit down with him for ten minutes, tell him your idea, and you’ll see it become something so much greater.”\nRose says that his own intuition guides his investments. “I look for the next big thing,” he said in the interview. “I look for consumer Internet companies that I would use, and getting into them as early as possible.”\nSpencer Ante contributed to this article.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Lessons from History's Largest Crypto Hack: Exclusive Interview with Coincheck's PresidentBy Emily Parker\nLast year, the Japanese exchange Coincheck suffered the largest hack in cryptocurrency history. The incident deeply spooked Japanese authorities, sending a regulatory chill over a country that once looked like a Bitcoin capital. For a long time, Japan had no new exchange licenses or coin listings.\nThen in early 2019, a year after the Coincheck hack, one Japanese exchange finally got a license to operate. That exchange was hacking victim Coincheck, which is now one of the largest in Japan.\nIn this exclusive interview, Coincheck President Toshihiko Katsuya talked to LongHash about the hack, its lingering effects, and Coincheck's remarkable comeback.\n\"Coincheck, with over $500 million stolen, was the biggest hack since Mt. Gox,\" Katsuya said. \"We still don't know who the hackers were. I think people were astonished by the amount.\"\n\"Last year, because of the hack, regulations tightened. The progress of the fintech industry lagged, probably because of that. But I think it can't be helped.\"\nJapan's crypto world looks very different than it did two years ago, in large part because of Coincheck. Japan was once widely seen as a crypto-friendly nation. In 2017 it declared Bitcoin to be a legal form of payment and granted licenses to 16 cryptocurrency exchanges.\nWhen Coincheck was hacked it did not have a license, but was operating on provisional basis. Katsuya says this was in part because Coincheck offered some privacy coins, which the Japan Financial Services Agency (JFSA) had some concerns about.\nThen came the crypto boom. \"Coincheck made a huge profit in 2017, and then was hacked on January 26, 2018. Coincheck management tried to do their best in late 2017, but the boom came so suddenly they were not able to prepare a cold wallet for NEM,\" Katsuya said. (NEM was the virtual currency that was stolen from Coincheck). \"Coincheck returned almost all the money to customers, because NEM was not so liquid.”\nThe hack highlighted a larger vulnerability in the crypto economy. Cryptocurrency is supposed to be decentralized. One of the great advantages of the Bitcoin blockchain, for example, is that it is distributed throughout the world, meaning that there is no central point to hack into. But this is not necessarily true of cryptocurrency exchanges.\n\"Crypto exchanges function like a kind of bank,\" Katsuya said. \"Crypto exchanges hold everything: customer information, customer fiat money, and customer crypto. So, we need to be very careful to safeguard these things.\"\n\"After the hack, people realized crypto exchanges are custodians of crypto as well as fiat. They need to be more careful about that. JFSA had to order the strengthening of internal controls.\"\nIn April of 2018, Coincheck was acquired by the online brokerage Monex. At the time of the hack, Katusya was the COO of Monex Group, in charge of overseas operations. The JFSA gave Coincheck a business improvement order after the hack, telling Monex to change the exchange's governance.\nSo in April Katsuya started running Coincheck, as president. (Coincheck had no CEO after the Monex acquisition). Coincheck had to prove to regulators, and the public, that it could be trusted.\n\"We tried to persuade the JFSA that we can improve on cyber security, internal control and money laundering.”\nBut the pressure wasn't only on Coincheck. All Japanese exchanges were subject to harsher regulatory scrutiny. \"Before the hack, as long as crypto exchange activity was not prohibited by a specific law, it was OK,\" Katsuya said. \"But after the regulatory framework changed last year, crypto exchanges need to make sure their activity complies with self-regulatory rules.\" Rules were determined by Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA), a self-regulatory organization among crypto exchanges.\nAfter the hack, new coins needed to get approval from JVCEA. Over 18 months later, no new coins had been approved.\n\"The crypto exchanges under a business improvement order cannot list new coins,\" Katsuya explained. \"Most crypto exchanges were ordered to improve in June of last year. I think the JFSA realized they needed to look into the safety and soundness of coins more carefully. They asked JVCEA to examine the appropriateness of coins. Because of that, JVCEA set up a checklist for new coins.\"\nCoincheck had to submit a monthly progress report on their business improvement plan, ultimately convincing regulators that they had sufficiently improved. \"Finally, the JFSA said that we don't need to report. In January of 2019, they gave us a formal registration.\"\nFor better or worse, the hack made it a lot harder to operate a cryptocurrency exchange in Japan. Because of new requirements for security, anti-money laundering and countering financing for terrorists, the costs of compliance have risen. “I don't think most of the crypto exchanges can keep up,\" Katsuya said.\nThe hack also had a dampening effect on the public's attitude toward crypto. \"Most media, especially television broadcasters, were reluctant to have commercials for crypto after the hack,\" Katsuya said. \"Since the Coincheck hack, the activity of individual Japanese traders went down by a lot.\" He said Bitcoin prices are now largely determined by institutional investors, mostly in the Western world.\nThe Japanese crypto market is finally starting to come back. \"Individual traders came back this year. In terms of trading volume, it came back to the same level as one year before. Last month, the trading level has returned to [that of] July last year.\"\nKastuya said that Coincheck is probably Japan's second largest exchange by trade volume, but still has to work to win over public trust. \"There are still a number of people who are against Coincheck. Before getting the registration, we tried to keep our existence low profile, after getting the approval, after April this year the market sentiment has changed, then we gradually increased marketing.\"\nCoincheck stopped accepting foreign applicants after the hack, so most of its customers are Japanese. According to Katsuya there are 2.5 million people that have downloaded the app, with 1.9 million registered users. The actual number of accounts is 900,000, with active users making up probably half of that. \"Our main customers are males in their 20s and 30s, very similar to FX traders, they love the volatility.\"\nAll over the world, governments are trying to find a way to regulate crypto without stifling innovation. Crypto also moves at a lightning-fast pace, which poses a particular challenge for Japan.\n\"In Japan, most things are determined by bureaucrats. They are bureaucrats from start to end. Most of the regulations are determined by bureaucrats, who do not have experience doing business, even though they are very smart. In the crypto world, the technology changes so quickly, it's very tough for bureaucrats to act in a timely manner.\"\nStill, Katsuya believes that regulations are being properly determined. Without consumer protection, the industry will not grow. Besides, Coincheck can't really complain.\n\"We were severely hacked. I don't think we are in a position to say: the regulation is so tough.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "On Thursday morning, “Today” aired a segment about President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The segment included an interview with the President-elect’s former butler, Anthony Senecal, who was investigated by the Secret Service for writing that President Barack Obama should be “hung for treason!!!”\nSenecal was included in the segment and is featured discussing Trump’s Florida retreat: “It’s absolutely magical. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.” The former butler walks through the grounds of the estate and shares family photos of himself with the Trumps.\nWhat the segment didn’t include was that Senecal made news during Trump’s campaign last May and was investigated by the Secret Service after it was found out that he had posted multiple Facebook posts calling for Obama to be harmed.\n“Looks like that sleezey bastard zero (O) is trying to out maneuver Congress again, if the truth be known this prick needs to be hung for treason!!!” Senecal wrote in an April 2015 Facebook post, the magazine Mother Jones had reported and Senecal allegedly also confirmed those were his words to the magazine. Below is a screenshot of a Facebook post by the former Trump butler from May 2016.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Proterra Inc., a leading innovator in commercial vehicle electrification technology, has announced the election of Joan Robinson-Berry to the company’s board of directors. Robinson-Berry recently retired from a 35-year career with The Boeing Company.\n“Proterra is delighted to welcome Joan to our board of directors,” said Jack Allen, Proterra CEO and chairman of the company’s board of directors, in a statement. “Joan is an accomplished engineering leader whose deep skillset, expertise, and experience with world-class manufacturers will help accelerate our company’s growth and mission.”\nDuring her career with The Boeing Company, Robinson-Berry held leadership positions in engineering, maintenance, and modifications for all Boeing government and commercial product lines. Most recently, she served as senior vice president and chief engineer for Boeing Global Services, where she was responsible for product and services safety, technical integrity, and engineering. Robinson-Berr held roles including vice president and general manager of Boeing South Carolina and vice president of supplier management and chief procurement officer for The Boeing Company’s Shared Services Group business unit.\n“Proterra’s mission is to advance EV technology to deliver the world’s best performing commercial vehicles. I am excited to have the opportunity to join the Proterra Board at a time when transportation needs are changing,” said Robinson-Berry.\nRobinson-Berry joined Boeing in 1986, after working in design engineering for General Dynamics and cofounding and operating a small engineering company in the inner city of Los Angeles. Throughout her 30-year career, Robinson-Berry has promoted science, technology, education, and mathematics (STEM) in the communities where she lived including Long Beach, Seattle, St. Louis, Chicago, and Charleston. She works tirelessly to bring a message of hope and confidence to students who need the inspiration to aspire to careers in engineering, technology, and development.\nIn 2007, Robinson-Berry received Career Communications Group’s Black Engineer of the Year Achievement Award and was inducted into the CCG Alumni Hall of Fame in 2012.\nRobinson-Berry earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering technology from California State Polytechnic University-Pomona and an MBA in engineering and industrial management from West Coast University. She currently serves on the Cal Poly Pomona Philanthropic Foundation Board as well as the boards of directors for both Valmont Industries, Inc. and Unaka Company Inc.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Enterprise State Community College awarded the bid on the Forester Hall renovation project on Monday, March 25.\nBullard-Cook, Inc. out of Montgomery was awarded the bid for $1.3 million, according to ESCC Dean of Student Services Olivier Charles.\n“Our faculty is excited because they have a quality space to teach and a state-of-the-art space to teach,” Charles said. “Our students will have a state-of-the-art space to learn in and our community will have a state-of-the-art fine arts building that they can visit or peruse right here in Coffee County.”\nThe renovations will see a complete overhaul of the building, separating it into three different areas: music, theater and art.\nThe art portion of the renovations will include turning the lobby of the building into a gallery for visual arts students.\n“Our art will be able to have art shows—right there—within their building that the public can view,” Charles said. “Also, the community can also have shows there as well. We want to open that building up to the community and allow them to use the spaces if they need to.”\nNew furniture will also be brought in to the lobby for students to use to hang out and relax or study between classes.\n“A lot of our fine arts students actually sit and hang out in that building between classes so we’re going to add the proper furniture so that they can sit and study and be able to plug their devices in right there and prepare for the next class,” Charles said.\nAnother renovation under the art section of the building will be a darkroom for photography students, according to Charles.\nHe said as far as the renovations for the music side, the choral rehearsal room will be repainted and soundproofed.\nThe theater section of the building will see a brand new black box theater for the students to use as a classroom and for performances.\n“There will be opportunities for students to build props, there will be one-man or one-woman shows, there will be small recitals, there will be small plays and all of those will happen within the black box theater,” Charles said.\nHe said the theater will hold 85-100 seats and will also be open to the community to use for shows.\nThe ESCC Foundation gifted the institution $350,000 to build the black box theater and will be named after the ESCC Foundation.\nOther renovations will include new bathrooms and an office suit for all the faculty with a break room.\nCharles said that the renovations are slated to start in late April or early May after spring classes are over but before finals are taken. Construction is expected to take 90 days and he said that ESCC hopes to have the faculty and staff moved back in by early-mid August before fall classes start.\nThe building is currently slated to be opened and used at the start of fall classes.\n“We believe that a successful fine arts program not only enhances opportunities for our students, but it also provides a means to connect our community with the college,” ESCC President Matt Rodgers said. “We are fortunate to have excellent support from our community for this important program. We want ESCC to be known as the ‘Center for Fine Arts in the Wiregrass.’”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Frenchie Davis, singing competition veteran, decided to come out of the closet and confess to the world that she’s been dating a woman for the past year.\n“I wasn’t out before the relationship, but I wasn’t in,” she told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “I dated men and women, though lesbians weren’t feeling the bisexual thing. Now I’m in love with a woman I think I can be with forever.”\nThe singer is best known for her Broadway performance of “Rent” and traveling musical “Dreamgirls.”\nShe proudly supports the gay community and will be performing this weekend at the Chicago Pride Festival. She’s also working on a new album that she says is going to make people dance.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Spain to ease conditions for startups to attract entrepreneurs, investment\nMADRID, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Spain's cabinet approved a suite of tax breaks for entrepreneurs and investors and simplified the process of setting up a new business on Friday as part of a new bill to make the country more attractive to startups.\nKnown as the \"startup law\", the legislation forms part of a package of reforms that Madrid agreed with the European Commission in exchange for the release of pandemic recovery funds.\n\"Startups are the foundation of the new digital economy, they generate highly skilled jobs and have high growth potential,\" Economy Minister Nadia Calvino said after a weekly cabinet meeting.\nRegistration fees will be eliminated and the requirements for creating new company will be streamlined, Calvino said.\nSpain currently ranks 97th on the World Bank's ranking for ease of starting a business, among the lowest scores in Europe.\nUnder the new law, employees can receive up to 50,000 euros ($56,385) a year in stock options - a common form of remuneration in startups - without paying tax, compared with a previous 12,000 euro limit.\nThe amount and rate for investors to claim back deductions on investments in startups will also increase.\nIn an effort to attract and retain talent, Spain will offer startup employees, investors and so-called digital nomads a favourable tax regime under a special five-year visa, Calvino said.\nThe bill will now be sent to parliament.\n($1 = 0.8868 euros)\nOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Richard Drew, a 52 year old school principal at Jumeira Baccalaureate School has been inspiring hundreds of school children to follow a fit lifestyle for decades. He holds a Masters degree in Physical Education and Sports Science. Ever since Dubai Fitness Challenge was introduced in 2017, the challenge has been well accepted by him.\nAlthough the challenge started on the weekend, children of his school had started with their fitness journey much in advance to make sure they are a part of the movement. The whole school including staff and parents were doing Zumba. They have various events and activities lined up during early morning and lunchtime before the challenge ends. Fitnovation was started much before the 30 x 30 started.\nSource: Khaleej Times", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Maine youth center testing staff, detainees for virus\nPORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Long Creek Youth Development Center is testing all staff and residents for the new coronavirus after a youth detainee tested positive for the virus.\nThe Maine Department of Corrections announced the decision to adopt universal testing Sunday after learning of the positive test result. The youth was tested Friday before being released; test results became available Saturday, officials said.\nThe minor was asymptomatic while at the detention center and is now self-quarantining, officials said.\nIn addition to campus-wide testing, the South Portland detention center is stepping up precautions to prevent the spread of the virus, including medical monitoring and use of personal protective equipment.\nIn other Maine coronavirus-related news:\nMaine reported 30 more cases of the virus Monday along with an additional death. That brought the total reported cases to 3,221 and the number of deaths to 105.\nFor most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death.\nBath Iron Works reports that two more shipbuilders have tested positive after another worker tested positive last week.\nThe two workers had been carpooling with the worker who tested positive last week, the shipyard said. They are receiving medical care and have been instructed to self-isolate.\nThe Maine Center for Disease Control classifies three or more cases to be an outbreak.\nThree workers who previously tested positive have recovered and returned to work.\nMaine's independent Sen. Angus King has joined a group of 15 senators in asking the Treasury Department to provide answers about problem some residents have had after receiving CARES Act stimulus payments as debit cards. King and the other senators said the program has included additional fees. Some residents have also been confused by the cards and thrown them out, he said.\nKing has also called for direct cash payments to be the standard.\nPortland bar scene\nThe Portland Police Department said businesses in the Old Port district are in compliance with restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus.\nMany were outraged when photos circulated on social media of a large group of people, many without face coverings, Friday night on Wharf Street, which is home to numerous restaurants and bars.\nPolice stepped up patrols Saturday night, and the sweep yielded no violations or fines, said police spokesman Lt. Robert Martin.\nSEACOAST CORONAVIRUS NEWS IS FREE:This content is being provided for free as a public service to our readers. Sign up for our free daily or breaking email newsletters and Seacoast Health newsletter to stay informed. Please support local journalism by subscribing to Seacoastonline.com or by subscribing to Fosters.com.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Striking a dissenting note over the additional charge of sports and youth empowerment, Karnataka Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj KS Eshwarappa on Saturday said he was mulling whether to accept it or not.\nHis statement comes a day after Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa gave additional responsibilities to 14 ministers.\n\"Some additional responsibilities have been given to the ministers. I have been given the additional charge of sports and youth empowerment. I will discuss with the chief minister and decide whether to accept this responsibility or not,\" Mr Eshwarappa told reporters, without elaborating further.\nReplying to a query on the war of words between former chief minister Siddaramaiah and former union minister KH Muniyappa, Eshwarappa said, \"Power and position are not permanent. It is applicable to me, Siddaramaiah, Yediyurappa or Kumaraswamy.\"\nAccording to reports, a bitter war of words ensued between Siddaramaiah and KH Muniyappa during the Karnataka Congress meeting held on Thursday to discuss their strategy for the upcoming bypolls and strengthening the party base.\nMr Muniyappa was reportedly upset with his defeat from Kolar Lok Sabha constituency and held Siddaramaiah accountable for it.\nRecalling how Mr Yediyurappa's attempt to form Karnataka Janata Paksha to counter the BJP fell flat, Mr Eshwarappa asserted that no one was above the party and any attempt to destroy it would have a bearing on their political future as well.\n\"No one comes to power without the support of the party. Siddaramaiah had built the party but how many seats could he win? Three plus one! Yediyurappa too formed a party, how many seats did he win? Three plus one seats!\" the minister said.\nMr Eshwarappa said that no one could succeed by crossing their limits and trying to go beyond the party line.\n\"If people in power do not understand this then, they alone will be destroyed, not the party,\" he added.\nGet Breaking news, live coverage, and Latest News from India and around the world on NDTV.com. Catch all the Live TV action on NDTV 24x7 and NDTV India. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter and Instagram for latest news and live news updates.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The first week of our term-2 Television student projects has been a busy one!\nOn Tuesday, our first-year production team “Keen-Wa Productions” was shooting a PSA promoting workplace gender equality using our new Sony FS-700 cinema camera, and on Thursday, “4:1 Films” faced the elements as we produced an exterior shoot for a bicycle safety public service announcement.\nOnly a small part of the production is on-set however; students spend weeks of work planning and preparing these productions! Just showing up to shoot is easy, going fully prepared, and with all of the necessary documentation is a lot of work!\nThe faculty lectured on Music Videos (with a generous helping of Michael Jackson!), and we demonstrated some of our production gear such as the Jimmy Jib with a remote camera head, and HD field monitors.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "\"I commend Lonely Planet for recognizing what Brooklynites have always known: our borough is not just the best place to live, work, and raise a family—it’s also a world-class place to visit,\" Brooklyn Borough President Markowitz said in a press release. \"It gives me great pride to know that word is spreading that you can see the world, and stay in Brooklyn.\"\n“Of all the boroughs, none has exploded in popularity like Brooklyn,\" Brice Gosnell, Lonely Planet’s Regional Publisher, Americas added in the release. \"Brooklyn is the new downtown—with urban hipsters, diverse communities still intact, its own parades and festivals, and its own unique blend of small businesses and restaurants that make it must-see for any visit to New York.\"\nThere are many places to visit in Brooklyn Heights as part of a whirlwind tour of our borough. Check out the BHB Tourist Info section for more.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Powerful SMS Call Center platform converts costly inbound phone calls to cost-effective text message conversations\nORLANDO – March 17, 2014 – As customer service costs continue to climb, companies look to automation as a solution, however, this often comes at the expense of satisfaction and loyalty. To help businesses better serve customers in a cost-effective and efficient way, OneReach today introduced an SMS customer service offering – SMS Call Center – that changes the face of inbound service by providing the ability for companies to directly convert incoming calls to text conversations, which are convenient and flexible for customers. The company is showcasing the platform at Enterprise Connect, March 17-20, 2014 at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, Fla.\nAccording to a study from J.D. Power & Associates, 93 percent of IVRs have resulted in decreased customer satisfaction versus talking with an agent. Providing a Web chat channel has shown to improve satisfaction by up to 65 percent, but customers who call in for assistance cannot be transferred directly to chat, meaning they have to abandon their phone call to switch devices and can feel they’ve lost the progress made through the IVR.\nPew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project reports that text messaging is becoming a preferred method of communication among consumers, with 31 percent of mobile phone owners preferring to text instead of talk. The SMS Call Center offering from OneReach can transfer callers to a text message conversation with a live agent to address their needs in a simple, convenient text message exchange they can have from anywhere.\n“Many call centers have adopted SMS as a marketing tool or for simple notifications, however, there are huge opportunities for businesses to use this powerful, always-available channel to engage in two-way communication with their customers,” said Rich Weborg, CEO of OneReach. “Our SMS Call Center application provides a smart bridge from an expensive, sometimes frustrating phone interaction to an efficient engagement that is cost effective for businesses and convenient for the customer.”\nWhen a customer calls in to a company’s IVR, the OneReach SMS Call Center platform provides the option for a caller to complete their interaction via text messaging instead of wading through IVR prompts or waiting on hold for an agent. The caller is prompted to press a button and is then transferred to text-based communication to resolve their request either through a live text conversation with an agent or an automated interaction.\nThe cost per interaction for SMS customer service is about 25 percent less than a phone call through the IVR. Companies that manage high quantities of service calls regarding a simple, specific action – such as a password change or tracking an order – can automate the SMS customer interaction so that an agent is not required, reducing the cost per interaction to about 25 cents.\nOneReach allows call centers to create simple to complex SMS automation capability using OneReach’s visual designer. Text message applications can be set up quickly and easily without the need of development resources. For companies that don’t have a call center in place, OneReach can also provide standalone SMS, IVR and Web chat capabilities that are easy to set up, implement and manage.\nOnce SMS customer service is implemented, companies can further increase meaningful engagement with their customers, including adding point of sale integration and outbound communications that allow for two-way interaction. For example, an outbound reminder for an automatic re-order of a product sent via text can also ask customers if they would like complimentary products added, and then confirm the sale through SMS.\nOneReach is demonstrating its SMS Call Center platform at Enterprise Connect at booth 1914. More information on SMS Call Center can be found at www.onereach.com/callcenter.html.\nOneReach facilitates interactive, two-way conversation between companies and their customers through a multichannel, automated communications platform. Created by a team of customer experience experts, OneReach helps companies enhance their customer service efforts by seamlessly incorporating voice, text messaging, email and other communication channels into a single communications system that increases customer loyalty while decreasing operational costs. OneReach seamlessly integrates with any back-end system without the need for development resources.\nFor more information on OneReach, call or text 303-974-7351, or visit www.onereach.com. Follow us on Twitter @onereach, on LinkedIn, or “like” us on Facebook.\nAbout Enterprise Connect®\nEnterprise Connect® is the leading conference and exhibition in North America for enterprise communications and collaboration systems, software and services. Enterprise Connect® brings corporate IT decision makers together with the industry’s suppliers, analysts and consultants to focus on the issues central to enterprise communications and collaboration networks. Enterprise Connect® owns and produces No Jitter, (http://www.nojitter.com/), providing daily blogging and analysis of enterprise communications, and it also serves the community with a weekly email newsletter, a Webinar Series and Virtual Events. For more information, visit http://enterpriseconnect.com/.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sue Ryder is disappointed to see that the Employment Bill was not announced in the Queen’s Speech.\nSue Ryder is urging the Government to include the Employment Bill in the Queen's Speech on 10 May, in which they can introduce a legal right to paid bereavement leave for all.\nSue Ryder comments on government amendment to the Health and Care Bill which would make it a legal right for dying people to receive the healthcare they need.\nToday, Wednesday 27 October, the Chancellor announced the government’s Autumn budget, setting out tax changes and new spending commitments.\nToday Sue Ryder co-hosted a roundtable with thought leaders and professionals in the field of bereavement to discuss key themes of work for the recently formed bereavement commission.\nOur Influencing and Engagement team attended the Labour and Conservative Party Conferences in September and October, respectively, to raise awareness of the growing demand for palliative care, and the need for a sustainable funding solution to secure its future.\nOn 16th June, Sue Ryder and Barbara Keeley MP hosted a roundtable with MPs and hospice charities discussing the funding challenges facing the sector.\nDr Paul Perkins, Chief Medical Director at Sue Ryder and Consultant in Palliative Medicine, talks about the latest Ambitions Framework for Palliative and End of Life Care, and how the important principles of person-centred care are embodied in the support we provide at Sue Ryder.\nSue Ryder marks Dying Matters Week by calling on the government to end the funding crisis facing the palliative care sector.\nA coalition of MPs, businesses and charities have backed Sue Ryder's campaign for statutory bereavement leave in a powerful new video.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Travel survey reveals that 55% of families would be willing to pay more to make their trip sustainable and over a third would accept a 10% increase on the price of their holiday to make it carbon neutral.\nOur survey of over 3,000 members in the Your Baby Club network has revealed that taking environmentally-friendly holidays is of growing importance to families.\n85% think that sustainable travel is an important issue, almost 3/4 (74%) said they want to travel more sustainably following the pandemic and 40% would like to stay in sustainable accommodation over the next year.\nThese attitudes are also influencing consumer decisions. Over 75% of families see an airline taking steps to be being ‘cleaner’ as important in choosing to fly with them.\nIf the price is right\nDespite 37% of families willing to pay up to a 10% increase on the price of their holiday to make it carbon neutral and over 3/4 feeling either positive or neutral about a compulsory carbon tax in the future, it’s clear that cost could still be an obstacle.\n85% of families consider price the most important factor in whether they would carbon offset their holiday and 54% are only willing to pay an increase of less than 5%.\n80% also said they would choose a carbon offset holiday over a standard package if it was included somewhere in the price.\nDoing their part\nEven though 40% of families stated they are prepared to make lifestyle compromises to benefit the environment and almost 60% get annoyed when somewhere they are staying prevents them from being sustainable, over half are yet to book an environmentally-friendly holiday.\n47% have also never used a service to offset the CO2 generated by their holidays, with over a third (36%) admitting they didn’t know these services existed.\nSo, will we see sustainable travel intent from the pandemic turn into real action?\nWell 80% of families said they would travel to less popular destinations and attractions to ensure they aren’t contributing to overcrowding.\n70% of families also intend to use reusable water bottles instead of bottled water while travelling, with 68% wanting to reduce their general waste and a further 63% looking to reduce energy consumption by turning off A/C and lights when not in their hotel room.\nThe signs are positive but there is still a way to go for sustainable travel to become a mainstream choice: family-friendly services, cost, location and brand reputation are all considered more important factors than green credentials for families when choosing their holiday package.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By PHIL KABLER\nCHARLESTON, W.Va. — With members of his Greenbrier East High School girls basketball team leading a cheer on the House of Delegates floor, Gov. Jim Justice in his second State of the State address Wednesday declared, “We’re on our way, let’s go get it done.”\nUsing whiteboards to show the six years of budget deficits projected when he took office in 2017, and the current six-year plan showing state budgets in the black, Justice said before the joint assembly of the House and Senate, “You can’t fathom how dire it was, and you can’t imagine how promising it looks.”\nIf there was any semblance of a theme, it might be that Justice is honored to be called governor but prefers being called coach.\n“I coach for the players; I don’t coach for myself,” he said. “The people of West Virginia are the players.”\nSee more from the Charleston Gazette-Mail", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Former Congolese rebel commander Bosco Ntaganda has reduced the number of witnesses he will call to testify at the International Criminal Court (ICC) from more than 100 to 40 following the weeks-long testimony he gave in his own defense. Before Ntaganda began his testimony, defense lawyers said they would make their case significantly shorter if the accused was allowed to testify for several weeks at the start of the defense case.\nFollowing the completion of Ntaganda’s testimony at the end of last month, his lawyers filed an updated list that comprises 40 witnesses. Last week, the lawyers said they would no longer call one of those witnesses (D-214). Meanwhile, the defense asked judges to allow the addition of two individuals, Witness D-251 and Witness D-257, to the list. Judges granted the request, which the prosecution and lawyers representing victims opposed.\nNtaganda, whose trial started in September 2015, started his defense case last June, and judges have heard evidence from eight defense witnesses since. However, the trial stalled last week due to unspecified challenges defense lawyers were experiencing in getting witnesses to appear before the court.\nThe accused was the second witness called by the defense, and he testified between June and September of this year. Prior to his testimony, the defense had indicated that it intended to call up to 111 witnesses. Last month, the defense said it intended to drop 11 witnesses. The prosecution in the Ntaganda trial called 71 witnesses.\nMeanwhile, the defense is seeking to add Witness D-251 five months after the deadline for submitting its witnesses because it expects her testimony to contradict purportedly incriminating prosecution evidence about the age of specific individuals whom Ntaganda knew (and who are purportedly former child soldiers), and about how Ntaganda treated female soldiers and escorts. The witness would also testify that Ntaganda’s bodyguards were not raped or sexually abused, and offer her knowledge of specific prosecution witnesses who alleged rape and sexual abuse. Her evidence would therefore be “relevant and exculpatory to issues of core importance” to the case, said the defense.\nDefense lawyers submitted that, in order to save court time, they would tender Witness D-0251’s testimony under Rule 68(3) of the court’s Rules of Procedure and Evidence, under which judges may allow the introduction of the prior recorded testimony of a witness who is present before the chamber if the individual does not object and if both parties and the chamber have an opportunity to examine the witness.\nRegarding Witness D-257, the defense stated that his evidence would corroborate Ntaganda’s testimony on the reasons for his visit to Kigali, Rwanda, in 2003, which the prosecution challenged during cross-examination. The defense stated that this testimony was directly relevant to Ntaganda’s credibility.\nIn permitting the defense to add the two individuals to its witness list, judges noted that Witness D-251 was expected to provide exculpatory evidence on a number of issues of significance to the case, including Ntaganda’s treatment of female escorts, his attitude towards relationships between soldiers and escorts, the age of escorts, and Ntaganda’s directions on the treatment of the civilian population and prisoners. Judges also ruled that Witness D-257’s anticipated testimony might be of relevance to a contested issue in the case, namely Ntaganda’s testimony in relation to his visit to Rwanda.\nThe prosecution opposed the addition of the two witnesses, arguing that the request was filed five months after the expiration of the relevant deadline and after the major part of the defense case had passed. The prosecution faulted the defense for failing to provide valid reasons for not seeking to add these witnesses at an earlier stage, and claimed Witness D-257’s proposed evidence was not relevant to any matters to be determined.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Construction union boss John Setka is facing court action to stop him from stealing members from other sections of the powerful industrial body.\nCFMMEU national secretary Michael O'Connor has lodged legal papers in the Federal Court in Melbourne seeking orders to prevent Mr Setka and 29 other construction division officials from poaching members from Mr O'Connor's manufacturing branch.\nMr O'Connor is seeking permanent orders stopping Mr Setka and other officials from \"encouraging or advising any members of the union in the Victorian district of the manufacturing division of the union\" to resign their membership of the division.\nWatch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >>\nAs well, Mr O'Connor wants orders preventing officers and organisers of Victorian-Tasmanian division from enrolling members who have resigned, and the members and their union dues to be returned to the manufacturing division.\nNo date has been set for a hearing.\nIt is the latest escalation of the war within the CFMMEU.\nMr Setka was forced out of the Labor party last year, having pleaded guilty to harassing his wife, but has controversially held onto his union position.\nLast September, CFMMEU national and mining and energy division president Tony Maher received support for a motion condemning Mr Setka's \"unprincipled actions\" in stealing members from other divisions.\nMr Maher said at the time the union would not tolerate \"breaches of rules and the principle of divisional autonomy\".\nThe Morrison government has sought to use the CFMMEU ructions as an example of why \"ensuring integrity\" laws need to be passed.\nThe draft laws will go to the Senate when parliament resumes in Canberra on February 4.\nStream Big on", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "--> Games For Fun Kids - Mind Power Series\n--> The Quantum Key By Aaron Murakami - Energy & Potential Mastery!\n--> Incredible Sex Video Series\n--> Series Of Expert \"how To\" Vegetable Gardening Books\nIt was going to happen eventually, and to no surprise, it was a Yankee that hit the first home run in London. Although, it may not have been who you might’ve originally thought.\nYankees outfielder Aaron Hicks added a pair of runs on his two-run home run to right center, the first ever home run hit in London.\n— MLB (@MLB) June 29, 2019\nWhile the Yankees pummeled on Red Sox starter Rick Porcello in the first inning with one out, Aaron Hicks’ two-run bomb extended the Yankees lead to 6-0 to start the game and knocked out Porcello, who pitched just a third of an inning.\nThe Yankees batted around in the first before Colten Brewer struck out DJ LaMehieu looking to end the inning.\nThe hit was also Hicks’ first off of Porcello for his career. London fans are being treated to some fireworks early on.\nRead more: thebiglead.com", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "February came and went in a flash, but not before Senior Business Development Manager, Shawn Roderick, earned the nomination from his teammates to win the February employee of the month Puck Award. At a recent company meeting, President Torin Dragsbaek presented the award, highlighting a few of the reasons why Shawn is so deserving of this award. “No matter what the job, Shawn is always willing to step up and make things happen,” said Torin. “I especially appreciate that he takes on tasks without even being asked. He is always there to help out.”\nThis is Shawn’s second stint at JVT. He first joined the team in 2007, left in 2011 and worked in healthcare IT recruiting for a few years before returning to JVT.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It will take just 500 rupees to access the Aadhaar data of a billion of Indian citizens. According to a report published on the tribune, they’ve purchased a service offered by an anonymous dealer over whatsapp that provided them ability to access to details of billions of Addhar numbers.\nAccording to the report, they’ve paid 500 rupees or $8 and the anonymous person gave them a Log in id and password of a gateway, by which anyone could enter to the UIDAI portal and can access to anyone’s aadhaar personal identification details including name,photos,mobile numbers, PIN code,address. Not only this, an “agent” of the group running the racket, offered a software that could print the details of Aadhaar cards.\nFurthermore they’ve claimed that there is existence of this racket since the past six months or more. Last year in November, UIDAI stated Aadhaar data is totally secured and safe, and there has been no data breach from UIDAI data base. Though there was a case last year, where details of millions of jio users were uploaded on a mysterious website, though the website was taken down right after the data leak.\nAdditional Director General of UIDAI Regional Center, Sanjay Jindal stated, “Except the Director-General and I, no third person in Punjab should have a login access to our official portal. Anyone else having access is illegal, and is a major national security breach.\nWhile UIDAI called this “a case of misreporting” and denied about the possibility of Aadhaar data breach. As per the authority, some people misused the demographic search facility of the database which is provided to the officials to retrieve details of people who’ve lost their Aadhaar card. As per UIDAI aadhaar card information leak or breach can’t lead to any kind of fraud or financial loses as it requires iris recognition or fingerprint authentication to gain access. Also the government tweeted a series of tweet to claim that there was no data leak and further more actions will be taken against the illegal activists including FIR.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "If Einstein is correct and “insanity” is doing the same experiment again\nand again and expecting different results, then America is truly delusional in its approach to\neducation and racial integration. Fifty years after Brown v. Board, the landmark Supreme Court\ndecision that invalidated the doctrine of “separate but equal,” America’s schools are as segregated\nas ever—with often abysmal educational and psychological outcomes for black children.\nTo stop the madness, both Ogletree and Bell argue that what America must stop doing again\nand again is attempting to provide integrated education for its children.\nThe notion of retreating from integration is blasphemous, unthinkable,\ninherently racist. Yet, it rings true, even as one sputters in protest at the heresy. Fifty years\nof culture wars notwithstanding, integration is still more rhetoric than reality, and it is the\never-neglected minority children who pay the price for our continued focus on this seemingly\nunattainable goal. Perhaps it’s time America cried “Uncle.” Racism won.\nMournful books both, Bell’s best captures the significance of Brown\nat the time of its pronouncement and of African Americans’ then-unconquerable optimism about\nthe country’s ultimate goodness. Mustered out after the Korean War, Bell was in law school in 1954;\nBrown, he was convinced, “marked the beginning of the end of Jim Crow oppression in all its myriad\nforms. For black Americans long burdened by our subordinate status, there was, to paraphrase the\nspiritual, ‘a great day a-coming.'” He describes meeting with William H. Hastie, the first black\nfederal judge, shortly before Bell graduated in 1957. “Son,” Hastie told him, “I am afraid that\nyou were born 15 years too late to have a career in civil rights.”\nForty-seven years later, civil-rights advocates are still trying\nto integrate America’s schools, wistfully invoking Brown like the abandoned child stationed\nat the window waiting for parents who are never coming back for her. But not Ogletree and Bell;\ntwo of the nation’s premier civil-rights scholars and attorneys, they’ve surrendered the dream\nof integration and now demand that separate schools actually be made equal.\nWhile Plessy-style segregation might have been psychologically harmful,\neven more so has been the fruitless, enervating quest to force, trick, or cajole whites into sharing\ntheir neighborhoods and classrooms. An elderly teacher from one of the Jim Crow era’s highest achieving\nblack schools—Dunbar in Washington, D.C.—remarks sadly, “Integration, with all\nthe good it brought, was also the beginning of the end of Dunbar and Negro education as I’d known it.\nI wouldn’t want it to go out that I’m not for integration—I am. I’m not for what it did to Dunbar\nand to students.” One woman adds, “We got what we fought for, but we lost what we had.” Even that was\ntoo optimistic; except for the rhetorical victory of Brown, blacks did not get what they fought\nWhatever its promise, the reality of desegregation has been grim, as\na peek inside America’s still segregated and still substandard black classrooms quickly reveals.\nWhite students, Bell notes, attend schools that are 80 percent white. Today’s residential and\neducational segregation rates equal that of de jure Jim Crow to within two-tenths of a percent in\nsome neighborhoods, resulting in a “social and economic apartheid.”\nEducational outcomes have been equally stark: On standardized reading-achievement\ntests, black nine-year-olds have scored an average of 10 points lower than white ones, and black\nstudents are still twice as likely to drop out of high school as whites. Functional illiteracy is\nas high as 40 percent among minority youths.\n“With fifty years of hindsight,” Ogletree writes, “the tragic lesson”\nof Brown is that it “actually defined…the power of racism as a barrier to true racial progress.”\nThe Brown directive to proceed “with all deliberate speed,” rather than with specific goals and\ntimetables, he argues, opened the door to “massive resistance” at every level of society. “It began\nfrom the day the decision was issued…through to the Boston busing crisis of 1975…and,\nmost telling, to the resegregation of our schools and our communities in the twenty-first century.”\nSomewhat ruefully, these two legal stars, both of whom committed substantial\nportions of their careers to Brown-style advocacy, admit that the black community\nwas ambivalent about integration. “Too often, integration is presented as an unalloyed benefit\nfor African-Americans,” notes Ogletree:\nFor many in the African-American community, however, integration was viewed with\nsuspicion or something worse. Many communities at the center of the battle…would\nhave welcomed something less than the full integration demanded by the civil rights lawyers.\nThese teachers, school principals, and janitors would rather have kept their schools, their jobs,\nand their positions of power and influence than see their charges bused to white schools run by white\nprincipals where white educators often made the children all too grimly aware of their distaste\nfor the new state of affairs.\nIndeed, the NAACP was known to oust local leaders who opposed integration\nand to file court briefs attacking the plans of blacks who fought to improve, rather than integrate,\nblack schools. These two books apologize for that—for an elite forcing its vision on a wiser,\nmore practical community. They function as eulogies for the dying dreams of integration, for years\nspent in fruitless jousts with white intransigence, for two generations of black children used\nas pawns and tossed aside, uneducated. And they offer a hero’s funeral for Brown with a promise to\nkeep fresh flowers on its grave, that resting place for what might have been.\nPlan B—the actual education and nurturing of minority, segregated\nchildren—will now have to suffice.\nWhites will argue that it is not racism that causes white flight and dismal\nminority educational outcomes. But Eisenhower, president during Brown, was unguarded enough\nto tell the truth: “[Southern whites] are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that\ntheir sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.”\nFifty years later, that determination remains. So be it, because Eisenhower was also correct in\nnoting that “it is difficult through law and through force to change a man’s heart.” Impossible,\nperhaps—or so advocates for minority education should believe.\nRegardless, 50 years is a long enough experiment, and it’s time we accepted\nthe obvious, as did W.E.B. DuBois in 1935: “Negro children needed neither segregated schools nor\nmixed schools. What they need is education.” Insane as it seems, perhaps embracing segregation—ensuring\nthat separate truly is equal—will make all the difference.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Future Looks Rosy in U.K. Robotics Landscape Report\nInnovate UK says the nation's robotics and autonomous systems market presents an opportunity to catch up to the U.S., Asia.\n(April 07, 2015)\nQualcomm and Techstars to Grow Robots in Sunny San Diego\nQualcomm and Techstars building robots one robot at a time.\n(December 18, 2014)\nThe Three Amigos: Jimmy, Pepper and Jibo\nThe first wave of truly social companion robots for the average family is here.\n(November 26, 2014)\nExoskeleton Revolution: From Rigid to Soft to Ultra Soft\n2014 was a breakout year for exoskeletons. The field is now crowded and very active with competing brands.\n(November 19, 2014)\nCan China’s Homegrown Robots Supplant Foreign Brands?\nThe robot gold rush for foreign robot brands may well be coming to an end.\n(November 13, 2014)\nEssential Robotics: RBR Research Reports 2014\nOur first six webcasts and aligned research reports are ready for you.\n(August 03, 2014)\nHow Tricky Is Investing in Robotics for Oil, Gas & Mining?\nRobots are heading into brand new worlds where they have never before made contact\n(July 25, 2014)\nThe Quiet Giant of Asian Robotics: Korea\nKorea is well on its way to becoming a major player in the global robotics market.\n(May 08, 2014)\nFuture Factory Robots Get STAMINA Boost\nEuropean researchers involved in the STAMINA project have concluded a series of experiments on a flexible robot learning system that allows factory bots to be easily trained by co-workers.\n(April 04, 2014)\nIs Robotic Milking a Viable Option for Farmers?\nResearchers expect 20% of cows in Europe to be milked by robots in 2020. A new project is testing the economic viability of integrated cow grazing and robotic milking systems.\n(March 29, 2014)\nTasty Impact: 3D Printing, Twinkies and Robotics\nAre the world's giant and not so giant food producers aware of 3D printed food?\n(March 14, 2014)\nNeuroRover Uses Spiking Neurons, Artificial Bee Brain to Adapt\nThe NeuroRover features artificial mini-brains with spiking neurons that generate electrical signals just as real biological neurons, a bio-inspired structure that has potential for widespread application in robotic systems.\n(March 06, 2014)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "We are delighted with the excellent A Level results achieved by our Upper Sixth this year. These are the highest results in the history of the school, particularly at the A* Level. Enormous congratulations to our Upper Sixth students for these successful grades.\nA level Results 2021 2020 2019 2018\n% Grade A* 49.2% 34.4% 21.2% 23.8%\n% Grade A* - A 85.0% 68.9% 54.0% 56.0%\n% Grade A* to B 95.6% 91.6% 74.6% 77.0%\n% Pass rate 100% 100% 98.9% 99.4%\nThe School recently acquired the new building on Linhope Street, which is now being converted into a Sixth Form Centre More...", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It may be time to admit that there will never in fact be a common European foreign and security policy. Long before the crisis over Iraq erupted, momentum towards the creation of such a policy was quietly ebbing away.\nThe neoconservatives of the Bush administration have remained surprisingly determined on going to war with Iraq, despite the British insistence on UN involvement and Saddam Hussein's agreement to weapons inspections. Anatol Lieven considers what they hope to gain.\nThe Carnegie Endowment hosted a panel discussion on a pre-election assessment report by the National Democratic Institute, the International foundation for Election Systems, and the International Republican Institute.\nThe inflammation of US nationalism since 11th September has blinded it to the potential strategic disaster of a split with Europe. If an American strike against Iraq were to go badly wrong, the resulting international discord could spell the end of the cultural entity known as \"the west\".\nThe current focus on political reform, among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and within the Bush administration, is a product of the Intifada, the collapse of the peace process, and the impasse between Israel and Palestinian leadership.\nIntroduction by Carnegie President Jessica T. Mathews.\nSpecial advance screening presented by the Carnegie Endowment and Paramount Pictures.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "On July 29, the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis reported on the US Personal Consumer Spending Price Index (PCE) for the month of June and the figure saw the largest increase in 12 months since 1982. The same day, Stanford University senior researcher at the Hoover Institution and economics professor John Cochrane said the Federal Reserve would need to raise rates over 9% to tame inflation.\nThe PCE price index rose by 4.8% compared to a year ago\nThe US economy continues to look bleak every time a new economic report or data is released to the public. In mid-July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index (CPI) report was released, which revealed that the June CPI data reflected a record 9.1% year-over-year increase. On July 27, the US Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by 75 basis points (bps) to help curb searing inflation.\nTwo days later, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released the carefully monitored personal consumption spending index data, otherwise known as the PCE. The PCE index saw the biggest jump in 12 months up 6.8% in June, an increase that hadn’t been recorded since January 1982.\n“Since the same month a year ago, the June PCE price index has risen by 6.8%,” the BEA report details. “The prices of goods increased by 10.4% and the prices of services by 4.9%. Food prices increased by 11.2% and energy prices by 43.5%. Excluding food and energy, the PCE price index increased by 4.8 percent compared to a year ago, ”the government agency’s records read. The BEA plans to publish the results of the annual update of the national economic accounts on 29 September.\nEconomics professor at Stanford University thinks a Gold or Bitcoin standard won’t work\nOn the same day, economist John Cochrane gave an interview to Kitco’s editorial team and said the US central bank is expected to raise interest rates over 9%. Cochrane also noted that a gold or bitcoin standard would not be able to control inflation. The economics professor at Stanford University said the “consensus view” was that the Fed should raise rates “substantially above” the region by 9%.\n“This means that, right now with 9% inflation, economists are talking about interest rates of 10, 11 or 12% to bring [prices] down, “Cochrane noted.” I think the Fed and the markets are counting on a lot of inflation going away on its own without interest rates having to go up that high, “Stanford economist David Lin told al. host of Kitco News.\nLin also asked Cochrane for a gold standard or a bitcoin standard used to control inflation. “Sorry, no,” the economist replied. “Under the gold standard, there was a lot of inflation and deflation. 10 or 20 percent of the ups and downs of inflation and deflation, but each inflation was then accompanied by deflation. Sorry, we’re not going back to gold. ”Cochrane believes the Fed needs to implement tighter fiscal policy to combat inflationary pressures.\nAs for a bitcoin standard, Cochrane said it was a terrible idea and insisted that bitcoin (BTC) was “worthless”. “This is a terrible idea,” Cochrane said in his interview with Lin. “In terms of financial technology, Bitcoin is an attempt to revive gold, something inherently worthless that people cling to just because it is rare … Bitcoin is also very poor to transact in itself, as it is so computationally intensive “. Cochrane concluded:\nThe best answer is that our governments should start implementing sober fiscal and monetary policies and pay more attention to keeping inflation in check.\nWhat do you think of the latest PCE data and the opinion of economist John Cochrane? Do you think improving fiscal and monetary policies can help tame US inflation? Let us know what you think about this topic in the comments section below.\nImage credits: Shutterstock, Pixabay, Wiki Commons", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Punjab---Ravneet Singh Bittu nominated as Member of ICAR Society\nAuthor(s): City Air NewsRavneet Singh Bittu, MP from Ludhiana. Ludhiana, September 16, 2014: Ravneet Singh Bittu, Member Parliament from Ludhiana has been elected by Lok Sabha to serve as a Member on board of Indian Council of Agriculture...\nLudhiana, September 16, 2014: Ravneet Singh Bittu, Member Parliament from Ludhiana has been elected by Lok Sabha to serve as a Member on board of Indian Council of Agriculture Research Society (I.C.A.R Society), under Ministry of Agriculture. The mandate of society is to promote, aid, and coordinate agricultural and animal husbandry education, research and its applications in practice, development and marketing in India.\nThis nomination will help me in communicating the various issues concerning the farmers of our state and the problems being faced by them to the Government of India and will help in a speedy remedial measures of their grievances, said Ravneet Singh Bittu.\nRavneet further added that being an agrarian state the economy of the state is closely interlinked with agrarian economy. Given the present state of affairs in the state a lot is needed to be done to improve the various sectors of agriculture and animal husbandry and there is a need to make our farmers aware about rapidly changing global scenario of agriculture.\nIt is pertinent to mention here that the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), New Delhi, India is an autonomous organisation under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education, Ministry of Agriculture. It has 47 institutes, 4 National Bureaus and 26 National Research Centres and 11 Project Directorate spread across the country. In addition to this it provides financial support to Universities engaged in the field of Agriculture research all over India.\nThe ICAR has played a role in enabling the country to increase the production of foodgrains by four, horticultural crops by six, fish by nine (marine five and inland 17, milk six times and eggs 27 times since 1950.\nReaders may send their news/views/feedback to us:", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Supermarkets are the most common places that people have visited in the days leading up to a positive coronavirus test reported to the Test and Trace app in England, according to new data collated by Public Health England (PHE) between 9th and 15th November.\nPHE collated the data using the NHS Test and Trace app, which means that the figures were based on members of the public who had the app and had tested positive for COVID-19.\nWhile pubs have been and will continue to be, following yesterday’s announcement by Boris Johnson, subject to the harshest restrictions on trading during the pandemic, it’s supermarkets where people seem mostly likely to contract Covid-19 in the UK.\nMore than 18% of those who had contracted coronavirus in the UK had been to a supermarket in the days ahead of the positive test result.\nAccording to data released by Public Health England (PHE) last week, based on information from the NHS Test and Trace app, supermarkets, not pubs, are the most common places visited in the days before a positive coronavirus test.\nAs first reported by Sky News, the new findings revealed that supermarkets are the “primary setting” where those who have contracted the virus have recently been, followed by secondary schools, then primary schools, hospitals, and care homes.\nIn contrast pubs come in at ninth place in a list of places visited ahead of the positive test.\nWhile the data does not prove where people contracted the virus, however by analysing the contacts, and reviewing the movements of the 128,808 people who had tested positive for Covid-19 between 9 to 15 November, PHE has been able to show the most common locations visited by those with the virus.\nThe result is that over 18% of those who had contracted coronavirus had been to a supermarket in the days ahead of the positive test result, while less than 2% had visited a pub or a bar.\nThis data supports the hospitality and on trade’s assertion that the sector is being disproportionately punished when it comes to measures being used to attempt to slow the spread of the virus.\nAs reported in CLHNews yesterday https://catererlicensee.com/curfew-changed-to-11pm-and-new-tiered-system-imposed-which-will-kill-christmas-says-sector/\nLeading industry figures believe that the government’s new restrictions will destroy the sector, Emma McClarkin, Chief Executive of the British Beer & Pub Association, said: “Our sector has been singled out by these new measures which unfairly target pubs. The additional restrictions will destroy our sector if they go ahead as proposed. Whilst the review of curfew is overdue the relaxation of the 10pm curfew is meaningless if most pubs are rendered unviable or forced to close under tiers two and three.\nPHE results below showing the most frequent places visited leading to a positive Covid test:\n- Supermarket – 18.3%\n- Secondary school – 12.7%\n- Primary school – 10.1%\n- Hospital – 3.6%\n- Care home – 2.8%\n- College – 2.4%\n- Warehouse – 2.2%\n- Nursery preschool – 1.8%\n- Pub or bar – 1.6%\n- Hospitality – 1.5%\n- University – 1.4%\n- Manufacture engineering – 1.4%\n- Household fewer than five – 1.2%\n- General practice – 1.1%\n- Gym – 1.1%\n- Restaurant or cafe – 1.0%", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Prabhudas Lilladher's research report on Rallis India\nRALI in their pre-quarterly conference call highlighted that (a) domestic crop care business likely to post subdued performance primarily led by tepid demand due to disproportionate rainfall resulting into lower pest infestation and miss in sprays; (b) exports at a better-off position led by improved demand scenario globally supported by better product and price mix, however have cautious outlook due to drought in US and European markets; (c) herbicides continues to outperform (to post double digit growth in 2Q) as compared to insecticides and fungicides category; (d) launched 3 new 9(3) molecules in 1HFY23 as against guidance of 4 product launches in FY23E, additionally launched 5 new 9(4) molecules in 1H’23; (e) crop nutrition business to post double digit revenue growth, aided by better product mix; (f) high cost inventory to exert pressure in near term, however remains confident to maintain absolute EBITDA led by recent price hikes. We expect revenue/PAT CAGR of 13%/18% over FY22-25E (vs 8%/3% over FY11-22). Retain ‘BUY’.\nWe retain ‘BUY’ on Rallis India (RALI) with a target price of Rs250 (Rs230 earlier) based on 18xFY25 EPS even as we reduce our EPS estimates by 5.5% and 4.9% for FY23/24E on near term margin pressures due to high cost raw material inventory in 2Q23 despite 4-5% price hike in June’22.\nAt 17:30 Rallis India was quoting at Rs 218.25, down Rs 5.60, or 2.50 percent.\nIt has touched an intraday high of Rs 226.00 and an intraday low of Rs 216.80.\nIt was trading with volumes of 21,340 shares, compared to its thirty day average of shares, a decrease of percent.\nIn the previous trading session, the share closed down 0.11 percent or Rs 0.25 at Rs 223.85.\nThe share touched its 52-week high Rs 324.85 and 52-week low Rs 182.55 on 19 October, 2021 and 20 June, 2022, respectively.\nCurrently, it is trading 32.83 percent below its 52-week high and 19.53 percent above its 52-week low.\nMarket capitalisation stands at Rs 4,244.28 crore.\nFor all recommendations report, click here\nDisclaimer: The views and investment tips expressed by investment experts/broking houses/rating agencies on moneycontrol.com are their own, and not that of the website or its management. Moneycontrol.com advises users to check with certified experts before taking any investment decisions.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SURREY — Police are searching for two young men who have been charged in connection to a shooting near Strawberry Hill Elementary school on Sept. 15.\nAmarpreet Samra and Shakiel Basra, both 21, have been charged with two counts each to attempt to commit murder and intentionally discharging a firearm.\nThey remain at large and police warn they are considered armed and dangerous.\nBasra is one of several men RCMP identified last April as involved with the turf war going on in the area.\nShots rang out on Sept. 15 around 6 p.m. near the Surrey school. A 22-year-old man was shot but was expected to survive.\nPolice are looking for a grey Jeep with a Saskatchewan license plate – 685JUD – in connection to the incident.\nThe shooting brought the city’s tally to 46 since the beginning of March. Police say many are related to a dial-a-dope turf war in the area.\nPolice ask anyone with information to contact the Surrey RCMP’s dedicated tip line at 604-915-6566. Police warn not to attempt to approach or apprehend the men if spotted, but instead call 911.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The first Cavalier to medal at the Olympics was James Rector, who won silver in the 100-meter dash at the 1908 Games in London. Since 2000, six UVA athletes have medaled and many more have competed. In 2000, Ed Moses (Col ’04) won gold and silver in swimming. Angela Hucles (Col ’00) won gold in 2004 and 2008 in soccer. In 2004, Wyatt Allen (Col ’91) won a gold medal in rowing. In 2008, Melanie Kok (Col ’07) won a silver medal in rowing and Lindsay Shoop (Col ’03) won a gold. And who can forget watching Dawn Staley (Col ’92) carrying the American flag at the opening ceremonies of the 2004 Olympics in Athens? She won her third gold medal that year. This summer, 12 UVA students and alumni competed in the Games of the XXX Olympiad, and three brought home gold.\nYou may also be interested in:\n: UVA dominated college boxing for years, and then the years caught up with it\nCorporate executive and management expert Jenifer Andrasko, a former U.S. Navy pilot, mission commander and NATO officer, will be the University of Virginia Alumni Association’s next president and CEO.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It is no surprise that the New York Post has taken a page from fellow Fox team player Bill O'Reilly in the non-artful realm of the non-apology apology.\nAmid picketing and the angry response to the tasteless cartoon regarding the gunning down of a chimpanzee the Post has issued an \"apology\" on its own unique terms that smacks hard of a non-apology, to wit, an editorial on the Post's website was \"meant to mock\" the stimulus bill promoted by President Obama but \"to those who were offended by the image, we apologize.\"\nActually, who were the critics, and were they included in the apology? The editorial asserts that the image was, in the words of MSNBC, \"exploited by its longtime antagonists.\"\nThe editorial further asserts that those people who had longstanding differences with the Post saw the cartoon \"as an opportunity for payback.\" These purported mischief makers were labeled \"opportunists\" alongside the gritty pronouncement, \"To them, no apology is due.\"\nThe Post's editorial crystallized the picture. Critics who have in the past found the Post short of a modern day enactment of the journalistic ideals set forth by the likes of Joseph Pulitzer and Lincoln Steffens, and found fault with ill-tempered Col Allan's editorial domain, are trouble makers.\nThey are accordingly recognized as such, and hence no apology is forthcoming to anyone caucusing with that group of troublemakers.\nWho does that leave in the ranks of the element toward which the \"apology\" was delivered? We offer to write that part for Mr. Allan and his crew:\n\"To those of you listeners of Rush Limbaugh and viewers of Fox News and dedicated television journalists such as Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.\n\"To you who support us regularly here at the New York Post, and loyally supported the previous administration of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and oppose the current Democrat Party regime of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, to those of you we know to be sincere and patriotic Americans who also happen to read our newspaper, to you we humbly apologize if we have indeed offended you.\"\nSo how many of the loyal supporters, those who have not seen fit to criticize the Post in the past, were offended by the cartoon in question? A reasonable guess would be none.\nSince those in the aforementioned category were not offended while those who had been critical of the Post in the past were rebuked and specifically not included, then do we not at the end of the day have a circuitous non-apology with an angry slap directed toward those who had criticized the Post past or present?\nFellow Fox team player Bill O'Reilly followed a similar route after assuring his viewers and listeners that the \"weapons of mass destruction\" the Bush administration direly proclaimed were possessed by Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein actually existed. If it turned out that they did not exist, he would then apologize.\nAfter gagging out a sad facsimile of an apology after it became public knowledge that the alleged weapons of mass destruction never existed, Reilly then went on offense.\nO'Reilly warned Barbra Streisand, who spoke forcefully against invading Iraq, along with others who agreed with her, that once American service personnel flew or set foot in that nation that they become totally silent. To voice opposition at such a time was intolerable and detrimental to the national interest.\nSo here is O'Reilly logic, brazenness after his confident claim has been shattered.\nA stated reason for invading another nation has been irrefutably invalidated. An invading force attacks and occupies that same nation.\n(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The following remarks were presented by the Rev. Dr. Jennifer Copeland, Executive Director, during the public gathering and clergy march in Elizabeth City after the recent death of Andrew Brown, Jr on May 8th. Click here for the full recording.\nI greet you on behalf of the N.C. Council of Churches and the 18 denominations we represent. And I share these words from the Gospel of Matthew: “A voice was heard . . ., wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they are no more” (Matthew 2:18).\nThis weeping documented by Matthew occurred after the state sanctioned killing of all the Jewish boys under two in Herod’s demonic quest to retain power when he learned of the birth of Jesus.\n- State sanctioned killing.\n- Power hungry leaders.\n- Mothers wailing.\nIt’s the day before Mother’s Day and here we are gathered because of another killing by people in power. We are all wailing, not just the mothers. But especially, maybe on this day before Mother’s Day, we could pay homage to the pain the mothers hold in their hands. So much pain.\n- Lives cut short.\n- Dreams unfulfilled.\n- Grandchildren that will never be rocked because the children were killed before they had the chance to become parents.\nYou see the pain of the state sanctioned killing by power hungry leaders scars us for generations.\nWe are in Elizabeth City to make sure no one gets distracted from the killing of Andrew Brown, Jr., and the pain it has caused. But it’s not that hard for us to come to Elizabeth City and show our solidarity. A few hours in the car, a day away from home. But if this is all we do, we could have stayed home. What we must do now is return home and start dismantling racism.\n- No more state sanctioned killing by denying healthcare—expand Medicaid already.\n- No more state sanctioned killing by paying wages so low people can’t afford to feed their children—raise the minimum wage already.\n- No more state sanctioned killing by imposing severe voting restrictions that prevent people from electing people who will pass laws to stop the killing.\nOur task when we leave Elizabeth City is to go into the halls of power and confront the power hungry leaders. We must force them to stop the killing. And then, only then, will the mothers stop wailing. Thank you.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Gulf Keystone declines as Iraqi Kurdistan oil-payment deadline looms 12/1/2015\nGulf Keystone declines as Iraqi Kurdistan oil-payment deadline looms\n12/1/2015 0 Comments\nLONDON,— Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. fell the most in four months as a deadline approaches for Iraq’s Kurdistan authorities to make good on a pledge to pay regional oil producers. Gulf Keystone, Genel Energy Plc and DNO ASA are awaiting a November payment from the Kurdistan Regional Government for the roughly 300,000 barrels a day they jointly produce. Failure to pay will undermine the companies’ finances and their ability to expand output. The KRG disbursed a total of $150 million to international companies in September and October after vowing to re-establish regular monthly payments in August. That followed an eight-month hiatus after disagreements with Iraq’s central government in Baghdad over how the region should be remunerated for its oil output. The collapse in crude prices and the cost of fighting Islamic State is making it harder for the KRG to balance its books. If the KRG “doesn’t make the regular payments, it won’t see oil production increase and therefore export revenues won’t increase,” Richard Mallinson, a London-based geopolitical analyst at Energy Aspects Ltd., said by phone. “There’s a Catch 22.”\nGulf Keystone remains in talks with the KRG and expects the next payment to be in line with those received in September and October, according to a spokesman for the company. Genel declined to comment. DNO will issue a statement when it receives a transfer, said Managing Director Bjoern Dale.\nThe KRG’s prime minister and oil minister are due to speak at an investor conference in London on Tuesday.\nGulf Keystone dropped as much as 15 percent and was down 6.9 percent to 20.25 pence as of 12:32 p.m. in\nLondon trading. The stock has declined 70 percent this year. Genel fell 2.6 percent, while DNO gained 2.1 percent in Oslo.\nThe three companies are owed around $1.7 billion from past crude exports, based on their last regulatory filings. Unless this is paid, an increase in crude production isn’t possible, according to top executives at DNO, Genel and Gulf Keystone.\nDana Gas PJSC said on Sunday that a court in London has ordered the KRG to pay it and two other energy companies $1.98 billion in a dispute over development rights for two oil and natural gas fields in Iraq’s self-governing Kurdish region.\nWhile the KRG has been supportive of Gulf Keystone, the Dana Gas ruling has caused some concerns in the market, James Midgley, an analyst at Mirabaud Securities LLP, said by phone. “It’s just more stretch on the balance sheet of the KRG, which was already stretched,” he said.\nKurdistan is a major driver behind Iraq’s record crude production this year, with the region exporting 595,528 barrels a day in October, according to the Kurdish Ministry of Natural Resources. That’s 22 percent of total Iraqi exports and almost double the level it was shipping in November last year.\nLower oil prices and the conflict with Islamic State have been compounded by the collapse in the revenue-sharing agreement between Baghdad and Erbil, leading the KRG to pursue crude sales independently.\nLiquidity and indebtedness remains a concern for investors in oil producers in Kurdistan. Yields on Gulf Keystone’s $325 million of convertible bonds maturing in October 2017 have widened to 83.5 percent from less than 30 percent in January, according to Bloomberg data.\n“They’re quite highly leveraged,” Sam Wahab, an analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald Europe said. The company has to make two bond repayments of $575 million in 2017. Regular monthly payments, similar to the $12 million Gulf Keystone received in September and October, won’t be enough for the company to renegotiate the debt on the same terms, Wahab said.\nGenel has a bond repayment of $730 million two years later, while DNO’s $400 million bond repayment comes in 2020. Yields on those bonds are almost 20 percent.\nThe need to strengthen balance sheets has prompted speculation over consolidation among producers in Kurdistan, especially after $9.4 billion was wiped off the three companies’ market value since early 2014.\nGenel is said to be in early merger talks with with New Age African Global Energy Ltd., a closely held explorer backed by commodities trading house Vitol SA. Gulf Keystone is still interested in finding a partner for its flagship Shaikan field or even a buyer for the whole company, Chief Executive Officer Jon Ferrier said last month.\nAny buyer would have to weigh the risks associated with going into Kurdistan, according to Shola Labinjo, a London-based analyst at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co.\n“There are a number of other opportunities that are available to larger companies in this market with lower risk, so you don’t have the issue about security, or ISIS nor do you have payment problems,” Labinjo said.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "DAYTONA BEACH -- Sex walks down the streets of Daytona Beach in leather chaps and a G-string. It performs a striptease on a hotel balcony as onlookers howl and take pictures. It calls from the back of a pickup truck at stock car races, begging passers-by to show more skin.\nThis city's big four annual events -- Speedweeks, Bike Week, spring break and Black College Reunion -- are about much more than speed, motorcycles, tans and brotherhood.\nIn Daytona Beach, they mark a spring of unbridled lust and exhibitionism.\nIt's the sex, stupid.\nBarely dressed women stand next to tubs of ice and sell beer. Bars and hotels post times for wet T-shirt or bikini contests like movie theaters advertising showtimes. Women wrestle in coleslaw for a $500 grand prize, then gladly strip off their tops to get sprayed down with a hose. There's enough bumping, grinding and thrusting on State Road A1A to make Elvis blush.\nIt's all part of the city's salacious, months-long street party, which this year began with NASCAR's races in early February and will end with Black College Reunion in mid-April, attracting an estimated 1 million people.\nYes, the events are about stock cars, camaraderie and fun, as the chamber of commerce likes to portray them. But with each passing year, sex becomes more imbued in the culture of these events.\nIT'S SHOW TIME\nIt's such a steamy, one-of-a-kind show that thousands of college students armed with video cameras are on the prowl at the beach this week for one of the busiest spring breaks in a decade.\nNick Daiello, 21, and his buddies from East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania arrived Monday and are looking for one thing: girls. Preferably, girls in bikinis.\n\"That's what it's all about,\" says Daiello as he waits on a pool deck for one of the half-dozen daily bikini contests to begin.\nSpring break isn't the only stage for such seductive dramas.\nVideographers from European reality television programs descended onto Main Street and State Road A1A for this year's Bike Week celebration.\nDon Hagan, from European Real TV, says he had to turn off his large video camera in favor of a subtler hand-held camera on a recent afternoon. The bigger one was causing a sexual commotion too excessive even for European television.\n\"I had to put it away,\" he says as hundreds of motorcycles thunder down Main Street during the height of Bike Week. \"They were just showing me [breasts] and doing a lot of sexual stuff.\"\nFeminists, conservatives and your grandmother may wonder how a city's attempts to boost tourism could produce so many show-me-yours-and-I'll-show-you-mine public displays of sexuality.\nThe answer, experts say, lies somewhere in between good old-fashioned rebellion and an innate human desire to escape from the humdrum and become something different, wild, and irresistibly sexy.\nIt's all about being something you aren't and something your normal life won't let you be, says Pepper Schwartz, one of the nation's leading sociologists in human sexuality and author of the recently published Everything You Know About Love and Sex is Wrong.\n\"Many of us would feel demeaned,\" explains the University of Washington professor. \"But what Daytona Beach has done is set up a culture that says you're going to like the way you look in our eyes. If you're wild and crazy, this is a place you can do it and no one is going to criticize you.\"\nWell, almost no one.\nCity Commissioner Darlene Yordon might call you \"revolting.\"\n\"These events have gotten bigger and bigger and more and more out of control,\" she says. \"It's the anything-goes mentality. The rudeness, the aggressive behavior, the show me your [breasts] and total disregard for the laws on the books over here.\n\"These events come to town and just destroy everything we've been working hard for all year.\"\nDaytona Beach Mayor Bud Asher, who was instrumental in making his city a spring break destination, says some displays of sexuality, such as bikini contests sponsored by the company that makes Trojan condoms, are beyond the city's control.\n\"Some of these hotels have contests on their pool decks that maybe you wish didn't happen,\" Asher says. \"But these are private property events. We're not going to allow that to happen on the streets of Daytona Beach.\"\nON VACATION, ANYTHING GOES\nDespite grumbling from city officials and residents, the events are as popular as ever. That breakaway from the constraints of routine and normalcy is partly what feeds the party fever.\n\"In ordinary life you wear a suit and tie or a uniform,\" says Stetson University sociology professor Charles Vedder. \"When you have that much stability things get boring and you need to have an adventure. You want novelty. You want something that's not normally seen.\"\nVedder, who rides a Harley-Davidson, hasn't missed Bike Week since 1989. The sociologist in him can't resist taking note of what academics term \"deviant\" behavior, perhaps best defined by the annual day of coleslaw wrestling at Sopotnick's Cabbage Patch, an out-of-the-way bar west of New Smyrna Beach.\nThis year more than 5,000 people were there to watch one of the first matchups of the day: two women in bikinis.\nThey climbed a large mound to the top and stared down into the massive pit of oil and shredded cabbage. Moments later, to the delight of the crowd, they became a slimy, tangled mess of flailing arms, legs and hair.\nSomehow, by a method indiscernible to onlookers, a winner was declared. The men in the crowd, knowing what would come next, began to fight for control of a garden hose to spray them off.\n\"Over here! Over here!\" Jim Powell of Pensacola shouts to one of the contestants, who had removed her top while she was being hosed down.\nPowell, like hundreds of other men at the event, had a camera ready to capture the moment.\n\"She's been flashing that side of the ring for, like, 10 minutes,\" he complains loudly.\nA LITTLE FLASH, A LOT OF CASH\nMost of the attention is focused on women, to the frustration of some women who, as one put it, would like to see a few wet boxer shorts contests.\nBut Tiesa Ortez doesn't mind. An administrative assistant at a Daytona Beach law firm, she sold beer out of a large ice-filled tub on Main Street during Bike Week.\nWearing a purple fur bra, she made nearly $800 for a day's work. She figures that would have been closer to $1,000 if the city hadn't made her wear shorts over her thong.\nPossibly the tamest event, from the standpoint of sex, is the series of races at Daytona International Speedway in February.\nIn the speedway's infield, however, fans who are the equivalent of Shakespearean groundlings build plywood forts on their pick-up trucks while the elites watch the races from high up grandstand seats or luxury suites.\nThey, too, do what they can to encourage women to expose themselves. One sign atop a fort this year read: \"Only topless women.\"\nSpontaneity rules the 72 hours of Black College Reunion, when cruising turns State Road A1A into a parking lot, and men and women leave their cars to perform spur-of-the-moment bump-and-grind dances.\nAt BCR, the thing to do is capture as much skin as possible on film or disk. Some men go home with a fistful of film, filled with frame after frame of strangers exposing themselves. Some of it ends up on the Internet.\nFOR SOME, FUN IS PRICEY\nEven though hundreds of police officers, deputies and troopers patrol the city's events, it's difficult to enforce city ordinances aimed at keeping the events PG-13. But it is possible to make an example out of one or two.\nAsk Daytona Beach Police officers Grant Karcher and Jamie Ziehl. They've spent plenty of Bike Week afternoons nabbing tourists who flirt with public nudity -- even if it's only a split-second lift of a bikini top to win a string of beads.\nTammy Barber, 29, and Danielle Geiser, 21, last week made the mistake of doing just that in front of the two officers. Karcher and Ziehl ushered the women down a side street to a patrol car. Both women were given $103 fines.\n\"I only showed one,\" Barber counters. \"Shouldn't I only have to pay half?\"\nThe officers can't help smiling as they finish up their paperwork. At barely 6 p.m., it's their third such arrest in two hours. Ziehl, a young officer with a fresh crew cut, looks up and deadpans, \"One or two is the same thing. It's $103.\"\n\"What can I say?\" says Barber, who's visiting from Missouri. \"We're from the Show Me State.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The government has extended the start date for the new post-Brexit certification rules for construction products by 12 months, after being told that sticking with next year’s deadline would have caused chaos across the industry.\nThe current CE markings had been due to replaced by the UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) mark in just over four months’ time, however the government has now extended this deadline after repeat warnings that the timescale to hit next year’s deadline was unachievable.\nWilliam Bain, Head of Trade Policy at the British Chambers of Commerce, said:\n“The British Chambers of Commerce has led business calls for an extension of at least a year on the easement for CE markings on imported industrial goods, spare parts, and components. Businesses will welcome this reprieve until 1 January 2023, which will protect supply chains and make a huge difference to consumers on the availability of items such as phones and laptops. There is currently a lack of testing capacity to enable the retesting of decades worth of CE marked items for the new UKCA specification, so this measure will be hugely important in allowing time for that capacity to be built and for retesting to take place. A wider problem does still exist however – complex supply chains such as those in the automotive industry still face having to duplicate markings on certain components and incurring large costs for testing as a result. This could compromise the output of these industries, limit availability of goods for consumers and create mounting cost pressures on British businesses. The government needs to work now with businesses to ensure full consideration to the impacts are given before any decision to completely pull the plug on CE-marked goods, risking incurring costs to our economy that we may come to regret.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Implementation of a Defense Department-wide virtual directory, already some 4 million listings strong, requires unity of effort across DOD.\nAccording to J. Greg Hanson, the doomsday scenario of the Y2K bug never played out, thanks to many technology and business professionals who worked hard to make it a non-event. But while the predicted disaster wasn't significant, the effort to avert it certainly was, and we have been reaping the benefits ever since.\nAgencies are turning to the Information Technology Infrastructure Library to bring order to IT management processes, but what will that mean for their enterprise architecture efforts?\nOfficial promises the policy is very close to completion.\nReaders suggest a few projects that could have made our Thanksgiving list of failed, or deeply troubled, government IT projects and debate the causes of such large-scale failures.\nNASA plans to soon open competition for the first of five information technology services contracts that have been estimated to be worth more than $4 billion total.\nOver the years, the American public has been gifted with its share of computer-based turkeys -- information technology projects gone wrong, often at spectacular expense.\nThe national laboratory overseeing the nation’s nuclear stockpile has some serious security shortfalls, according to auditors.\nSSA should develop more open IT systems as it modernizes, according to recommendations released in a white paper by the Computer & Communications Industry Association.\nThe Labor Department is soliciting proposals for a five-year support contract for a broad range of IT support services.\nDHS' financial system consolidation program has progressed but still relies too much on contractors, GAO officials say.\nGSA's David McClure outlines IT issues requiring added attention during panel on collaboration and transparency at IAC-ACT's Executive Leadership Conference.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Brandix Lanka has strengthened its partnership with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), in an effort to address some of the key humanitarian needs of the conflict displaced communities in the country. As part of its latest contribution, Brandix has once again stepped forward to support Quick Impact Projects (QIPs), an integral part of UNHCR’s operations in Sri Lanka, which sees the implementation of small-scale and short-term projects to support resettlement and have an immediate and long-term impact on returnee communities. These projects aim to promote return as well as facilitate stability. Through this project, Brandix hopes to help meet the non-food needs of the internally displaced population in the country. Last year, UNHCR took its first steps towards forging strategic partnerships with Sri Lanka’s private sector, by tying up with Brandix to improve the water facilities and water management of the Karambe Hospital and its surrounding villages in Puttalam. The project has helped better the health and welfare of the Puttalam residents and internally displaced persons. Brandix’s CSR efforts are driven by the central corporate theme ‘Water is Life’ and constitute a long-term commitment to improving the living conditions of people in need, including bringing safe drinking water to households in Sri Lanka. “Brandix is honoured to support UNHCR in its initiative to help improve the lives of vulnerable Sri Lankans,” says the Brandix Group’s CEO Ashroff Omar. “Collaborating with UNHCR has ensured that our resources were utilised efficiently and effectively to construct such an essential project swiftly.” UNHCR’s Representative in Sri Lanka Amin Awad hailed Brandix’s commitment towards improving the lives of the displaced and returnee communities in the country.\nPhoto caption – L-R Anusha Alles, Head of CSR, Brandix, Amin Awad, UNHCR’s Representative in Sri Lanka and Gary Firth, UNHCR", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "What is the driving force behind the nation’s most successful brokerages?\nThe heads of employee benefit brokerages in the United States that experienced the most growth year-over-year in the large-group client market agree, their successes lie with their consultants and employees.\nIn partnership with business intelligence data analytics firm miEdge, EBA presents its 2016 listing of top large-group employee benefit firms in the country, ranked exclusively on health and welfare revenue.\nThe listing is the only ranking of its kind using information not self-disclosed by the companies being ranked. The list is based on Form 5500 Schedule A data submitted to the Department of Labor as of Aug. 31, 2016 for groups of 100 or more. (Revenue numbers do not reflect groups under 100 lives, government entities and church plans that are not required to file. Any disclosure on Schedule C’s are also not contemplated in these numbers.)\nAt Fort Worth, Texas-based Higginbotham Insurance — which had the highest percentage growth year-over-year at 39.2%, rising to No. 33 on the ranking with $11 million in 2016 revenue from $7.9 million in revenue and No. 44 on the 2015 list — its people are the firm’s most important asset, says Rusty Reid, chairman and CEO of Higginbotham Companies, the brokerage’s parent company.\n“Unlike in other business, they [take] the elevator every day,” he says. “Our business is very complex and full of ever-changing laws and very complex people issues.”\nAs a result, Reid says it was important to create incentives that exceed employer expectations, and the firm began an employee ownership program in 1989. Employees now own 75% of the company.\n“We are very focused on business-to-business,” Reid says. “If we win, they win. We think that comes through in spades when it is related to clients. Knowing you are an owner, you go a bit above 9-to-5 customer service. The people dynamic is extremely important and [this] takes it a step further.”\nIn the 2016 rankings, Mercer Health & Benefits remained in the No. 1 spot of top revenue with $227.1 million in revenue. Both Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. and Aon Consulting moved down one spot each, to third and fourth, with $196.2 million and $172.1 million in 2016 revenue, respectively. Willis Towers Watson rose into second place from fourth with $203 million in 2016 revenue.\nThere is a lot of interesting movement within the rankings, explains Mark Smith, CEO of New Boston, N.H.-based miEdge, the firm that provides the data.\n“The big thing that stands out is that consolidation in the employee benefits health and welfare space is continuing ... to be a dominant part of how people are staying competitive in the marketplace,” Smith says. “Go back to 2014, there was 30% of the market controlled by the top 50, now that is over 40%, and with the [Affordable Care Act], what you as a broker/consultant need to provide to clients has gotten more sophisticated.”\nHe adds, “The pressures on bringing that sophistication to the client often means you have to make an investment as a business into providing these services or partnering with and many times merge with larger firms that already [have] those things.”\nWithin the top 10 firms, Aon and HUB International led the pack in growth with 21.7% and 21% growth, respectively.\nBut, Smith cautions, growth also depends on size. “Mercer is still the No. 1 broker and consultant in the country. They have remained the dominant force in the United States,” he says. “It is also much easier to grow faster as a smaller organization, because if you grow $1 million on small versus $1 million on large, that percentage difference is [bigger].”\nThe ACA is bringing many different requirements that employers must adhere to, requiring a consultant to be completely up to date on all the moving parts that relate to the workplace, and then find a compelling solution for the client, Smith explains. “This becomes even more burdensome when trying to do that with your own clients and on top of that, finding new clients,” he adds. “They key to the most successful brokers is that they have the ability to provide those capabilities to existing clients, but also have a sales culture to go and find new clients as well. That is not a skill everyone has.”\nFor those at the top, it is all about changing and adapting with the business. “All this change means for EPIC, and the industry, [is] that we too must change, evolve and invest to support our consultants in delivering the right solutions and capabilities to our clients, and to help them grow personally,” says Chris Duncan, chief growth officer at San Francisco-based EPIC Insurance, which moved up six spots to No. 15 on the list, with 21.8% growth on $30.5 million in 2016 revenue.\n“Those that get it right are likely to reap the rewards of growth, as employers are looking for straight, clear answers that solve their problems,” he adds. “This also means that for benefit advisers specifically, scale matters, as you need scale to be able to financially support the investments and capabilities needed to deliver for clients.”\nThe business has greatly changed over the past 6-7 years due to the “massive forces of healthcare cost increases and the ACA,” he explains. “Healthcare costs are now 18% of GDP, and costs continue to rise much faster than inflation, and the benefits financial impact has moved from what used to be the sole domain of HR, to such size and impact that the C-suite and boards are now heavily involved.”\nAs a result of the ACA, Duncan believes that brokers and consultants must expand their services, analytics, solutions, technology, communications and compliance capabilities and evolve their own personal skillsets to deliver ever more complex and sophisticated advice and solutions to clients.\nThe changing business means brokers are challenging themselves “daily to identify ways to grow [their] business outside the standard brokerage services,” says Liz Smith, president of Schaumburg, Ill.-based Assurance Agency, responsible for overseeing the firm’s employee benefits practice. Assurance rose eight spots on the 2016 rankings to No. 39, with 24.3% growth on $9.4 million in 2016 revenue.\n“Our business has changed dramatically over the last five years,” she adds. “Pricing has obviously always been important, but today I would say clients are most interested in compliance and analysis. You need to invest in these areas to retain your clients and create that credibility.”\nIt is part of the “rapid change, consolidation and innovation of business models” in the industry, Duncan adds. “There was a time when if you were a good golfer and networker, you could be a successful benefits producer or consultant, operating inside a relatively stable world of benefits problems and answers. Today, you have to be as savvy as an investment banker, as paranoid as an attorney, as analytical as an actuary, as comfortable with a CFO as you are with a benefits administrator, a project manager like you’re going to the moon and back, and as good a communicator as an Oscar-winning actor. The internal and external environment for advisers has totally changed.”\nStaying ahead of the competition is a bit of an art and a science, says Tucker Sharp, Aon’s global chief brokering officer. “The science is straightforward. We develop people that are really good at listening, who talk to clients about their biggest challenges,” he says. “We stay in close contact with Washington and groups like the National Business Group on Health.”\nBut, he adds, there are two other pieces. One is investment in innovation. Aon has created several innovation centers around the world where teams of actuaries and thought leaders come together to work on innovations, such as data and testing with carriers and clients, Sharp says.\nAnd just like other firms on the list, the other piece to success revolves around people. Over the past five years, the firm has thought of itself as ‘Aon united.’\n“That may sound like a tagline, but the way we operate differently, rather than experts in retiree and health [in silos], we have people across all those areas that are trusted and can translate that,” he says. “One voice has forced us — in a good way — to look outside our traditional subject-matter expertise so we have people on the three areas our clients want: risk, retiree and health.”\nWhen Aon and Hewitt merged in 2010 it allowed the newly formed company to take a step back and put a new focus on bringing those teams together, Sharp explains.\nOrganic growth or M&A?\nThese firms with the most growth are looking to grow any way they can. At Assurance, Smith says that her firm has been focused on organic growth for the past 15 years. “We focus on bringing on new clients one at a time, as well as targeting top producers,” she explains.\nAt San Mateo, Calif.-based ABD Insurance & Financial Services, which rose six spots on the list to No. 35 with 28.2% growth and $10.5 million in 2016 revenue, the basis of the firm’s growth has been organic. “To grow organically, you have to have a reputable group of people, a reputable firm and an aggressive sales force,” says Darren Brown, ABD’s executive vice president, employee benefits.\n“We have a long tenure and track record in the markets that we serve,” he explains. “How we grow is by being laser focused on our current customers and building a strong reputation so they retain us as their consultant but also make recommendations and referrals. When we reach out to new opportunities, we can refer to our client base and we can refer to our market leverage and relationships to grow organically.”\nHigginbotham’s growth is driven by cross-selling. The firm started its cross-selling initiative in 1989 and it continues to be embedded in their culture today, Reid says.\nCross-selling starts on day two with clients. The first day focuses on coverage and figuring out business plans. But, day two is about wellness and helping with healthcare costs. The firm has seven people across Texas who are wellness consultants. “Everything we do is client driven and if there is a need out there they have communicated, we try to fill that need,” says Michael Parks, COO of Higginbotham’s financial services practice, responsible for core benefits.\nThe firm also focuses on M&A. Some years, organic growth will outpace M&A, and vice versa. “What we don’t want to do is bring on a new partner for the sake of bringing on a new partner,” Reid says. “We want to find someone that is a partner, not an M&A candidate.” Since the firm launched its ‘Best in Texas’ initiative in 2007, it has brought on nearly 25 partners.\nOver at EPIC, the company is focused on all forms on growth. “If you look at the EPIC story, it started in California, and grew to the fourth largest brokerage firm in California pretty much all organically by hiring good people,” Duncan says. “The two founders, John Hahn and Dan Francis, did it block-by-block for eight years.”\nAn investment by Carlyle two and a half years ago took the show on the road, expanding the firm “both in California and eastward, into the Southeast, Northwest and Southwest, organically, [by] hiring good people, and inorganically, through acquisitions,” Duncan says. “We have a dual focus on getting the right acquisitions that can buy into the EPIC culture, client focus, entrepreneurial spirit and finding great producers, consultants and teams of people that leverage the same.”\nEPIC closed its largest employee benefit acquisition to date with Ascende in Houston this year. “They brought to the table several key specialty areas EPIC was light on, including prescriptions, global benefits and retirement, but more importantly, a ton of really great talent and leadership we could build around,” Duncan explains. “Our acquisitions are seldom about just buying revenue and clients; we really look for a strategic opportunity we can invest in.”\nBut with that growth, agencies know they need to find clients that are a right fit for their agency. At Associated Financial Group in Minneapolis— which rose eight spots to No. 22 on the list with 26% growth on $15 million in 2016 revenue — the firm sees its growth coming from decision-making and new clients. “We are not the right answer for everybody,” says Dean Hildebrandt, CEO of Associated Benefits and Risk Consulting Group, Associated’s brokerage arm. “If somebody doesn’t value health and wellness of their staff, we are probably not a great fit for them.”\n“There is somebody that will try to do it cheaper,” he adds. “But for folks that value wellness and value improved performance for their group, we are a great fit.”\nAbout the people\nBut in the end, it comes back to the people. “My experience has proven to me that this business has changed … much faster in the past 5-6 years than the previous 15,” says ABD’s Brown. “The one thing I truly believe strongly that separates us from other firms is we work really hard to create a leadership culture where everybody within the organization is empowered with transparency around results.”\n“They are empowered to think like leaders and make decisions,” he adds. “So when they work with clients, they can act quickly and be accountable for the decisions they are making.”\nThis is different than the previous producer-centric days, where the focus was on making calls and closing deals. “Our firm has always been about the team approach,” he says, “a very robust set of resources associated with those teams and by creating a leadership structure and a large group of people committed to each client engagement that they have.”\nPeople are important because anybody can bring a product to bear and show it to a client, says Pattysue Rauh, executive vice president and national benefits leader of Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Brown & Brown Inc., which held steady at No. 12 on the list, with 30.4% growth on $77.3 million in revenue.\n“What is more important is having an individual willing to invest time and effort to stay ahead of the curve with compliance,” Rauh says. “It is constantly changing in the industry. You need an individual who wants to continually improve and make sure they are a top-notch executive meeting with clients and prospects.”\n“They understand the issues and can bring solutions to the table that aren’t just product solutions, but truly compliance- and advice-driven on issues facing employers today,” she adds.\nThe future has never been brighter, EPIC’s Duncan says. “All this change going on, from ACA to insurer consolidation to healthcare delivery, means that we as advisers are needed more and more, in more strategic and tactical ways, than ever before,” he explains. “Combine this with the massive pressure on over-worked HR functions being asked to do more and more with less and less, and CFOs focused on costs they can impact means that trusted advisers and specialists that really understand the issues and levers in 18% of the GDP and can translate chaos and uncertainty into a plan that delivers on an organization’s needs, making HR and the CFO look good, is a great place to be.”\n““We’ve placed a major bet on massive change meaning material opportunity for EPIC and its people,” Duncan says. “And we’re seeing the results of this bet in our own growth in benefits.”\nABD’s Brown agrees: “I have an extremely positive outlook for this industry and my firm. There has been a ton of disruption in health care. It’s not just the ACA, but a challenging industry … and a big part of the economy.”\nSomething so large is ripe for disruption, but also ripe for opportunity, Brown says. “As a traditional benefit broker/consultant, one thing we do know to be true is that our buyers are looking for great advice and counsel,” he explains. “Look at the true definition of an independent broker/consultant that is what we do, assuming you have the resources to support those recommendations and provide that guidance.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Zamfara State Command of the Nigeria Police has arrested two secondary school students in the state for attempting to extort money from their principal and threatening to kill their colleagues.\nIn the incidents as narrated by the police, the two students from different secondary schools in the state, sent threat messages to their respective principals demanding payment of millions of naira to avoid attack and kidnap.\nSociety gazette gathered one of them threatened to kidnap his principal, while the second one called his school principal on phone threatening to kill and abduct students of the school unless he paid N3 million.\nHowever, after the two incidents were brought to the attention of the police, two students, one in SS3, the other in SS1 suspected to be the mastermind behind the threats have been arrested by the police.\nThe developments were disclosed at a press conference on Friday at the Zamfara State police command headquarters in Gusau, by the Police Commissioner, Hussaini Rabi’u.\n“On 25th June, 2021, a letter was found close to the suggestion box of Dominican College located in Sha’iskawa area, Gusau.\n“The content of the letter was a threat to kidnap the principal of the school, Rev. Sister Chinyere O.P and students of the school.\n“On receipt of the complaint, police detectives swung into action and arrested one Donatus Ejeh as the principal suspect.\n“On interrogation, the suspect was discovered to be an SS3 student of the school,” he said.\nRabi’u added that on 1st July, the principal of Federal Government College, Anka, Zamfara state reported to the DPO Anka Division that an unknown person called her and demanded three million Naira or he would storm the school and attack students.\n“On receipt of the complaint, police swung into action and arrested one Tukur Bashir in Bakura Local Government Area of the state.\n“Upon investigation, the caller was discovered to be an SS1 student of the school,” he said.\nThe commissioner said investigations were ongoing to unravel and arrest collaborators of the students.\nMeanwhile, Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle has declared that his decision to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) is more than mere politics.\nThe Governor disclosed on Friday that he dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the best interest of the people of Zamfara.\nSociety gazette recalls Matawalle officially defected from PDP to APC on Tuesday at a ceremony to mark the occasion which took place in Gusau, the state capital.\nSpeaking on his defection, the Zamfara Governor while speaking on the Osasu Show programme on Friday noted that his defection will now bring greater development to the state and the issue of insecurity in the state will receive better attention.\nHe noted that now that Zamfara has joined the ruling party, it will be easier to get the federal government’s attention on issues affecting the state.\nSource: Naija News", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rawlings mourns Dr. Kwabena Adjei\nSource: Daily Graphic Ghana - Former President Jerry John Rawlings has tweeted his condolences to the family of the late Dr. Kwabena Adjei.\nThe former National Democratic Congress (NDC) national chairman passed away Tuesday morning after battling ill-health. He was 76\nIn a brief tweet, Rawlings, founder of the NDC, described the late Dr. Kwabena Adjei as “a strong-spirited personality” who will be missed by many.\n“My sincere condolences to the family and the NDC fraternity on the loss of Dr. Kwabena Adjei. He was a strong-spirited personality and will be missed by many. May his soul rest in peace.”\nDid you know?\nMarburg virus and Ebola virus are the SAME..! Read Here!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Is your Brand Backing Bigotry?\nImagine the following scenario:\nImagine the following scenario:\nAn advert for your brand just appeared alongside an article that aggressively and needlessly outed and attacked an LGBT+ member of the public. Is this how you envisaged your expensive ad campaign playing out? You don’t want to be seen as a brand that endorses hostility, bullying and discrimination. It’s probably a no-brainer, right?\nWell then, let me tell you a story…\nIn a high profile court case that began in 2015, food blogger Jack Monroe (who identifies as non-binary transgender) successfully sued a Daily Mail Online columnist for tweets that accused her of condoning the graffitiing of a war monument for women in Whitehall. Monroe’s brother is in the RAF and her father served in the Falklands. She strongly denies any involvement with or endorsement of the vandalism in question. Nevertheless, she received death threats as a result of the columnist’s claim. Apologies were not forthcoming.\nAmong its many minority targets, the Daily Mail also decided to out a British judge in November 2016, labelling him an ‘enemy of the people’. Whatever your view on Brexit might be, it’s hard to imagine that a person’s private sexuality is relevant to the issue. The fact that it was mentioned at all implies that LGBT+ people present a threat to British society and that they can’t be trusted. The devious juxtaposition wilfully ignores the fact that LGBT+ people are prominently involved in many walks of British life and contribute a great deal.\nMore recently, the Sun decided it had the right to out a newly-qualified NHS nurse by reporting his alleged involvement in a gay porn film. Again, it’s hard to see how any aspect of the story is in the public interest. Strange indeed that a newspaper so frequently hung up on the nebulous concept of ‘political correctness’ and an overbearing ‘nanny state’ should suddenly feel it’s justified in policing the sexuality of random members of the public.\nBig Brother is indeed watching you. And we must assume his name is Rupert Murdoch.\nIn the cases above, LGBT+ citizens were spitefully outed on a national scale – an act of inexcusable hostility. But how many brands rushed to the defence of those targeted? How many ads were pulled as a result of the flagrant homophobia?\nPerhaps the problem is that some brands don’t understand the real impact and risk of LGBT+ people’s private lives being used as attention grabbing headlines.\nOr perhaps the problem is that some brands don’t care.\nIt’s certainly not true that all brands heartlessly ignore published prejudice and harmful political association. In recent months, the likes of Jaguar Land Rover, Thomson Reuters, Sandals and Marie Curie have all suspended online advertising on sites that were deemed to promote terrorism. Drop Box and the V&A Museum have already pulled problematic ads for the same reason.\nMeanwhile, Disney chose to end its relationship with YouTuber PewDiePie following an investigation into nine videos that featured Nazi imagery and anti-Semitic content.\nIn the UK in September 2016, Specsavers apologised and cancelled Daily Express advertising following complaints about doom-mongering front page headlines that demonised migrants and were considered to be “bigoted”.\nAccording the growing global phenomenon of Sleeping Giants, 1250 advertisers have disassociated themselves from the far-right rhetoric of the Breitbart website. In this case, the Kellogg Company was ahead of the game. Kris Charles, spokeswoman for Kellogg’s made a statement to Bloomberg explaining that they regularly work with their media-buying partners to ensure their ads do not appear on sites that aren’t aligned with their values as a company.\nEthical editorial decisions all round then.\nSo that brings us to the cop-outs – the brands that eschew their responsibilities by claiming that they make no editorial decisions. Is it such a horrifying idea to suggest that they should?\nHere in the UK, the Stop Funding Hate campaign is challenging brands to make moral choices. Campaigner Rosey Ellum recently wrote an article for the Gay Star News highlighting the problem with brands who fail to respond appropriately.\n“Some brands are not properly acknowledging customers who say: I am hurt by this. I see the hate in the media and it affects my life,” Ellum told Pride AM. “And often these brands will be contravening their own ethical policies in terms of being inclusive and non-discriminatory.”\nCommendably, Body Shop, Lego, Bellroy and Eurowings have all made exactly this stand, pulling their ad money from tabloids whose output stands in direct contradiction to their brand ideals.\nIn 2016, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance singled out the Daily Mail and the Sun for publishing hate speech. Among other complaints, it noted “unscrupulous press reporting” targeting the LGBT+ community.\nSo serious an issue has the unreliability of the Daily Mail become, that Wikipedia’s editors have voted to ban it as a source of legitimate citation. It has been judged “generally unreliable” and guilty of “poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication”. There is such distrust of the Daily Mail’s content that Wikipedia is now in the process of reviewing around 12000 existing links and seeking to replace them with alternative sources.\nPerhaps it’s time that LGBT+ consumers and their allies were equally scrupulous in asking brands exactly where they draw the line – how much ill treatment of LGBT+ people are brands willing to be an accessory to?\nIt’s certainly time for brands to start playing a more active role in deciding where they pay to appear and to challenge the media outlets they are associated with to take more responsibility for their specious, fictitious and divisive content.\nWritten by Phil Clements, Member and Spokesperson for PrideAM", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Latest Tech News Reporter Stories\nTech News Reporter, a technology news and editorial blog, recently redesigned its interface to supply easier access to its curated news articles and highlight featured authors like Alexis Madrigal,\nWord of the Day\n- The governor of a province or people.\nThe word 'ethnarch' comes from a Greek word meaning 'ruler of a tribe or nation'.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Houston Chronicle described Hutchison, who is trying to oust Gov. Rick Perry in the Republican primary, as a trailblazer with a \"proven record of working across party lines to benefit all.\" The Dallas Morning News said she would provide a \"welcome change\" to Perry's \"bully tactics\" and \"strong-arm style.\"\nPerry, the GOP front-runner, broke with tradition this year and decided not to seek endorsements from newspaper editorial boards. Most of them unloaded on Perry, the longest-serving governor in Texas history, with broad attacks on his heavy-handed governing style.\n\"The sad fact is that (Perry) has little to show for that long tenure,\" the Austin American-Statesmen wrote in a blistering editorial that recommended Hutchison for GOP voters. \"Even sadder is that the governor is turning into a caricature in order to please a rowdy constituency that feeds on secessionist fantasies and fairy tales about tax cuts.\"\nThe Eagle of Bryan-College Station mentioned Perry's decision not to meet with any of the papers' editorial boards, saying he was \"probably unwilling to answer tough questions they might have asked.\" Both White and Hutchison got the paper's nod.\nIn endorsing White in the Democratic primary, the Statesman applauded the San Antonio native's \"low-key, thoughtful approach that seems like just what Texas needs now.\" The paper said the other Houstonian in the race, hair care magnate Farouk Shami, had an \"inspiring life story\" but was completely unprepared to govern.\nThe editorial boards mostly ignored Wharton activist Debra Medina, who has stirred passion and controversy as the third Republican in the race with Perry and Hutchison. The Amarillo Globe News, which endorsed Hutchison, said Medina \"is making noise with her support of the so-called 'tea party' movement\" but didn't mention her again. White picked up the Globe News endorsement in the Democratic contest.\nBoth Hutchison and White got endorsements from four of the state's largest metropolitan newspapers -- the Chronicle, Morning News, San Antonio Express-News and Statesman. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is expected to make endorsements in the race on Sunday.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "women's golf team stands tied for 19th\nDIEGO, Calif. - The Lewis-Clark State College\nwomen's golf team made a small improvement\nduring the second day of the NAIA Women's Golf\nChampionships on Tuesday at the Lake San Marcos\nThe problem for the\nothers several other teams in the field played\nbetter in the second round than on Monday.\ntwo strokes better on Tuesday, the Warriors\nactually slipped into a tie for 19th place at\nthe tournament's halfway point.\nLCSC shot a 342\nscore on Tuesday, which left it with a 686 total\nand tied for 19th in the 23-team field with St.\nAmbrose. The Warriors are still in good shape to\nmake a run as they are only 12 shots out of 15th\nplace and 22 shots behind fellow Frontier\nConference competitor Rocky Mountain, which is\nin 14th at 664. Fellow Region I member, the\nUniversity of British Columbia, leads the\ntournament with a 630 score.\nFor the Warriors to\nmake a move, they will need their top players to\ncome through, something that didn't happen on\nJuanita Villa, who\nwas the conference's Player of the Year last\nseason and the Warriors' top scorer in almost\nevery tournament this year, bogeyed seven\nstraight holes on her first nine Tuesday on her\nway to a 15-over 87 and a tow-day total of 172,\nwhich leaves her third on the team.\nShrout continues to play well for LCSC and\nfollowed up her 80 on Monday with an 83. Her 163\ntotal has her tied for 38th overall.\nNorris improved by one shot on Tuesday with an\n85 for a 171 total, which has her tied for 74th\noverall. Sophomore Sue James is tied for 100th\nat 180 after improving by six shots on Tuesday\nwith an 87.\nKluever, who is appearing in her fourth NAIA\nnational tournament, struggled for the second\nstraight day and finished with a 96 for a 191\nThe third round of\nthe tournament will be held Thursday with the\nfinal 18 holes on Friday. LCSC, which is making\nits fourth appearance in the tournament in the\nlast five years, finished 14th last season.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "New findings released at the 5th International Scientific Symposium on Tea & Human Health reveal tea to have preventative health benefits including reduced risk of cardiovascular disease as well as providing protection from stroke and heart attack.\nLeading nutrition scientists from around the world convened at the United States Department of Agriculture Wednesday to present the latest research supporting the role of tea in benefiting and promoting better health.\nThe Tea Association of Canada compiled the overview that follows.\nInterest in tea’s potential health benefits has grown exponentially. In just the past five years there have been more than 5,600 scientific studies on tea, forming a substantial body of research on this world wide consumed beverage.\n“There is now an overwhelming body of research from around the world indicating that drinking tea benefits human health,” says Dr. Carol Greenwood, who is a Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto and a Senior Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest.\nDr. Greenwood, an expert on the relationship between diet, nutrition and brain health, went on to say “the compounds in tea appear to impact virtually every cell in the body in a positive health outcome, which is why the consensus emerging from this symposium is that drinking at least a cup of clear green, black, white or oolong tea a day can contribute significantly to the promotion of public health.”\nOf particular interest to Dr. Greenwood and the medical community was the numerous heart health studies presented that tea supports heart health and healthy blood pressure, and appears to be associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke and heart attack.\nNew research presented by Dr. Claudio Ferri, MD, University L’Aquila, Italy, found in 19 normotensive and 19 hypertensive individuals that black tea was able to reduce blood pressure. In the hypertensive patients, black tea appeared to counteract the negative effects of a high-fat meal on blood pressure and arterial blood flow.\nHypertensive subjects were instructed to drink a cup of tea after a meal that contained .45 grams fat/lb. body weight. The results suggest that tea prevented the reduction in flow mediated dilation (FMD), the arterial ability to increase blood flow that occurs after a high-fat meal. In a previous study conducted by Ferri, tea improved FMD from 7.8 to 10.3%, and reduced both systolic and diastolic blood pressure by -2.6 and -2.2 mmHg, respectively, in study participants.\nAlso of interest among the findings is research suggesting that green tea and caffeine may trigger energy expenditure that may promote weight loss. Another study illustrates how tea may help counter the adverse effects of high-fat foods on blood vessels, which could possibly reduce the risk of atherosclerosis, the most common cause of death in the North America.\nTea and Body Weight\nObesity is the largest public health concern in North America and there are few strategies that provide long-term success. New research on tea catechins suggests that they may provide a benefit in maintaining body weight or promoting weight loss.\nTea and Bone and Muscle Strength\nOsteoporosis is a major public health concern for many older women and men as the disease is responsible for two million fractures a year and 300,000 hip fractures in 2005. The disease leads to loss of mobility, independence and reduces quality of life for many older Americans.\nResearchers at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center conducted studies with 150 postmenopausal women with low bone mass to see if the addition of green tea flavanols , Tai Chi exercise or both green tea plus Tai Chi could help improve markers for bone health and muscle strength in study participants. At the end of the six-month clinical trial they found that 500 mg green tea extract (equivalent to 4-6 cups of green tea daily), alone or in combination with Tai Chi, improved markers for bone formation, reduced markers of inflammation and increased muscle strength in study participants.\nTea May Improve Mental Sharpness\nConsuming black tea improved attention and self-reported alertness in a human study conducted by Unilever R&D, Vlaardingen, The Netherlands. In this placebo-controlled study, designed to measure attention, task performance and alertness, subjects drinking tea were more accurate on an attention task and also felt more alert than subjects drinking a placebo. This work supports earlier studies on the mental benefits of tea. In addition, two other studies provide a broader perspective on tea’s effects on psychological well-being, showing benefits for tiredness and self-reported work performance, as well as mood and creative problem solving. These studies provide support for tea’s benefits for mental sharpness, as measured by attention, mood and performance.\nBioactive Compounds in Tea\nTea is one of the most thoroughly researched for its potential health benefits. The leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant contain thousands of bioactive compounds that have been identified, quantified and studied for their mechanisms of action. While many of these compounds act as antioxidant flavonoids, not all of tea’s benefits are thought to be solely from antioxidant activity.\nFor example, new research presented by Alan Crozier, PhD, of the University of Glasgow, UK, revealed that while many tea flavonoids in green and black tea are digested and absorbed, others are more resistant to digestion and travel mostly intact to the lower gastrointestinal tract, where they provide a probiotic effect by enabling beneficial bacteria to thrive.\nTea Provides Profound Health Benefits\nThe latest data provide further evidence of tea’s potential role in promoting good health, perhaps due to the fact that tea flavonoids are the major contributors of total flavonoid intake in the U.S. diet:\nTea drinking may play a role in helping to prevent cells from becoming cancerous;\nTea may play a role in enhancing the effect of chemotherapy drugs used for treating certain cancers; and\nFlavonoids in tea, among other compounds present in tea leaves, may help ward off inflammation and vascular damage linked to chronic conditions associated with aging.\n“As the second most consumed beverage in the world next to water, tea accounts for a significant amount of the flavanol intake worldwide,” states Joe Simrany, President, Tea Council of the USA, which has been spear-heading this International Tea & Human Health Symposium since 1991. “This gathering of renowned global nutrition scientists is the world’s leading platform to release new research on tea, and acts as a catalyst for continuing research on tea in areas as diverse and novel as cognitive function, bone growth, weight management, cancer and vascular function.”\nComplete studies and abstracts are posted to the Tea Association of Canada website at\nThe symposium was sponsored by American Cancer Society, American Institute for Cancer Research, American Society for Nutrition, American College of Nutrition, The Linus Pauling Institute, American Medical Women’s Association, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Tea Council of the USA.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It’s a frosty morning on Kidsley Farm in Derbyshire, a uncommon factor on this unusually heat winter.\nAndrew Dakin’s beef herd is housed within the outdated brick barns, their breath steaming within the chill air.\nAlongside scuttling chickens and tractors of various vintages, that is the very picture of a standard farmyard. But for the way lengthy? Andrew is a tenant farmer and his landlord, who owns the land, needs to show his pasture right into a photo voltaic farm.\n“Our old way of life will be gone forever. And I’ve worked on this farm all my life, seven days a week. I’ve not been on holiday since I was 15. Not because I didn’t want to, but I like being here on the farm.”\nHis household has labored the land right here for 94 years. His mom nonetheless lives with him within the farmhouse. Although he could be allowed to remain in his house and is being supplied some compensation, with the grazing changed by photovoltaic panels, the job could be gone.\n“It’ll all be fenced off with 10ft-high deer fencing. I think solar panels have got a part to play on house roofs, factory roofs and brownfield sites.”\nClick to subscribe to ClimateForged with Tom Heap wherever you get your podcasts\nBut each political events have enormous ambitions for photo voltaic: the federal government needs 5 instances as a lot energy from the solar by 2035 and delivering that with out touching farmland is implausible in keeping with many specialists, together with Chris Hewett from Solar Energy UK.\n“We are in a climate emergency and we do need to deploy this technology very quickly because climate change is the greatest threat to food security,” he says.\n“If we don’t solve that, farms are not going to be viable in the future. I think all siting needs to be done sensitively and if businesses are affected there needs to be compensation.”\nWatch the Climate Show with Tom Heap, Saturday and Sunday at 3.30 and seven.30pm on Sky News\nCurrently, simply 0.1% of farmland is taken by photo voltaic panels – much like the realm claimed by Christmas timber – and they are often mixed with sheep grazing and even some cropland. But in areas with good grid connections, productive farmland is focused by photo voltaic builders.\nFarmers who personal their land may see this as a monetary alternative however tenants like Andrew Dakin don’t have any say.\nGeorge Dunn, who runs the Tenant Farmers Association, says: “It’s becoming ever more common. Just about every week I get another TFA member calling me to say that they have a huge solar scheme that’s going to either engulf their farm or take a large part of their farm.\n“People are actually in tears on the cellphone saying the years of enterprise, years of funding they’ve been put to that holding will probably be misplaced. We’re speaking about hundreds of acres being taken out.”\nFilm-makers on their ‘methodology directing’ method to telling a salmon’s story\nShould moist wipes ought to be flushed down the john?\nThe transition to renewable power will present new jobs and alternatives. But it comes at a value for farmers like Andrew Dakin.\n“I don’t know what I’d do without the farm. It’s in my blood. Going to the market and talking to my farmer friends and about our experiences the previous week. That would all be gone. Life would never be the same again,” says Mr Dakin.\nPart of Mr Dakin’s farm was an opencast coal mine. The widespread closure of that trade was a bitter episode in latest historical past.\nNational Energy transitions could be painful.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Opinion pages full of Trump bashing\nWhat’s on the political slate next week? Since there’s nothing favorable to say about Hillary Clinton, it must be more Donald Trump-bashing. It seems to be the only game in town.\nI’ve given up on anyone to ever address essential political issues. Carl Wellman slammed Trump because of a comment Trump made upon receiving a Purple Heart as a gift. Trump was never in harm’s way, which is unforgivable in the eyes of those who have ever been in the sights of an enemy weapon. But draft-dodging Bill Clinton always got a pass.\nWhen neither of the candidates have ever served in harm’s way, isn’t it best to just avoid the issue and move on?\nAlthough Joseph Dobrian and I share similar sentiments regarding both Hillary Clinton and Trump, this election is not about the campaign trail. Dobrian is right about the impact of our vote, or the lack of it in the electoral process. This race could be between Lassie and Snoopy. There are two opposing ideologies here, and the winning candidate will determine the judicial balance of the Supreme Court. Supreme Court justices serve for a generation or until they die, whichever is sooner. What Hillary Clinton intends for the country is no surprise, or at least it shouldn’t be. What she intends is a given, and it is bad. I have to believe that Trump’s choices will be much better, because he would be in prison if he was worse.\nAnd to address Dobrian’s views directly; yes, third party choices have always spelled disaster for our country. Woodrow Wilson and Bill Clinton were consequences of a split Republican Party. The Democrats will unite behind The Hulk if it will produce a win.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Home > News > Nation\nTuesday June 12, 2012 MYT 12:00:00 AM\nWednesday May 29, 2013 MYT 2:56:56 PM\nby martin carvalho\nKUALA LUMPUR: Effort is still underway for Malaysia to accede to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz.\n\"Discussions are still underway with the Attorney-General Chambers on the matter and I give the assurance that Malaysia will eventually accede to the Rome Statute,\" he told lawmakers in Dewan Rakyat Tuesday.\nThough the Government had agreed in principle to be signatory to the international norms against genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in March last year, he said Malaysia must first be able to comply with the provisions under the statute.\n\"When we agreed in principle to accede to the Rome Statute and ICC last year, there were laws such as the Emergency Ordinance that were still in force.\n\"We have since taken steps to review such laws,\" he said.\nHe noted among the issues left to be resolved concerns immunity of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong with Malaysia looking at the monarchy in Jordan as a model.\nTags / Keywords:\nDon’t be influenced by ‘external elements’ over 1MDB, Malaysians told\nFamilies homeless after blaze\nFraught with uncertainties\nNajib: Lawyers looking at WSJ accusations\nCelebrate Raya in style with GEMFIVE\nThe 3 unexpected life events that leave us in debt\nFrance rejects asylum request by WikiLeaks founder Assange\nSPAD and cops foil touts at bus terminals\nCompound archers can still medal at Uni games\nCopyright © 1995-2015 Star Media Group Berhad (ROC 10894D)(Formerly known as Star Publications (Malaysia) Berhad)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By Stuart R. Wahlin\nDuring a United Nations summit Sept. 22, President Barack Obama (D), along with China’s president, Hu Jintao, pledged new levels of commitment to protecting the earth’s climate by way of reduced emissions.\n“Our generation’s response to this challenge will be judged by history, for if we fail to meet it boldly, swiftly and together, we risk consigning future generations to an irreversible catastrophe,” Obama said. “No nation, however large or small, wealthy or poor, can escape the impact of climate change. … The security and stability of each nation and all peoples—our prosperity, our health, our safety—are in jeopardy. And the time we have to reverse this tide is running out.”\nChina and the U.S. produce the most greenhouse gases of any countries in the world.\nAmong Obama’s proposals is gradual elimination of the fossil fuel subsidies, which would instead go toward climate protection. The Obama administration has also demonstrated a commitment to clean and renewable energy.\nHu pledged to reduce China’s carbon dioxide emissions through energy efficiency, conservation and energy not generated by fossil fuels.\nMeantime, with the recent addition of a solar panel assembly plant, as well as wind power being considered for Winnebago County, Rockford stands to see more green by going green.\nBased on the new sense of urgency from Obama and Hu, the city’s relationship with Chinese manufacturer Wanxiang, which broke ground Sept. 15 on its solar panel assembly plant near the Chicago-Rockford International Airport, could flourish well beyond the 60 jobs expected when construction of the plant is completed by early next year.\nIn addition to planning one of the largest solar farms in the country, there has also been talk of bringing Wanxiang Group’s electric automobile manufacturing to Rockford.\nMayor Larry Morrissey (I) happened to be visiting China on a trade mission when Obama and Hu made their declarations. Reached for comment, the mayor acknowledged continued discussions with Wanxiang regarding electric vehicles while on his trip. “Specifically, the focus is on assembly of electric buses,” Morrissey indicated. “We are looking at other green energy opportunities. China needs help, as does the U.S. We may be able to help each other in many ways: wind, solar, city planning, public utilities, etc.”\nFrom the September 30 – October 6, 2009 issue.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A big rise in arson cases across Nottinghamshire is \"alarming\", a union boss has said.\nArson incidents across the county have soared by nearly a third in the last year.\nFigures released by the Home Office show there were 503 incidents of deliberate fires across the county from June 2016 to June 2017.\nThe year before, 393 were recorded - an increase of 28 percent in a single year.\nIn Ashfield, deliberate fires nearly doubled from 41 in 2015-16 to 72 last year.\nSimilarly, in Mansfield they increased from 35 incidents to 53 in 2016-17 - a rise of 51 percent.\nBut Bassetlaw had the highest number of arson cases, with 77 recorded last year.\nDean Gillen, chairman of the Fire Brigades Union’s (FBU) Nottinghamshire branch, said: \"Any increase is alarming but we do work hard to reduce these numbers down.\n\"Arson is a complex issue and a lot of factors affect what could be behind the rise. It could be an increase in reporting crime for example.\n\"Nottinghamshire has had a reduction in fire cover over the past two years and it has had an impact. But it's hard to pinpoint this as being the cause of the increase.\"\nJay Maddox, 32, lives with her husband Sean, 47, and their son Freddie, two, in Burton Road, Carlton.\nA fire destroyed Sean's van and £1,000 worth of tools back in October last year - leaving the self-employed roofer not being able to work.\nMrs Maddox, a full-time mum, said: \"When it happened to us it was devastating, it destroyed our livelihood.\n\"Afterwards it left us feeling scared and on edge. 'Why would they target us?', I kept thinking.\n\"It happened near bonfire night, too, so every time a bang went off I'd be up thinking something had happened again. I was so jumpy.\n\"Arson is such a selfish crime, and leaves victims in tatters.\"\nCrew manager Graham Picker, from Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue's service prevention team said: \"As a service we take deliberate fires extremely seriously – not only do they endanger life, they can also cause serious damage to people’s property and delay our crews when it comes to responding to more serious incidents.\n\"The service’s prevention team, along with crews from across the county, work hard to follow-up on this type of fire to try and determine the underlying factors behind the incidents and how, through working together, we can prevent such incidents occurring again through joint intervention.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This article is more than 1 year old\nNet neutrality: Email trail reveals how Prez Obama bent the FCC to his will\nUS senators get hands on regulator's internal memos sent during open net order wrangling\nUS Republican senators have today published emails that suggest the President \"unduly influenced\" the FCC – America's nominally independent telco regulator.\nThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) switched tack on bringing about \"net neutrality\" after feeling the heat from President Barack Obama, who intervened on the issue in November 2014. The nation's commander-in-chief demanded a \"free and open internet,\" and the watchdog wound up introducing tough rules against ISPs.\nThe FCC was in a sticky situation: two earlier orders by the agency to enforce net neutrality had been struck down by the courts, which concluded that regulating broadband exceeded the commission's authority. FCC staffers were working around the clock to draft a workable light-touch approach to implementing net neutrality by the end of the year.\nThen Obama declared support for using Title II rules – designed to regulate the switched circuit Bell monopoly in the 1930s – to regulate citizens' broadband. Two Obama aides were responsible for bending the commander-in-chief's ear: David Edelman and Tom Power, who apparently effectively created \"a parallel version of the FCC.\"\nOn February 4, 2015, the FCC – having previously said it would follow the courts' guidance in devising new light touch rules on governing internet access – fell in line with the executive, and agreed that it would apply strict Title II rules broadly to data networks.\nInternal FCC emails revealed in a new report by Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee show that the agency's staff were worried that this volte-face could violate federal law – because it short-circuited the mandatory notice-and-public-comment rule-making process.\nThe FCC is not allowed to hardwire American policy as it sees fit without consulting widely first, and FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler appeared to be aware of this. The internal memos also poured doubt on Wheeler's claim that the agency had been thinking about Title II reclassification before the President waded in.\nIn other words, it appears Obama more or less instructed his country's independent regulator to use Title II, and the agency promptly caved.\n\"Wait, he did what?\" – incredulous FCC staffers doubt the chief\nAnd the report [PDF] found that the FCC was wary of its obligation to provide summaries of ex parte communications between it and the White House.\nWhite House staff are supposed to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest with independent regulators such as the FCC, and are advised not to bring up pending issues with them. However, the FCC filed no ex parte notices covering a dozen meetings at the White House. The email trail proves Wheeler discussed the open internet order with White House staff.\nArcane, perhaps, but rules are rules, and in political scandals it's the coverup that gets you, not the crime. Any suggestion that the FCC acted improperly is sure to be exploited by Republicans and others who seek to invalidate the final open internet order.\n\"It should be highly concerning that an independent agency like the FCC could be so unduly influenced by the White House, particularly on an issue that touches the lives of so many Americans and has such a significant impact on a critical sector of the United States economy,\" the committee concludes. \"Had the White House not inserted itself into the formal FCC rulemaking process, it is probable that the Open Meeting in December would have included the Open Internet order.\"\nYou can find more here. ®", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The U.S. Air Force AFNet Sustainment and Operations Branch – in collaboration with the Air Combat Command (ACC) Directorate of Cyberspace and Information Dominance and the Platform One team– is driving toward developing a modern software-based perimeter that will deliver zero trust capabilities to applications across the service branch, an Air Force official said.\nRaju Ranjan, technical lead for the Air Force zero trust effort, explained that the ACC is developing the concept and strategy for the Air Force to move forward on zero trust, and the AFNet Sustainment and Operations Branch is leading the integration efforts. The Platform One team is tackling the development, security, and operations.\n“The Defense Department, especially the Air Force, needs this type of environment. All our competitors are utilizing the greatest and latest emerging security capabilities. And we are behind the curve. Our zero trust effort is a game-changer for the Air Force, and we plan on implementing it in every pocket of the service,” said Ranjan during FNN’s Zero Trust Summit on June 23.\nThe architecture is adapted from cloud-based technologies used by the Platform One team that have never been used on legacy networks in the Defense Department (DoD). It embraces a lot of modern concepts of DevSecOps, such as automation and orchestration necessary for zero trust to exist, he said.\nRanjan added that the concept also offers consistency, agility, and savings.\n“Currently, our boundary stack drives significant cost, and this concept could reduce those costs by as much as two or three times less than the current price,” he said.\nThe goal, he added, is to use more commercial off-the-shelf products to build a stack that can give warfighters cutting-edge technology to access their resources or data from anywhere or from any place.\nThe team’s timeline for Air Force-wide deployment is aligned with the AFNet Sustainment and Operations Branch’s five-year roadmap, which also targets FY23 for a zero trust Air Force network.\n“Zero trust is a journey. It’s nothing can happen overnight. So we are looking at every place we go, every lesson learned, what we did wrong, and what we did right because we want to get this right,” Ranjan said.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dairy food 'extends' childrens' lives28th July 2009\nA follow-up study of research involving 4,374 children in the 1930s in the UK has found those who ate more dairy food tended to live longer.\nThe study found that consuming 400mg of calcium every day (around a half pint of milk) was associated with a 60% reduction in the risk of dying from stroke. Joanne Murphy of The Stroke Association said: \"This is an interesting study, but we need to take a further look to really assess the benefits of milk in reducing the chances of dying from stroke.\"\nShare this page\nThere are no comments for this article, be the first to comment!\nPost your comment\nOnly registered users can comment. Fill in your e-mail address for quick registration.\nTitle: Dairy food 'extends' childrens' lives\nAuthor: Jess Laurence\nArticle Id: 12305\nDate Added: 28th Jul 2009", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Shoppers at North East Mall in Hurst may be wondering who put neon in their Nordstrom.\nQuicklotz, a liquidator of overstocked merchandise and last season’s stuff, is having its grand opening Saturday in the vacant anchor space. The ambience of the store is a cross between a game show and a flea market, with 70 large custom-made wooden bins on wheels filled with random general merchandise from hair barrettes to electronics. The bins are surrounded by bigger stuff such as power washers and refrigerators at cut-rate prices.\nQuicklotz describes its new concept as recreational retail shopping, and it says its regular clientele includes Poshmark and eBay resellers, people who make extra money or even a living selling their finds mostly online.\nThe largest mall owner in the U.S,, Simon Property Group, turned over its former Nordstrom anchor space to Quicklotz.\nThe Hurst Nordstrom was one of 16 U.S. locations the Seattle-based department store chain closed permanently after the pandemic temporarily closed malls in early 2020.\nThe space had been sitting empty since.\nFrom the flashing lights at the entrance on, Quicklotz signals that it’s not like other stores in the mall. It has bright yellow columns, colorful posters of all things Texas, neon lights around the perimeter wall that change color and music.\nThe owners of Quicklotz are not like other owners, either. Quicklotz is secretive as companies go. The “About” section of its website lists photos of executives with first names only. Only one executive, spokesman Butch Maltby, was available for interviews.\nThe Hurst store is the Shelby, N.C.-based merchandise liquidator’s largest, and Maltby said the plan is to expand with satellite stores in Garland, Frisco and Mesquite.\nMaltby said Quicklotz was founded by Samuel Pires, who worked for technology companies before turning to the liquidation business, according to his Linkedin page. The company’s president, Jack Stadtman, is formerly of Dallas and has a history in the liquidation business, Maltby said.\nThe company was founded in 2011 to sell goods on eBay and opened its first physical store two years later, Maltby said. It morphed into a wholesale operation and online store when the company was able to buy whole pallets and truckloads of goods. Hurst is the company’s sixth store and its largest. Two other small stores are in Arlington and Laredo, and the other three are in North Carolina and South Carolina.\n“It’s a feast-or-famine business,” Maltby said. Some weeks a store can hit sales of $70,000, and the company expects the Hurst store to generate a multiple of that.\nQuicklotz has a treasure hunt feel and prices that drop daily.\nThe items in the bins start out selling for $7 on Fridays and drop a dollar a day until everything is $2 on Thursdays and the store closes early to restock. A bin store competitor, Crazy Cazboy’s, opened in March in Arlington using similar pricing. There are other competitors such as Krazy Bins in Ohio and Dream Deals in South Carolina.\nOne wall at Quicklotz has six large doors where periodically an announcer will direct shoppers to a surprise shipment of multiple small kitchen appliances or a load that just came of Apple watches or patio furniture.\nQuicklotz is also trying to differentiate itself with a corralled area that features high-end items such as fashion accessories, handbags, shoes, belts, evening dresses and perfumes.\nQuicklotz is turning the second level of the department store space into a fulfillment center for its online business Ubiduwin.com, which puts on live auctions that last 2 minutes. Items can be shipped anywhere, but shoppers can also pick up their items from the Hurst store.\nSimon declined to talk about the decision to rent to Quicklotz, but the mall powerhouse has a lot of space to fill and already has a landlord relationship with Quicklotz. Last year, Quicklotz opened in a former Ann Taylor store under the brand Everything Must Go in Simon’s Gaffney Outlet Marketplace in South Carolina.\nQuicklotz buys truckloads of merchandise that retailers no longer want. Ironically, the former Nordstrom space may still have some merchandise from the department store. Quicklotz buys from the chain’s Last Chance clearance stores in Phoenix and Chicago.\nThe store is starting out with an inventory that’s the equivalent of 25 semi truckloads worth of goods, but it’s put in bins and not individually priced, which will allows the store to operate with 25 employees.\nAt any given time, Maltby promises 70,000 items on the sales floor.\nSatellite stores are in the works for other cities in North Texas that will be 7,000 to 9,000 square feet, he said. “We expect one or two small stores by the end of this year.”\nThere’s a reason liquidators are moving back into physical stores now, said Liza Amlani, principal and founder of Retail Strategy Group.\nThe pandemic left the retail industry with a lot of inventory, from shuttered stores and merchandise that missed entire seasons during the worst of the crisis. “It’s a liquidator’s dream right now,” she said. In years past, a lot of this merchandise would have ended up in a landfill or burned, but the industry is more focused on sustainability now.\n“Retailers have their work cut out for them. They can free up money tied up in inventory piling up by selling it to liquidators,” Amlani said. “And what’s driving Simon? A liquidator could increase sales and traffic to the mall vs. a dark store.”\nFor shoppers, “it’s purely entertainment,” Amlani said. “It’s a rush for those bargain hunters.” She says the customers enjoy the gamble, much like people who buy storage lockers without knowing the contents.\n“Personally, I’d rather see retailers become better retailers and plan their assortments with better data,” she said.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Give Craig Thompson credit.\nThe commissioner of the Mountain West Conference didn't just throw together some off-the-cuff plan to revamp the Bowl Championship Series, he actually thought it out.\nToo bad nothing will come of it.\nThe College Commissioners Association began three days of meetings on Tuesday, with any ideas they deem worthy set to be passed on to the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee.\nThompson has formulated a workable plan that gives traditional BCS conferences their due but also paves the way for inclusion of the \"little guys.\"\nHis proposal stipulates that non-BCS conferences would qualify for BCS bowls by playing a minimum of 20 regular season games over a two-year period against a program from one of the BCS conference and winning at least 40 percent of those games.\nHe also wants a 12-person committee, consisting of reps from the 11 Football Bowl Subdivision leagues and Notre Dame, to rank the top 25 at the end of each regular season.\nThe top 10 teams would fill out the Rose, Fiesta, Orange, Sugar and one other bowl, with the four highest ranked clubs after the bowls making a four-team playoff.\nFolks at the MWC are still miffed about Utah being shut out of the BCS National Championship Game in January, and have refused to sign the new BCS TV contract with ESPN — one that is worth $125 million.\nPreviously the league lobbied Congress for an eight-team playoff, but that plan, as expected, went nowhere.\nWhile Thompson's idea is far better than the current setup, it won't even be considered.\nThe NCAA can talk about student-athletes all it wants, but money is its primary focus. It has already signed on with ESPN, with the contract taking effect in 2010 and running through 2014. That deal is set in stone, and nothing is going to change it.\nIf the MWC refuses to get on board, it will lose any BCS money it would be eligible to receive and destroy any slim chance it already has of getting a team in the game that determines college football's champ.\nSo what will happen?\nThe BCS will politely turn down Thompson's proposal, and the MWC will eventually – albeit begrudgingly — sign the new TV deal.\nAnd the status quo will remain, not to be revisited until and unless ESPN or whatever TV network the NCAA is in bed with thinks a change is in order.\nAnd that, folks, is the real issue.\nOnce the NCAA's broadcast partners convince the governing body that it can make millions and millions more dollars with a playoff, then we'll see a playoff.\nFor now, though, bowls are where the money is.\nAnd as long as the rich keep getting richer, why bother with a legitimate system to determine a legitimate national champion?\nNeed Help? Call us at 1-864-260-1284.\nMonday-Friday: 6am-4:30pm / Saturday: 7am-11am / Sunday: 7am-2pm", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A war of words is flaring between China and the United States that could leave both sides losers. Tim Geithner, the new Treasury secretary, accused China last week of manipulating its currency. At Davos, Premier Wen Jiabao of China hit back at the profligate habits and lax regulation of “some countries.” Both are right. But each side would do better to acknowledge its own mistakes.\nChina’s critics say that letting the yuan rise only in small steps distorts trade, makes United States manufacturers uncompetitive and contributes to the trade deficit. That’s less of a problem than it used to be: imports from China fell a record $5.7 billion, or 17 percent, in November, according to the latest data, as consumers cut spending. But a weak yuan has made Chinese exports too cheap for too long, even though American consumers have been happy to enjoy the fruits.\nWashington can’t force China to revalue, and there’s no sign it’s thinking of rash retaliatory measures like import duties. But Mr. Geithner’s rhetoric is nonetheless tactless and risks fanning protectionism in Congress. Recent interventionist policies, like loans to carmakers and support for banks, have already compromised the principles of free trade. A creeping halt to global trade could easily turn a recession into a slump.\nMoreover, calls for China to unhook its currency ignore the co-dependency of the two nations. To maintain its exchange rate, China’s central bank buys huge slabs of dollar-denominated assets, so it can match its yuan to the right number of dollars. That means the Treasury doesn’t have to juice up yields on its paper to attract other buyers. China is already buying fewer Treasury bonds than it was, but speeding the process would raise the cost of issuing new debt.\nUltimately a revaluation of the yuan is likely, maybe as much as 40 percent, by some estimates. It is pie in the sky, of course, to think China will rush into such a shift when growth already lags 8 percent. A rapid change would harm both sides. But in the long run, a stronger currency would help turn China from the world’s sweatshop into a stable, consumption-led economy and take away a big driver of United States consumers’ profligacy. Both sides should work constructively to achieve that end, and leave the rhetorical swordplay alone.\nThe Real Winners\nIt’s now clear that 2008 Wall Street bonuses have been cut at least in half. Outsiders remain aghast that bonuses have been paid at all. But that isn’t the only shocker. In this supposedly most meritocratic of industries, staff at the worst-performing institutions have absorbed the least pain.\nTake a look around. A Goldman Sachs partner who earned $2 million in 2007 would have made about $500,000 for 2008. The cuts will not have been as harsh for the next layer down, and Goldman eased the sting in any case by allowing previously earned restricted shares to be sold more quickly.\nAt JPMorgan, the $2 million bonus of a year ago would have shrunk to around $1 million. Of course, about 40 percent of the sum was paid in options that have not fared as well as the stock component that Goldman bankers received. JPMorgan shares are down 22 percent so far this year, while Goldman’s have held steady since compensation shares were priced in late December.\nThe real winners were survivors of banks relegated to the history books. Brokers from Bear Stearns were retained by JPMorgan on boom-time packages. Similar deals were struck by the sales and trading standouts from Lehman Brothers who were hired by Barclays in the United States. The beds of Lehman’s top brass in Europe and Asia were feathered by Nomura with two years of bonuses, mostly in cash and at 2007 levels.\nThese retention packages were made when the threat of competitive hiring seemed distant. But the industry’s pay culture — which dictates that bankers need big checks to work for new masters — still prevailed. Some firms already have vowed to reform their compensation schemes. With individuals from reckless firms doing so well in a year like 2008, shareholders should light a fire under those efforts.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Federal Government, has on Monday, said that no date has been fixed for the re-opening of the schools in the country, although it has continued to engage stakeholders on the full resumption of the schools.\nThe Minister of State for Education, Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, stated this at the 60th joint national briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19.\nHe urged students of tertiary institutions who have been protesting the continued closure of their schools to be more patient with the government.\nHe expressed optimism that the date for resumption was around the corner, but that he would not be brandishing dates.\nAccording to him, him and the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, met some stakeholders in tertiary education earlier in the day on the issue.\nHe said that about 78 universities, which are mainly privately-owned are insisting that they are ready for resumption while the response from government-owned universities are still “50-50″.\nHe assured that after aggregating opinions, he would return to the PTF to review the situation before going ahead to make a pronouncement on the date school will resumption.\nrecall that, the Federal Government had in March announced the closure of all schools in the country following the outbreak of COVID-19.\nWhile the government had announced the reopening of Schools for Senior Secondary students sitting for this year’s Senior Secondary School Examinations, the higher institutions in the country remained closed.\nYour Review is appreciated", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "WEST LEBANON - A Milton man has been arrested in northern New Hampshire after police there say he pointed a loaded gun at a woman outside a hotel while drunk on Wednesday.\nRichard A. Stewart, 65, is charged with reckless conduct with a deadly weapon and criminal threatening with a firearm for the incident that took place outside the Baymont Hotel on Airport Road.\nAccording to police reports, they were called to the hotel around 7 p.m. Wednesday when a woman reported that Stewart had threatened her with a gun. The 53-year-old victim was outside the hotel when the armed Stewart approached her, police said.\nStewart is said to have asked the woman where his wife was while walking toward her with the gun pointed at her head. The woman said Stewart looked drunk during the incident and at one point fell down while holding a pistol, police said.\nThe woman eventually got away from Stewart and went inside the hotel to call police.\nPolice found Stewart inside the hotel with a loaded .40 caliber Glock pistol. He was taken into custody without incident, according to police.\nStewart was released on personal recognizance and is scheduled to be arraigned in the Grafton County Superior Court later this month.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As part of their 10 year anniversary celebrations, Burnage Metro FC were delighted to welcome Manchester United’s Development coaches to provide coaching for the Junior players and friends.\nThe club were able to gain two days of expert training for nearly 100 young children, as part of Manchester United’s programme of Football in the Community. Senior FIC Officer, Andrew Basterfield, said: \"We were delighted to reward such a good Community Club, for all the hard work they do, both on and off the field.\"\nThe event started a series of Club events to mark the anniversary for the Didsbury Playing Fields (Simon Playing Fields) outfit, which include a celebration match (on August 4) versus NWCFL, Stockport Sports F.C.; and a Sportsman’s Dinner (in the Autumn).\nThere will also be a Club Soccer School, run by F.A. Skills coaches, which is being offered as an introduction to the Club and its facilities. It will take place between August 13-17 and August 20 and 24, between 10-00 and 3-00.\nThe event is free, with donations being welcome to the Club, and there are a limited number of places.\nIf interested please contact the club’s football development officer, Russell Hoyte,on 07876688978; or by email: email@example.com ; or on the Club's website: www.burnagemetro.co.uk/juniors .", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Spirituality and religion are two forever tangled terms which can always ignite one or the other controversy. Every religion has its own set of beliefs, do’s and don’ts and similarly, Hindu religion has its own versatile God family in which Lord Ganesha is the first of all to be worshiped as he is considered the God of all new beginnings.\nWell, some media campaigns fail miserably to understand that an idea should be executed considering that it should not hurt anyone’s religious sentiments. Recently, an advertisement in Australia has ignited a lot of fire in the name of an ad campaign for MLA i.e. Meat and Livestock.\nIn this ad, religious leaders and Gods of different religions are sitting together and eating lamb. Without a doubt, Lord Ganesha pictured eating lamb is not going well with Hindus as it is really hurtful to see something totally opposite against our Indian teachings, being categorically shown in this ad.\nHere’s the advertisement which totally lacks sensitivity towards their audience:\nYes, it’s provocative enough and that’s why people have tweeted to get it banned. Nitin Vashisht, the spokseman of Hindu community has said that the ad lacks ethics and should be withdrawn.\nHere are few tweets from deeply hurt Indians living abroad:\n— Ankit (@ankitkshukla) September 5, 2017\n— Jaydev Joshi (@Joshi_Jaydev) September 6, 2017\nhttps://t.co/cm8GfbrukW Wht an ignorant POS.That Indian accent adds 2 d insensitivity. hw cm Jesus aint talking wit a middle east'n accent?\n— kasturi shankar (@KasthuriShankar) September 6, 2017\nPutting up with a much-owed explanation, Marketing manager Andrew Howie clarified and said, “We know that lamb has been the meat that brings everyone together for decades, and what better way to celebrate the product than over a modern spring barbecue.”\nLet’s see this gets banned or not.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A lead story in today's local newspaper is a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that a law passed in Maine, while having significant public health benefit, is invalid. In a unanimous decision, they stated \"Despite the importance of the public health objective .... [federal law] says nothing about a public health exception ...\"\nI've read with interest, but not agreement, commentary by a handful of (non-CEO) association community bloggers that social media needs to have space with minimal (if any) conversational restriction, minimal thought of continued value/relevance of brands (including trademarks), and association staff need more freedom to express individuality without significant CEO concern of legal issues, particularly potential liability. Hmm ...\nThe headline could read, \"Despite the importance of the social media objective .... the law says nothing about a social media exception ...\"\nIt's difficult to debate utopian ideas when it's not about the merits of utopia, but rather the unpopular yet very real aspect of liability created by social media. Or as the legal community says, another word for social media is \"evidence\". It's more reasonable to anticipate any investigation will surely review all association communications, including social media, than to believe it's not going to matter or not be found. If association hard drives, servers and email have been subpoenaed for a very long time, why would any investigation skip the blog, text messages, Twitters, employee online rant, or Facebook site?\nOf course social media needs to be subject to the same consideration of every other association program or way to communicate - the risk, liability, staff time, expense, interest of membership, etc. If it can't be printed in an association magazine, can't be discussed at an association meeting, can't be said to a member on the phone, can't be the subject of an association program ... then it really doesn't matter how much someone might want to rant it online instead or express their individual thoughts ... there are still conversations that qualify as \"can't\". And frankly, many of those laws are there for all the right reasons. They seek to protect the public from harm.\nAnd as long as laws exist, then we have a job to do that recognizes the laws. Association integration of social media is necessary, but it's not an exception.\nHey Cindy. Thanks for the link, although I'm surprised that it is in a sentence that says bloggers suggest there is not a need to be concerned about legal issues, particularly liability. The last sentence in my post reads, \"Questions of liability, anti-trust, or productivity won't go away, but we will probably ask (and, more importantly, answer) them differently.\"\nOf course liability is real. It's a real concern. But it's not the only thing to think about, and I don't think it's the only piece of the fear/control issue in the association community, and that was the point I was trying to make.\nPost a Comment", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "|10:20 AM PT11:20 AM MT12:20 PM CT1:20 PM ET13:20 ET17:20 GMT1:20 10:20 AM MST12:20 PM EST12:50 PM VEN21:20 UAE12:20 PM CT, May 19, 2019\nSunTrust Park, Atlanta, Georgia Attendance: 36,548\nFreeman, Braves look to stay hot, revive Foltynewicz\nMilwaukee Brewers at Atlanta Braves\n- Milwaukee has gone 11-2 against the NL East this season, hitting .271 as a team while posting a 2.40 ERA. Only the Rays (2-0) have a better record against the division in 2019.\n- The Brewers have won 10 games in May, tied for the most in the National League (Cubs). The Brewers have a 2.75 ERA in May after posting a 4.94 ERA in April -- this is the second-largest month-over-month improvement in MLB (Mets, 5.423.02).\n- Atlanta has won five of its last six, last beating St. Louis 10-2. Atlanta has had a double-digit run total three times this season -- just four NL teams have had fewer. Last season, the Braves had double-digit runs 17 times -- the Dodgers were the only NL team to do so in more games (18).\n- Christian Yelich had 10 total bases on Thursday (two home runs, one double), making him the third player with multiple games of 10+ total bases this season (Joc Pederson, Mitch Garver). His 39 runs are tied with George Springer for most in MLB and his 40 RBI are one off the MLB leader Cody Bellinger.\n- Freddie Freeman had three hits on Thursday, his fifth game with at least three hits this season -- only Nolan Arenado and Eduardo Escobar have more among National Leaguers (seven). He also scored three runs in the game after scoring five runs in his first 13 games of May.\n- Mike Moustakas had his first three-hit game of the season on Thursday, and the Brewers are 8-3 in his multi-hit games this season. He's hitting .278 in his last 20 games after hitting .235 in his first 20, and he's a career .346 hitter against the Braves.\n- Verlander to start Game 2, Greinke next\n- Astros bats outside Altuve scuffling\n- WS in Houston a homecoming for Rendon\n- Veterans help Nats reach World Series\n- Astros reliever Pressly expects to play\nIf Atlanta's struggling Mike Foltynewicz hopes to get his season on track, he'll have to do it against one of the top pitchers in the National League on Sunday.\nFoltynewicz (0-3, 8.02 ERA) will oppose Milwaukee's Brandon Woodruff (6-1, 3.72) in the finale of the three-game series at Atlanta's SunTrust Park.\nThe Braves have won the first two games of the series, including a 4-3 victory on Saturday courtesy of Freddie Freeman's 10th inning walk-off homer. Atlanta has won four straight.\nFoltynewicz was an All-Star last year and expected to be the team's No. 1 starter. After being sidelined by a bone spur in spring training, the right-hander has not been able to find his footing. Foltynewicz has struggled in his first four starts and last week he allowed three home runs and eight runs in 4 2/3 innings against the St. Louis Cardinals.\n\"It's tough when you had success like that last year and then you come out of the gates and your first four aren't pretty,\" Foltynewicz told reporters. \"It's something you've got to change quick.\"\nFoltynewicz lost his only start to the Brewers in 2018, getting battered for five runs in six innings despite seven strikeouts. That poor effort was not typical for Foltynewicz. In six career appearances against Milwaukee, five of them starts, he is 2-2 with a 2.90 ERA.\nWoodruff has had no such problems for the Brewers, particularly in his four most recent starts. Since April 27, Woodruff is 4-0 and has not allowed more than one run in any game. His ERA over that stretch is 1.23.\nIn his last start, Woodruff worked six scoreless innings and limited the Philadelphia Phillies to one hit and worked around five walks. The Brewers gave Woodruff some early run support and he never eased up.\n\"The lead always makes it easier to just get yourself into attack mode,\" Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell said. \"That's really what he did. He dropped in some first-pitch strikes with some breaking balls, got free strikes, then attacked. Getting a lead for him does that or you. You can pitch like that.\"\nWoodruff will be making his first career appearance against Atlanta.\n\"He's just now continued pitching well, taking another step and is really on the attack with hitters,\" Counsell said. \"The fastball is really overpowering at times, it feels like. He's using it well, he's throwing his off-speed for strikes. It's a good recipe for success.\"\nWoodruff will try to slow down Atlanta rookie Austin Riley. In four games since getting called up from Triple-A Gwinnett on Wednesday, Riley is batting .533 with two home runs. He is the sixth player in franchise history to have eight hits in his first four games.\nFreeman, who has homered in three straight games, needs one home run to reach 200 and three doubles to reach 300. If he reaches those milestones, he will become the sixth Braves player to do so, joining Hank Aaron, Andruw Jones, Chipper Jones, Eddie Mathews and Dale Murphy.\nThe Braves made a roster move on Saturday. They recalled left-hander Jerry Blevins from Triple-A Gwinnett and released veteran southpaw Jonny Venters.\nThe Brewers had to make a move in order to activate Chase Anderson in time to start Saturday's game and sent Jacob Barnes to Triple-A San Antonio.\n--Field Level Media\nUpdated May 19, 2019", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A view of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture. File photo/Reuters\nJapan’s nuclear regulator plans to reinvestigate the Fukushima disaster, in which three reactors at an atomic power plant run by Tokyo Electric Power melted down after an earthquake and tsunami eight years ago, it said on Wednesday.\nThe March 2011 disaster led to explosions and the meltdown of the three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station north of the capital, Tokyo, spewing radiation that forced 160,000 people to flee, many never to return.\nIn its investigation, the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) will seek to establish where radiation is leaking from damaged reactor containment vessels, a paper it released showed.\nIt will also look at cooling systems set up to keep the melted fuel in the reactors from overheating, it said.\nA spokesman for the utility, contacted by Reuters by telephone, could not immediately comment.\nThe disaster led to the eventual shutdown of all Japan’s reactors, which before the disaster had supplied about 30 per cent of the electricity in the world’s third-largest economy.\nSeveral investigations since have looked into the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.\nOne of them concluded that Fukushima \"was a profoundly manmade disaster - that could and should have been foreseen and prevented, (while) its effects could have been mitigated by a more effective human response.\"\nIn 2016, the government estimated the total cost of plant dismantling, decontamination of affected areas, and compensation would be 21.5 trillion yen ($199 billion), or about a fifth of Japan’s annual budget.\nJapan will for the first time next month lift an evacuation order in one of two towns where the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is located, officials said on Tuesday.\nTokyo Electric Power plans to allow overseas workers coming to Japan under a new visa programme to work on the cleanup of its wrecked Fukushima nuclear power station north of Tokyo, a spokeswoman said on Friday.\nThe operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima power plant on Monday began removing atomic fuel from inside a building housing one of the reactors that melted down in 2011.\nDr Thani Bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, the minister for climate change and environment of the UAE, emphasised cooperation in environmental sustainability among countries.\nNigerian novelist and poet Lola Shoneyin was at #BookTalks at Al Rawi Café in Sharjah discussing her multiple award-winning debut novel, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, which explores the structure and effects of polygamy in Nigeria. The event is part of the ongoing year-long Sharjah World Book Capital (SWBC) 2019 celebrations.\nThe UAE stands in solidarity with the Philippines in these difficult times and is ready to provide all support and assistance, tweetd Sheikh Mohamed.\nThomas Markle described the royal family as \"one of the greatest long-living institutions ever,\" saying that when Meghan married Harry in May 2018 they took an obligation \"to be part of the royals and to represent the royals.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "McKenzie Weseloh and her Moberly partner Morgan McCall finished off the Kirksville duo of Vanessa Van Laningham and Noelle Mputu by a score of 10-5 to win the No. 2 doubles match Monday before their Lady Spartan home fans.\nHowever, this would be the only celebration of victory Moberly would express as Kirksville returned home earning an 8-1 team dual win reported Lady Spartans coach Kyle Wiechens.\nThe top doubles team of Molly Greene and Madeline Meystrick lost a tough 8-10 decision to Kirksville's Christy Kuttenkuler and Olivia Halma. Also, in the three-spot Moberly's Lillianne Powell and partner Payton Wandrey lost by the same score to Hannah Steele and Annaliese Novinger.\nIn singles action for Moberly; Greene lost 7-10 to Kuttenkuler, Meystrik lost 3-10 to Halma, Weseloh lost 8-10 to Van Laningham, McCall lost 5-10 to Mputu, Powell lost 7-10 to Steele and Wandrey dropped a 4-10 decision to Novinger.\nCoach Wiechens reported the Spartan netters won 11 of 12 matches played Sept. 6 against Hannibal.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "US State Dept. Spox asked if US general's visit to Syria was legal\nTurkish foreign ministry on Monday summoned US ambassador Jeff Flake to convey Ankara's discomfort about a top US general visiting northeast Syria over the weekend, Turkey's state news agency reported citing diplomatic sources.\nSources also said Flake was asked to give an explanation about US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley's visit to a region under the control of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who according to Turkish officials has ties to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), designated a \"terrorist group\" by Ankara.\nUS State Department spokesperson Ned Price confirmed later on Monday in a press briefing that Flake did go to the Turkish foreign ministry, \"for meetings and discussions.\"\nPrice added that General Milley reportedly met only with U.S. troops during his visit to Syria.\n\"Of course, when it comes to General Milley's visit, we'd refer you to the Department of Defense; however, it's our understanding that General Milley met only with U.S. troops while in Syria. It was only an interaction with American service members.\"\nThat is when a reporter cited \"media that is close to the SDF/YPG\" which said that General Milley \"did indeed meet with Mazloum Abdi, the head of the SDF,\" and asked Price:\n\"So the US Army chief travels to an area controlled by the YPG/PKK, and they are headed - the SDF is headed by someone who we all know comes from PKK ranks, and he ordered the killings of Turkish and Kurdish civilians as well as NATO soldiers. So just the optics of that, the US Army chief just doesn’t pop up anywhere around the world, so what is really the explanation for the visit?\"\n\"But the US Army chief does pop up around the world to visit with US service members. That's what he did in this context. Our service members are deployed in Syria in service of a goal that we share with Turkiye as well as with our other allies as well as with all members of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS.\"\nThe reporter then asked Price if he would consider the area under SDF control \"to be part of Syria,\" and when Price replied affirmatively, the reporter pressed:\n\"Did the chairman get a visa to go there, in Syria?\"\nPrice said: \"If that’s a serious question, I would encourage you to talk to the Department of Defense.\"\nReporter: \"It is a serious question. How does he go – that – if that area, if you still recognize that area as being part of Syria, the top military leader in the United States of America, he goes there, in and out, without consulting with that government, without doing anything – correct?\"\nPrice: \"I would refer you to the Department of Defense if that is, in fact, a serious question.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Wasilla Hillbillies. The whole lot of them.\nLevi Johnston says when Bristol found out her mother, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, was expecting a baby she said she should be having a baby, not her mother. He says she told him in March 2008, “let’s get pregnant.”\nHis book, “Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs,” comes out Sept. 20.\nIn Bristol Palin’s own book, “Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far,” released last June, she says she lost her virginity to Johnston on a camping trip when she got drunk on wine coolers, a claim Johnson disputes in his own book.\nJohnston says he had “been too dumb” to use protection while dating Bristol but knew having a baby was “what she wanted.”\nJohnston said when Sarah Palin first learned of the teen pregnancy she laughed, thinking it was a joke. He writes it was her husband, Todd Palin, who really showed his anger, raising his voice and telling him he needed to quit school and get a job.\nYes, quitting school is always the answer for a better life…", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Articles for Tag: \"hormones\"\nThe fast food giant announced plans to stop purchasing chickens that are fed human antibiotics.\nA recent study found that young children in the house can alleviate menopause symptoms.\nRead how one Chicago man appreciates life even more after surviving cancer.\nOur expert shares what all women need to know about their stroke risk.\nEven years after the “change of life,” these symptoms can continue for many women. But there’s help.\nFind out why a neuroscientist believes there is a best time of day to drink your coffee.\nA new study shows that hormone therapy in men could cause cardiac problems.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Businesses, especially startups, are getting slammed by a shortage of designers. Venture capital firms are setting up programs to link talented creatives with firms, entire companies are being acquired just to capture the design talent, and Stanford University is attempting to address the shortfall by teaching \"design thinking\" to smart people from all walks of life.\nStanford MBA candidates Andrew Allison and Matt Stuart had impressive credentials—Allison worked as a political speechwriter and Stuart had been an investment banker. However, both wanted to contribute more to the world in the form of a startup that helped small businesses thrive. The only problem was they had no design expertise—even coordinating an IKEA run was beyond their skill set. \"My apartment literally has noting in it but a bed, dresser, night stand, [and a] big living room with zero furniture,\" says Stuart.\nDespite their lack of design acumen, they founded a startup that would help connect local businesses to customers. They developed a custom web app, signed up 30 pilot customers, and even raised some money to invest in development. Their idea was solid and simple: create local directories for small businesses. An auto body shop, for instance, could set up a profile on their site and drive potential customers to it. It was a solid idea, but it was flailing. So the pair enrolled in a design course at Stanford's d.School and learned valuable lessons that helped them transform it into a thriving service that manages social media for small businesses.\nThe course they took is called Launchpad: Design and Launch your Product or Service Zero to Revenue in Ten Weeks and aims to teach design thinking strategies like ethnographic research and rapid prototyping. Instead of focusing effort on classroom assignments, the lessons are applied directly to growing businesses and the class has produced some resounding successes. Of the 40 teams that have formed so far, successes include Pulse, a social news reader sold to LinkedIn for $90 million in 2012 and another company that was acquired by Dropbox. In total, 13 teams have gone on to raise venture capital and half a dozen more are still operating.\nThrough what they learned in the course, Stuart and Allison realized they were approaching the problem all wrong. It turns out what their customers really wanted was a way to manage comments on pre-existing, popular social networks like Yelp, Facebook, and Twitter, instead of getting a new channel to deal with. Additionally, these mechanics didn't want to deal with the social network du jour; they wanted to outsource the job, like they do with taxes. Stuart and Allison reoriented the service and a few short months later aced the course.\nBefore long they earned an even better mark—a thriving company called Main Street Hub that currently counts over 3,000 customers, 175 employees, and a $14 million investment from Bessemer Venture Partners, the VC firm behind Yelp, Shopify, and Pinterest.\nFor those that can't decamp to Stanford to learn these skills firsthand, the team at Main Street Hub have shared some of the secrets of their success.\nTake Empathy to the Extreme\nAsk any small business owner if they'd like to be more successful on social media and of course they'll say yes, but that's not the most important question. Instead, Stuart and Allison should have asked if they had the time to dedicate to Facebook marketing. The answer in short: no.\n\"We'd go into their shops and spend hours and hours with them in hopes of getting them in front of their computer,\" says Allison. \"We wanted to get their feedback and get them on board, but we spent most of those hours chasing them around the shop under car, behind a desk, and talking to employees.\"\nThe first version of the product was well-designed by any standard measure. The information architecture was solid and the visuals were clean. Usability experts would have a hard time identifying what was wrong with their service. The problem was that it was built around faulty assumptions.\n\"That old product required customers to manage their own presence, and most mechanics don't have the time or resources to do that,\" says Allison. \"Even if it would solve their biggest problem, obtaining new customers, they will not DIY their online presence.\"\nThis was a striking realization for a pair of Silicon Valley stars who were rarely offline for more than a few minutes. Moreover, many of their customers had no idea what a hashtag was, nor did they care. \"Ultimately, designing a great solution is just a manifestation of empathy,\" says Allison. \"Truly understanding the customer's needs and problems.\"\nLook for Inspiration in Other Industries\nInstead of trying to make an easier DIY software tool, Stuart and Allison created a “do-it-for-you” service. Think of it like tax prep—people don't want a better interface to deal with the IRS, they want to bring a shoebox full of receipts to an accountant and let them handle the details. Strange as it may sound, for many, managing social media is a chore, not a treat.\n\"When the pivot was made to 'do-it-for-you,' we really looked at what had previously gained traction in local,\" says Stuart. \"All widely adopted marketing products for local businesses from the past 30 years were “do-it-for-you” solutions: print advertising is a hands-off experience for a business owner, 'webmasters' deliver finished and infrequently updated sites, online ad networks earn the bulk of their SMB ad dollars from resellers and agencies instead of direct spend, and the early daily deal success was built with hands-on sales, account management, and editorial staff.\"\nNow, for $299 a month, Main Street Hub's crack team will respond to snarky tweets directed at their clients promptly and professionally. The design output isn't a new kind of user interface, instead it's a series of algorithms and reports used by account managers. It's still a design process, just not one that will set Dribbble on fire.\nUser Research Is Fine. User Behavior Is Better\nSurveys and positive customer feedback are great, but they don't pay the server bills. An important lesson from the class was gauging success not by what customers said, but by how willing people they were to open their wallets. In other words, user research has its limits. User behavior though? It teaches a lot more than words ever will.\nAllison and Stuart admit that most of the users of the first version of their product let the subscription lapse, but once the \"do-it-for-you\" change was made, the purchasing behavior followed quickly. \"The first few customers we showed it to paid us with cash on the spot,\" says Stuart. \"One guy was three dollars short, but we gladly accepted his payment.\"\nDon't Wait for Feedback\nCreative people are often sensitive and hesitant to show off their ideas before they're fully formed. \"If you're building the wrong product, you'll hear no,\" says Allison. \"You might as well hear it as early as you can.\" Laboring under false assumptions cost Stuart and Allison time and money that could have been saved if they had sought out negative feedback earlier.\nFind the Paradigms That Deserve to Die\nPlenty of services offer to help business hide negative reviews, but Main Street Hub takes a different approach—embracing them. \"We received a call from an auto repair shop owner who said that he was getting new customers as a result of a negative review on Yelp because of how Main Street Hub responded to it,\" says Stuart. \"His new customers were impressed by how much he cared about his customers’ experience and it shaped how we think about the opportunity for our customers in a response to a negative review.\"\nNever Stop Iterating\nWhile they've figured out the big picture, Stuart and Allison are far from finished when it comes to refining their service. \"We've now crafted more than a million messages in total and have learned from our data what type of content is most engaging for different types of businesses,\" says Stuart. \"We've been able to achieve engagement rates that are five times the industry average as a result.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This article is Free, but to access more of our content, you can sign up for a no strings attached 28-day free trial here.\nThe systemic crisis arising from COVID-19 is giving rise to new avenues of inquiry for the responsible investor. If ESG factors didn't seem important before, they certainly should now. And it’s vital to ensure difficult decisions, such as cutting personnel costs, are executed in a delicate and ESG-friendly way.\nChief among new ESG filters are working from home stratagems, furlough policy, and, of course, sick pay compensation.\nOne particularly glaring example of a lack of ESG accounting comes from the UK pub chain JD Wetherspoons. After being forced to close all 850 of its pubs—following the UK coronavirus lockdown—the chain neglected to guarantee worker wages, sprouting a grassroots campaign of condemnation against Wetherspoons. The actions of premier league football club, Tottenham Hostpurs, is another. They have maintained player’s wages at millions a year, while asking taxpayers to pick up the bill for furloughed lower paid employees.\nWith any luck, investors won't have to place importance on these factors for too long. Nevertheless, it doesn't hurt to be prepared—which is, ironically, the primary concern of ESG investing.\nAccounting for ESG amid systemic risk\nDespite recovering over 15% from its mid-March lows, the FTSE 100 lost a quarter of its value in 2020, as investors turned tail toward less hazardous pursuits. Although the downturn looks far from over, accounting for ESG factors could help circumnavigate higher risk investments.\nAccording to Guillaume Mascotto, head of ESG at American Century Investments, using ESG filters could aid exposure to higher-quality issuers.\n\"We believe that an investment-led and materiality-focused ESG integration program can help minimise downside risk otherwise not captured by traditional financial analysis,\" he said recently in press reports.\nSimilarly, Ben Palmer, head of responsible investment at Brooks Macdonald, said that companies harnessing ESG often \"outperform the peer group and wider market.\"\nThe importance of integrity\nWhile Covid-19 has thrown a veritable spoke in the wheel of value creation, a deep-rooted reputational risk remains the crux of investor concerns.\nThe media, business, and the government rank among the least trusted in society today. That's according to the 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer, which exposed a profound public scepticism toward these sectors. For business, in particular, mistrust only leads to one thing: divestment.\nThe UK's corporate governance code recently underwent a revamp courtesy of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). The new rules underscore the value of both corporate culture and remuneration reporting, to reinforce business integrity and minimise reputational risks.\nFlexing the new mandate, the FRC recently rebuked numerous listed companies for complying with governance rules for compliance alone—rather than in an effort to deliver fundamental utility. The issue with feigned transparency is that investors can often see through it. Companies transcending what's required of them are few and far between. But when they do come along, it's an opportunity worth seizing.\nRemuneration committees are developing a remarkable insight into this kind of value creation—making connections between appropriate remuneration policy and investor endurance. With the new regulations fresh in mind, remuneration committees have broadened the scope beyond the routine executive pay quotients and are starting to incorporate ESG factors. Now, remuneration reporting stretches across a litany of ethnicity and gender disparities, encompassing information such as job description and performance review, as well as the typical pay ranges and grades.\nDiversity and equality\nEquality—beyond all else—is a critical constituent of effective remuneration policy. In 2015, the UK government assented to a report which looked to bolster female representation on FTSE 350 companies to 33% by 2020. Despite the recommendation, the quota still hasn't been reached.\nIn the UK, gender inequality issues have flared up over the past few years. The country ranked as the 21st most equal nation in the world in 2019—six places down from the previous year. Moreover, according to the Global Gender Gap report 2020, the gender pay gap in the UK was 16%, almost 10% higher than that of Norway or Sweden.\nIt's perhaps no surprise. In the past few years, UK retail giants Tesco and Asda provoked numerous avoidable gender discrimination suits. In 2018, Tesco faced a $4 billion equal pay claim, after 10,000 female clerks demanded parity with male warehouse workers. More recently, in January, an employment tribunal ruled in favour of female Asda shop floor staff, following pay disparities with male contemporaries.\nNot only did this affect the retailer's bottom line, but it also caused irreparable reputation damage. To add salt to the wound, these issues could have been avoided by adhering to ESG best practice. Harnessing data to identify variations in employee pay grades, and job descriptions, and demographics, could have curtailed claims and minimised investor value loss.\nKen Charman is CEO of HR and rewards data platform uFlexReward", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "PAS candidate Mohd Abdul Wahid bin Endut has been declared the winner of the Kuala Terengganu parliamentary seat by-election for a majority of 2631 votes. The results are as written below:\nMohd Abdul Wahid bin Endut (PAS candidate) – 32, 883 votes.\nWan Ahmad Farid bin Wan Salleh (BN candidate) – 30, 252 votes.\nAzharuddin bin Mamat (Independent candidate) – 193 votes.\nA total of 63, 993 out of 80, 229 voters cast their votes in the by-election.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Projected starter – Ricky Stanzi (6-4, 230, sr.)\nTop reserves – James Vandenberg (6-3, 212, so.), John Wienke (6-5, 220, so.)\nFutures – A.J. Derby (6-4, 225, fr.), Wyatt Suess (6-2, 200, fr.)\nStanzi’s touchdown-to-interception ratio isn’t going to land him any All-Big Ten votes, but this one statistic looks pretty good: He is 18-4 as a starter over the past two seasons. The Hawkeyes were 9-0 with him at the controls last season when he went down in a heap in the end zone against Northwestern. His 2009 season was marked by moments of electric efficiency punctuated by moments of amazing ineptness. Four of his Big Ten-leading 15 interceptions were returned for touchdowns, but his leadership qualities are unquestioned. He spent the off-season studying the interceptions and analyzing why they happened. Don’t be shocked if he is immensely improved this fall.\nVandenberg looked lost after replacing Stanzi in the Northwestern game, then staked his claim to the job for the future by nearly engineering an upset of Ohio State on the road the following week. Kirk Ferentz said Wienke may have been the most improved player on the team in spring drills so he may yet challenge Vandenberg for the backup job.\nDerby was regarded by many as the top recruit in the state of Iowa last season, but there already are rumblings that his future may lie at some other position. But at the Kids Day scrimmage on Aug. 14, he looked to have as strong an arm as any quarterback on the team. Some of us fully expect him to remain at quarterback for the duration of his career.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "After rehearsing every day for the past several weeks, once-shy 11-year-old Mishika Russell is ready for the curtain to rise.\nMishika, of Hartford, and nearly 65 other children who participated in a summer camp at Liberty Christian Center International will perform tonight in a play and dance about slavery.\nRehearsing for \"Climbing Higher,\" a play written by Geraldine M. Pinkston, who is a member of the church, has helped Mishika feel more comfortable speaking before an audience and inspired her to consider a career in the bright lights. She said she hopes to be a professional dancer.\n\"Performing in front of people makes me feel happy,\" said Mishika, who will be a fifth-grader at Milner Elementary School.\nGeneration of Praise Summer Camp 2000 was funded with a donation from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. In addition to participating in the play, the youths aged 5 to 13 have gone on field trips to places such as Lake Compounce, Hammonasset Beach State Park and the Connecticut Historical Society.\n\"They walk away with a better understanding of themselves and a better self-image,\" said camp director Monica Satchell. The 6 p.m. performance will begin with refreshments and will be held at the church, 23 Vine St.\nFor information, please call 860-522-3296.\nBrother Walter F. May III is giving a party and wants to invite the whole city.\nThe ministry of music at New Welcome Baptist Church will sponsor Joy Explosion 2000, an outdoor gospel concert that May promises with rock the city, spiritually that is.\nThe concert will take place Aug. 26 and will feature more than 25 city and state groups and several choirs from out of state.\n\"It's really about fellowshipping with other churches,\" said May, minister of music at New Welcome Baptist Church.\nThe concert, which drew about 300 visitors when it began five years ago, drew nearly 1,000 people, 20 gospel groups and 20 vendors selling food, clothes and arts and crafts last year. May expects an even bigger crowd to celebrate the event's fifth anniversary this year.\nThe free event will be held rain or shine at the church, 205 Bellevue St., from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.\nFor information, please call May at 860-833-0529.\nThe folks at the United Methodist Church of Hartford will be praying for plenty of customers but even harder for clear skies when they host their annual fall tag sale Sept. 9.\n\"We've been really lucky with the weather we've had in the past,\" said Dorey Boutwell, coordinator of the popular tag sale, which has been postponed to a rain date only twice in the past 15 years. \"We've had some severe storms the Friday before, but it always seems to clear up.\"\nThe church's annual fall tag sale will feature more than 30 vendors whose wares will include clothing, jewelry, glass, electronics, collectibles and veteran tag sale vendor Joan Lancor's vintage linens.\n\"The linens that are older -- table cloths and towels -- are handmade,\" said Lancor, who along with her husband, Arthur \"Sonny\" Lancor, has been selling antiques for three years. \"They have different textures.\"\nThe tag sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. outside the church, 571 Farmington Ave.\nThe rain date is Sept. 16 at the same time and place.\nFor information, please call 860-523-5132.\nMany local clergy are preparing to take a special lunch break on Sept. 1 when they visit city schools carrying a single book, the Bible, as they offer prayers for a safe and successful school year.\nThe third annual \"Prayer on the Playground\" event will welcome the start of the school year in Hartford on Sept. 5. The ministers hope thousands will join clergy members for short services at the city's more than 30 public and charter schools from noon to 12:30 p.m.\nThe noontime prayer session is part of a larger effort to encourage city students to show up at school on opening day and increase parental involvement.\n\"It's my dream and vision to have a least 100 people at each of the 39 sites, '' said the Rev. Susie B. Hinton, coordinator of the event. \"Whatever number we get will be a blessing.\"\nThe prayer event is sponsored by the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, the City Wide Clergy Association and the Capitol Region Conference of Churches.\nFor information, please call 860-236-1295.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Pallbearers escort the casket carrying the body of the late Patrick Hoyos into the Chapel for the service of celebration.\nFamily, friends and colleagues turned out in their numbers yesterday to pay their last respects to veteran journalist and publisher, Patrick Ricardo ‘Pat’ Hoyos.\nThe life and achievements of Hoyos, who passed away on July 1 at the age of 67 after a short battle with cancer, were remembered during a service of celebration held at the Chapel of the Coral Ridge Memorial Gardens where Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, several Ministers of Government and members of the business community were among those gathered.\nWhile widely known for his journalistic prowess, his best friend Tony Cumberbatch noted that Hoyos was also a talented artist and musician. Delivering the first of two eulogies, Cumberbatch spoke glowingly of the man he dubbed his “little brother”, who he first met when they both were employed at The Barbados Advocate. It was Hoyos, Cumberbatch explained, that was instrumental in changing the format of the newspaper from broadsheet to tabloid and introduced new publications to the media house.\nHis friend of 35 years explained that on leaving The Barbados Advocate, Hoyos returned to the “comfort” of Hoyos Publishing, where he would bring to life new publications, the likes of The Broad Street Journal and Who’s Who in Barbados Business – both “standards of excellence on the local business landscape”.\n“Pat himself became the business guru, not only in Barbados but across the Caribbean – the one everybody turned to for information or analysis on anything from balance sheets, to start-ups to conglomerates,” he said.\nCumberbatch added, “As a journalist, Pat was not afraid to ask the hard questions. If you didn’t like it, the follow-up was even harder. Neither did he hesitate to speak his mind; he would let you know exactly what he thought – be you his peer or the CEO of a large and powerful company.”\nHe went further, speaking of Hoyos’ kindness and generosity to friends and staff. Cumberbatch added that the “family man” was devoted to his children, grandchildren and wife Sophie.\nFriend and media executive, Vic Fernandes, also reminisced Hoyos, who he called the “maverick”. Delivering the second eulogy, Fernandes said that he and his friend from childhood, thought of the need to regulate the re-lationship between the media and the advertisers and with the help of the late Sir Fred Gollop, formed the Media Association of Barbados – with Fernandes as President and Hoyos as Vice President.\nFernandes also spoke of Hoyos’ stint as the host of ‘Down to Brass Tacks’. Fernandes, quoting Dennis Johnson who was his producer on the show, noted that Hoyos, while on the show, always maintained balance despite “intense pressure” from the “professional talk show agitators”.\n“Never, never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that I would be one day standing at a mic in Coral Ridge paying tribute to a man I loved and respected for his intellect, his work, his work ethic and his great friendship,” Fernandes said.\nThere were also tributes in song delivered by his daughter Mandy Cummins, Operation Triple Threat, Tamara Marshall and Alan Sheppard.\nHoyos leaves to mourn his wife Sophie, children, step-children, grandchildren and brothers. (JRT)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It was not all that long ago when the Arizona Cardinals would have been considered a favorite in 2012 Super Bowl odds as they barely lost the championship game to the Pittsburgh Steelers in February of 2009. But since the retirement of Kurt Warner as their quarterback, Arizona has lost its identity and its championship form.\nThe winning formula may be coming back for Arizona, as after losing six consecutive games that followed an opening day win, the Cardinals have won 4 of their last 5 including last week’s 19-13 overtime win against the Dallas Cowboys. While the playoffs are out of the question for this year there is hope for the future in Arizona.\nA big part of the resurgence for the Big Red has been running back Beanie Wells, who is closing in on a 1,000 yard season with 916 yards and a 4.6 yards per carry average along with a team best 9 touchdowns. Larry Fitzgerald remains one of the best receivers in football as he is also closing in on 1,000 yards at 943 with a 17.1 yards per catch average and 6 TDs.\nThe big question has been at quarterback where Kevin Kolb has been in and out of the lineup. Kolb was acquired from the Philadelphia Eagles after they kicked him to the curb in favor of Michael Vick. The Eagles may wish that Kolb was back as their season has turned into a train wreck and coach Andy Reid may be fired at the end of the season for the collapse. Kolb had his best game of the season against Dallas as he had a 109.9 QB rating with 247 yards passing and a TD.\nArizona plays in the weak NFC West Division where only the San Francisco 49ers look like a dominant team in the years to come. This makes for a golden opportunity for Arizona to quickly build and get back into the hunt for 2012 as the Seattle Seahawks and St. Louis Rams are hard to take seriously as future contenders.\nDefense remains a concern for the Cardinals although it has improved over the past month and has been a factor in the winning results. The Big Red ranks 19th in the NFL for points allowed and 25th overall for team defense but those numbers will have to be cut down if the playoffs are to return to the valley of the sun in 2012.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Brain Injury Awareness Month\nMarch is Brain Injury Awareness Month! The Brain Injury Association of North Carolina hosts community awareness events throughout the state to provide an opportunity for the public to gain insight and awareness of brain injury.\nVirtual Conference 2023\nThe Brain Injury Association of NC will be hosting a Virtual Conference, Shaping the Future, on March 29, 2023.\nThe Brain Injury Association of North Carolina hosts a camp event each year to provide an opportunity for individuals living with brain injury, their family members, and/or caregivers to enjoy fun activities, social interaction, games, arts and crafts, etc.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The NFL has just released a statement regarding the Black National Ant..\nCitizens do their part to help the police. Amazing amount of cop restr..\nDems will gladly sacrifice your life if it serves them politically or..\nMichigan Authorities Charge 18-Year-Old Black Male Damire Palmer for U..\nA new ZX Spectrum game\nepic lols, 90s pc games forever\nCricket pitches around England have reopened following lockdown easing..\nHe feeds Americans with a false narrative about China but depends on t..\nSeeking to prevent nothing less than the \"end of American democra..\nVideo was posted on Instagram Live on the profile of The Brand Consort..\nWe have all seen Karen destroy face masks at Target... now see her get..\nThis is the stomach churning moment a python regurgitated a prized fig..", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Target: Krishna Abrams, Solano County District Attorney\nGoal: Find and severely punish the person who used kittens as dog-fighting bait.\nTwo tabby kittens suffered extreme damage to their legs after being used as bait in dog fights, according to the animal rescue center where they were dropped off. Rescuers say their tiny legs were bound with rubber bands, which rendered them completely helpless as they couldn’t bite, scratch, or fight back in any way. The kittens were named Will and Grace by the rescuing staff, but gangrene set up in Grace’s legs and she didn’t survive. Will is still recovering, and the rescue center’s staff says that he should be ready for adoption soon.\nAn investigation is being conducted by the Solano Sheriff’s Animal Control Services to try and locate the unknown woman who dropped the kittens off. Outlets say the authorities are trying to uncover illegal dog fighting rings in the area. However, these innocent, tiny kittens deserve justice and the person who committed this sadistically cruel act should be behind bars.\nPlease sign this petition to demand that Will and Grace get their justice and that their abuser is found and punished to the most severe extent the law will allow.\nDear Ms. Abrams,\nTwo kittens were used as bait in pit bull fights. They suffered severe damage to their legs, which were bound so that they couldn’t fight back, and one had to be euthanized.\nAn investigation to uncover any dog fighting rings is being conducted by the Sheriff’s Animal Control Services. However, we’re calling on you to help bring these tiny animals justice by making sure that this sadistic kitten murderer is found and punished as severely as possible.\n[Your Name Here]\nPhoto credit: Solano County Friends of Animals", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Free Webinar which took place on the 6th of June 2021 was aimed at providing great insights into the M&A issues to financial professionals.\nThe program is eligible for 1.50 qualifying CPD hours from ACCA.\nYahoo refused to buy Google for $1 million in 1998 and currently Google’s parent Alphabet is the fourth largest tech company with a market value above $1.6 trillion and Yahoo is becoming another Nokia. Google acquired YouTube in November 2006 for just as much as $1.65 billion and currently the estimated value of YouTube is $170 billion. Timing of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) is the key in creating value for the shareholders.\nHowever, the top 5 technology giants namely Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft are being criticized for mergers, acquisitions and potential anticompetitive behavior. They are just too big and powerful.\nKey Focus Areas of the webinar", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Two years after the first confirmed COVID-19 case in Nigeria and almost one year after the first shot of the vaccine was administered in the country, only four per cent of the 200 million population, that is 8,145,416 persons, have been fully vaccinated against the virus.\nUnfortunately, Nigeria and most developing countries could not achieve the World Health Organisation’s (WHO’s) set target for all countries to vaccinate 10 per cent of their populations by the end of September 2021 due to inequity in the distribution of vaccines.\nA consultant public health physician, an epidemiologist and Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Shuaib Faisal reported,\n“As at the 25th of February 2022, 17,646,781 Nigerians have been vaccinated with the first dose while 8,145,416 Nigerians have received the second dose and are fully vaccinated. 682,108 Nigerians have received the booster dose. 4,317,621 tests have been conducted so far with 254,428 confirmed cases.”\nSource: Chukwuma Muanya", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "News & Events\nEman Al Amri, Director of Aljazeera Media Institute\nAJMI - DOHA\nOn Thursday, June 16, Al Jazeera Media Network announced the appointment of Eman Al Amri as the new Director of Al Jazeera Media Institute after being the Deputy Managing Director of Al Jazeera Documentary Channel.\nAl Amri joined Al Jazeera in 2007 as the supervisor to one of the media research and marketing projects until 2009, then moved to working at the DG’s office with the Network’s internal communications department until 2010. She then joined the strategy directorate as a senior consultant for a year and a half.\nAl Amri previously worked at the Institute as director of planning and projects from 2017 until 2020, and prior, as the director of the Institute's training department from 2012 until 2016.\nAl Amri holds a Bachelor's degree in management and economics from Qatar University and an MBA from Aston University in London.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A mere sixteen months ago, Casey Holden's life was neatly stored within seventy square feet of cell space in the Colorado State Penitentiary. Released in January 2007 directly to the street after four years of 23-hour-a-day lockdown and a decade spent mostly behind bars, the 26-year-old seemed to be facing insurmountable odds in his quest to complete three years of parole, find a job and walk the straight and narrow — an odyssey chronicled in our blog series \"I Shall Be Released.\nBut the news from Holden just keeps getting better. After struggling with a low-paying job at a Grand Junction pizza parlor, while trying to keep up with mandatory drug tests, classes and restitution, Holden finally persuaded his parole officer to let him roam a bit further in his search for decent wages and a stable home life. Last fall he moved on to a company that helps supply drilling companies in the Western Slope's gas fields, then to the drilling operation itself. Now he's a floor hand, pulling down respectable pay — and he needs it, for the burgeoning family he's started.\nHolden's brand-new twins, Asten Snow Holden and Brett Morgan Holden, just came home from the hospital this week. Mother Shauna Lee and babies are all doing fine. Holden's driving a new Jeep Cherokee and grabbing what shuteye he can between feedings and duties in the field. It's an astonishing turnaround, given the parole failure rate, but Holden insists it's just a matter of finding confidence and pursuing your dreams.\n\"If you want to go somewhere, it's on you to do it,\" he says. In his case, his dogged pursuit of a roughneck's wages made a big difference, he adds. Too many parolees get stuck working marginal, below-subsistence-level jobs, where the temptations to give up or go back to a life of drugs and crime can be overwhelming. \"When you have a good job, you don't have a reason to do anything wrong.\"\nThese days Holden has plenty of reasons to do things right. And two more just arrived. – Alan Prendergast", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Chinese technology giant Tencent has disregarded rising tensions between Beijing and the West to invest in a British start-up building simulation software for the Army.\nIn a deal said to be too financially insignificant to trigger a National Security review, the Chinese gaming company took part in a £15m funding round for Hadean, which develops technology to allow tens of thousands of virtual soldiers onto digital battlefields.\nIn a further twist, Tencent joined the funding round alongside In-Q-Tel, a US venture capital investor backed by funds from the CIA.\nHadean has also secured funding from the Government’s Future Fund, the start-up rescue fund launched by Rishi Sunak during the pandemic. It is being advised by experts from the National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF). London-listed Molten Ventures also invested.\nLaunched in 2018, the NSSIF invests in highly sensitive defence start-ups and is closely linked to GCHQ. It also offers start-ups access to security experts at the heart of Britain’s intelligence community.\nThe deal therefore means the British Government, a CIA-backed fund and one of China’s biggest technology companies are partners in the same venture.\nCraig Beddis, Hadean’s chief executive, said the company had been “highly cognizant” of the origin of its investments and said shareholders such as Tencent would have “no access” to sensitive technology. He added that the stake was too small to warrant notification under the UK’s National Security and Investment Act, the spearhead of a clampdown on Chinese investments in Britain.\nMr Beddis said: “Tencent is obviously huge in the metaverse and gaming, which explains why we took the investment.”\nTencent has previously backed companies including Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite, social media company Snap and digital bank Monzo. It recently snapped up UK-listed game developer Sumo Group.\nThe Chinese company’s prolific backing of Western companies has continued despite heightened tensions with Beijing and a growing crisis over Taiwan.\nWhitehall officials have grown increasingly hawkish over Chinese investment, ordering Huawei telecoms equipment to be removed from 5G networks. Ministers are also investigating the takeover of a Welsh chip plant by a Chinese-backed company.\nTencent, however, has previously seen its investments in the US waved through by regulators in Washington DC and the UK.\nHadean has worked with games companies including Minecraft and Epic Games on technology that can add scale to support thousands of players at once.\nThe company previously broke the record for the most players in any one game environment, hosting a 14,000 player starship battle in science fiction game Eve Online.\nIts “distributed computing” technology is also being used by defence contractors and the Ministry of Defence. In July, Hadean announced it had been awarded a contract with the British Army to develop a land warfare training simulator for soldiers.\nMr Beddis said: “The ability to replicate [virtually] what we do in the physical world lends itself very well to training for the defence sector.”\nThe start-up, founded in 2015, has positioned itself as providing backbone software for the so-called “metaverse”, a concept that sees virtual reality and the physical world increasingly blurred. It provides software to massive multiplayer video games, virtual concerts and digital conferences.\nDespite a downturn in tech valuations, funding has continued to pour into companies seen as well placed to profit from spending on metaverse technology.\nEarlier this year Improbable, which is also developing technology that can power giant multiplayer simulations, raised £115m from Silicon Valley investors Andreessen Horowitz.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Key lawmakers say the first salary boosts for New York judges in 13 years appear headed for approval in the upcoming state budget.\nSen. Stephen Saland and Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, who co-chair the budget conference committee on public protection, say Wednesday the judiciary’s budget proposal is mainly intact, including the first raises for 1,300 judges since 1999.\nSaland says some other “nuances” in the 2012-2013 spending plan are being examined.[dmc-related-post-wp numitems=\"3\" title=\"Also read\"]\nLentol says the raises are safe. Saland says they are not an issue.\nState Supreme Court justices in counties statewide are paid $136,700 a year. The new Judicial Compensation Commission has voted to increase those annual salaries to $160,000 next year, with proportionate increases for other judges.\nThe proposed $2.3 billion judicial budget has $27.7 million for those raises.\nMore breaking news\n- During Small Business Week, shop local\n- Sagamore Hill boon for region, report says\n- Priciest home sales in Nassau County\n- Survey: US manufacturing grew again in April\n- US construction spending up 0.3 pct., led by home building\n- Gas prices reach yearly highs\n- More professional services, please\n- First of LI earnings rise\n- Gold Coast eyes Brooklyn branch\n- Creating a buzz", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A man has reportedly been mauled to death in front of his wife and child after he climbed into a tiger enclosure at Ningbo Younger Zoo, in east China as the big cats were feeding.\nIn an hour-long rescue effort, zoo keepers tried scaring the tigers with firecrackers and water cannons but not before they bit and clawed at the man’s head and neck until he perished. One tiger was reportedly shot and killed during the attack.\nA witness told South China Morning Post: “I saw the tiger mauling the person, whose face was covered with blood. Every time he sat up, the tiger pushed him down again.”\nVideo below shows the terrifying scene as onlookers film the chaos on their phones.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "(For part 1 of this series, click here.)\nThere’s a race underway in the broadcast industry. On one side are Canadian incumbent telcos like Bell and broadcasters like Corus. On the other is so-called “over-the-top” (OTT) provider Netflix, a service that streams film and TV content online. Netflix aims to reach a critical mass of subscribers that creates a kind of positive feedback loop. More subscribers mean more revenues which enable the purchase of more and better content, which in turn attracts more subscribers, which starts the loop all over again. If it works, Netflix may not only cement its market share but materially threaten the viability of some of the telcos’ broadcast and TV subscriber businesses. However, it has to get there before the incumbents can create similar offerings of their own. Given the advance of the on-demand or “TV everywhere” trend, which all parties agree is inexorable and inevitable, this means the telcos have to play in Netflix’s space.\nOfficially, Netflix likes to insist it isn’t the enemy. But that doesn’t quite square with remarks made by Hastings in a first quarter investor letter where he said, “[We] should be able to use our size and international scale to bring the best original and exclusive content from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world. This is the real advantage over our regional competitors.”\nCertainly, the company has shown flashes of relatively fierce competitiveness. In March 2011, it was widely reported that Netflix outbid Corus and Astral for exclusive 5-year rights to Paramount Pictures film content—a point repeatedly raised by the incumbents before the CRTC during hearings in 2011. (Both Corus and Astral declined to be interviewed for this story.) Around the same time Netflix similarly outbid HBO and AMC for exclusive rights to the highly anticipated original series and Kevin Spacey vehicle House of Cards. And in May 2011 at the annual L.A. Screenings where broadcasters buy studios’ TV content, Netflix for the first time had an executive dedicated to shopping for content for Canada. The company reportedly bought the TV rights to an unnamed show just to get the online rights while locking out broadcasters.\nWhether it’s Bell, Rogers, Cogeco or others, the broadcast distribution undertakings (BDUs) and broadcasters seem to harbor a distinct fear of Netflix’s potential spending power and consequent ability to snag exclusive rights for both the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) and formerly untouchable VOD/pay TV windows (see sidebar: “Release Windows”). Primarily because of heavy secrecy, it’s unclear exactly how aggressive Netflix is being in negotiations with the U.S. studios that supply the majority of content consumed by Canadians.\nHowever, with virtually no exceptions, the BDUs and broadcasters are less sanguine. For the 2011 CRTC “fact-finding” hearings on the state of OTT, Rogers commented that because OTT is unregulated and therefore has a lower cost structure, its providers can pay more for the same studio content. “Licensed Canadian distributors will find it increasingly challenging to retain customers as these customers are enticed to access video content from … OTT services.”\nThe defined periods of time during which a given piece of content is shown, with a brief period at the window’s start that is typically exclusive. However, different combinations of rights/exclusivity can shift these windows in any number of ways. (What Netflix has been increasingly attempting to do is operate in the video on demand, pay-per-view and pay TV windows.) While TV is simplified, film generally follows a complex order that moves in a three-year+ cycle as follows:\ntheatrical: from month 0-4\nairplane/hotel: mo. 3-10\ncable VOD/pay-per-view: mo. 6-7 (primarily straight-to-video, e.g. IFC films)\nhome video DVD/Blu-ray: mo. 8+\nhome video discount/kiosk rental: mo. 8-10 (e.g. Netflix DVD, Redbox)\nelectronic sell through (EST), electronic rental (VOD): mo. 8+ (e.g. iTunes)\nSVOD: mo. 8-11 and mo. 24+(e.g. Netflix)\npay TV: mo. 12-24 (e.g. HBO, Showtime)\nnetwork TV/cable: mo. 26+\nfree on demand: mo. 48+\nAnd Peggy Tabet, director, regulatory affairs for Quebecor, which owns cable operator Videotron, wrote: “[The] more competition from companies such as Netflix will be present, the more customers of distributors such as Videotron will be encouraged to unsubscribe. If, for the moment, this threat has not yet reached its full extent, what will happen when, for some 1,100 [titles] currently available in Canada, Netflix will offer 11,000, as is currently the case in the United States?”\nTo hear Netflix tell it, neither side should consider the other the enemy. Like the convivial peacemaker at a dinner table full of inlaws, Netflix leadership has gone to great effort to portray the company’s business as complementary to existing BDUs and broadcasters, whether in Canada or the U.S. It may have a case—for now.\nIn September, Ted Sarandon, Netflix’s chief content officer, spoke at the Bank of America/Merrill Lynch 2012 Media, Communications and Entertainment Conference and touted the company’s positive effect on broadcaster AMC and others. “They have a particular programming sensibility that works really well on Netflix and we can take a lot of the risk out of the production of their shows. … I with great confidence will tell you that we brought a million new viewers to AMC for the new season of Mad Men and I’ll tell you we grew the audience for Sons of Anarchy on FX. We will grow the audience for Walking Dead on AMC—that access to the content in a catchup mode on Netflix is nothing but good for them.”\nThis echoes a similar comment made by Corus Entertainment’s EVP and General Counsel Gary Maavara, who commented to the CRTC that “OTT may actually be creating more demand for video programming.” (Corus owns W, Movie Central and co-owns HBO Canada among other properties and claims it hasn’t seen evidence even of cord shaving.)\nIt’s perhaps to be expected that the existing industry would sound a note of alarm as soon as anyone tried to horn in on its lunch. But like Maavara some are inclined to agree—in a roundabout way—that Sarandon has a point. CRTC worries aside, David Purdy, SVP, video product management for Rogers, says the great selling point of SVOD is the ability for viewers to engage in “catch-up” viewing for TV shows. This can lead to picking up the current season, which of course remains exclusive to cable.\n“Binge viewing is becoming more and more a part of the cable viewing proposition. So House of Lies I watched over one weekend. Basically, I had a cold, I didn’t leave my house and I watched 13 episodes. And now I can hardly wait until the new season comes. So this type of service—whether it be Netflix or Rogers subscription video-on-demand—that allows you to binge view on previous seasons, is complementary and doesn’t hurt the ecosystem.”\nAll of this may be true, but at what point does Netflix move from complement to competitor? The industry and its observers agree this will happen when the right combination of subscribership and content makes Netflix something that, as Purdy says, is seen as “a replacement technology.” To get there, Netflix is in direct and perhaps increasingly aggressive competition with the incumbents for exclusive access to film and TV content. It has to because at the moment its library doesn’t exactly inspire terror in its opponents.\nAs Josh Scherba, SVP of distribution for DHX Media, says of himself and others he knows, “We’re content junkies. It would never cross our minds to actually cut our cord because then where am I going to watch my sports? And also, I want to watch the brand new HBO content and [broadcast TV is] the only way I’m going to get it.”\nThe fact is Netflix’s Canadian library just isn’t that strong. And Netflix seems to know it—or at least it’s possible to read as much into its late 2011 announcement that in 2012 increases in its content spend would make the Canadian service’s offering comparable to its U.S. counterpart. Data compiled for Canadian Business Online by Josh Loewen of iStreamGuide.com shows a total of 10,625 unique titles for U.S. Netflix and 2,647 for Canada (see sidebar: “How much greener is the grass at Netflix USA?”). The genre disparities are similarly wide, with 3,035 film titles in the drama category for the U.S., but only 829 in Canada, for example.\nAs for quality, consumers will find little in the way of the premium movies they can expect on a pay TV or video on demand (VOD) service. Instead it’s too often a slate of low-rent, straight-to-video unknowns such as 2-Headed Shark Attack and box-office underperformers like After the Sunset. Officially, Netflix says it doesn’t really play in the premium movie market, with TV streaming making up 70% of served content, but even there the selection in Canada significantly underachieves compared to the American library. Only time will tell if this is simply the temporary result of the Canadian library’s younger age. But in a Q3 2011 note, CEO Reed Hastings said the plan was to get content spending to the “population-adjusted equivalent” of the U.S. However, with a population only 10% of the States, that doesn’t seem to bode well for Canada’s content junkies or the company’s ability to grow its market share here.\nThe battle over content spend\nIf content is king, then what the ongoing confrontation between the two sides is about is what each can spend for content and when they can get it. As mentioned, Netflix has shown itself willing and able to make serious plays for content it believes will attract subscribers. Getting that content first and on an exclusive basis gives consumers just one more reason not to bother with their traditional cable subscription. To compete, the incumbents have to be prepared to pay a little more and according to the BDUs and other sources prices are indeed going up.\nSome distributors say there is more money being paid by buyers as a result of Netflix’s presence. “I can definitely confirm that there is additional money being paid for these [digital] rights now,” says DHX Media’s Scherba. DHX, which recently acquired Cookie Jar Entertainment, produces, licenses and distributes dozens of children’s shows including Battletoads, Caillou and Yo Gabba Gabba. DHX in March 2012 signed a content deal with Netflix.\nAnd from Corus’ Gary Maavara, who specifically identified Netflix in comments to the CRTC: “If Canadian broadcasters are to compete with such players for Canadian rights to popular content, the inevitable result will be a dramatic escalation in the costs of acquired programming and an erosion of operating margins.”\nJoris Evers, director of corporate communications for Netflix, insists the company doesn’t “go crazy on pricing.” Of the Paramount deal, he says, “To be able to have Netflix in Canada, and make it an attractive service that people want to subscribe to at that $7.99 a month, we want to have a nice mix of content and some [pay TV] titles, like through Paramount, for example, are a key part of that mix. And we pay fair prices for content. We pay well for content people really love to see.”\nCompetitors in linear and other pay TV services have now woken up to Netflix’s power. Content providers now appreciate the growing value of digital rights—and the price keeps rising. It’s not a given that the company’s $7.99/month all-in model is sustainable; long term it may not be enough to buy the premium content it needs to attract subscribers or even maintain market share. Global scale might sustain it for a while yet, but for how long?\n“That’s the billion dollar question that ultimately everyone is trying to figure out,” muses RBC analyst Drew McReynolds, co-author of a 2011 RBC report, “Pricing in a Potential OTT Inflection Point.” “And I would say from Netflix’s perspective that with their $7.99 model they could certainly afford to dabble in the premium content side of things, but ultimately they’ll need a lot more scale if they’re going to have the pockets to bid for some of the more premium stuff.”\nSeveral years ago in the U.S., Netflix tried changing its price/value offering—to disastrous effect. The company now insists it’s going to stick to its current pricing. Asked if Netflix might consider introducing tiered service with a premium pricing point where subscribers get a better selection, Evers says the company isn’t thinking about that at the moment. “We don’t confuse people with different price points, with the ability to watch pay-per-view titles, with an upsell to now buy a download or something like that.”\nSo who’s spending what to acquire content? Based on filings with the CRTC, Bell leads the pack at $1.5 billion for 2011 (year ended August 31 and filings are delayed one year). In the middle is Videotron at $527 million and rounding out the bottom is Cogeco at $288 million (see chart: “2011 broadcaster/Netflix content spend”). Netflix doesn’t release its content spend figures, but it’s possible to back out a rough estimate using its financials. For 2011, the company came in at about US$2.4 billion for its consolidated operations.\nFiguring out Netflix’s Canadian spend is trickier still, but an April 2011 report by RBC Capital Markets makes some conservative projections for future outlays between 2015-2020, which it says represents a tipping point for OTT in Canada. If we use the same formula, but for its current subscriber level of 1 million, we get a 2011 figure of about $65.2 million. Considering that RBC’s calculations are for a future where Netflix has grown to 2.7 million subs, its projected $176 million content spend at that point would still pale before that of the BDUs (although it would be competitive with broadcasters Corus and Astral). Today’s $65 million figure is even more miniscule. So the question becomes to what degree, if at all, is Netflix using its American muscle to plough its way into the Canadian market? Netflix is already on record as saying it uses its American revenue to fund its international expansions, but it also made a point of noting in its Q2 financials that its Canadian operations have reached “scale,” are now generating a “small contribution profit” and that it plans to “manage … content and marketing expenses to grow more slowly than members and revenue.”\n“The company strategy [on Canada] has gone a little dark,” says Dan Cryan, research director, digital media at IHS. “Looking at what they have been doing internationally and the number of users, and given the expansion to [Europe] and so on, it’s not clear to me that Canada is the international priority it once was.”\nPeter Miller, author of a report for the CRTC called “Developments in the Canadian Program Rights Market 2011,” says, “There’s really no scenario where Netflix can outbid a Canadian player on a rational basis. The issue is, are there strategic reasons for them ever to do it irrationally? Do they go out and spend a ridiculous amount of money to get exclusive rights to something that Canadians want, thereby driving up their subscriptions because Canadians say we really want that programming and Netflix is the only place to get to it? It won’t make any economic sense out of the gate, but if it grows their business it’s not a completely irrational thing to do.”\nRBC’s McReynolds agrees. “There’s nothing I’m aware of that prevents that strategy from unfolding,” he says, although he points out that as a public company Netflix faces constraints. “But you would expect them to ramp up the spend at certain points and each time they would do that it would be incrementally negative impact on the incumbents here.”\nBut among the possible advantages Netflix has that makes up to some extent for its lower Canada-specific spend are that: it does not currently have to contribute to Canadian production funds such as the Canadian Media Fund; does not have to set aside program time for Canadian programming; and does not have to support any telecom infrastructure beyond its server clouds. Instead Netflix uses the infrastructure built and maintained by the telecoms. All of this naturally makes Netflix a much leaner operation than, say, a Rogers. The telecoms have identified these issues before the CRTC as sources of (unfair) competitive advantage that they would like to see addressed in some manner.\nNetflix’s freedom of movement limited\nOthers say it’s a mistake to attribute too much power to Netflix. Catherine Tait, president of indie film & TV company Duopoly and part owner of recently launched pay channel Hollywood Suite, says Netflix’s freedom of movement is limited. She points out that existing output deals Canadian broadcasters/BDUs have with U.S. studios tend to be long-term and high volume. Paramount-type deals notwithstanding, Netflix is shut out, at least for now. “There’s no black and white here. It’s like the trenches in the First World War—you win 25 yards and then you go back 15. It’s a little bit like that. And Netflix is battling for each of those relationships in the U.S. and in Canada.”\nGiven that Netflix has been in the country only two years, these are the opening stages of the content wars and Canada’s incumbents have sounded an early alarm. It’s too soon to declare a winner, but a combination of market positioning, resources and even regulatory rulings are likely to play a part in deciding who comes out on top in the future.\nIn part three of this series, the options facing Canadian incumbents are revealed. Whether it’s Bell, Rogers or Shaw, none of Canada’s big players can be considered easy pickings. They all have considerable resources and other advantages they can bring to bear to fight off—or at least fight to a standstill—the challenge of foreign OTT services. But time may not be on their side.\nThe world of broadcast and telecommunications is filled with jargon and acronyms. Here are some of the key ones.\nBDU: Broadcast distribution undertaking. A cable or satellite provider.\nLinear TV: Programming aired at a certain time in a certain order with no ability by the viewer for intervention. In short, network TV.\nOTT: Over-the-top. A reference to services like Netflix and Hulu, which serve content over the Internet to a variety of devices and bypass the systems of traditional broadcasters.\nOutput deal: An agreement by one company, usually a distributor, to sell/distribute a specified amount of content from another company, usually a studio, over a contracted period.\nSVOD: Subscription video on demand. The viewer pays a periodic fee in order to access content à la carte, usually online.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "encouragement to live in ministry houses and attend several meetings a week “creates more of a potential for controlling the environment,” said Steven Hassan, a mind-control expert and mental-health professional in Massachusetts.\nJake Leppert, 25, and a member, doesn’t see it that way.\n“I think there are a lot of meetings,” said Leppert, who\nlives in one of Xenos’ ministry houses near Ohio State’s campus. “I go to them because I want to. People have a choice to go to them or not.”\nLeppert said he’s\nread posts online about bad experiences with the church and wants to hear both sides.\n“Some things people said happened don’t sound good ... if these things are true, I’d\nlike them out of our church,” he said.\nIn addition to grueling meeting schedules, some former members complained about the church’s use of what it calls “accountability\nsoftware” to monitor their internet usage.\n“It’s insane; you’re an adult,” Alex Craig, 20, of the University District, said of the software program.\nShe said it has been used to monitor or block sites that aren’t Christian or are critical of the church.\nthe software program is optional and only used to make sure that those living in the ministry houses aren’t looking at pornography. It can be used to block certain sites, he acknowledged, but said those features have to be turned on by the person with\n“The goal of behavior control is dependence and obedience,” said Hassan, who was a college junior in the mid-1970s when he was recruited into the Unification\nChurch, the so-called Moonies.\n“You want access to followers ... you don’t want them exposed to things you can’t control,” he said. “You want to keep them\nvery busy with your own projects.”\nDelia Grantham, 18, of Bexley, was a member of Xenos for two years during high school.\nShe left the church because she said leaders of her high school group told the then-16-year-old that she couldn’t be with her Jewish boyfriend forever: He was going to hell and she was going to heaven. Her salvation also was questioned,\nshe said, when she admitted she’d been depressed after a friend, a fellow Xenos member, died by suicide.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Walmart in Renewed Call for Greener Vendors\nHome & Textiles Today Staff -- Home Textiles Today, March 7, 2010\nWalmart wants to reduce its supply chain greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions footprint — and it has joined with an ecology organization as it calls upon its vendors for new initiatives.\nWalmart has established an advisory team for the effort, led by the Environmental Defense Fund and including PricewaterhouseCoopers, ClearCarbon Inc., the Carbon Disclosure Project and the Applied Sustainability Center (ASC) at the University of Arkansas.\n“Energy efficiency and carbon reduction are central issues in the world today,” said Mike Duke, Walmart president and ceo. “We’ve been working to make a difference in these areas, both in our own footprint and our supply chain.”\nThe new goal is to cut 20 million metric tons of GHG from the supply chain by the end of 2015 — which the retailer said is about 50% more than its projected “global carbon footprint growth over the next five years.”\n“Walmart’s bold move will help companies identify steps to slash pollution and costs. As this story unfolds, it will transform a vast supply chain here at home, and around the world,” said Fred Krupp, president of EDF.\nThe reduction effort will identify GHG emissions by product category, and will monitor reduction means involving the sourcing of raw materials, manufacturing, transportation, customer use or end-of-life disposal functions. The advisory team will calculate and assess the reductions made under the Walmart program.\nCelebrity Branding at NY Home Fashions Market", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "BERLIN - Bettina Schardt knew that the combination of drugs she drank in the living room of her home in Wuerzburg last week would kill her, and she died alone.\nSTAUNTON, Va. - Three West African bushmen recruited to build a mud-hut village at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia have been denied visas because officials say the men were poor, didn't speak English and failed to convince them that their visit only would be temporary.\nBEIJING - China wants the Dalai Lama to prove he does not support Tibetan independence and disruption of the Beijing Olympics, and told the spiritual leader's two visiting envoys that ''positive actions'' could lead to more talks this year, a state news agency reported Thursday.\nSummer Sports Show for Thursday, July 3 - Presented by Farmers and Merchants Bank.\nNEW YORK - The hedge fund cheat who tried to fake his own death before going on the lam told a judge Thursday that he really did try to kill himself with a drug overdose the day before he surrendered in Massachusetts.\nGLOUCESTER, Mass. - The high school where the principal claimed girls formed a pact to get pregnant is one of the few in Massachusetts with a day care center, leading some to wonder whether that sent a message that teen motherhood is OK.\nMONROE, Ga. - Investigators have spent two days digging at a property in northeast Georgia in search of clues advocates hope could lead to finding living suspects in the unsolved lynchings of four people in 1946.\nNASHVILLE, Tenn. - A former death row inmate was freed from a Nashville prison on Wednesday for the first time in nearly 23 years after an anonymous donor paid his bail.\nNEW YORK - Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday dismissed talk of a U.S. or Israeli attack against his country, calling the prospect of another war in the Middle East ''craziness.''\nBOSTON - MoneyAisle is a free new Web service that makes a bold claim: It says it will maximize the interest rates consumers can get on savings accounts, by running online auctions in which banks bid for consumers' business.\nALBANY, N.Y. - Tiffany was 12 when her mother died. That was the same year she ran away from her sister's house, lived on the streets for six weeks and met the man who two days later became her pimp.\nTETON VILLAGE, Wyo. - Citing a lack of federal leadership, the nation's Western governors want to draft a national energy policy they hope will influence the next presidential administration.\nThe 2008 Firecracker Fest at Mill Creek Regional Park will celebrate the Fourth of July with its annual mix of games, activities and fireworks on Friday from 4-11 p.m.\nIn Shakespeare's \"Richard II,\" Lord Salisbury says, \"O, call back yesterday, bid time return.\"\nDEAR ABBY: \"Sad Dad in Arizona\" (May 2) wrote that he was concerned because his teenage son didn't want to attend his mother's funeral and preferred to remember her \"the way she was.\"\nThere is a reason that, for over 30 years, customers continue to select Cottons Tire, now with locations in Statesboro and Sylvania, as their one ...\nPat Hirsch, president of ERA Hirsch Real Estate Team in Statesboro, is looking to expand and is currently recruiting new and existing agents who are ...\nAfter 10 amazing years of serving our community, 180fitness founders and owners Angie Hitchens and Brandon Blair decided it was time to \"turn the gym ...\nCottons Tire is your one stop shop for all of your automotive repair needs.\nWho is the SACK Company? Do they make sacks? What does SACK even stand for?\nHealthcare is more complicated now more than ever.\nMan of the Decade", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Abacus Running On Clouds At COMMON, Gives Free Trial\nApril 8, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan\nIt may have taken some major changes in technology and culture, but the long-awaited promise of cloudy infrastructure for OS/400 and IBM i workloads is becoming a reality.\nAbacus Solutions, which launched an IBM i cloud at last May’s COMMON Annual Conference and Exposition, is back at this year’s COMMON event in Austin with customer Brooks Running Company to tell potential customers all about the benefits of putting their applications out on the Abacus cloud.\nScott Johnson, senior iSeries solutions specialist at Abacus, tells The Four Hundred that the company is teaming up with Brooks to fit prospective customers with a pair of custom running shoes at its COMMON booth. Brooks is a user of Infor‘s Lawson M3 ERP suite, and moved its operations to the Abacus cloud last year.\nJohnson says that the cloud business is doing well for Abacus, with it having doubled the number of customers on its cloud in the past year. Moreover, there’s a lot of activity with tire-kickers at the moment, and much of it coming through its partnership with Infor, which was also announced at last year’s COMMON. The company has over 40 different customer environments running in its two data centers (in Marietta and Kennestone in Georgia), and given all the interest in running either homegrown or third-party applications in the cloud, Johnson says that the business could double again this year–or perhaps do even better than that.\nTo help get customers to give its IBM i cloud a try, Abacus is launching a 90-day free trial for capacity on its cloud service, which can be used for test and development to, say, move applications from i5/OS V5R4, which runs out of support in September of this year, to IBM i 6.1 or 7.1. It is not clear at press time how much capacity Abacus is giving customers to play with on its cloud to give it a whirl.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Company prospects inflated by approval: FDA approval of dual balloon system could ReShape weight loss options\nThe market for weight loss devices has seen a flurry of recent activity, most recently with the FDA approval of an intragastric dual balloon system from ReShape Medical® (San Clemente, Calif.).\nThe FDA approved ReShape‘s weight loss procedure in adults with a BMI of 30 to 40 kg/m2 and a related health condition who have not been able to lose weight with diet and exercise alone and do not want or qualify for bariatric surgery.\nSingle intragastric balloons have been available outside the U.S. for about 30 years, Rick Thompson, president/CEO of ReShape Medical, told Medical Device Daily.\n“We know single balloons work, but there is room to improve,” Thompson said.\nThe ReShape Dual Balloon system is inserted in the stomach endoscopically and filled with saline. The balloons are left in the stomach for six months and then removed.\n“The dual balloon design offers three big advantages over the single balloon devices”, he said. “First, because the system includes two balloons used at the same time, the ReShape system occupies more space in the stomach so patients eat smaller meals, with the goal of losing more weight. Single balloons hold about 500 CCs of saline, whereas ReShape‘s balloons hold a total of 900 CCs (about 450 CCs in each balloon)”, Thompson said.\nThe ReShape balloons are attached to a flexible shaft that allows the balloons to conform to the natural shape of the patient’s stomach. Thompson said the flexible design was intended to make the dual balloon more tolerable than single intragastric balloons, even though it’s bigger.\nThe ReShape Balloon also offers some safety advantages over traditional single balloon devices, Thompson said. He said the biggest risk with intragastric balloons is that they sometimes deflate prematurely and move into the intestines, causing a dangerous bowel obstruction that often requires emergency surgery. ReShape designed the two balloons in its system to be independent of each other so that if one balloon deflates, the other should stay inflated and act as an anchor in the stomach to prevent the device from moving into the intestines.\nAs another precaution, Thompson said the ReShape balloons have blue dye in the saline and patients are trained to call their doctor if they see blue dye in their urine indicating a possible deflation.\n“This is the first non-surgical weight loss device approved in the U.S. since the mid-80s,” Thompson said.\nAs with most of the weight loss procedures currently in development or on the market, ReShape patients are expected to participate in a 12-month program to learn how to modify their behavior and eat smaller meals even after the balloon is removed. The idea behind the educational component of the process is to help patients maintain the weight loss long term.\nLast year the company published a study that showed 50% of ReShape patients were still losing weight at the end of the 12-month program, even six months after the balloons were removed.\n“With the right program you can be really successful with this, even though the balloon is out,” Thompson said.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In a savage display of animals challenging human authority, this sheep was caught on dashcam switching on its shepherd and unleashing a vicious attack which could have ended very badly indeed if not for these two guys showing up.\nFeatured Image VIA\nThe sheep goes berserk and bashes the old female shepherd to the ground, before delivering a couple more blows for good measure:\nNice of those German dudes to watch her get smashed three times before deciding to step in. That last bundle was an absolutely killer alpha sheep move. And what was the shepherd’s dog playing at just running around while the shepherd’s getting trucked?\nReminds me of that Greek cyclist that got surrounded by a pack of 25 angry dogs and nearly got eaten alive. Now that was a close call.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "QLD Building Industry Hails New Dispute Process\nA new building dispute resolution service in Queensland has been welcomed by the state’s construction industry, with a key lobby group saying builders were frequently having...\nQueensland Plans Decades of Construction Success\nConstruction industry leaders are planning for decades of industry success as industry and government leaders meet to chart a long term blueprint for the sector’s future.\nQueensland Overhauls Construction Payment Laws\nAdjudicators to payment disputes will be appointed by the recently created industry regulator and different timeframes will be allowed for responses to payment claims under new...\nEx-Cop to Head Queensland Building Watchdog\nA former detective has been named as head of Queensland’s new building industry watchdog.\nQueensland Building Watchdog Comes to Life\nQueensland now has a new building industry regulator as the government moves to enhance the accountability of construction industry regulation in the state.\nQueensland Construction Watchdog Gets New Board\nA new construction industry watchdog is set to take shape in Queensland following the appointment of its board of directors.\nQueensland Seeks Leaders for New Building Watchdog\nQueensland is seeking leaders for a new organisation at the centre of a large scale overhaul of building industry regulation in that state.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Brooklyn Nets played a basketball game last night, though given how everyone (read: us too) is covering it, you might’ve thought that the Nets were hosting a Jason Collins-athon in Los Angeles. But no, there was real basketball along with an historic social barrier broken. So here’s five takeaways from the game that had nothing to do with Jason Collins.\n1) The Nets, you know, won. The Nets beat a downtrodden Los Angeles Lakers team 108-102. That Lakers team started Kendall Marshall, Jodie Meeks, Kent Bazemore, Wesley Johnson, and Pau Gasol, their league-highest 18th starting lineup. The Lakers now have the worst record in the Western Conference, but a win is a win, and they led wire to wire on the second half of a back-to-back without Shaun Livingston and Kevin Garnett. (And, for that matter, Marcus Thornton.)\n2) Deron Williams had his best game of the season. Williams dominated the likes of inferior defenders Kendall Marshall and Jordan Farmar, cruising to a season-high 30 points with a variety of crossovers and layups. He’s attacking again, eight of his sixteen attempts from within five feet of the basket, and he also went to the line 13 times. Williams won as a starter against the Lakers in Staples Center for the first time in his career, having lost his first 19 games.\nHe’s also killing it from midrange. Yes, the midrange shot is one of the most boring facets of basketball, and it’s used all-too-often by traditionalists as the marker of the game they used to watch 30 years ago that was so much more about the fundamentals and not this silly dunking and three-point shooting circus you’ve got going on now, but an effective midrange game isn’t useless, and Williams is killing it. He’s shooting 49.2 percent on “midrange” looks per NBA.com, only bested by Dirk Nowitzki, Stephen Curry, and Courtney Lee.\nWilliams’s final statline? 30 points, seven assists, five rebounds, and six steals, the first player to hit those numbers in a Nets uniform since Derrick Coleman on April 15, 1993.\n3) Paul Pierce led the charge early. Pierce said earlier in the season that his shots have come as the product of excellent ball movement. From the perimeter, that’s true. He’s getting wide-open looks when the team swings the ball, and he hit three of them in rapid succession in the first quarter Sunday night. But he was also getting to the rim around a porous Lakers defense, dipping and diving into the lane like it was a cone drill.\n4) Andrei Kirilenko works in the starting lineup… kind of. First, I’d like to reiterate this craziness: 6’9″ small forward Andrei Kirilenko replaced 6’7″ point guard Shaun Livingston (fighting a bruised tailbone) in the Nets starting lineup, after Livingston had replaced 7’2″ center Brook Lopez six weeks earlier. That’s just an incredible amount of versatility the Nets have.\nKirilenko looked solid in the Nets lineup in his usual box-score-stuffing ways, putting up a sneaky double-double with 10 points and a team-high 10 rebounds (though that speaks more to Brooklyn’s poor rebounding than Kirilenko’s frantic chase-them-all-down methods), adding four steals and three assists. Even his missed three pointer cruelly popped out after rimming halfway down. There’s tantalizing potential in a lineup featuring Kirilenko and Garnett, but that’d likely relegate Shaun Livingston to the bench, who’s been playing at a high level in the starting lineup.\n5) Andray Blatche is as good as his offense. It’s evident that the Nets struggle to defend the interior with Blatche on the floor. Though he has some good moments, they tend to falter as the quarters roll on, and his lackluster performance inside late in Sunday night’s game brought the Lakers within striking distance. His defense is normally excusable considering his ability to put points on the board, but he shot 2-10 against the Lakers and didn’t ever look comfortable on the offensive end. It only bolstered the thought that the Nets need help defending on the inside, which led them to sign…\nWhoops. Almost said it. Sorry, guys.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Mobile computing has gone viral at UW-Madison while regular cellphones are going the way of the land line, according to the university's 2012 Student Computing Survey.\nTwo-thirds of respondents said they owned an Internet-ready handheld device such as a smartphone, iPhone, Blackberry, Palm, Android or iPod Touch, up from 56 percent in 2011 and 45 percent in 2010. About a third reported using a simple cellphone, down from 49 percent in 2011 and 62 percent in 2010.\nAnd almost all students (97 percent of respondents) own a laptop while 36 percent own a desktop computer, down from 45 percent in 2011. A quarter of students use a tablet computer such as the iPad, Kindle or Nook, compared to 11 percent in 2011.\nThe survey found students are relying more heavily on Web-based technologies available with their devices — 70 percent use location-based social media services, up from 60 percent a year ago. They also want more features for the university's iPhone and Android app Mobile UW, such as more administrative services, mobile access to course and enrollment functions, cash management and payment options and library services.\nThe annual survey was delivered on the Web in spring 2012 using a random sample of 1,200 UW-Madison undergraduate, graduate, professional and special students, of whom 316 responded.\nSchool of Education hires 18 new faculty members\nThe UW-Madison School of Education is welcoming its largest group of new hires in the school's 82-year history.\nThe addition of 18 new faculty is the result of an unusual number of retirements over the past two years, said Dawn Crim, associate dean for external relations.\nThe new hires include Melinda \"Gay\" Ivey, the Tashia F. Morgridge Chair in Reading and Literacy, who focuses her research on struggling adolescent readers; and Maisha T. Winn, the Susan Cellmer Chair in English Education, who has taught in urban schools, studied the Black Arts Movement, and researched the intersection of arts and literacy in the lives of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated girls.\nHorn named rec sports interim director\nJohn Horn has been named interim director of the UW-Madison Division of Recreational Sports, following the retirement of longtime director Dale Carruthers.\nHorn has been the director of recreational programs and facilities since 2004, overseeing management, scheduling and contracting for the Southeast Recreation Facility (SERF), the Natatorium, outdoor activity spaces, and the division's programs. He graduated from UW-Eau Claire and received a master's degree in recreation management from the University of Arkansas.\nA search for a permanent replacement will begin in the near future, the university said in a news release.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Fox News anchor Chris Wallace doesn’t always see eye-to-eye with some of his fellow coworkers.\nWallace let it be known that he’s not happy when his Trump-supporting colleagues go to war with those in the media the president deems “fake news.”\n“It bothers me,” he told the AP. “If they want to say they like Trump, or that they’re upset with the Democrats, that’s fine. That’s opinion. That’s what they do for a living.”\n“I don’t like them bashing the media, because oftentimes what they’re bashing is stuff that we on the news side are doing,” he said. “I don’t think they recognize that they have a role at Fox News and we have a role at Fox News. I don’t know what’s in their head.\n“I just think it’s bad form.”\nOne can surmise that Wallace was directing his aim at hosts like those on “Fox & Friends,” Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson who are the major champions of the president at the network.\nHannity’s arch nemesis at CNN, Brian Stelter, used the quote to hit the Fox News host.\n— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 20, 2017\nThere were plenty in the so-called lame stream media that cheered Wallace, but most who side with Trump did not:\nAttacks on the press r deserved & warranted as they r unapologetically biased & always spin the truth. Report the FACTS, no need for bashing\n— Classy&Sassy (@FLMel69) October 20, 2017\n— Joan Reynolds (@irishamrep1) October 20, 2017\n— Trump2020 (@Curt5054) October 20, 2017\n@FoxNews Chris Wallace is like a spoiled little twit who belongs on MSNBC. Try growing a pair of balls!\n— Bob (@RVB103) October 20, 2017\nWallace is probably not going anywhere as he recently resigned with Fox News.\nHow about doing something about the fake news, Chris Wallace, instead of beating down the people trying to right the wrong\n— Erin dekowsky (@ErinDekowsky) October 20, 2017\nChris Wallace is an embarrassment to Fox News. I always turn off Fox when he or Shep come on. They hurt your credibility.\n— Judy (@jelmorerph) October 20, 2017\nWake up right! Receive our free morning news blast HERE\nDONATE TO BIZPAC REVIEW\nPlease help us! If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. Now is the time. Truth has never been more critical!\n- Britney Spears shows off her rockin’ new bod, but had to spoil it with a liberal message about ‘Dreamers’ - December 24, 2017\n- Border patrol forget they’re supposed to be heartless, deliver beautiful baby at the border - December 24, 2017\n- After scoring tax cut victory, Trump sees ‘tremendous Democrat support’ for his next big initiative - December 24, 2017\nWe have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Blue Label Telecoms, a JSE-listed firm which specialises in selling prepaid airtime, electricity and ticketing, yesterday posted robust annual results with strong gross profit margin growth.\nBrett Levy, who is a joint chief executive, said: “The next few years look really good for Blue Label. We’ve come out of Covid strong after two great years.\"\nFor the year ended May 31, 2022, the group, which is in the process of recapitalising Cell C, said headline earnings per share rose from 86c a year ago to R1.17. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (Ebitda) was up by 25 percent.\nOn inclusion of the gross amount generated on PINless topups, prepaid electricity, ticketing and gaming, the effective increase in revenue equated to 10 percent from R66 billion to R72.3 bn.\nThe gross profit margin increased by 16.5 percent from 12.7 percent in the comparative period. Its gross profit rose 23 percent on the back of a 10 percent improvement in gross revenue to R72.3bn.\nReportable revenue was R17.8bn, from R18.8bn previously, a decline of R1bn.\nThe group, which paid R5.5bn for a stake in Cell C in 2017 and holds a 45 percent stake, said the recapitalisation of Cell C was expected to be finalised in September.\nAccording to Blue label, Cell C reported a net loss of R2.4bn in the 12 months ended May 31, 2022, from a net profit from the previous year of R2.4bn. Cell C is struggling with a debt burden of R7.3bn.\nLevy said Cell C's numbers would probably improve after the completion of the recapitalisation.\n“On the date of the recap, the forex reverses. R1.5bn (net loss) is on international debt, and interest on that debt. That’s also written off at the recap. That’s R2.3bn of the R2.4bn. In the current financial year, there were also once-off costs of R1.3bn for lawyers, financiers, and once-off fees that relate to the recap, which is an absolutely reverse, so they pull it out of the normal loss profit. So in our view, you want to see less than approximately 800m when you go back to our half-year results from our presentation,” he said.\nLevy said Cell C would release its results for the year ended December 31, 2021, and the six months ended June 30, 2022, in September.\nLevy said the proposed acquisition of Telkom by MTN should happen very quickly. Last month, both telecommunication companies announced that MTN was in talks to buy Telkom.\nBlue Label’s share price was trading up about 1 percent yesterday following the release of its annual results. Its share price increased by almost 24 percent in the past year.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Paris Punks Britney?\n12/2/2007 1:00 PM PT\nFormer BFFs and crotchograph comadres, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, reunited last night at the Scandinavian Style Mansion -- but this time, the only flashing came from photogs!\nAlthough the two walked out together, Britz and her Yeti fur jacket took off for another destination -- while Miss P hopped into her car, put on makeup ... and then ducked back into the party!\nJust minutes before it turned Midnight -- officially making it Britney's birthday, Paris either pulled out of popping bubbly with the popwreck, or just wanted to steal some of her spotlight! Either way, happy 26th pal!", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Qanstruct constructs temperature controlled distribution facility for Toll on behalf of Mars Confectionary.\nQanstruct has been engaged to construct another facility for Scalzo Foods. This time, a manufacturing and warehousing facility in Ravenhall, Victoria.\n‘Precinct H’ of Goodman’s Intermodal Logistics Centre is nearing completion.\nMontagues break ground on their exciting new facility located in Lysterfield, Victoria.\nQanstruct has recently completed the new Head Office for Dunlop Flooring in Truganina, Victoria.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Football fans who are playing Madden NFL 15 and/or Madden NFL Mobile can kick off the cover athlete vote for Madden 16.\nTag Archive: football\nZen Studios' latest batch of tables for their excellent Zen Pinball and Pinball FX2 platforms have been revealed.\nIf you consider yourself a Madden super-fan and want the very best version of Madden 25, you'll have to buy the game at Amazon this year.\nAfter being available for a solid 7 days at retail, Madden NFL 13 has reached another impressive sales milestone according to EA.\nEA Sports and ESPN's SportsNation this morning revealed the 32 player bracket of the players who are in the running for the Madden NFL 13 Cover. Vote for your favorites beginning today!\nThe New York Giants will win Super Bowl XLVI this Sunday… according to EA's Madden NFL 12 simulation at least, and we have the video to prove it. Madden actually has had a decent record in simulating Super Bowl games and picking winners, so it very well may be for real.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A petition to save Newcastle City Hall will be handed into the council this afternoon.\nMore than 11,000 people have signed the petition which is asking for the building to be preserved.\nThe future of the venue is \"under review\" as part of Newcastle City Council's budget proposals.\nMore top news\nEight crew members had to be rescued from a fishing boat after it started sinking a mile off the coast of Sunderland.\nDrivers travelling north or southbound on the A1 near Newcastle and Gateshead are advised to expect delays until Wednesday morning.\nA large sinkhole, 5m wide and 3m deep, has formed on the A1 near to the Lobley Hill Interchange on the Northbound carriageway.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Are we lost? Why women are worse at reading maps but can find those misplaced keys\nWomen are worse at reading maps but better at finding lost items, research into how the sexes perceive beauty has revealed.\nU.S Scientists asked 10 men and 10 women to view a series of unfamiliar pictures. The participants were told to give their impressions of the images and whether or not they found them beautiful.\nThe scientists also used a technique called magnetoencephalography (MEG) to measure changes in the magnetic fields generated by active neurons in the brain.\nAre we lost? Women tend to describe directions as 'right of' and 'left of' landmarks, while men are better at reading maps, a study found\nThey discovered that a brain region called the parietal lobe, which governs spatial awareness, is active in both men and women when they admire a 'beautiful' picture or photograph.\nBut while neurons on both sides of the brain were stimulated in women, only those in the right hemisphere were activated in men.\nThe left side of the brain used by women is more involved in 'categorical' spatial awareness - assessing the position of objects in categories such as 'above' or 'below', 'left' or 'right'.\nThis makes women more aware of objects around them even if they are irrelevant to the task at hand, and could explain why they are more likely to find those lost door keys.\nMen use 'co-ordinate' spatial awareness while women use 'categorical' spatial awareness thanks to the evolution of early humans\nMen meanwhile appear to focus on 'co-ordinate' spatial awareness, centred in the right side of the brain. This involves a more precise form of mental mapping using co-ordinates to fix an object's position in space, like those used on a Ordnance Survey.\nThe scientists, led by Dr Francisco Ayala from the University of California Irvine, said the difference probably arose early in the evolution of early modern humans.\nHunting, traditionally done by men, required a 'co-ordinating' ability to track animals accurately while on the move.\nHowever, a 'categorical' spatial awareness was better suited to foraging for fruit, roots or berries, a job mainly carried out by women.\n'Women tend to be more aware than men of objects around them, including those that seem irrelevant to the current task, whereas men out-perform women in navigation tasks,' the scientists wrote.\n'Men tend to solve navigation tasks by using orientation-based strategies involving distance concepts and cardinal directions, whereas women tend to base their activities on remembering the location of landmarks and relative directions, such as 'left from', or 'to the right of\".'\nThe research was reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\nMost watched News videos\n- Nanny throws baby into crib before carrying it by its LEG\n- Warren Buffett duets with Stevie Wonder at Forbes party\n- Dog throws a tantrum when owner does not give him gravy\n- Kylie Jenner posts Snapchat on day of Megyn interview in April\n- Torrent of water rushes through Puerto Rican street as Maria hits\n- Flood sweeps across village after river dam collapses in Laos\n- Trump says in UN speech that some countries are 'going to hell'\n- Mexico earthquake turns a calm tourist river into a wave pool\n- Killer 'brandishes child's severed head' while taunting officers\n- Wind batters the cost of Puerto Rico as Hurricane Maria hits\n- Horrifying video of shaman dragged under water by crocodile\n- Two motorists take on karate expert in brutal road rage confrontation", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Are you among the one in ten workers who want a different career? Take this interactive quiz to find out what job would suit you...\n- One in ten are tempted to start a new career\n- Money, working hours and location biggest reasons\n- Take the interactive quiz below to see what job could fit you best\nOne in ten Britons are tempted to start a new career within the next 12 months and money is the biggest motivator, according to new research from the Oxford Open Learning Trust.\nThis figure rises to 28 per cent when looking over the next ten years according to the poll, suggesting many are unhappy with their current career trajectory.\nThe majority – as many as 58 per cent - who want to refresh their working lives are willing to retrain to get a foot in the door, according to the study.\nThe researchers at the Oxford Open Learning Trust have developed a 'profession picker' quiz, which you can take below to find which career could be the best fit for your skills:\nThe quiz lists 20 different professions which are revealed after answering a simple set of questions.\nDr Nick Smith, courses director and founder of Oxford Open Learning Trust, said: 'My advice for those who are considering changing careers would be to start trying out your passions and interests and get some sort of work experience.\n'What you might love as a hobby you might not love when you are doing it every day as a job.'\nMoney is the biggest motivator behind changing careers, followed by better working hours, location and personal interest, according to the poll of more than 2,000 Britons.\nStatus and the opinion of family members were the least considered factors when changing careers.\nDr Smith adds: 'The results suggest that ultimately money matters when considering a career change and that a job that is financially rewarding is more important second time around as you are more likely to have a mortgage to pay or family to support.'\nChanging careers can pay off. More than a third of British workers polled who had moved to a new job role said they had an increase in salary after the first year of their new career.\nSix per cent said their salary leapt by at least £10,000 after the first year of changing careers.\nChange of direction? According to the research, one in ten are thinking about changing their career\nEarlier in the week, job website Adzuna published a list of the most in-demand jobs in Britain.\nEmployers are struggling to fill posts for engineers, nurses, developers, teachers and chefs, vacancy data shows.\nAt the last count, 40 out of 56 cities see more jobs than job-seekers, but the number of posts for manufacturing, retail and logistics and warehouse roles has fallen in recent months.\nJobs in engineering are the most under staffed. According to recent figures from the Royal Academy of Engineering, there is a shortfall of 1.8million engineers across the UK.\nMost watched Money videos\n- Age UK explains what is Pension Credit and how it can help you\n- Fiat Panda spectacularly fails Euro NCAP test with zero stars\n- Analyst explains why Fiat Panda received zero stars on NCAP test\n- A UK guide to buying a used car\n- Top tips to add value to your home with a renovation\n- 'It's time to be picky': Where to invest in tricky times\n- Philip Hammond announces new relief for first time buyers\n- Was the stock market sell-off overdone?\n- Ruffer profited in 2008 crash: Where is it investing now?\n- A quick tour of the VW California Ocean campervan\n- Peugeot UK introduces new Rifter in TV advert\n- Is the Santa rally a genuine stock market trend?\nThe comments below have not been moderated.\nThe views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.\nBy posting your comment you agree to our house rules.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "KUALA LUMPUR, July 11 — The US Justice Department is finally investigating Deutsche Bank to see if Germany’s biggest bank violated foreign corruption or anti-money laundering laws when it helped 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) raise US$1.2 billion (RM4.9 billion).\nCiting unnamed sources, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) said the investigation is focused on the role played by Tan Boon Kee, who was formerly Deutsche Bank’s Asia Pacific head of banking, for its financial-institutions clients and said to have been one of the key bankers in on the 1MDB account.\nInternational financial news wire Bloomberg previously reported her links to Goldman Sachs executive Roger Ng, who introduced Tan to Low Taek Jho, the Penang-born fugitive better known as Jho Low said to have masterminded the misappropriation of 1MDB funds.\nWSJ reported Tan left Deutsche Bank last year after it discovered her communications with Low, but it is unclear if she resigned or was sacked.\n“Deutsche Bank has cooperated fully with all regulatory and law-enforcement agencies that have made inquiries relating to 1MDB,” an unnamed spokesman for the German bank told WSJ.\nThe same representative was reported saying that 1MDB made “material misrepresentations and omissions to Deutsche Bank officials” in connection with its transactions with the German bank, adding that the bank’s findings were consistent with what was stated in the US Justice Department’s civil asset forfeiture documents.\nAccording to WSJ, Tan is now working as the group chief business officer of an insurance company called FWD Group, which has a presence in Singapore and Hong Kong.\nCiting the latest version of the US Justice Department’s civil asset-forfeiture complaint, the WSJ reported that Deutsche Bank was heavily invested in 1MDB with its name mentioned 167 times in the documents compared to Goldman Sachs, which was mentioned 56 times.\nWSJ said the US Justice Department complaint stated Deutsche Bank’s involvement with 1MDB dated back to 2009 in which the German bank was the facilitator for financial transfers for the Malaysian sovereign fund’s first joint venture with PetroSaudi, then a little-known Swiss company.\nWSJ reported that Deutsche Bank had also arranged 1MDB’s US $1.2 billion emergency loans that were allegedly stolen by Low and his associates.\nThe US news outlet said that the Deutsche Bank investigation comes at a sensitive time for the German financial giant as it is currently embroiled in another US criminal money-laundering probe, congressional scrutiny of its relationship with US President Donald Trump and the latter’s associates.\nDeutsche Bank was also reported to be in the midst of a global overhaul. The WSJ reported that it laid off thousands of staff last Sunday.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "RuneScape’s Dimension of the Damned Trailer\nThe next event for RuneScape is “Dimension of the Damned”, where players will fight off hordes of merciless zombies. That is if they’re strong enough to make it through til the end!\nVideos You May Enjoy\nArticles You May Enjoy\n- Wakfu: US version heading into F2P open beta\n- Ankama today kicked off open beta for WAKFU, the turn-based massively multiplayer online game (MMO) set in the popular DOFUS universe, where p...\n- Game Insight Sends Strategy Games Skyward with Cloud Raiders\n- Game Insight announces Cloud Raiders, a PvP focused mobile game coming soon to Android and other devices.\n- Cards and Castles Announces Spring Time Update\n- Bit Mass has announced that Cards and Castles will be getting a new update on Thursday, May 14.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Thursday, January 17, 2013\n© Copyright 2015\nGwinnett Daily Post\nSUWANEE -- In a unanimous vote Thursday night, the Gwinnett County Board of Education nominated a new chairman for the 2013 year.\nCarole Boyce, the newly elected chair, accepted her peers' nomination during the monthly regular meeting.\nBut first she thanked the previous chairman, Louise Radloff for her service to the school board and her \"many roles.\" An audience of about 100 stood to applaud Radloff, who has served on the school board for 40 consecutive years.\nBoyce said she has \"big shoes to fill. I don't think anyone could do a finer job than what Mrs. Radloff has done. We certainly continue to appreciate your leadership. Thank you so much.\"\nSuperintendent J. Alvin Wilbanks said it is \"customary at the first of the year to elect its chairman.\"\nIn addition, the board nominated Dan Seckinger as vice chairman for 2013. Boyce previously served as vice chairman.\nBoyce's district includes all or part of the Archer, Brookwood, Central Gwinnett, Dacula, Grayson, Mill Creek, Mountain View, and South Gwinnett clusters, in addition to Hooper Renwick and Oakland Meadow School. She is the mother of six children. Re-elected in November 2012, her term expires December 2016.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "NASCAR: Gordon on verge of tying consecutive starts mark\nIt's a bit mind-boggling at first glance. Now in his final season and his final Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Jeff Gordon has never missed a race in his Sprint Cup career. Since his first start in the 1992 season finale at the Atlanta Motor Sp...\nIt's a bit mind-boggling at first glance. Now in his final season and his final Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Jeff Gordon has never missed a race in his Sprint Cup career. Since his first start in the 1992 season finale at the Atlanta Motor Speedway on the same day Richard Petty ran his final race, Gordon has competed for 23 full seasons without missing a start.\nOn Sunday, he's due to start the first race of the Chase at Chicagoland Speedway, which will tie him with Ricky Rudd for all-time consecutive starts at 788. The following week in New Hampshire, he can claim the record for himself. There may be eight drivers ahead of him who have more career starts, but they'll never have as many consecutive starts as Gordon - or be able to say they didn't miss a single race in their careers.\nThe only driver who might rack up a similar record is Jimmie Johnson, who is currently 293 races behind Gordon. Or, if Matt Kenseth elects to compete for another six seasons without missing a race, he could catch Gordon's consecutive start mark.\nBut after a winless season, can the 43-year-old Gordon survive this year's Chase? That will likely boil down to his Hendrick Motorsport team, which has been struggling. Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s fifth place at the Richmond International Raceway last weekend gave the four-car team only its fourth Top 5 finish in nine races.\n\"There's no secret that we're off right now as an organization,\" said Gordon in a meeting with the media prior to the Richmond event. \"We're searching a little bit. We're working extremely hard.\"\nWhether the work pays off over the course of the next 10 Chase races may be problematical, especially for a team that has been winless thus far this season - compared to four victories by Gordon's Hendrick teammate Johnson and two by Earnhardt Jr.\nBut stranger things have happened in the Chase. Ryan Newman won nary a race in 2014, but was within a car length of winning it all in the finale at the Miami-Homestead Speedway. Tony Stewart went into the Chase winless in 2011 before ripping off five victories and edging Carl Edwards for the title.\n\"I hope we can do something spectacular in the last 10 races and do like Newman did last year,\" said Gordon. \"It has been done before, not in this format, with Tony Stewart.\"\nStewart won under the original 10-race format. The current elimination formula brings an enormous amount of pressure no matter what kind of season a team has had.\nThe pressure \"starts right in Chicago,\" said Gordon, who joked about it eating holes in his stomach now that the three-race elimination rounds and the Homestead finale have taken the place of the 10-race run. \"In Chicago, before you go, 'OK I'd like to get this race off to a good start. But if it's not a good start, there's several more races where we can get ourselves in good shape.' You can have one mulligan. But when they don't have that many races before they start eliminating, you don't have that mulligan. You don't have time. It adds more pressure. You have to be on your A game.\"\nIt would be unlikely for Gordon and his team to suddenly come out of the gate strongly in Chicago, given the recent domination by the teams of Joe Gibbs and Roger Penske and the strong season by Stewart-Haas Racing teammates Kevin Harvick and Kurt Busch. Gordon is more likely to follow the formula of Newman last year, trying to be consistent and not necessarily relying on victories, which would mean an automatic pass to the next round.\n\"There's a couple of different strategies,\" said Gordon. \"When the Chase starts, it's everybody's intention, at least those who think they are contenders, to say, 'Man, we want to come out of the gate and show everybody who've you got to beat to win this championship.' You've got that and then you've got, 'You know, we've got the ability to just be super consistent and make our way all the way to Homestead by being really solid. We may not be the best team out there, but watch what we can do.'\"\nThe new format is a game changer for the drivers, said Gordon. \"I remember last year starting at Chicago, maybe because we thought we did have a shot, carrying more load on my shoulders and feeling the tension in the garage area with those in the Chase and with my team more than ever before. It seems like with that format you can't afford to make any mistakes.\"\nAt least as long as he qualifies in Chicago and New Hampshire, Gordon will be the king of consecutive starts, which is saying a lot in a high-risk sport.\nAnd it's not like Gordon backed into the record. Including his first race in Atlanta, Gordon crashed or hit the wall hard enough to damage his car beyond repair eight times during his first 31 races. Later in his career, he nearly took the old boiler plate wall down in Turn 1 at the Pocono International Raceway and was among the first to discover the school of hard knocks in Turn 4 at the Texas Motor Speedway.\nMore recently, it's been a running joke that if a wall needed a SAFER barrier, Gordon's car would find it. He's survived it all and won four titles. \"It seems like just yesterday,\" said Gordon.\nA fifth title remains a longshot, but Gordon will go out in fitting style even if he simply races to the end of the season.\nBy Jonathan Ingram", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The European Union roll-out of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for five to 11-year-olds will begin on 13 December, a week earlier than previously planned, Germany's health ministry has said.\nGermany is due to receive 2.4 million doses for use as a two-dose regimen, the ministry said, adding it has commitment on the new date from the manufacturer.\n\"Given the current pandemic situation, this is good news for parents and children. Many are awaiting this eagerly,\" acting health minister Jens Spahn said in the statement.\nA BioNTech spokesperson confirmed the earlier launch, adding it was contingent on the production batch passing quality control checks early next week.\nThe roll-out will be brought forward without an impact on agreed delivery volumes thanks to \"a massive effort including weekend work\" on the part of Pfizer and BioNTech staff, the company added.\nLast week, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended that Pfizer/BioNTech's vaccine, approved for European Union use in teenagers between 12 and 17 since May, be given as an injection in the upper arm in two 10 microgram doses, three weeks apart.\nAdult doses contain 30 micrograms.\nPfizer and BioNTech have said their vaccine, which is called Comirnaty, showed 90.7% efficacy against the coronavirus in a clinical trial of children aged five to 11.\n\"The benefits of Comirnaty in children aged 5 to 11 outweigh the risks, particularly in those with conditions that increase the risk of severe Covid-19,\" the EMA said.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "LAUDERHILL, Fla. – With financial aid becoming increasingly harder for graduating seniors to apply for and attain, The Scholarship Plug is making the process more accessible by opening a series of “Scholarship Centers” within communities across Florida. The doors are open for inperson and virtual visits.\nThe Scholarship Plug is a subsidiary of the CC&C Consulting Group, LLC. Although the primary resource offered to parents and students is scholarship assistance, other services include scholarship program coaching, trainings, access to technology to complete financial aid applications, college applications and scholarship administration for small businesses.\nFounded by Shedly Casseus Parnther, an award-winning scholarship and college advisor with over 15 years of experience, The Scholarship Plug has opened its doors and network to new members. The first Scholarship Center in Broward County has opened with the intention to bring an electric and impactful life-changing experience to students across the county by inspiring them to go to college and apply for scholarships.\nThe Scholarship Plug Center is located at 4462 University Dr., Lauderhill, 33351. Center hours are Tuesdays – Fridays, noon to 7 p.m., Saturdays 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Mondays are reserved for appointments only. The center provides a location for students and families to complete their applications and the technology to support the process.\n“We want students and parents to be confident that they can continue their education and have help getting it paid for,” said founder Parnther.\n“Financial barriers can be eliminated with the proper knowledge and support,” added Parnther. “All students have the potential, regardless of their current academic position and now they can join The Scholarship Plug to receive the extra support needed to continue their education.\n“We exist to drastically change the mentality and approach to the financial aid process, and we are doing it one student, one family at a time.”\nVisit thescholarshipplug.com, email email@example.com or call 954- 9512175.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Warren Buffett may not have supported Donald Trump’s candidacy for president, but the 86-year-old billionaire certainly benefited from the unexpected outcome.\nStocks are up across the board since the presidential election, boosting the value of Berkshire Hathaway’s (NYSE:BRK-A) (NYSE:BRK-B) stock portfolio, but few stocks have rallied as much as Bank of America (NYSE:BAC).\nThe Bank of America building dominates the Dallas skyline. Image source: Getty Images.\nIn 2011, during the darkest days of Bank of America’s struggle to survive the fallout from the financial crisis, Buffett called the bank’s CEO Brian Moynihan with an idea. Buffett would inject $5 billion of Berkshire Hathaway’s cash into Bank of America, giving the bank a much-needed seal of approval.\nBut the deal had to be done on highly favorable terms to Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett demanded $5 billion worth of preferred stock yielding 6%, or $300 million a year. On top of that, the bank kicked in warrants to buy 700 million shares of Bank of America stock for $7.14 per share, exercisable at any time before the middle of 2021.\nHot Warren Buffett Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Primo Water Corporation(PRMW)\n- [By Peter Graham]\nA long term performance chart shows Sodastream International heading back up to previous highs while large cap Monster Beverage Corp (NASDAQ: MNST) has been range bound the last two years and small cap Primo Water Corporation (NASDAQ: PRMW)has been in a strong uptrend for the past few years with performance perhaps leveling off:\n- [By Peter Graham]\nA long term performance chart shows Sodastream International underperforming, but doing better last yearwhile the outperformance of large cap Monster Beverage Corp (NASDAQ: MNST) has leveled off and small cap Primo Water Corporation (NASDAQ: PRMW)has been in a strong uptrend for the past two years:\n- [By Peter Graham]\nA long term performance chart shows Sodastream International drifting higher while large cap Monster Beverage Corp (NASDAQ: MNST) has been range bound for almost three years and small cap Primo Water Corporation (NASDAQ: PRMW)has been in a strong uptrend for the past few years with that performancesomewhat leveling off:\nHot Warren Buffett Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Laredo Petroleum, Inc.(LPI)\n- [By Ben Levisohn]\nAfter a rally for the ages, the price of oil is back over $50. But the biggest threat to oil might be more production from exploration & production companies drilling in the U.S. shale, say Credit Suisse analyst Mark Lear and team, who cut their ratings on Carrizo Oil & Gas (CRZO), Laredo Petroleum (LPI) and Sanchez Energy (SN). They explain why:\nHot Warren Buffett Stocks To Invest In Right Now: SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc.(SEAS)\n- [By Benzinga News Desk]\nIn the parched terrain just south of the United States border, the prices of food and other necessities follow the dollar, whose value has been climbing: Link\nIndustrial Production (MoM) for Feb 0.00% vs 0.20% consensus estimate; Manufacturing Outputs (MoM) for Feb 0.50% vs 0.40% consensus estimate.\nThe University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index for March is schedule for release at 10:00 a.m. ET.\nThe index of leading economic indicators for February will be released at 10:00 a.m. ET.\nThe Baker Hughes North American rig count report for the latest week is schedule for release at 1:00 p.m. ET.\nWunderlich upgraded Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) from Hold to Buy\nFBR Capital upgraded L Brands (NYSE: LB) from Market Perform to Outperform\nMorgan Stanley upgraded Dean Foods (NYSE: DF) from Neutral to Overweight\nBaird downgraded Patheon (NYSE: PTHN) from Outperform to Neutral\nCitigroup downgraded SeaWorld Entertainment Inc (NYSE: SEAS) from Neutral to Sell\nGoldman Sachs downgraded Macerich (NYSE: MAC) from Neutral to Sell\nThis is a tool used by the Benzinga News Desk each trading day — it's a look at everything happening in the market, in five minutes. To get the full version of this note every morning, click here or email email@example.com.\n- [By Jon C. Ogg]\nSeaWorld Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: SEAS) was downgraded to Sell from Neutral and the price target was cut to $15 from $19 (versus an $18.88 close) at Citigroup.\n- [By Rick Munarriz]\nIt’s time to see if SeaWorld Entertainment (NYSE:SEAS) can earn a treat by performing a fancy trick above water. The struggling theme park operator has a media event slated for Thursday morning at its flagship SeaWorld Orlando park. Speculation centers around the unveiling of a new sea-rescue-themed attraction, but some brand bashers hope that SeaWorld will be taking additional steps to wean itself from live marine-life entertainment.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "'Vishwaroopam' collects Rs 5.81 crore on first day\n'Vishwaroopam' narrates the story of a Muslim Indian agent living in the US in disguise, on a secret assignment.\nChennai: Actor filmmaker Kamal Haasan's 'Vishwaroopam' raked in some Rs.5.81 crore on the day it released in Tamil Nadu.\n\"Since it opened in theatres Thursday, the (collection is) expected to increase over the weekend,\" trade analyst Trinath told IANS. The film, written, produced and directed by Kamal Haasan, released Feb 7 in over 600 theatres in Tamil Nadu.\nThe Rs.95 crore espionage thriller was originally scheduled to release in Tamil and Telugu Jan 25 but it got banned following protests by Muslim groups. The ban was later lifted.\n'Vishwaroopam' narrates the story of a Muslim Indian agent living in the US in disguise, on a secret assignment to stop a probable terror attack. It stars Kamal Haasan, Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah, Shekhar Kapur, Rahul Bose and Jaideep Ahlawat.\nThe film's Hindi version, 'Vishwaroop', released worldwide Feb 1. It collected Rs. 11.55 crore in its opening weekend, according to trade analyst Taran Adarsh.\nFrom Our Network\n- Uttar Pradesh polls 2017: Rahul Gandhi roadshow may flop, Congress leaders fear quietly- FirstPost\n- After splurging Rs 9 crore on tea, samosas, UP govt proposes steep hike in salaries of MLAs - Pradesh18\n- Rajasthan University polls: ABVP's Akhilesh Parek loses to independent candidate Ankit Dhayal for president post - Pradesh18", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "[Fonte: GLP] Scientists from Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences took a comprehensive look at the genomes of 414 watermelons representing seven species, with the goal of finding genes that will help develop better fruit quality and resistance to pests, disease, drought, and other biotic and abiotic stresses.\nAccording to the paper published in Nature Genetics, the researchers developed an enhanced version of a reference genome, which is used by scientists and breeders to look for new and interesting versions of genes from their samples. The first watermelon reference genome published in 2013 was created using short-read sequencing technologies. In the latest study, long-read sequencing technologies were used to develop a better-quality reference genome for the watermelon community.\nResults showed that cultivated watermelon was domesticated by breeding out the bitterness traits while boosting sweetness, fruit size, and flesh color. The modern watermelon varieties have been further improved in the past few hundred years through the improvement of sweetness, flavor and crispy texture. The team also discovered parts of the watermelon genome that could be altered for continuous improvement of fruit quality, such as by making them bigger, sweeter, and crispier.\nRead full, original article: Crop Biotech Update November 6, 2019", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A person was shot in the hip Monday night in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on the Northwest Side. It happened around 7:50 p.m. in the 6000 block of West Wellington, according to Chicago Police. Preliminary reports say the victim’s condition has been stabilized, police said. Further details were not immediately available.\nRead the full article here: Chicago Suntimes\nThe post: «Police: Person shot in Belmont Cragin» has been published on the website Chicago Suntimes where, everyday, you can find the latest news about Chicago's area.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A: Please listen to Putin at the Valdai Club: https://www.rt.com/russia/565476-putin-valdai-club-takeaways/\nAn extraordinary speech for our times by Vladimir Putin at the Valdai Club to an audience of dignitaries and intellectuals from 47 countries including the former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Moscow who presented a question directly to Putin. Questions also came from India, China, Indonesia, Korea, Armenia, Canada, South Africa, Venezuela, to name a few.\nAnd Putin answered them all.\nPutin’s reading of the world is outstanding. You don’t have to be a Putin puppet to see it. You just need to be an independent critical thinking mind. The ideological West has lost the plot completely. Russia is not isolated: it enjoys special relationships with India, China, Brazil, and the entire Global South in Africa, Asia, South America and the Middle East\nWestern doctoral students who continue to churn out their PhDs demonizing Putin may get a job in the White House for it; but they are misrepresenting and misunderstanding Putin in a way that may well have disastrous consequences. It would be better to learn about him and understand where he is coming from.\nWe can say the US and its Western partners have become a first-class pain in the ass for the planet, causing great chaos and harm to all peoples.\nA must watch speech.\nRussia tried to build relations with the West and NATO – to live together in peace and harmony. Their response to all cooperation was simply ‘no’.\nB: Putin also referred to Nancy Pelosi as ‘that old lady” or “granny” who turned up in Taiwan, a tongue in cheek comment. He answered a question on Taiwan and confirmed he had not told Xi at the Olympic Games in Beijing in Feb that he would conduct a special military operation in Ukraine. You have to wonder where these Western Guru-like journalists get their information when they claimed Putin went to Beijing to get Xi’s support. It didn’t happen that way.\nC: The video is attached of DJ’s question and Putin’s response. It is an historical question relating to religion and the Soviet Union, communism, and whether Putin draws on any of this, and to what extent.\nAnother photo is attached\n… Delegates attending President Vladirmir Putin’s address at the Valdai Club, Moscow, 27 October 2022. Dayan Jayatilleka is 4th from the left in the front row.\nSEE full video incl. Dayan’s Question available from 1:35 to 1:41.\nALSO NOTE These Other Reports on the Event\nMichael Roberts: SOME THOUGHTS, 28 October 2022\nA: “Mr X” is well-informed on international relations. I am a neophyte. I am in the dark as to why Ukraine’s move to join NATO and that path seems to have activated USSR’s violent response. Given the warring situation now in late 2022, it is logical for Russia to calm its relations with a powerful neighbour on its eastern side as well as other states in the south…. or so my pea-brain reasons.\nB: Dayan Jayatilleka is the son of the late Mervyn De Silva, a prominent intellectual and newspaper Editor from the 1950s; and a gentleman with whom I clashed on occasions, but nevertheless respected. Dayan was a prominent leftist activist at Peradeniya when I was teaching there in the 1960s and 70s. I have had disagreements with Dayan on occasions in the public realm; but also exchanged views amiably – the most recent being at a convivial dinner at Tamara Kunanayakam’s home in Battaramulla in 2018 or so with Rajiva Wijesinha and Jeevan Thiagarajah among the guests.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Family business weathers oil industry booms, busts\nChuck and Jim Newton grew up in an oil distribution business founded by their father, Cliff.\nLast month the company, that began with one man and one delivery truck, opened its third fleet fueling station at the headquarters of Newton Oil Co. Inc. at 3150 S. County Road 460 East in Lafayette.\nDuring the early years, the brothers watched their dad working from 1961 until 1976 as commissioned agent for Standard Oil Inc.\nThey rode along when he delivered home heating oil, helped top off the tanks on equipment at construction sites and filled up fuel tanks on farms that dotted the countryside around their home in Dayton.\nWhen Standard got out of the delivery business in 1976, Cliff took over the service and established Newton Oil.\nChuck joined the company one year later and quickly learned they had to be nimble to survive.\n“People converted to natural gas heating in the 1980s,” he said. “It was a major shift in our business model.\n“Ninety-five percent of our business was home heating oil. Now it’s less than 1 percent of our business.”\nThe Newtons aggressively moved into agricultural and industrial lubricants, he said.\nJim took over the delivery route and Chuck went into sales. He called on Fairfield, Alcoa and TRW and worked to earn their business.\n“Just being local and consistent and offering a better service, Chuck said.\n“We were one of the first to have a sales person call on customers and try to grow the business.”\nThey were self-taught. Chuck attended workshops held by oil companies. He joined a professional association and networked with other distributors around the country.\nWatching the trends, in 1995 Newton Oil invested in its first Pacific Pride fleet fueling station.\n“I just thought that it made sense,” Chuck said. “There are no truck stops in Lafayette, and there had to be demand for a commercial fueling station.”\nThe brothers bought out their parents in 2001. They kept a close watch on the national trend toward compressed natural gas-powered vehicles, but it cooled off with the drop in gasoline prices.\nA second fleet fueling station was added around 2005.\nThey moved the company in 2011 from the original Standard Oil building on Wilson Street in Lafayette to 10 acres off Veterans Memorial Parkway near U.S. 52.\nWith room to grow in 2012 Newton Oil expanded again, purchasing the W.G. Gentry Group, another family owned business in Dayton that builds gas stations and truck stops.\n“We put in the tanks for our farm customers and trucking customers so we already did a fair amount of that,” Chuck said. “After we had this facility we had a place to house everything.”\nThe third Pacific Pride fueling station opened in December and the goal for the first quarter of 2015 is get everything moved out of the Wilson Street building.\nCyle and Cody, Chuck’s sons have joined the business, just like their dad and granddad.\nThe company that now employs more than 30 people still has a family feel.\nJust as Cliff, Chuck and Jim met once a week to share information about customer and industry trends, Chuck, Jim and Chuck’s sons hold a weekly meeting.\nOne significant difference — the strategic conversations that once took place around the breakfast table in the Newton family home now happen in the warehouse.\nThe one constant, Chuck said, is the company’s ability to change and meet customer needs.\n“It’s like the early to mid-’80s when everything was changing,” he said.\n“Dad said trying to save the home heating oil business was like trying to save the home heating coal business.\n“We’re in business to improve our customers’ business. If we don’t, it’s not a long-term business.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Jul 18, 2012, 11:34 AM EDT\nSorry Sixers fans.\nI know I tried to defend the Kwame Brown signing to a degree, because he’s an average NBA journeyman center and you are paying him like one. It’s not a bad deal and if he’s playing 15 minutes a night off the bench.\nBut if he is the starting five… well, that’s what Philly coach Doug Collins has planned, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer.\nSpeaking Tuesday afternoon at a news conference at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Collins said he expects to start Brown and slide Spencer Hawes, last season’s starting center, over to power forward in a lineup that will also see Jrue Holiday, Evan Turner, and Andre Iguodala back in the starting lineup….\n“Again, we’re not asking him to come in here and be the No. 1 pick like back then,” Collins said. “He’s coming to a place where he feels good about. I think we’re going to see the best of what Kwame has to offer.”\nThe idea is just get him to play post defense, rebound and stay out of the way of Jrue Holiday and Andre Iguodala. It sounds feasible on paper. It’s what Phil Jackson did when he got a team that started Kwame and Smush Parker to the playoffs. Of course, the Lakers ditched both those players as fast as they could.\nMy guess is this experiment ends before Christmas.\n- Ricky Rubio agrees to 4-year, $55 million contract extension with Timberwolves 0\n- Report: Warriors agree to four-year, $70 million extension with Klay Thompson 12\n- Can Thunder, without Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, overcome their first identity crisis? 13\n- Jazz guard Alec Burks signs contract extension worth $42 million-$45 million 11\n- Thursday night NBA Winners/Losers: The injury gods show Thunder no mercy 12\n- No Durant, Westbrook goes down, Thunder still make it interesting but fall to Clippers 2\n- Thunder’s Russell Westbrook fractures hand, likely out 4-6 weeks 10\n- LeBron struggles in Cleveland debut as Knicks stun Cavaliers 47", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Iowa Legislature convened a special session on Wednesday to extend the state’s basic Business Relief Program, which provides Business Relief Grants to small businesses.\nThe program, which was set to expire on July 31, will now continue through December 31.\nThe program was created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and has so far awarded more than $ 60 million in grants to over 5,000 businesses.\nHouse Speaker Pat Grassley said the extension will provide much-needed relief to small businesses across Iowa.\n“This has been a tough year for small businesses, and this extension will help them weather the storm,” Grassley said.\nSenate Majority Leader Jack Whitver said the extension will help businesses keep their doors open and employees on the payroll.\n“Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy, and this extension will give them the certainty they need to continue operating and growing,” Whitver said.\nThe Business Relief Program was created in March 2020 and provides grants of up to $ 10,000 to small businesses to help with expenses related to the pandemic.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "At the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, Ghana has joined more than 154 other nations to take part in this year's Transforming Education Summit (TES) which president know it will benefit Ghanaians as well as our education and to help the people of Ghanaias learned and upcoming learned to help build the foundation of those who are just starting schooling.\nAn initiative of the United Nations Secretary-General, the Transforming Education Summit (TES) aims to mobilize political ambition, action, solutions, and solidarity to transform education to take stock of efforts to recover pandemic-related learning losses to reimagine education systems for the world of today and tomorrow and to revitalize national and global efforts to achieve.\nEach nation was expected to choose a National Convenor to oversee national multi-sectoral consultation meetings, choose a theme focus for the Summit during the 77th UN General Assembly in New York City in September 2022. So all member nations should done their submition on time.\nContent created and supplied by: otafregyasupa (via Opera News )\nOpera News is a free to use platform and the views and opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not represent, reflect or express the views of Opera News. Any/all written content and images displayed are provided by the blogger/author, appear herein as submitted by the blogger/author and are unedited by Opera News. Opera News does not consent to nor does it condone the posting of any content that violates the rights (including the copyrights) of any third party, nor content that may malign, inter alia, any religion, ethnic group, organization, gender, company, or individual. Opera News furthermore does not condone the use of our platform for the purposes encouraging/endorsing hate speech, violation of human rights and/or utterances of a defamatory nature. If the content contained herein violates any of your rights, including those of copyright, and/or violates any the above mentioned factors, you are requested to immediately notify us using via the following email address operanews-external(at)opera.com and/or report the article using the available reporting functionality built into our Platform See More", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "New Mirena IUD Lawsuit Filed in Ohio Following Uterine Perforation\nWomen throughout the country continue to file Mirena IUD lawsuits alleging the contraceptive device caused them to suffer serious complications, including uterine perforations. Most recently, a woman in Ohio filed suit alleging her Mirena IUD perforated her uterine wall. The claim, which was filed on November 2 in U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, is believed to be the first Mirena IUD lawsuit filed in the state.\nAccording to the Ohio lawsuit, the plaintiff’s Mirena IUD was found embedded in the omentum, near her liver. Her lawsuit alleges Bayer failed to provide warnings regarding serious Mirena side effects, including spontaneous device migration and uterine perforation. The complaint seeks monetary damages, including punitive damages, on behalf of the plaintiff.\nA number of young women have filed similar Mirena lawsuits in recent months. Currently, at least 16 such complaints are pending in New Jersey Superior Court. Perhaps in anticipation of a large litigation, Bayer recently petitioned the New Jersey Supreme Court for the consolidation of all Mirena IUD lawsuits filed in the state in a single proceeding in Middlesex County.\nLike the Ohio complaint, many of these Mirena IUD lawsuits allege that device migration outside of the uterus is an all-too-common Mirena complication. Mirena IUD migration can cause uterine perforations, and the device may even travel outside of the uterus into the abdomen. This can lead to a number of dangerous Mirena side effects, including infections and scarring, intestinal obstructions, and organ damage. If the Mirena IUD migrates, it may no longer prevent pregnancy. Women who become pregnant while Mirena is still in their body have a higher risk of ectopic pregnancy.\nThe Mirena IUD was approved as a contraceptive method in 2000, and in 2009 was approved as a treatment for heavy periods in women who wish to use an IUD for birth control. According to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), potential Mirena side effects include:\n- ectopic pregnancy\n- intrauterine pregnancy\n- group A streptococcal sepsis\n- pelvic inflammatory disease\n- embedment of the device in the uterine wall\n- perforation of the uterine wall or cervix\nIn 2009, the FDA sent Bayer a letter warning that its Mirena marketing “overstates the efficacy of Mirena, presents unsubstantiated claims, minimizes the risks of using Mirena, and includes false or misleading presentations regarding Mirena.” Among other things, the FDA took issue with Bayer’s claims that using Mirena would help a woman “look and feel great.”\nYoung women who used the Mirena IUD and suffered device migration, uterine perforations or other severe Mirena side effects may be entitled to compensation for medical expenses, lost wages, pain and suffering, and more. If you would like to learn more about filing a Mirena IUD lawsuit, please contact the attorneys at Bernstein Liebhard LLP today by calling 1-877-779-1414.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Fragrances are fascinating. The right scent can be seductive, comforting, exciting, and nostalgia evoking. The wrong scent, meanwhile, can lead to a very unpleasant experience for the wearer and innocent bystanders.\nNavigating the world of fashion can be a tricky affair regardless of your gender. Many men, however, tend to think that concerning themselves with the latest styles and trends is an activity better left not pursued. This may be because of actual indifference, lack of time, or apprehension.\nThe purchase of Fox assets by Disney marks the first time in history that a major Hollywood studio bought out another. The world of film and film distribution is beginning to change even more quickly to counteract the huge impact streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu have had.\nDespite the elections being over, the country still appears to be embroiled in political disputes concerning President-Elect Trump and how the system to elect the President of the United States needs revamping.\nIn an earlier article, we analyzed the Electoral College System. This time, we will be taking a look at the two party system of Democrats vs Republicans and how it may have done more harm than good to national politics.\nVolatility has returned to the markets in the past few weeks. This has led to mixed messages to the public as positive economic news is mingled with sudden drops in major indices.\nMost of the bad news seems to be generated from outside of the US. A major contributing factor to the outside negativity stems from the feeling of many that Europe is sliding back into yet another recession\nA fact that many people do not know is that the US has not exported crude oil since 1975, when Congress banned the act. The reason back then was that domestic reserves where becoming depleted due to the 1973 Arab embargo. But that was over 40 years ago. So why is the ban still in effect?\nThe media, government officials, economists, and nearly anyone else with mainstream attention talks about the unemployment level. They freely use it as a gauge of how well the economy is doing. The unemployment level has essentially become the official thermometer with which to judge the health of our economy.\nBut is it really enough? Can one figure, one form of measurement, truly be all that is necessary to gain a comprehensive idea of the state of our economy?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Last week, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued a six-month ban on Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) in European Union airspace. The agency is now taking precautions one step further, recommending that third-country operators bar all pilots licensed by the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA).\nIn the aftermath of the deadly crash outside of Karachi of flight PK8303 in May, some quite jaw-dropping data is coming to light. The fatal accident has been attributed to pilot errors, expediting an already ongoing investigation into irregularities with certificates.\n262 pilots with “dubious” credentials\nA full 262 Pakistani pilots are now suspended and under investigation for holding what the country’s Minister for Aviation, Ghulam Sarwar Khan, is calling “dubious” credentials.\nAs a result, the EASA first banned PIA from operating in EU airspace for the coming six months. This was a blow to the airline, which had hoped to resume flights to Oslo, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Paris, and Milan next month.\nGrave safety concern\nNow the agency has taken it a step further. On Tuesday, it sent a letter to third-country operators, recommending they suspend all pilot validations issued against Pakistani licenses. It also requested that any carrier employing pilots holding Pakistani validated licenses inform the agency of any measures taken or planned to that regard.\n“Approximately 40 per cent of the airline pilot licenses issued by PCAA are either falsified or otherwise not ICAO [International Civil Aviation Organization] compliant,” read the letter seen by Simple FLying. “This is a grave safety concern.”\nWhile the list is being challenged by Pakistani airlines and pilot unions, it included 141 pilots from PIA, nine from Air Blue, ten from Serene Airline, and 14 from Shaheen Airlines. One hundred nine are commercial aviation pilots and 153 airline transport. A probe into their qualifications reportedly revealed that these pilots had either cheated on their exams or enlisted others to take it in their place.\nWhile the fatal accident of PK8303 in May this year, which killed 97 people, has expedited the probe into pilot credentials, it was not what initiated it. The investigation began after a crash landing two years ago. Following the 2018 accident, it was discovered that the pilot captaining the plane could not possibly have been present to sit his exam as he had been on holiday on the test date.\nCrossroads for Pakistani aviation\nPakistan has a generally patchy record in terms of aviation safety. Perhaps these startling figures may spur a much-needed overhaul of the system and a pivot towards an enhanced focus on safety.\n“The institution has reached the point of moral bankruptcy, not financial. Pakistan now has a choice to make whether to keep or alter its reputation for crashes”, Shahzad Chaudhary, a retired vice air force marshal, told Deutsche Welle.\nDo you believe the information now coming to light will have an impact on overall aviation in safety in Pakistan? Do you think the EASA is correct in its recommendations? Let us know in the comments", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Mumbai, May 6 (PTI) The operating profitability of domestic sugar mills is expected to decline by 150-300 basis points (bps) to 7.5-9.5 per cent due to reduction in industrial usage of sugar, lower demand for ethanol, and fall in exports following the ongoing crisis of COVID-19 pandemic, Crisil Ratings said.\nThe COVID-19 pandemic is expected to exert a downward pressure on credit quality of sugar mills by eroding operating profitability and shoring up debt in FY21, Crisil Ratings said in a report.\n'The expected decline in operating profitability of millers this fiscal is despite sugar production declining by a fifth in the current sugar season. Sugar millers could thus be looking at operating profitability of 7.5-9.5 per cent in the current fiscal, down from 9-12.5 per cent in the last fiscal,' Crisil Ratings Director Gautam Shahi said.\nOne of the reason for decrease in profitability is the expected reduction in industrial usage, which accounts for nearly two-thirds of the annual demand of 26 million tonne, as several food manufacturing units -- including soft beverages, chocolates, confectionery, bakeries, hotels, restaurants and cafes -- are either shuttered or running at low capacities, it said.\nAs a result, overall domestic demand is expected to be lower by 1.5-2 million tonnes in the current sugar season, as reflected in softening prices over the past few weeks, it added.\nThe second reason is that the oil marketing companies would reduce ethanol offtake because the lockdown has lowered demand for fuel.\nBesides, they have limited storage capacity available and production of potable alcohol from ethanol would also be impacted because demand from distillers would have declined, the report said.\nAlso, international sugar prices have fallen by 23 per cent between January and April as large supplier nations, including Brazil, are switching from ethanol to sugar due to slack global oil demand and low crude oil prices.\nThus, exports from India are likely to remain flattish compared with a 25-30 per cent growth expected earlier, it added.\nCrisil Ratings further said that India had started the current sugar season (October 1, 2019 – September 30, 2020) with an opening stock of 14.5 million tonnes.\nHowever, despite 20 per cent lower production, the closing inventory is likely to be high at 12.8-14 million tonne, which is equal to six months' consumption, because of slack industrial demand and exports, it added.\nThe saving grace for domestic sugar mills is the minimum selling price of Rs 31 per kg fixed by the government.\nIf not for it, sugar realisations would have fallen further, given the high stocks, and led to a sharper decline in profitability, the report said.\n'The current sluggishness in sales due to the pandemic will push up inventories, resulting in elevated debt levels this fiscal.\n'This, coupled with lower profitability, will moderate the ratios of cash accruals to total debt and interest coverage to 0.09 time and 1.6 times from 0.13 time and 2 times, respectively, in fiscal 2020–21, indicating downward pressure on credit metrics,' Crisil Ratings Associate Director Kiran Kavala sdid. PTI SM RVK", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Oscar-winning performer Judi Dench says her Victoria and Abdul co-star Ali Fazal is an excellent young fellow, who is “kind of a romantic and also a laugher”.\n“(Ali is) a beautiful young man. He’s kind of a romantic, and also a laugher. That’s a good mixture. We got on very well indeed,” Dench said in a statement.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "LeBron James continually redefines what one player is capable of in this predominantly team sport. His abuse of Orlando, New Jersey and Detroit last spring was truly an effort worthy of the ‘Witness’ signs that dominate the landscape at the Quicken Loans Arena. Â\nAll kidding aside, though, the Cavs as a team caught a lot of people off guard last year and it is somewhat troubling how little they’ve done this off-season to try and build on that momentum. Their on-again-off-again pursuit of the Kings’ Mike Bibby makes a lot of sense from the perspective of Bibby being the perfect compliment to the way the Cavs use James, giving him the primary ball-handling responsibilities and letting the point guard act as more of a finisher. However, if the cost for Bibby is Drew Gooden, then it is a price the Cavs cannot pay. As trendy as Anderson Varejao is these days, he is no where near as well-rounded a player as Gooden, and the Cavs are far better off with the depth they have now up front than importing a potentially over-the-hill point guard that makes such an insane amount of money.\nWhat this team could still use, though, is some depth. Donyell Marshall and Damon Jones have hardly panned out for this team since they signed on and Shannon Brown didn’t show a ton last season to make anyone think of him as a primary backup on a Finals team. While money is tight for this team right now, they have to learn to exploit their status as a title contender in the way that San Antonio, Phoenix and even Boston do and get some title-hungry vets on the cheap. The trick here isn’t trying to maintain their position in the East so much as it is trying to make sure up-and-comers don’t leapfrog them before they’ve had their day in the sun.\nThe fact is that this team still needs LeBron James to be superhuman each and every game in the postseason to have a shot at winning just about every series. With his summer commitments to Team USA and – ideally – many more long playoff runs in the future, the physical toll this could exact on James could knock him out before his time. A gift like LeBron is not one to be feasted on ravenously, it is one to be savored and accented and drawn-out for as long as possible.\nMake no mistake, James is this team’s meal ticket, and if he ever catches wise to the fact that they are just wearing him out instead of complimenting him then all of those never-ending rumors detailing his exit strategy from Ohio may prove to be not so far off the mark after all.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rosneft’s 2012 Crude Oil Output Up 2.7%\nFrom Fox Business\nRussian oil giant OAO Rosneft’s (ROSN.RS) crude oil production rose 2.7% in 2012, Russian news agencies quoted the company’s chief executive as saying Tuesday.\nRosneft’s output hit 125.8 million metric tons last year, slightly above its forecast, Igor Sechin told Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Interfax and Prime news agencies.\nState-controlled Rosneft is set to become the world’s largest listed oil producer after acquiring TNK-BP, Russia’s number three oil producer, from BP PLC (BP) and its partners in deals worth $55 billion.\nBy posting your comment, you agree to abide by our Posting rules", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dimitrios P. Biller, the former manager of legal counsel for Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc., alleges company executives forced him to conceal evidence in numerous car rollover cases over the past 20 years, according to the Los Angeles Times.\nBiller, who resigned in September of 2007, said Toyota executives forced him, in multiple instances, to illegally withhold information from opposing attorneys. They also required him to destroy data which proved Toyota’s roofs were substandard in more than 300 car accident cases.\nThe victims in these cases were seriously injured or killed due to crushed roofs and filed lawsuits claiming a direct connection to Toyota’s faulty roofs and their injuries or death.\nThis isn’t the first time a car company has been accused of concealing evidence in litigation. In 2001, the Michigan Supreme Court supported a ruling which imposed a $547,000 fine on Ford Motor Company for withholding test data that indicated seat belt failure in a lawsuit.\nAs an injury lawyer who’s represented clients severely hurt in car accidents, this issue is extremely important to me. The idea that an attorney representing a company would intentionally conceal and destroy evidence is distressing and we need to ensure Mr. Biller’s allegations are fully vetted.\nToyota released a statement which said Biller’s statements were “inaccurate and misleading.” The company is painting him as a disgruntled employee looking for retaliation after being asked to leave the company.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A total of 779 people who arrived in Cyprus since Monday afternoon when new stringent measures came into force to contain the spread of Covid-19 are in quarantine at seven hotels, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.\nThe quarantine period is for 14 days. All passenger flights have been prohibited for two weeks, effective from 3 am on Saturday.\nHowever, flights chartered by the government to repatriate those eligible to enter are exempted, as are rescue flights arriving in Cyprus to take tourists home.\nThe ministry said that three chartered flights are due today carrying 439 people from the UK. They too will be quarantined.\nThe ministry said it has set up a Coordination Centre to coordinate the safe transfer of quarantined passengers and ensure their stay is as comfortable as possible:\n- Coordination on a 24 hour basis for the safe transfer of citizens arriving at Larnaca and Paphos to the hotels where they will be quarantined in cooperation with the private transportation company contracted by state, Hermes Airports which operates Larnaca and Paphos airports, police and the Zernon Coordination centre\n- Coordination on a 24 hour basis for the safe transfer of citizens arriving at Larnaca and Paphos who recently underwent an operation or suffer from a serious condition or accompany children to be placed in self-isolation at home in cooperation with medical staff at the airports and the private transportation company contracted by the state,\n- Coordination on a 24 hour basis for the most comfortable and safe accommodation of those who are being quarantined in cooperation with the management of each hotel to offer breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as individual care for each person in the hotel\n- Strict adherence to the rules of quarantine in cooperation with the National Guard (guarding the exterior, entrance and exits) a private security firm (guarding interior) and police\n- Cooperation with the Commissioner for Volunteerism to distribute a package with items of personal hygiene to all those in quarantine\n- Health officers to brief all those in quarantine on all issues relating to coronavirus, strict adherence to the rules of isolation and taking their temperature\n- Coordination on a 24 hour basis to provide medical care to whoever may need it in cooperation with personal doctors and supply of medicine to all those who take it and have run out.\n- Coordination on a 24 hour basis to immediately resolve any problems that may arise with visits of Health Ministry officials to the hotels\n- Provision of gloves, masks, antiseptics to all the hotels hosting quarantined individuals\n- Coordination on a 24 hour basis with the crisis management centres of the Foreign Ministry, the National Guard and police", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "'Iron Man 3' Heads for Biggest Debut Since 'Avengers'\n“Iron Man 3,” the superhero movie from Walt Disney Co. (DIS)'s Marvel division, looks set to jump-start the summer movie season with the biggest opening in a year that so far has proved disappointing to Hollywood. “Iron Man 3” may take in more than …\nView full post on Iron Man 3 – Google News\nABC News (blog)\nMasters Ticket Prices Highest Since Tiger Woods' Debut\nABC News (blog)\nWith round one of the Masters Golf Tournament underway, tickets for the famous game in Augusta, Ga., are still being sold online today. Though ABC News' Darren Rovell reports prices on web sites like StubHub have dropped to $3,000 to $4,000 today, …\nTiger Woods Masters Round 1 Highlight\nDavid Lynn: His Day 1 at the Masters tournament was a mere 17 years in the …\nMasters: Marc Leishman takes first-round lead with 66\nView full post on Masters – Google News\nThe ” Evil Dead ” remake is already drawing box office blood, with strong midnight grosses by genre standards.\nView full post on Evil Dead – Yahoo! News Search Results\nWhen people send us music we tend to assume it’s going to be awful. It usually is. Not so in this case. Rina Sawayana’s debut single Sleeping In Waking is a warming and beautiful blanket of soul and electronics that we like a lot. But we know absolutely sod all about her. So we phoned her up and asked some questions. And now we know a bit more than we did before…\nFor the full story and all the pics go to Holy moly!\nThe third season of the popular fantasy series Game Of Thrones hits the screens in the UK later – and fans should expect some new faces.\nView full post on Game of Thrones – Yahoo! News Search Results\nShakira and Usher Make Their Debut on an Emotional Premiere of The Voice\nAnd there are new celebrity coaches. Shakira, who welcomed a son, Milan, in January, and Usher officially took over for Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera Monday night, joining Blake Shelton and Adam Levine on the show's two-hour season 4 premiere.\n'The Voice': How Did Usher And Shakira Do?\n'The Voice' Season 4 Premiere: Shakira & Usher Come To Compete\nThe Voice Season 4 Premiere: How Did Usher and Shakira Do in Their …\nView full post on Shakira – Google News\nMONTREAL – It was an impressive debut in UFC for welterweight Jordan (Young Gun) Mein.\nView full post on UFC – Yahoo! News Search Results", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Posted on Sep 28, 2012 at 9:33 p.m.\nP.O. Box 455\nAn open house to celebrate Bella Tronnes’ 100th birthday will be from 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, at Hungry Bear Banquet Center in Bemidji.\nCake and light refreshments will be provided.\nNo gifts are requested.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "NYC’s Governors Ball Cancels Final Night Including The Strokes’ Headlining Set Due to Inclement Weather\nAfter postponing the final day of Governors Ball 2019 until 6:30 due to the prospect of oncoming storms, festival organizers were forced to eventually cancel the end of the festivities on Sunday, evacuating NYC’s Randall’s Island and negating planned sets from headliners The Strokes, plus SZA, Beast Coast and more.\nJust as Beast Coast took the stage, the festival’s screens flashed an announcement instructing all attendees to evacuate the island because of the impending weather, which hit as thousands of festivalgoers attempted to march over the bridge and pile into buses, causing many to take cover under nearby bridges as high winds, heavy rains and lightning swept through the area.\nBefore the harsh weather hit, unhappy fans were captured on video tearing down one of the Gov Ball installations of plexiglass partial cubicles. Several attendees also recorded their various stormy treks from the festival, as some wallowed in the cancellation while other embraced the rain and even started some collective singing of Strokes songs on the bridge leading to Manhattan.\nFor their part, The Strokes released an apologetic statement, saying, “We want to send our most sincere thanks for sticking with us through the weather today. Sometimes Mother Nature has a mind of its own and unfortunately that didn’t allow for us to meet you on the stage tonight. We are so thankful for each and every one of you who came from far and wide and stuck around till the last minute to try to celebrate the music with us. We are glad that everyone stayed safe but we’re just as disappointed as you are that we didn’t get to play tonight. We love you guys. We love New York. Until next time!”\nThe latest in a long line of spring festivals that have encountered inclement weather and cancellations, Gov Ball 2019 wasn’t the first event on Randall’s Island to be hit with bad weather luck, or even the first iteration of the festival. Gov Ball celebrations in 2013 and ’16 also had weather-related issues (the festival begin in 2011), along with Panorama festival, which had a cancellation last year.\nGov Ball has also released a statement on refunds for Sunday, which will be sent to all those who purchased tickets and/or transportation passes through the festival’s website (three-day passes will be partially refunded). Read the full statement here.\nBelow, watch some scenes from the cancellation and mass exodus (and occasional chaos) via social media (h/t Gothamist).\nView this post on Instagram\n#govballnyc was bullshit. I’m not even talking about the cancelation of beast coast or the strokes or sza BUT IT WAS their NEGLIGENCE and the EXCESSIVE FORCE used by the securityguards in response to the deconstruction of a fucking hall of colored panels. Prior to the video teens and adults decided to take apart the structure previously mentioned. In response, as @shhuree said, “rent-a-cops” decided to BEAT helpless individuals. As you see, some officers decided to brutally PUNCH KIDS and assault adults that did nothing to warrant the action. After the video was taken I went after the security guards reminding them that they are not allowed to ASSAULT people. I was then pulled out by a security guard who I then told that he “was not allowed to touch me” in response the security guard [email protected] “not to test him today”. That is bullshit. The first picture is from the walk that we had to do from gov ball to 125 street. People and to go fucking sludging through the mud and POURING RAIN. The gov ball staff did ALMOST nothing to help the THOUSANDS of people get from the island to manhattan. Rather then cancelling the event, @govballnyc decided to postpone it for the time that it did not rain and have the festival during the time that it was raining. [email protected] even mad that [email protected] was wasted, im mad that security officers were allowed to BEAT people and that gov ball coordinators left us to fend for ourselves. Hold gov ball accountable.\nView this post on Instagram\nSo Governors Ball basically ended the way ‘Jurassic Park’ began. Except without the dinosaurs and with a giant stampede of people tearing down all barriers and fences and walking across the bridge into Manhattan because the organizers– who were cautious enough to cancel the first half of the day because of the possibility of severe weather conditions– didn’t have a solid plan for an emergency evacuation in case those severe weather conditions decided to show up. #govballnyc #governorsball #governorsball2019", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "For more than a dozen years, the St. Petersburg Yacht Club (St. Petersburg, Fla.) has been one of the world’s major hubs for women’s match racing. Along with hosting the International Sailing Federation’s (ISAF) World Championship in 2000, the club annually hosts the Rolex Osprey Cup – one of three Grade 1regattas held in the U.S. –– as well as its “little sister” the Grade 3 Rolex Women’s Match. Centered on the goal of attracting more women to the sailing discipline, the Rolex Women’s Match takes place later this week, April 9-12, where 10 teams will take to the SPYC’s Sonar keelboats and participate in round robin racing on Tampa Bay. Teams, results and photos will be posted at www.rolexwomensmatch.org.\n“With women’s match racing making its debut at the 2012 Olympics, we’re experiencing a great deal of interest from women sailors, many new to the discipline,” said Pat Seidenspinner (St. Petersburg), regatta co-chair along with Tom Farquhar (St. Petersburg). “Rolex Women’s Match provides an opportunity for sailors to increase their knowledge base and accrue ISAF ranking points, and we offer invitations to the top two finishers to participate in the Rolex Osprey Cup in October.”\nThe skippers and crew are a mix of Olympic aspirants gaining points on the world stage and those gaining valuable experience. Three-time Rolex Women’s Match champion Sandy Hayes (Scituate, Mass.), who is ranked #18 in the world, is scheduled to compete with Cindy Olsen (Scituate, Mass.), Karen Park (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and Verian Aguilar (St. Thomas, USVI).\nGenny Tulloch (San Francisco, Calif.), ranked #1 on the US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics after a win at January’s Rolex Miami OCR, will compete against fellow Team members 2008 Olympian Debbie Capozzi (Bayport, N.Y.) and Katy Lovell (New Orleans, La.), ranked #2 and #3 respectively. Capozzi is joined by crew Emily Hill (Miami, Fla.), Jackie Schmitz (Washington, D.C.) and Derby Anderson (Annapolis, Md.), while Lovell’s team is Dana Riley (San Rafael, Calif.), Corrie Clement (La Porte, Texas) and Ann Graham (Houston, Texas).\nTulloch, the 2005 College Sailor of the Year and member of the movie “Morning Light” has been sailing almost non-stop since graduating from Harvard. She will be joined by her regular crew Liz Hall (Bristol, R.I.) and Jamie Haines (Newport, R.I.) with Chafee Emory (Newport, R.I.) filling the fourth crew spot. “We are expecting good competition with some familiar faces,” said Tulloch, who represents the St. Francis and Houston yacht clubs.\nTwo of the registered skippers are making their debut at the Rolex Women’s Match: Jennifer Wilson (Chicago, Ill.) and Alana O’Reilly (Washington, D.C./Charleston, S.C.), who will helm for the first time.\n“I crewed in the Carlos Aguilar regatta in December and the Rolex Miami OCR in January,” said O’Reilly, a 24-year-old College of Charleston graduate. “I am looking forward to some quality racing and to get more match-racing experience.” Her crew includes Lyndsey Gibbons-Neff (Rosemont, Penn.), Emily Flint (Longmeadow, Mass. ) and Emily Babbitt (Dartmouth, Mass.), a member of the Georgetown University sailing team that O’Reilly coaches.\nWilson, meanwhile, helmed for the first time at last month’s Sundance Cup, a Grade 3 event in Fort Worth, Texas, where her team finished in 7th. “I have crewed in several match races in 2008 including the Windy City Match Race (1st), Bermuda Gold Cup (12th) and the U.S. Women’s Match Racing Championship (5th),” said the 35-year-old representing Lake Michigan Sail Racing Federation. “Rolex will be more competitive than Sundance, so our major objective is to just get more helm time match racing and learn as much as possible.” Her crew includes Krista Paxton (Detroit, Mich.), Becky DaMore (Annapolis, Md.) and Maegan Ruhlman (Cleveland, Ohio).\nChristine Erdman (Detroit, Mich.), who has been sailing since she was a young girl, has come to competitive racing somewhat later in her life. “In the past two years, I have been transitioning from cruising skipper and racing crew to racing skipper,” said Erdman, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University Of Michigan School Of Public Health. “Prior to moving to Michigan five years ago, I windsurfed extensively on the San Francisco Bay, but the conditions in Michigan just don’t provide the same experience. However, it does have a terrific sailing community, and the match racing bug in Detroit is infectious.”\nThis past year, Erdman has skippered in the Bayview Yacht Club Match Race (7th), Sheboygan’s Northern Lights Cup (6th), Rolex Miami OCR (12th) and the Sundance Cup (8th). “I find that match racing provides an excellent combination of physical and intellectual challenges,” she said. “Some have likened match racing to chess on the water. I think of match racing as a sort of aquatic yoga.”\nThe 10 skippers competing, with crew members (hometowns):\n1. Louise Bienvenu (New Orleans, La. ) with Marcy Lake, Anne David, Sarah Enwright\n2. Debbie Capozzi (Bayport, N.Y.) with Emily Hill (Miami, Fla.), Jackie Schmitz (Washington, D.C.), Derby Anderson (Annapolis, Md.)\n3. Christine Erdmann (Detroit, Mich.) with Lori Jost (Sheboygan, Wis./ Venice, Fla.), Mechele Duhamel (Lake Tahoe/Reno, Nev.), Kim Calnan (Tampa, Fla.)\n4. Sandy Hayes (Scituate, Mass.) with Cindy Olsen (Scituate, Mass.), Karen Park (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Verian Aguilar (St. Thomas, USVI)\n5. JoAnn Fisher (Annapolis, Md.) with Lynda Hiller (Annapolis, Md.), Debbie Probst (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Casey Williams\n6. Liz Hjorth (Marina del Rey, Calif.) with Karyn Jones (Pacific Palisades, Calif.), Stine Cacavas (Los Angeles, Calif.), Marylyn Hoenemeyer (Los Angeles, Calif.)\n7. Alana O’Reilly (Washington, D.C./ Charleston, S.C.) with Lyndsey Gibbons-Neff (Rosemont, Penn.), Emily Flint (Longmeadow, Mass.), Emily Babbitt (Dartmouth, Mass.)\n8. Katy Lovell (New Orleans, La.) with Dana Riley (San Rafael, Calif.), Corrie Clement (La Porte, Texas), Ann Graham (Houston, Texas)\n9. Genny Tulloch (San Francisco, Calif.) with Liz Hall (Bristol, R.I.), Jamie Haines (Newport, R.I.), Chafee Emory (Newport, R.I.)\n10. Jennifer Wilson (Chicago, Ill.) with Krista Paxton (Detroit, Mich.), Becky DaMore (Annapolis, Md.), Maegan Ruhlman (Cleveland, Ohio)\nMail (will not be published) (required)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hamas released video claiming its “frogman unit” caught the aquatic assassin\nThe Palestinian militant group Hamas claimed to have apprehended a Mossad-trained “dolphin killer” spy wearing specialized combat gear who allegedly attacked one of its naval combat units off the coast of Gaza.\nA video posted by the armed outfit to announce the apparent capture was shared widely on social media on Tuesday. During the 25-second video, a spokesperson for the Al-Qassam brigades, identified as Abu Hamza, said his “frogman unit” discovered and trapped the aquatic assassin during an operation.\nA number of media outlets cited a report from the Al-Quds newspaper, which apparently noted that the dolphin was armed with a “device” capable of killing Hamas operatives he allegedly chased into the sea. The video included footage of a conical, harness-like craft allegedly taken from the captured spy.\nTweet about “Killer Zionist dolphins”, Joe Truzman, an analyst with the United States-based advocacy group Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, noted that Abu Hamza had revealed that the animal was found by a member of the Frogman unit. “Who was killed by Israel during the May conflict”.\nKiller Zionist dolphins exist, according to a Hamas publication. Abu Hamza explains that a member of Hamas’s Frogman unit who was killed by Israel during the May conflict found the killer dolphin. The device the alleged killer dolphin wore is shown in the post. pic.twitter.com/gvAyynO3YT\n– Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) January 10, 2022\nIsrael’s official Twitter account run by its Foreign Ministry’s “digital diplomacy team” on Wednesday appeared to mock the reports by posting a series of dolphin emojis, though there were no clarification that the post was a response to the allegations.\n– Israel ישראל (@ Israel) January 12, 2022\nWhile several social media users appeared to reject Hamas’ claims, some – such as US Naval Institute press analyst HI Sutton – suggested the report had “some credibility” in what it is “Plausible that Israel could have a Navy program on marine mammals.” “\nIn a blog post, Sutton said that the harness “seems to correspond to the nose of a dolphin” and is “similar” to those used by these programs in other countries. He added that he seemed to have a “Attached harpoon gun-like device” it could be either a way to “Mark the target” or one “Simple weapon”.\nHowever, he warned that there was “no evidence to confirm that the harness is Israeli, or even from a dolphin.”\nThis is not the first time that Hamas has alleged Israel’s use of trained dolphins. In August 2015, the BBC cited a report from Al-Quds which claimed that another captured dolphin had been “stripped of his will” and transformed into “a murderer” by Israeli forces.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "GRAPEVINE, Texas – The Boy Scouts of America will announce Thursday the outcome of the 1,400-member national council's vote after they cast their ballots on a new resolution allowing for openly-gay membership into the scouts, which many fear will lead to the dissolution of the faith-based organization, and the promotion of LGBT activism.\nIn April, the BSA released a proposal that states: \"No youth may be denied membership in the BSA on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone.\" While allowing homosexual members, the scouts would maintain its gay ban when it comes to leadership.\nJohn Stemberger, an Eagle Scout and founder of OnMyHonor.Net, a coalition of BSA parents and scouting leaders who are asking members of the national council to vote \"No\" on the BSA's resolution, announced at a Wednesday press conference that the BSA's own estimates reveal \"200,000 to 400,000 youth will leave the program if this change is made. That doesn't include scout masters and parents associated with those boys.\"\nStemberger also underscored the point that scouting doesn't discriminate based on sexual orientation. \"Every time I turn on the TV, they're saying 'scouting bans gays.' But yet I see adults and kids in uniform that have been in there for many years. Well, what happened? What happened is that they acted openly. They began to promote gay activism, they began to flaunt their sexuality and engage in behavior and conduct which is a distraction to the mission of scouting.\"\n\"There's no witch hunt in the BSA to find out what your sexual orientation is,\" Stemberger added. \"We don't care about it. Scouting is for camping, and for fires, canoeing and swimming. We're not interested in bringing in sexuality. And this proposal will inject hyper-sexuality right into the blood veins of scouting, making it an inappropriate program.\"\nThe BSA doesn't ask scouts about their sexuality, and that will not change if there's a modification to their policy of not allowing homosexual scouts, Deron Smith, director of public relations for BSA, told The Christian Post.\nSmith also pointed out that the new resolution will state that any sexual conduct, homosexual or heterosexual, is not consistent with the moral teachings upheld by the BSA. The resolution will also recognize that scouts, like all adolescents, will be working through a process of understanding morality and their duties to God.\n\"The BSA handbook currently teaches, 'Waiting until marriage is the wise course of action.' …We are unaware of any major religious chartered organization that believes a youth member simply stating he or she is attracted to the same sex, but not engaging in sexual activity, should make him or her unwelcome in their congregation,\" Smith said.\nIf the majority of the delegates vote in favor of the resolution, Smith asserts that the BSA will be ready to implement the policy and address concerns about the scouts' safety.\n\"No other organization has the same level of expertise for administering logistics and protecting the safety of its participants,\" Smith said. \"To further prepare the organization, the BSA has created an implementation task force to make sure it's ready, should this resolution pass. It's looking into how other organizations have dealt with these issues. The BSA chose the effective date of Jan. 1, 2014, to give the organization the time it needs to make sure it's operationally ready for this policy.\"\nIn the BSA's official \"Voice of the Scout\" survey, among the members of the scouting community, 61 percent said they support their current policies. Additionally, 61 percent of respondents agreed that it's acceptable for an openly gay teenager to be denied membership into the Boy Scouts. Likewise, 58 percent of the scouting community supports the current policy that \"prohibits open homosexuals from being scouts or adult scout leaders,\" and agree that the policy \"is a core value of scouting found in the Scout Oath of Law.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Michael Jackson's children enjoy a power play date with Willow and Jaden Smith... all set up by grandmother Katherine\nMichael Jackon's children are eager to follow their father into showbusiness and last week they joined young Hollywood stars Willow and Jaden Smith for a power play date.\nPrince, 14, Paris 13, and Blanket, nine, were spotted visiting Will Smith's brood on a film set in Los Angeles.\nAnd according to reports, it was the Jackson children's grandmother Katherine who arranged the meet-up - because she thinks Prince, Paris and Blanket could learn a lot from Jaden and Willow.\nFamous families: Michael Jackson's children Paris, Prince, and Blanket visited Will Smith's children Willow and Jaden at an Los Angeles film set last week\nYoung Hollywood: Jaden and Willow are both stars in their own right while Jackson's children are eager to pursue careers in showbusiness\nThe 81-year-old believes the Smith\nyoungsters are prime examples of young success in Hollywood and wants\ntheir influence to rub off on her grandchildren, according to TMZ. com.\nGrandmother Katherine is said to have arranged the meet-up between the children\nWillow, 10, and Jaden, 12, are rumoured to be working on a new movie project together.\nOf course, both are already famous in their own right - Willow found international stardom with her hit Whip My Hair while her brother recently became the highest paid Hollywood child star after raking in $3m for The Karate Kid.\nWhile the children are not known to have been friends, the children certainly looked to be having fun together as the larked around the set.\nThe Jackson three were accompanied by their grandmother and guardian, Katherine.\nPrince told Good Morning America earlier this year that he was 'looking at a couple of opportunities in show business... mostly producing,' and Paris has expressed an interest in acting.\nTheir father the King Of Pop died on 25 June 2009 aged 50 and the whole Jackson clan have been mucking in since to make their lives as normal as possible.\nThey attended a public church service over the weekend and they now go to school.\nAnd as reported by the Mail Online last week, they also go to afterschool drama class near their LA home.\nHowever, Katherine, 80, and their aunt La Toya, 54, who is closely involved in their upbringing, want them to get an education before any attempt to launch themselves fully into the public eye.\nLook, I can whip my hair back and forth too! Paris jumped around on set\nThis is how I roll: Jaden, the highest paid child star in Hollywood, cruised around on his flashy bicycle\nLa Toya said in March: ‘They have gone to school and they really like it, so I’m very happy for them. It’s taught them something totally different about people and life.'\nShe also revealed they recently donated clothes to help Japanese earthquake and tsunami victims.\nShe added: 'They said they don’t mind doing and giving whatever. It was so sweet. They say, \"Can we give our clothes to them?\" It’s really sweet.'\nYesterday the Jackson children were seen popping into Starbucks to pick up a iced drink each before heading off to their after-school activities.\nSweet treat: Yesterday Paris, Prince and Blanket Jackson stopped off at Starbucks for iced drinks before heading to after-school activities\nTaste good? Paris and Prince appeared to enjoy their drinks\nMost watched News videos\n- A whole new meaning to drinking like a fish! Fish downs a beer\n- Angry customer shoves McDonald’s employee into the fryer\n- 'UFO' tails after passenger jet and speeds past it\n- Uncanny monkey bears human-like face spooking onlookers\n- Piers Morgan says he no longer recognises Ant McPartlin\n- Shocking moment man launches vile racist rant on busy tube\n- Nine-year-old stuns tourists during dance battle in Times Square\n- Asian couple caught getting amorous outside UNSW in Sydney\n- Sneaky baby checks to see if crying is getting him attention\n- Behold the sword fighting crab who fends off chef with knife\n- Body cam footage of police officers saving baby from choking\n- Moment two cargo ships collide in the Karachi port in Pakistan", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Johannesburg - The DA said it was confident it had presented a solid case against PR firm Bell Pottinger as a hearing into the firm's conduct concluded on Friday.\nThe hearing, which took place in London, came after the party laid a complaint with the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) over the PR firm's violation of the association's Professional Charter and Code of Conduct.\nThe UK-based firm came under fire when their working relationship with Oakbay was exposed, prompting them to cut ties with the company.\nBell Pottinger has since issued an apology over the saga.\nThe DA's Phumzile van Damme in a statement said the DA presented evidence with showed how the PR firm \"sought to exploit, the already fragmented, race relations in our country\".\n\"This, to benefit the Guptas and the Zumas, in their quest to completely loot and plunder our public coffers,\" van Damme said.\n\"The DA is of the view that Bell Pottinger’s pro-Gupta propaganda campaign contravened the PRCA’s Codes of Conduct.\"\nVan Damme confirmed that the committee, following the conclusion of the hearing, would meet for deliberations and announce the outcome of the hearing within 14 days.\nThe committee chairman would then draft a recommendation which will be referred to the PRCA board who will “approve, amend, or overrule the decision” and if the recommendation “is one of suspension or termination [...] the Board who shall consider the report and recommendations [...] and shall give its judgement in writing”, van Damme explained.\n\"The DA trusts that both the committee and the board will make the right decision that will begin to repair the damage Bell Pottinger caused in South Africa to the benefit of President Zuma and the Gupta family.\n\"The DA reiterates its call that Bell Pottinger must declare all funds from their Gupta accounts and reinvest these profits to benefit South Africa people such as a worthy charity.\"", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Biggest Remembrance Sunday turn out ever in Islington\nMore than 1,000 people turned out to honour fallen soldiers over a series of events last week.\nThe biggest occasion was the Remembrance Sunday Parade, which set off from Highbury Fields at 10am and ended at Islington Green for a poignant service in memory of those who have given their lives for their country and a two minute silence.\nThe parade was headed by the Holloway Adventurers and Pathfinders Drum Corps, The Standard Bearers and Wreath Bearers, Islington Veterans Association (IVA), Honourable Artillery Company, Sea Cadets, 23 Cadet Squadron RE, The Rifles, 9F Squadron ATC and 329 Squadron ATC.\nThe event drew in the biggest numbers to date and chairman of the IVA, Ron Ranger, said it was the best service they have ever experienced.\nThere was also a wreath-laying ceremony at the Civilian and Military War Memorials at Islington and St Pancras Cemetery in East Finchley, led by Islington Mayor, Cllr Phil Kelly, the deputy lieutenant and councillors, on Wednesday.\nYou may also want to watch:\nOn Friday – Armistice Day – there was a two minutes’ silence and short ceremony on the Town Hall steps in Upper Street, which was temporarily closed by police for the occasion.\nFurther Remembrance Sunday events took place at the war memorial in Spa Green, Finsbury, and at the WWI memorial arch in Manor Gardens, Holloway.\n- 1 'Obscene gestures and racist abuse' made at Islington Council meeting\n- 2 'No consultation': Anger Islington cricket pitch could replace park\n- 3 Islington house prices rise £30k during Covid-19 pandemic year\n- 4 Five times Islington has featured in films and TV series\n- 5 Police search for man who exposed himself on Islington 393 bus\n- 6 Appeal to trace missing Islington school girl, 14\n- 7 Islington man charged with murder of shooting victim Taylor Cox\n- 8 Jailed: Businessman bombarded Jeremy Corbyn and other MPs with 'vile' emails\n- 9 Tollington Arms landlord relieved at rent moratorium extension\n- 10 'LTNs are killing us': Hundreds of Highbury traders sign petition\nIslington Mayor, Cllr Phil Kelly, said: “All of the events went really well. I’m very pleased that the numbers of people turning out for Remembrance Day events are on the up.\n“I think it shows people are taking events much more seriously and that they welcome the opportunity to express their feelings towards the people who have saved their country.”\nCouncil leader, Cllr Catherine West, said: “Each year we get a bigger turn out and, more importantly, it’s all generations. We are seeing much more participation from younger people.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "“Civil Rights Gone Wrong”\nThe nation’s largest coalition of #civilrights groups celebrates an abortion mogul who led Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry to become the #1 killer in the black community. Cecile Richards was recently given the Hubert H. Humphrey “Human Rights” Award by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. This is civil rights gone wrong. Learn more at Radiance.life/theleadingkiller.\n© The Radiance Foundation", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "After backlash to some minor brand changes over the past year, M&M Mars has decided to temporarily retire its M&Ms \"spokescandies,\" and will replace them with an ad campaign fronted by Saturday Night Live veteran Maya Rudolph. After making some minor design changes to the Green M&M, the company also introduced a purple M&M \"spokescandy\" last year, followed by an all-female packaging promotion earlier this month. Of course, given the timing, it's easy to assume that Rudolph's first appearance in an M&Ms ad will be a Super Bowl commercial next month.\nEven if that's true, it's hard to guess whether that means the whole thing is a joke, or if they really are pausing the use of the candies. We'll have to see what comes next.\n\"America, let's talk. In the last year, we've made some changes to our beloved spokescandies. We weren't sure if anyone would even notice. And we definitely didn't think it would break the internet. But now we get it -- even a candy's shoes can be polarizing. Which was the last things M&M's wanted, since we're all about bringing people together,\" the brand said in a statement posted to social media. \"Therefore, we hvae decided to take an indefinite pause from the spokescandies. In their place, we are proud to introduce a new spokesperson America can agree on: the beloved Maya Rudolph. We are confident Ms. Rudolph will champion the power of fun to create a world where everyone feels they belong.\"\nYou can see the tweet below.\nA message from M&M'S. pic.twitter.com/EMucEBTd9o— M&M'S (@mmschocolate) January 23, 2023\nAlong with the debut of Purple in September, a song called \"I'm Just Gonna Be Me\" was released to on all major music streaming platforms. For every stream of the song, M&M's pledged $1 (up to five hundred thousand dollars) will be made to Sing for Hope, a non-profit that harnesses the power of the arts to bring hope, connection, and purpose to millions of people around the world through music. The charitable aspect of Purple's debut is a part of M&M's FUNd, the brand's global initiative intended to track the brand's impact on its mission to increase a sense of belonging for ten million people by 2025. They did a virtually identical promotion with the all-female packaging, donating money to women's causes via partnerships with She Is the Music and We are Moving the Needle.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Two former MAE undergraduates, Frances Arnold and John Dabiri have been named to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Frances is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at Caltech; she won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2018 (she was the first American woman to do so). John is the Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at Caltech; previously he received a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship. Members of PCAST advise the President of the United States on science and technology.\nTwo Princeton University faculty members, Andrea Goldsmith, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Steve Pacala, Frederick D. Petrie Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, were also named to serve on PCAST.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A state appeals court in New Jersey issued a vehement rebuke of a judge’s earlier court decision in a rape case, in which the judge had given leniency to the defendant—reasoning that he was from “a good family” and was a good student whose future would be ruined by a rape trial.\nThe defendant was accused of raping a 16-year-old girl who was heavily intoxicated at a party in 2017 and then widely sharing a video he had filmed of the attack. When prosecutors asked family court Judge James Troiano to grant a waiver allowing them to try the defendant as an adult due to the “sophisticated and predatory” nature of the alleged attack, they presented evidence including texts he had sent to friends showing the video along with the comment, “When your first time having sex was rape.”\n“The judge’s decision has been overruled—but how many more judges do we have to hear this damaging rubbish from before we retrain and recast senior judiciary?”\n—Sophie Walker, Young Women’s TrustIn July 2018, Troiano ruled that G.M.C. should not be tried as an adult, citing his background as an Eagle scout and his high test scores in school.\nThe judge had “decided the case for himself” instead of considering the facts of the case, the appeals court ruled.\nTroiano expressed doubt that the victim was truly incapacitated at the time of the alleged rape and questioned whether the girl and her family had considered the effect a rape trial would have on the defendant’s life.\n“The judge expressed concern that the prosecutor did not indicate in the memorandum that she had explained to Mary and her mother the devastating effect a waiver would have on G.M.C.’s life,” the appellate court wrote in its ruling on Troiano’s decision.\nTroiano also noted in his 2018 decision that the alleged attack did not fit his personal definition of rape, which he considered to involve “generally two or more…males, either at gunpoint or weapon, clearly manhandling a person into…an area where…there was nobody around, sometime in an abandon[ed] house, sometimes in an abandon[ed] shed, shack,” according to the appeals court.\nOn social media as the appeals court’s decision was reported on Wednesday, critics expressed shock that a judge presiding over a court in 2018 would hold such views of rape.\nThe appeals court sided with prosecutors who in 2017 had argued that because of the “sophisticated and predatory” nature of the alleged assault, G.M.C. should be tried as an adult.\n“At the time he led [the victim] into the basement gym, she was visibly intoxicated and unable to walk without stumbling,” the prosecutors wrote at the time. “The door was barred by a foosball table. Filming a cell phone video while committing the assault was a deliberate act of debasement. And, in the months that followed, he lied to [the victim] while simultaneously disseminating the video and unabashedly sharing the nature of his conduct therein. This was neither a childish misinterpretation of the situation, nor was it a misunderstanding. [G.M.C.’s] behavior was calculated and cruel.”\nClick Here: Cheap Chiefs Rugby Jersey 2019\nRejecting Troiano’s reasoning for dismissing the evidence presented by the prosecutors, the appeals court accused him of granting leniency to the defendant only because of his privileged background.\n“That the juvenile came from a good family and had good test scores we assume would not condemn the juveniles who do not come from good families and do not have good test scores from withstanding waiver application,” the court wrote.\nThe court also recently reversed the 2017 decision of family court Judge Marcia Silva, who had denied a motion to try another 16-year-old male as an adult after he was accused of raping a 12-year-old girl.\nThe case, Silva argued, was not “an especially heinous or cruel offense beyond the elements of the crimes that the waiver statute intends to target,” and “beyond losing her virginity, the State did not claim that the victim suffered any further injuries, either physical, mental, or emotional.”\nThe appeals court admonished Silva, who it said had “mistakenly applied her judgment” when deciding the case, including “minimization of the harm wrought on a twelve-year-old child by [the defendant] assuming her claims are true.”\nNew Jersey state Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg called for both Silva and Troiano’s removal from their seats and decried the display of “privilege, bias, prejudice, and bigotry” in the state’s justice system.\n“Any example of [these] displayed by the people in charge of issuing justice in our state should be intolerable,” Weinberg said.\n“There is no space for judges of this character,” she added. “Judge Troiano and Judge Silva should never again be given the privilege of presiding over a New Jersey court, that is clear. But we should also use these examples of alarming behavior in a way that curtails this conduct in the future.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The first round of the 2024 women’s NCAA tournament is wrapping up Saturday.\nTop-seeded Iowa rolled into the second round as Caitlin Clark scored 27 points. No. 1 seed USC handled business as JuJu Watkins scored 23 points leading the Trojans to a win over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.\nCatch the final action of the night on ESPN networks and the ESPN App.\nWe’re breaking down every game as the field is cut in half, and 32 teams are eliminated. And be sure to check out everything we learned Friday on Day 1.\nIs there a concern about Hannah Stuelke not playing in the second half for Iowa? The Hawkeyes’ starting forward played just over 10 minutes in the first half and didn’t score. She didn’t play in the second half. Stuelke said she was dealing with a migraine and tried to play through it, but just didn’t feel well. She said she expects to be fine for Monday’s second-round game. Stuelke is Iowa’s second-leading scorer (14.6 PPG) and rebounder (6.8 RPG) this season. But the Hawkeyes didn’t have any issues defeating the Crusaders without her, as Clark led the way with 27 points, 10 assists and 8 rebounds. And reserve post player Addison O’Grady had 14 points on 7-of-9 shooting, plus five rebounds. “She came off the bench and did some nice things for us,” coach Lisa Bluder said of O’Grady.\nWhat it means for Iowa: The Hawkeyes are now 30-4 and did a pretty good job dealing with Holy Cross’ attempts to frustrate them defensively. The Crusaders packed in the paint, so Iowa made 10 3-pointers. And the Hawkeyes won the rebounding battle 50-37.\nWhat it means for Holy Cross: The Crusaders, 21-13, finished their season as Patriot League regular-season and tournament champions. They also got a First Four victory in the NCAA tournament, beating UT Martin. — Michael Voepel\nJuJu Watkins smacks away the layup for USC\nJuJu Watkins gets it done on the defensive end after she swats away the layup attempt.\nIs McKenzie Forbes USC’s new go-to player? Of course, this question is mostly tongue-in-cheek. JuJu Watkins remains as “go-to” as any player in the country this side of Caitlin Clark. But Forbes’ play of late is worth examining. If she continues to play this well, the Trojans will have a significantly improved shot at winning the national title. Against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, her 23 points (9-of-14 shooting in 29 minutes) tied her with Watkins for the team-high mark. And Forbes is coming off a 26-point performance in the Pac-12 tournament championship game and 17 points against UCLA in the semifinals.\nWhat it means for USC: The Trojans made sure there was no stress in their first-round game after a 21-4 first quarter. But taking the court as a No. 1 seed for the first time since 1986 is a big deal for a program that, because of Watkins, will be part of the national conversation for years to come.\nWhat it means for Texas A&M-Corpus Christi: To call themselves Southland Conference tournament champs and NCAA tournament participants for the first time makes this the best season in Islanders’ program history. –Charlie Creme\nHannah Hidalgo threads a pass to Sonia Citron for 2\nHannah Hidalgo makes a magnificent bounce pass to Sonia Citron, who lays in the rock for two.\nHow far can Notre Dame’s Big Three take the Irish? With just six healthy scholarship players, Notre Dame must rely heavily on Hannah Hidalgo, Sonia Citron and Maddy Westbeld. In the ACC tournament championship game, it was Hidalgo and Westbeld that carried Notre Dame to the title. Today, it was almost exclusively Citron who pushed the Irish to the second round. Her 29 points allowed the Irish to beat the Golden Flashes despite Hidalgo and Westbeld shooting a combined 9-of-27 from the field. Notre Dame got out ahead early and was never really threatened by Kent State, but for the team to make a deep run, every member of the big three will have to deliver.\nWhat it means for Notre Dame: This was the art of shutting down a potential upset early. Notre Dame scored 18 straight points in the first quarter and never looked back. Even though Kent State outscored the Irish in the second half, the outcome of the game was never in jeopardy. Despite Citron, Hidalgo and Westbeld all still playing to the final buzzer because Niele Ivey simply has no other options, the minutes weren’t intense, so Notre Dame should be rested enough for the second round.\nWhat it means for Kent State: The Golden Flashes finished third in the MAC and made their first trip to the NCAA tournament since 2002. This was a successful season by any measure. — Charlie Creme\nPaige Bueckers notches 28-point double-double in tournament return\nPaige Bueckers puts up 28 points and 11 boards to power UConn to a win in her return to the women’s NCAA tournament.\nHow did the shorthanded Huskies fare in their NCAA tournament opener? Jackson State went 10 deep and played a 6-foot-6 post in Angel Jackson, but the Huskies — who are down to eight active players (two posts) with six out for the year because of injury — rolled early in Saturday’s opener. UConn used a 17-0 first-quarter run to build its advantage and held a comfortable lead for the last 25 minutes of the game. Against a defensive-minded squad, the Huskies were impressive offensively, besting the Lady Tigers in the paint and from the 3-point arc as redshirt junior Paige Bueckers, senior Aaliyah Edwards and freshman Ashlynn Shade each hit the 20-point mark, and the team shot 50% as a whole.\nCoach Geno Auriemma played four players for 34 or more minutes despite his squad being comfortably ahead for most of the game. UConn would benefit from having Qadence Samuels able to play more minutes (she played just seven Saturday) as the tournament goes on.\nWhat it means for UConn: Lots of positives all the way around. Bueckers shined in her first NCAA tournament game since April 2022, finishing with 28 points, 11 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 steals, 1 block and 0 turnovers. Shade’s big game (her 26 points were the most by a UConn player in their NCAA tournament debut) has to give Auriemma, who turned 70 on Saturday, confidence moving forward with his younger squad. He’ll need Shade’s classmates KK Arnold, Ice Brady and Samuels to continue to gain confidence as the Huskies look ahead to Monday and whatever lies beyond.\nWhat it means for Jackson State: Returning to the NCAA tournament was a goal for the Lady Tigers after missing out last season with their SWAC tournament loss to Southern — and they achieved that while compiling a 21-game winning streak along the way. She has a senior-heavy squad, but coach Tomekia Reed has shown she knows what it takes to win, and that her teams will never back down from the challenge of playing more highly ranked programs. — Alexa Philippou\nNC State Wolfpack vs. Chattanooga Mocs – Game Highlights\nWatch the Game Highlights from NC State Wolfpack vs. Chattanooga Mocs\nWhat has happened to NC State’s offense? Scoring has become hard to come by in Raleigh as of late. The Wolfpack have hit the 70-point mark just twice in their past seven games. A 33.3% shooting day against the Mocs didn’t ease any concerns. Aziaha James paced the way with 19 points today and did make 5 of 10 3-pointers, but consistency behind her has been missing. Saniya Rivers failed to reach double figures in any ACC tournament game and despite 16 points against Chattanooga, she was only 4-of-11 from the field and had just one assist. With a Tennessee team up next that scored 92 points earlier in the day, the Wolfpack may need to regain their earlier-season form when they scored 92 against UConn and 78 against Colorado, quickly.\nWhat it means for NC State: The term “Survive and Advance” was born in Raleigh, and that is exactly what the Wolfpack did against Chattanooga. In NCAA tournament play that is enough. After losing in the first round a year ago, this should feel good. These games are tough for coaches meeting their former programs, like Wes Moore was. He coached at Chattanooga from 1998 to 2013, getting the Mocs to nine NCAA tournaments.\nWhat it means for Chattanooga: NC State did shut down the Mocs’ best player, Jada Guinn, holding her to 13 points on 5-of-15 shooting. With Guinn’s eligibility gone, earning a third straight trip to the NCAA tournament gets more difficult. — Charlie Creme\nYvonne Ejim floats in and-1 for Gonzaga\nYvonne Ejim floats in and-1 for Gonzaga\nWill Gonzaga get its 3-point shooting mojo back for the second round? The Bulldogs entered the NCAA tournament second in 3-point shooting percentage (40.0) and sixth in 3s per game (9.5) in Division I. But they missed their first 10 attempts from behind the arc Saturday, finishing 7-of-23 (30.4%).\nOverall, Gonzaga started slow Saturday; it felt a little like a hangover from its unexpected loss to Portland in the West Coast Conference tournament final March 12. Gonzaga trailed the Anteaters 17-10 after the first quarter. But the Bulldogs switched to zone defense and took control of the second and third quarters to get the victory.\nWhat it means for Gonzaga: The Bulldogs got their 31st win Saturday. That ties the 2010-11 Gonzaga squad — which was led by current New York Liberty guard Courtney Vandersloot — for the most in program history. Yvonne Ejim had 25 points and 14 rebounds, her 14th double-double of the season. That’s the most double-doubles by a Gonzaga player in a season since 18 by — you guessed it — Vandersloot in 2010-11.\nWhat it means for UC Irvine: The Anteaters got off to a good start Saturday, but struggled when Gonzaga moved to zone defense, as UC Irvine shot just 26% against it. Still, it was a terrific season for the Anteaters: They won the Big West tournament and made their second NCAA tournament appearance; the first was in 1995. — Michael Voepel\nJordan Harrison sinks it from downtown\nJordan Harrison sinks it from downtown\nCan the Mountaineers slow down Iowa’s offense in the second round? West Virginia averages 74.2 PPG compared to Iowa’s 92.8. If the Mountaineers hope to upset the No. 1 seed Hawkeyes in Monday’s second round, they need a big defensive effort. West Virginia entered the NCAA tournament second in the Big 12 in scoring defense.\nWest Virginia had 11 steals in Saturday’s game and averages 13.7 per game this season. The Mountaineers beat Big 12 regular-season champion Oklahoma on Feb. 17; the Sooners — like Iowa — are a guard-oriented, quick-strike offensive team. West Virginia had 12 steals and forced 25 turnovers against the Sooners.\n“There are some similarities in terms of how good they are in transition, how free they play on the offensive end,” West Virginia coach Mark Kellogg said of the Hawkeyes and Sooners.”So it will probably be a similar conversation from our game plan that we can use again.”\nWest Virginia needs to improve its free throw shooting against the Hawkeyes; they were 18-of-36 from the line Saturday against Princeton.\nWhat it means for West Virginia: Last year, Georgia guard Diamond Battles played well against Iowa in the second round, scoring 21 points and helping push the Hawkeyes before falling 74-66. This year, it’s West Virginia guard JJ Quinerly who hopes to lead the way in upsetting Caitlin Clark and Iowa. Quinerly had 29 points vs. Princeton, tying the West Virginia program record for most points in an NCAA tournament game.\n“I hope we can put the game away a little faster and don’t have to go shot-for-shot,” Quinerly said when asked if she was prepared to do that against Clark, the leading scorer in Division I. “But whatever happens, happens.”\nWhat it means for Princeton: The Tigers won the Ivy League tournament and finished 25-5. It was another strong season for the program that has led the way for the Ivy League in women’s basketball. — Michael Voepel\nLauren Jensen’s shiftiness rewards her the bucket\nLauren Jensen uses her handles to create space, then she rises to score the runner for Creighton.\nHow did Creighton dismantle one of the hottest teams in the nation? UNLV had the nation’s fourth-longest win streak (15) at the time of this game, following FGCU’s and Jackson State’s losses earlier Saturday. The Lady Rebels led early but Creighton used its hot 3-point shooting to go up by as many as 18 points. The Bluejays’ 15 3s (on 34 attempts, no less) were the most in a NCAA tournament game in program history and the second-most they’ve converted in a game this season. UNLV, on the other hand, nearly doubled up Creighton in the paint (46-24), with senior Desi-Rae Young managing 30 points and the team as a whole finishing with a better shooting percentage (51% vs. 48%). But 3 is more than 2, and UNLV managed just 5-for-20 shooting from beyond the arc.\nWhat it means for Creighton: Coach Jim Flanery has to like what he saw after his squad’s semifinal upset loss in the Big East tournament to Georgetown, particularly on the offensive end — this was Creighton’s sixth-highest scoring output of the season. After last year’s first-round upset defeat, the Bluejays are back in the second round and, if chalk holds, will face 2-seeded UCLA. The last time they made the second round was the year they went on their magical Elite Eight run in 2022. The Bruins, and 6-foot-7 Lauren Betts, would pose a host of problems, but Creighton does have the edge in experience.\nWhat it means for UNLV: The Lady Rebels have been a Mountain West power under fourth-year coach Lindy La Rocque, with three consecutive NCAA tournament appearances following a 20-year hiatus. The next step is to win a tournament game under La Rocque; none of their three losses have been blowouts, so they’re not all that far off. Young deciding to come back for her fifth year would help in that effort. — Alexa Philippou\nWhat a shot by Kennedy Todd-Williams\nWhat a shot by Kennedy Todd-Williams\nHow far can the Ole Miss defense take the Rebels? In the NCAA tournament in the past two years, Ole Miss has allowed 55 points to Marquette, 48 points to Gonzaga, 49 points to Stanford — all good offensive programs. Only Louisville scoring 72 seemed to figure out Coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin’s scheme. The Golden Eagles were the latest team to have the clamps put on them. Marquette scored just 22 second-half points and shot 34.5% from the field for the game. Coach Yo says that the Ole Miss defense is its best offense. The Rebels turned 17 turnovers into 13 points, a big number in such a low-scoring game. This also puts a stamp on a good first few days of the NCAA tournament for the SEC, which is 6-3 through the first round.\nWhat it means for Ole Miss: Coach Yo vowed to turn the Ole Miss program around, and she has not only gotten the Rebels to three straight NCAA tournaments, she’s now 3-2 in them. This game was also an Ole Miss blueprint to success. Defense is the foundation. Let Madison Scott and either Marquesha Davis or Kennedy Todd-Williams drive the offense. Scott (20) and Todd-Williams (15) scored more than half the Rebels’ points. This is also the 328th-ranked 3-point shooting team in the country. Ole Miss only took five shots from beyond the arc.\nWhat it means for Marquette: A promising season fizzled down the stretch as the offense disappeared. But this was the program’s third trip to the NCAA tournament in four years under Megan Duffy. — Charlie Creme\nOklahoma survives as Florida Gulf Coast misses tying shot\nFlorida Gulf Coast gets a good look from deep, but Uju Ezeudu clanks her shot and Oklahoma moves on in the NCAA tournament.\nHow does Oklahoma hit the reset button? The Sooners themselves play one of the most unique styles of offense among the major conference teams. But Florida Gulf Coast might be THE most unique offense in the country — shooting 3-pointers, layups and free throws are the only acceptable ways to score. Oklahoma coach Jennie Baranczyk remarked after the game how difficult it is to play against the Eagles. At their essence, both teams like to spread the floor and either shoot 3-pointers or get cuts to the basket. There were 48 3’s taken in this game, 30 by FGCU. The Sooners only made six of their 18, but where they finally started to deliver was in the paint, outscoring the Eagles, 34-26. Oklahoma didn’t take a lead until there was 2:46 left in the third quarter and then had to hold off a late FGCU rally, which included a good look to tie the game at the buzzer by senior Uju Ezeudu. Indiana plays a more conventional style even if the Hoosiers will be happy to run at Oklahoma’s pace. The Sooners will have to shake off the mental strain of playing a team as challenging as the Eagles.\nWhat it means for Oklahoma: Despite winning the Big 12 regular-season title, there were some questions about the Sooners because of a loss to Kansas in the regular-season finale and their decisive defeat to Iowa State in conference tournament semifinals. This win, given the challenge, has to be gratifying, and now Oklahoma has an NCAA tournament win for the third time under Baranczyk. Skylar Vann scored 14 of her 24 points in the second half, including two key fast-break layups in the fourth quarter.\nWhat it means for Florida Gulf Coast: That FGCU got an open look at a 3-pointer with under a second to play speaks to the coaching acumen of Karl Smesko. This wasn’t even a typically great 3-point shooting team for Smesko (175th in the country at 30.8%), but he adjusted and got the Eagles to this place again. He was three points from winning a first-round game as No. 12 for the third consecutive year. — Charlie Creme\nDyaisha Fair shines with 32 pts in win vs. Arizona\nDyaisha Fair helps bring Syracuse to a first round NCAA tournament win with 32 points vs. Arizona.\nHow far can Dyaisha Fair take Syracuse this March? Somewhat lost in the shuffle this season has been that there are two active players who rank in the top five of the NCAA DI women’s all-time scoring list: Caitlin Clark and Dyaisha Fair.\nFair led the Orange in scoring the whole night Saturday, but her fourth-quarter heroics — she scored 13 points in the final frame to help Syracuse pull ahead — added to the fifth-year senior’s still-growing legacy in her final NCAA tournament. Especially considering she went down with an apparent knee injury at the end of the third quarter and had to be helped off the floor before returning in the fourth.\nFair’s 32 points are the most by a Syracuse player in an NCAA tournament game in program history. With 3,383 points for her career, she’s now 11 away from passing Jackie Stiles (3,393) for fourth on the all-time scoring list. She also got it done on the defensive end, with her six steals also a program-best for an NCAA tournament game.\nFair next faces a UConn team that has a history of letting guards go off. Can she put together more heroics to catalyze Syracuse to a historic upset?\nWhat it means for Syracuse: Syracuse is back in the second round for the first time since 2019, and the first time since second-year coach Felisha Legette-Jack took over. The Orange have a chance to make their first Sweet 16 appearance since 2016; Legette-Jack took her Buffalo team to the second weekend in 2018. Legette-Jack’s Buffalo and Geno Auriemma’s UConn met in the tournament the year after in the second round, coincidentally, with the Huskies winning by 12.\nWhat it means for Arizona: The Wildcats’ up-and-down season — they were left with just seven scholarship players because of injuries and midseason departures — still ended on a high note. After all, their chances of making the NCAA tournament didn’t look so hot a month ago. Once they got to the Big Dance, they showed they belonged, with their win over Auburn in the First Four making them the first 15-loss team to win an NCAA tournament game. While Esmery Martinez and Helena Pueyo have finished out their collegiate careers, Adia Barnes now gets to build around her promising freshmen in Jada Williams, Breya Cunningham and Skylar Jones, plus top-10 recruit Montaya Dew, who was lost for the year because of injury. — Alexa Philippou\nTaiyanna Jackson drives in for the go-ahead Kansas bucket\nWyvette Mayberry finds Taiyanna Jackson to give the Jayhawks the early overtime lead.\nIsn’t this better than the WNIT? The Jayhawks won the WNIT a year ago but throughout that run seemed like a team that belonged in the NCAA tournament. A strong finish to this season left no doubt about a bid and an even stronger finish to this first-round game puts Kansas in the second round for the second time since 2013. Michigan appeared to have complete control with a 10-point lead with six minutes remaining, but a 17-7 run sparked by Zakiyah Franklin to end regulation sent the game to overtime. A Wolverines offense that was already sputtering down the stretch, completely faded in an overtime that Kansas dominated.\nWhat it means for Kansas: Kansas’ best player this year was freshman S’Mya Nichols, but the Jayhawks also have four fifth-year seniors who do not want to see their careers end. Franklin is one of those super seniors and her 22 points marked only the third 20-point game of her final season. Taiyanna Jackson and Holly Kersgieter are also trying to extend their careers, and they combined for 23 points and 17 rebounds. With size, experience and the willingness to grind in a slow-pace game, the Jayhawks could be a difficult matchup in round two for No. 1 seed USC.\nWhat it means for Michigan: Letting this one slip away will sting. The inconsistency of an entire season played out in one 10-minute stretch for the Wolverines. But if Laila Phelia, one of the Big Ten’s best players, Jordan Hobbs and Cameron Williams return, the Wolverines will be set up for a return to the NCAA tournament next season. —Charlie Creme\nIndiana Hoosiers vs. Fairfield Stags – Game Highlights\nWatch the Game Highlights from Indiana Hoosiers vs. Fairfield Stags\nCan Indiana take this shooting into the later rounds? The Hoosiers lifted their energy a level toward the end of the first half and a 12-3 run gave them a four-point lead at the break. That energy turned to execution in the second half, leading to a blowout win over Fairfield. With Sara Scalia leading the way, Indiana made seven of its 14 3-point attempts in the second half and more impressively assisted on 14 of 17 field goals. Scalia scored 18 of her 27 points in the second half and made five 3’s. The Hoosiers’ 10 3-pointers were the most they have made in a game in a month.\nWhat this means for Indiana: Health has been a problem late in the season with injuries to Mackenzie Holmes, Sydney Parrish and Lilly Meister. Teri Moren said that even practicing has been a challenge. But all looked well in Bloomington on Saturday afternoon. All three of those players played double-figure minutes. Most importantly, Holmes seemed to move well and even blocked three shots to go with her 13 points and six rebounds.\nWhat it means for Fairfield: The Stags played well in the first half. For stretches, they were the better team. Their 31-2 record won’t soon be forgotten and with coach Carly Thibault-DuBonis signing a contract extension this week, Fairfield should be playing more meaningful games in March very soon. — Charlie Creme\nJewel Spear buries a 3 from the top of the key for Tennessee\nJewel Spear pulls up and knocks down a triple from the top of the key for the Lady Volunteers.\nHow well did the Lady Vols bounce back from the loss to South Carolina in the SEC tournament? As the saying goes, time heals all wounds. At least, it did for Tennessee. Having two weeks to recover from the heartbreak of losing to the Gamecocks in the SEC tournament semifinals on Kamilla Cardoso’s banked-in 3-pointer did the Lady Vols well. They dominated Green Bay. Sometimes one team is just bigger, stronger and faster. That was the case for Tennessee against the Phoenix. Green Bay’s tallest player is 6-foot-2. Tennessee has five players that tall. And the Lady Vols dominated in all the associated categories — rebounding (43-26), points in the paint (40-26) and second-chance points (14-10). Having the best player on the court also helps. Rickea Jackson, whose pro stock seems to be rising with every game, did whatever she wanted on her way to 26 points on 10-for-14 shooting in 29 minutes.\nWhat it means for Tennessee: The Lady Vols’ rebounding dominance was not surprising against Green Bay. Tennessee’s hot shooting was. Before the benches emptied with the game out of reach, Tennessee was shooting nearly 65% overall and 50% from 3-point territory. This from a team that was 43.0% and 31.9%, respectively, on the season. A Tennessee team that shoots like this and has Jackson playing at this elite level is a threat to make its first Elite Eight since 2016 or first Final Four since 2008.\nWhat it means for Green Bay: The Phoenix are well established as one of the top mid-major programs in the country under Kevin Borseth, but this was their first NCAA tournament appearance since 2018. After beating Washington State and Creighton in the regular season, losing by 29 points will certainly come as a disappointment. — Charlie Creme", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "There will not be a Republican primary in the 50th Senate District.\nRick Guy said in a statement provided to The Citizen Thursday that he will not appeal the state Board of Elections' decision to remove him from the ballot. The agency determined Guy, a Republican, submitted 779 valid signatures — less than the 1,000 need to qualify for the primary.\nFollowing the state Board of Elections' vote Wednesday, Guy had three days to appeal the ruling in court.\n\"After seeking the advice of counsel I have decided that I will not pursue judicial review of the NYS Board of Election's determination that I have insufficient signatures for my name to appear on the primary ballot for the 50th Senate District seat,\" Guy said.\nGuy was one of two Republicans in the 50th district race. With his exit, the GOP nominee is Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci.\nSupporters of Antonacci filed objections to Guy's petitions. The main issue found was that Guy's son, Joseph, collected nearly 360 signatures for his father. But the younger Guy isn't a registered Republican.\nTo circulate petitions for a Republican candidate, the individual must be a GOP voter.\nThe state Board of Elections' review team and a hearing officer determined the signatures collected by Joseph Guy weren't valid and ruled them out.\nRick Guy believes the signatures should be valid because his son is a notary public. Notaries can pass petitions, but they must administer an oath to each signer.\n\"I remain convinced that a technical error like the one that has caused me to have too few signatures that are considered valid should not prevent petition signers from having their say,\" Guy said. \"I believe the election laws in New York state are too burdensome and easily manipulated by the party leaders to prevent candidates from challenging their control.\"\nHe added, \"I would like to thank everyone who helped us.\"\nGuy's departure clears the field for Antonacci, who will face Democratic candidate John Mannion in the general election.\nAntonacci and Mannion are running to succeed state Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Republican who has held the seat since 1993. DeFrancisco announced earlier this year that he will not seek re-election.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "University of Utah Hospital officials say 23-year-old Derrick E. Martinez of Garden City, Kan., died Wednesday.\nMartinez was found unconscious in a mobile testing trailer at the plant on Saturday.\nMartinez was taken to a Pocatello hospital and then flow to the Utah hospital.\nExposure to high concentrations of ammonia in the air causes burning of the nose, throat and respiratory tract.\nMartinez worked for a Simplot subcontractor, Blick's Phosphate Conversion. Blick's spokesman Kenny Kalb says the cause of the man's exposure is still being investigated.\nMore Northwest Headlines\nSpokane utility customers receive gift cards after long power outage 3 arrested in Spokane supermarket abduction and assault 3:54 p.m. Most WWU students return to Bellingham campus after hate speech 3:19 p.m. Washington struggling to meet foster care goals for children 12:51 p.m. Weather temporarily halts search for body of Oregon climber 3:34 p.m. Ex-judge reviews how Spokane handled police chief complaints 1:57 p.m. Bellingham man found guilty of assault for shooting neighbor 12:54 p.m. Woman accused of fatal shooting in Yakima to appear in court 12:52 p.m.\nOur new comment system is not supported in IE 7. Please upgrade your browser here.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The 60 Minutes host says we know Epstein is dead because the body’s fingerprints matched Epstein’s prints on record. [Now that proves it, doesn’t it? If Epstein truly was murdered, that means the prison staff was in on it. In that case, why would we so quickly believe the story about finger prints?]\nSixteen Republican congressmen are asking the General Services Administration (GSA) to reevaluate a contract with Citibank to facilitate $700 billion in payment transactions as a result of the the financial institution’s anti-Second Amendment policies. Last month, Citibank announced that companies using Citibank financial services are required to restrict the sale of firearms for individuals under 21 years of age and stop selling “bump stocks or high-capacity magazines.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Stephen Foley: Spectre of sub-prime lending is still haunting Bank of America\nStephen Foley is a former Associate Business Editor of The Independent, based in New York. He left in August 2012. In a decade at the paper, he covered personal finance, the UK stock market and the pharmaceuticals industry, and had also been the Business section's share tipster. Between arriving with three suitcases in Manhattan in January 2006 and his departure, he witnessed and reported on a great economic boom turning spectacularly to bust. In March 2009, he was named Business and Finance Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards.\nSaturday 13 August 2011\nUS Outlook: Anyone searching for terrifying echoes of the 2008 financial crisis need have looked no further than what happened to Bank of America this week.\nHow much of this sounds familiar? Shares in one of the biggest banks in the US are pinging about as if they were a penny stock, and the cost of insuring its debt is soaring. Analysts openly speculate about a \"black hole\" in its finances, where mounting and unquantifiable mortgage losses may force it into an emergency fundraising. Most terrifying of all, the chief executive finds it necessary to go on business television to calm frayed nerves.\nWho can forget Bear Stearns's boss Alan Schwartz going on CNBC in March 2008 to deny aliquidity crisis at his firm, a declaration of complacency that only exacerbated the run and sank the bank within days?\nThese were the similarities that got everyone's attention whenBrian Moynihan, BofA's chief executive, took to the airwaves. Thedifferences were actually more apparent – BofA is not facing an existential crisis, and it has many more sources of liquidity than a pre-crisis investment bank like Bear ever did – but my goodness, Mr Moynihan is in a mess.\nBofA is the quintessential \"systemically important financial institution\" (Sifi is the new jargon term for banks popularly known as too big to fail). It touches one out of every two households in the US. Its branches are on almost every street corner in the nation and it owns Merrill Lynch, the powerhouse investment bank.\nImportantly for understanding why it is in such a state, it also bought America's largest subprime lender, Countrywide Financial, in 2007. Countrywide is now the imploding star at the heart of the company.\nFour years after the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, we still don't know the total losses involved. How can we? Banks have resisted a once-and-for-all programme of loan forgiveness for underwater borrowers, and are instead pursuing piecemealrefinancings and foreclosures, all of which are gummed up in paperwork. Meanwhile, the ailing economy threatens to bring about another drop in house prices (which BofA worryingly claimed this week it was not planning for).\nWhat is becoming clearer is where the bulk of the losses are going to be concentrated.\nAlmost since the first overstretched borrower defaulted on his first payment in 2007, everyone in the chain has been suingeveryone else. Remember, these outrageous and frequently fraudulent mortgages were pooled first into mortgage-backed securities, then into collateralised debt obligations and then even more exotic derivatives.\nThe buyers, sellers and insurers at each stage are in dispute over who lied to whom – and the bulk of the financial penalties look set to fall on the underwriters of the original mortgages.\nThis is as it should be. These were the firms that made a packet by flipping mortgages, careless of whether the borrower would ever be able to keep their house and careless of the toxic sludge they were pumping into the system.\nUnfortunately, Mr Moynihan has repeatedly claimed that BofA has fully provisioned for its mortgage losses and legal settlements, yet they keep costing more. An $8.5bn settlement in June with hundreds of investors, the last attempt to draw a line in the sand, is now being challenged by AIG, which insured Countrywide-based derivatives and which wants a $10bn (£6.1bn) settlement of its own.\nAt the moment, it looks as if BofA can earn enough to top up its legal fund and stay ahead of the rising capital requirements being imposed on Sifis by federal and international regulators – but if shareholders want a dividend soon, they may have to pay for it themselves by stumping up some new equity in a refinancing.\nAnd if the June settlement does not hold or the US economy takes a tumble, matters may come to a head even sooner and shareholders can expect more pain.\nKen Lewis, Mr Moynihan's predecessor, lost his job because BofA came close to collapse in 2009 as a result of losses at Merrill Lynch. It turns out his other empire-building purchase, Countrywide, was by far the more reckless. It would be unfair if Mr Moynihan pays with his job for that one, but sometimes that is how the cookie crumbles.\nApple has been hit by complaints about the 1.1GB download\nLiam Neeson's Downton dreams\nThriller is set in the secret world of British espionage\nBomber jacket worn by Mary Berry sells out within an hour\nMuch-loved cartoon character returns - without Sir David Jason\nActress to appear in second series of the hugely popular crime drama\nMatt Smith is set to join cast of the Jane Austen classic - with a twist\n- 2 Scottish independence: Five reasons Salmond is secretly hoping for a 'No' vote\n- 3 Isis plan to 'behead random member of the public' in Sydney thwarted by Australian police\n- 4 Scottish independence: Andy Murray backs Yes campaign in eleventh hour decision\n- 5 Have you heard about the film Singapore has banned its people from watching? 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{"text": "(WXYZ) — Virginia cops were able to stop a Michigan grandma from being a victim of a scam targeting the elderly.\nThe Utica Police Department contacted Richmond Police Thursday for help with an investigation.\nA man, posing as an attorney in Richmond's jurisdiction, called an 81-year-old Utica grandmother and said her grandson was locked up in a Tennessee jail near his school.\nThe scammer told the woman she must send $9,800 in cash to a Richmond address to get her grandson out of jail on bond.\nAccording to RPD, the package containing the cash was due to arrive at the home just two hours from the time they received the call from Utica Police. Two officers quickly called the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, but UPS failed to intercept the package. Officer Crain and Officer Waldron were then able to recover the package at a city address – with all the money still inside.\nRichmond Police say the money will soon be returned to the Utica grandmother. Their investigation is ongoing.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Spain’s solar and wind sector has had a horrific go of it lately. Financial support and political will have all but vanished over the last year, culminating in a full suspension of government funding at the end of January. The renewable sector, Spain's hope for its desperately needed economic recovery and next best chance to secure a position of real economic leadership in Europe, has all but evaporated. The future is just about surviving.\nThe country went bust by overrelying on real estate and construction over the last decade. Those two industries remain in deep crisis here. That has shifted the burden to renewables to reverse Spain's plight. If enough companies can manage to navigate through the storm ahead, the renewables industry in Spain would come out far stronger.\nThe Path to Now\nFor a number of renewable energy actors in the country, the blame for the shutdown falls on the new government. The clean-energy subsidies that began under the last Socialist administration have become a frustrating mess under Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s handling.\n“Its an absolute zero,” said Ramon Carbonell, a vice president at Copisca Corp, a Spanish infrastructure firm with a focus on wind energy. He added that the new government had unfairly presented the energy deficit, holding strong at $27 billion, as an immediate, urgent problem that required a quick solution, when it was really just a sector issue that could have been dealt with in a less sweeping way. Others have taken a longer view of the sector’s demise.\n“Shareholders have been losing confidence in the state and it doesn’t matter if it’s the Socialists or the (Partido Popular),” said Joesph Font, Director of Renewable Energy at COMSA EMTE, a Barcelona-based infrastructure firm with a focus on solar energy. “They have been changing the rules of the game.”\nWhile the precise reasons vary as to why the sector ground to a halt (it depends based on whether you’re talking to those on the giving or receiving end of government subsidies), what everyone seems to agree on is that the state is almost certainly not going to be a lifeline. The political will to support green energy under Rajoy is not there. Critics say the state has been dragging its feet toward a new regulatory system for the energy sector, attributing the delay to the power of the coal and hydrocarbon lobbies in Madrid or the notion that the country is far enough along to reach the European goal of having renewables be 20% of the nation's energy production by 2020. The new government, according to Bloomberg News, has promised a new tax and incentive system for the energy sector by June 30, but few feel that it will include anything beyond more cuts aimed at chipping away at that $27 billion.\nSurviving the Storm\nConversations with those with money in the region suggested a hiatus of three or four years on new projects. There will be far fewer companies when and if the sector ever gets back on its feet. For larger operations intent on staying put, surviving the months ahead means relying on non-renewable crutches where they can find them and, more importantly, seeking out opportunities far from Spain or even Europe.\nFor Font and COMSA EMTE, this means restructuring to take the burden off their renewable efforts for the time being and building on existing offices that offer the connections, financial markets and political stability necessary to set up shop. Mostly, though, they are looking for places with the political will now lacking in Madrid. In practice, this opens the door to emerging markets in South America.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "“It kind of fell into my lap one day,” said 22-year-old Wisconsinite Hannah Gold, describing the opportunity to represent the United States in women’s ice hockey at Israel’s Maccabiah Games, the one of the greatest sporting competitions in the world.\nFrom July 14 to 28, 2022, the Games welcomed 10,000 athletes from 60 countries to Jerusalem. The games are sometimes referred to as the “Jewish Olympics” and are a multi-sport event open to Jewish athletes worldwide and to all Israeli citizens, regardless of religion.\nGold grew up in Mequon and has been skating since she was 3 years old. “I’ve played with boys since high school, so it helped me stay tough,” Gold said. In high school, Gold played hockey at Milwaukee University School and trained for three years at the Harry and Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center in Whitefish Bay. “It was good to have this community here.”\nAsked to recruit Jewish female hockey players to US teams, Gold’s coach at the University of Augsburg sent her an email telling her that she had been selected to play. Since this was Gold’s first time in Israel and she had other Jews on her team, it would be a meaningful experience.\n“Our team had a very good bond. We all wanted great things to come out of the trip, so I think that really helped,” Gold said.\nWhile at the University of Augsburg in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Gold played hockey for the past four years, she was the only Jew on her team. Then in Israel, she was surrounded by Jews from everywhere, from Turkey to Brazil. Most exciting, however, was the fact that no Jewish athlete celebrated in the same way. “It was cool to see everyone’s different take on everything and how there are different ways to be Jewish.”\nGold said Shabbat was a way to examine these differences. Even just going around the challah, Gold and his teammates were able to connect the many cults present in the room.\nAmerican athletes spent the week leading up to the Games learning about some of Israel’s cultural pillars. They visited Masada, the Western Wall, the Dead Sea, listened to a Holocaust survivor speak and went to Yad Vashem.\nThe programming coordinators even threw a party for the American athletes. “It was in an amphitheater outside, everyone was wearing white…the energy was really cool there. Everyone was dancing,” Gold said.\nFrom 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day, Gold and his mates stayed busy practicing, getting to know each other, and playing.\n“It’s important that women’s hockey be part of the games because people have been trying to get it for years. I’m so grateful he was able to be there,” Gold shared.\nThe women’s ice hockey category hosted three teams: the United States, Israel and Canada. After a double round robin, Gold’s team won silver. For the entire tournament, Gold herself won the title of the team’s most valuable player.\nWhen asked how her Jewish identity played a role in her hockey career, Gold replied, “It’s always part of your identity, never separated. »", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The United States citizens have the right to speak freely, only if it does not have an effect on the status quo. Since the 1960's where there were authentic social movements, there has been a loss in the demonstration movement. Recently, there have been many instances where people or activists who disagree are being quieted by US law enforcement.\n|< Prev||Next >|\nMost Read News", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "“Letting go of anger is the right thing,” he wrote, according to prosecutors. “But it makes me feel so strong I dream about your ending You burn up in flames You suffocate on your own blood Your soul completely drained.”\nThe 46-year-old Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to attempting to acquire a chemical weapon and identity theft. The sentence came after he admitted to making the 2018 purchase while using the name of one of two juveniles the state had placed in his custody, in hopes of avoiding detection.\nThe amount that he chose to buy, prosecutors said, was capable of killing as many as 300 people.\nIn an interview Wednesday, Siesser’s attorney, Christopher Slusher, said that his client had “expressed tremendous remorse” for his actions. He said Siesser, a former member of the military who had served overseas, had never before gotten in trouble and was reeling from mental health issues at the time he sought out the toxic chemical.\n“He understands why people might see this differently, but he doesn’t believe in his heart he would have gone further with anything,” Slusher said.\nAccording to federal court records, Siesser’s first attempt at getting his hands on the chemical came in June 2018. An affidavit filed by prosecutors redacted the name of the substance he was seeking. But once the text of the filing was pasted into another document, it identified the chemical as dimethylmercury, a rare organic mercury compound.\nThe danger of the colorless liquid was demonstrated in the highly publicized 1997 death of Karen Wetterhahn, a Dartmouth College professor. The 48-year-old scientist had been using the compound to study the effects of toxic metals on human cells when a few drops spilled onto her latex glove. She died of mercury poisoning 10 months later.\nSiesser told investigators he had read an article about a scientist who died after exposure to the compound; it was not clear from court documents whether he was referring to Wetterhahn. He said he had initially tried to get it from a legitimate chemical supplier, telling the seller that it was for “a gifted chemistry student.” But lacking the required permit, he was rejected.\nIn July of 2018, he sent bitcoin to an Internet seller after acknowledging that he understood the chemical posed a risk of death to anyone who came into contact with it. When it didn’t ship, Siesser told the seller, “I plan to use it soon after I receive it. I don’t really have any concerns. If you have any tips or care to offer advice feel free.”\nHe tried again a month later, paying the equivalent of $150 in bitcoin. This time, authorities intervened with an undercover operation. He signed for a package on Aug. 23, 2018, believing the toxic chemical was inside, authorities say.\nOfficers knocked on the door after watching Siesser accept the delivery.\nHe told the authorities that he bought a speaker, but then he later said in an interview that he purchased dimethylmercury using the names of the minors in his care. Although he told investigators that he had bought the vials for experiments related to bio-hacking, a form of gene editing through protein manipulation, he could not explain how the evolving science worked.\nOne of the juveniles told officers that Siesser said he wanted to be an assassin and kill those who wronged him, including an ex-wife, according to the affidavit. The woman, and another woman whom he went on three dates with but felt a strong connection to, “left him heartbroken,” prosecutors said.\nWhen authorities searched the home for what Siesser thought was dimethylmercury, they found other substances, including cadmium arsenide, a toxic compound. They also found his writings, which prosecutors said “articulated heartache, anger, and resentment over a breakup and a desire for the unidentified cause of the heartache to die.”\n“Right now your happy,” he wrote in one entry. “But that won’t last My anger is coming And you won’t die fast!”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "TARENTUM (KDKA) – A man had to rush out of his home in Tarentum early Monday morning after it caught fire.\nAccording to officials, the fire started around 12:45 a.m. along West 8th Avenue.\nThe fire chief said it started on the first floor and spread up to the third floor.\nThe man living in the home got out, but he ran back in several times to try to rescue his cats.\n“The gentleman did get out of the house. He did make two, three attempts to go back in for his cats,” Tarentum Fire Department Chief John Hudec said.\nThe fire marshal is investigating the cause of the fire at this time.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Academic Study Underscores How Big Pharma’s Price-Gouging on Treatments for Diseases Like Cancer Drives Crisis of Affordability\nAn academic analysis published this week in Health Affairs examines Medicare enrollees’ habits when prescribed new, high-price specialty drugs for four specific conditions. The analysis compares the difference between the number of prescriptions filled and picked up for patients who receive low-income subsidies versus those without these subsidies, which lower out-of-pocket spending. The analysis looked at more than 17,000 prescriptions issued between 2012 and 2018 and found that seniors were almost twice as likely to pick up or fill their prescriptions when they had this low-income subsidy.\nFurther, the analysis reveals that Medicare beneficiaries without subsidies did not fill or pick up almost 30 percent of prescriptions written for high-cost cancer-fighting drugs, 22 percent of hepatitis C treatments, and more than 50 percent of disease-modifying therapies for either immune system disorders or hypercholesterolemia.\nThe findings underscore the importance of market-based solutions to crack down on brand name pharmaceutical manufacturers’ egregious pricing practices that are the underlying cause of out-of-control drug prices.\nTHE CAUSE: BIG PHARMA’S PRICE HIKES AND SKY-HIGH LAUNCH PRICES\nThe root causes of the affordability crisis for drugs used to treat serious conditions, like cancer, are the egregious pricing practices of brand name drug companies, including repeated price hikes on existing treatments and sky-high launch prices on new medications being introduced to the market.\nPrices On 54 Cancer Drugs Increased 40 Percent Over Eight Years: “The affordability problem is worsened by soaring list prices for many specialty drugs used to treat cancer and other serious diseases… For instance, prices for 54 orally administered cancer drugs shot up 40 percent from 2010 to 2018, averaging $167,904 for one year of treatment, according to a 2019 JAMA study. Bristol Myers Squibb, the manufacturer of Clark’s drug, Pomalyst, has raised the price 75 percent since it was approved in 2013, to about $237,000 a year.” (“Seniors Face Crushing Drug Costs as Congress Stalls on Capping Medicare Out-Of-Pockets,” Kaiser Health News, January 4, 2021, Harris Meyer)\nCancer Drug Price Hikes Outpace Inflation: “The cost of oral cancer drugs increased by almost six percent over inflation from 2010 to 2018, leading to increases in out-of-pocket costs for Medicare patients despite reductions in the Part D coverage gap, according to an analysis of formulary and pricing data.” (“Costs of Oral Cancer Drugs Rising Faster than Inflation,” MDedge, May 28, 2019, Richard Franki)\nList Prices for New Cancer Drugs Rose More Than 50 Percent In Five Years: “It wasn’t all that long ago that a six-figure price on a debut cancer drug was big news. Now, it would be more surprising if an oncology launch didn’t carry a price tag of $100,000 or more—and the high cost of those new rollouts is helping drive cancer treatment costs toward $100 billion annually in the U.S. alone. According to a new IQVIA report, U.S. cancer drug spending climbed to almost $50 billion last year, about twice the $24.8 billion spent in 2012. Along the way, median U.S prices for new therapies climbed above $160,000 last year, more than double the median $79,000 launch price in 2013.” (“Super-Pricey New Cancer Drugs Drive Mega Increases in Treatment Spending,” FiercePharma, May 24, 2018, Eric Sagonowsky)\nEvery New Cancer Drug Brought To Market In 2017 Cost $100,000 Or More: “Spending on cancer drugs has doubled over the past five years, and little wonder: Every new cancer drug brought to market last year cost $100,000 or more, according to a new report. The average cost of a new drug released in 2017 was $150,000, according to the report from The IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science, formerly IMS Health and Quintiles. Those drug costs are expected to double again by 2022, the report finds. That compares to the average $79,000 cost of new cancer drugs that hit the market in 2013.” (“Cancer Drug Spending Doubled In Last 5 Years, Report Says,” NBC News, May 24, 2018, Maggie Fox)\nDrug Companies’ Price Hikes Costing Patients And Taxpayers: “Drugmakers raised prices on more than 400 drugs in the early days of 2020, including two blockbuster cancer treatments that have been top-expenditure drugs in Medicare Part B, according to healthcare analysts and CMS data… Two of the 10 physician-administered drugs that Medicare spent the most money on in 2018 have seen price increases this January, healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors found… Merck instituted a price increase of 1.5 percent for Keytruda, the second-highest expenditure Medicare Part B drug in 2018. Bristol-Myers Squibb increased the price for Opdivo, a drug used to treat small cell lung cancer, by 1.5 percent. Opdivo was the third-highest Part B expenditure drug in 2018.” (“Two Blockbuster Cancer Drugs see New Year Price Hikes,” Modern Healthcare, January 3, 2020, Rachel Cohrs)\nBreaking Down Big Pharma’s Pricing Of Blockbuster Cancer Drugs\nTHE KICKER: PRICES RISE WHILE VALUE LAGS\nBig Pharma’s price increases are not connected to increases in clinical value. That is the consensus of multiple studies that find drug companies price hikes on cancer products in their portfolios are unjustified and carry little to no connection to clinical improvements.\nBig Pharma’s Prices Have “No Association” With Clinical Benefit: “The cost of cancer drugs continues to escalate with each new product that comes on the market, often presenting formidable challenges to both patients and healthcare systems. But a new analysis suggests these high costs cannot be justified with respect to clinical benefit. The analysis considered 65 oncology drugs launched in the past decade and found no association between clinical benefit and monthly treatment cost… ‘Prices of cancer drugs should be better aligned with their clinical benefit to improve access to beneficial medicines and enable limited resources to be used for treatments that offer patients improved outcomes,’ said lead author Kerstin Noëlle.” (“High Cost Of Cancer Drugs Does Not Reflect Clinical Benefit,” Medscape, May 13, 2020, Roxanne Nelson)\nCancer Drug Pricing “Not Aligned With The Actual Benefit:” “A new analysis found that costs for dozens of cancer drugs in the U.S. were 2.3 times higher than in four wealthy European nations. And at the same time, there was generally no association between the clinical benefits of the drugs and the monthly treatment costs in most of the countries. In other words, pricing was not aligned with the actual benefit.” (“What Value? Costs For Dozens of Cancer Drugs Aren’t Tied To Better Clinical Benefits,” STAT News, April 30, 2020, Ed Silverman)\nPrice Increases on Cancer Medications Outpacing Value: “The cost of new anti-cancer drugs increased more than five-fold from 2006 to 2015, but a new analysis suggests that cancer patients and insurers may be getting less for their money. Anticancer medications account for the lion’s share of global drug spending, and the average price per month of these drugs is known to have more than doubled in recent years, Dr. Kelvin Chan of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto and colleagues note in the Journal of Oncology Practice.” (“As Cancer Drug Prices Climb, Value Not Keeping Pace,” Reuters, April 12, 2018, Anne Harding)\nLearn more about market-based solutions to hold Big Pharma accountable and lower drug prices HERE.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Cardinal Vincent Nichols is the latest in a stream of Christian leaders calling for the re-opening of churches in the UK.\nThe Archbishop of Westminster has questioned why places of worship have not been prioritised in the Government's latest measures to ease lockdown restrictions.\nStarting on Monday, commercial businesses including car showrooms and outdoor markets will be allowed to re-open their doors with all non-essential retailers free to follow suite from 15th June.\nSpeaking at his homily for Pentecost Sunday, Cardinal Nichols said this decision by the Prime Minister \"questions directly the reasons why our churches remain closed\".\n\"We are told that these openings, which are to be carefully managed, are based on the need to encourage key activities to start up again. Why are churches excluded from this decision?\" he added.\nThis week's announcements by the PM that some indoor sales premises can open Monday and most shops on 15 June, questions directly the reasons why our churches remain closed. It is now time to move to the phased opening of our churches. https://t.co/MXPboGyegd— Cardinal Nichols (@CardinalNichols) May 30, 2020\nAs churches including Westminster Cathedral remain closed across the UK, Nichols remarked of the important role faith plays in our society, particularly during the current crisis: \"as a motivation for the selfless care of the sick and dying; as providing crucial comfort in bereavement; as a source of immense and effective provision for those in sharp and pressing need; as underpinning a vision of the dignity of every person, a dignity that has to be at the heart of the rebuilding of our society.\"\nHe reasoned that the opening of church buildings \"even if just for individual prayer\", would help to \"nurture this vital contribution to our common good\".\n\"Opening churches must be done safely\", he stressed and explained that expert guidance had been developed to ensure Government recommendations could be followed and no person would be at risk.\n\"The benefits of being able to access places of prayer is profound, on individual and family stability and, significantly, on their willingness to help others in their need.\n\"It is now time to move to the phased opening of our churches, he added.\"\nThis comes as a number of UK Bishops and church leaders have written to the government seeking an urgent review of lockdown measures that uniformly ban churches from opening.\nThe letter warns that the group intend to take legal action if the ban is not addressed.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Sophie Ellis-Bextor has revealed that she is eager to have more children with husband Richard Jones.\nThe 'Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer)' singer, who already has boys Sonny, five, and Kit Valentine, five months, admitted that she wants to further extend her brood.\n\"I would love to have more children one day,\" she told Now magazine. \"But I'm going to leave another gap so I can enjoy them.\"\nIn February, the star gave birth to Kit Valentine nine weeks early after being diagnosed with the potentially life-threatening condition pre-eclampsia.\nThe couple's eldest child Sonny was also born prematurely.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Activist investor Ryan Cohen has exited his position in retailer Bed Bath & Beyond, according to a securities filing released Thursday afternoon.\nThe filing shows that Cohen’s RC Ventures dumped its stock on Tuesday and Wednesday at a range of prices between $18.68 per share and $29.22 per share. The firm also sold its call options. Cohen said in a filing earlier this week that he intended to sell his holdings of the meme stock.\nShares of Bed Bath & Beyond have rocketed higher this month, fueled in part by retail traders in an apparent revival of the meme trading craze.\nCohen, who co-founded Chewy and is the chairman of GameStop, purchased more than 7 million shares and call options of Bed Bath & Beyond earlier this year. The company added board members of Cohen’s choosing and pushed out its CEO after RC Ventures revealed its stake.\nShares of the stock fell 20% in extended trading.\nThis is breaking news. Please check back for updates.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The researchers thought that being overweight could lead to depression and was thought to be largely psychological.\nAlthough earlier studies have found that people with obesity are more likely to suffer from depression, it is not clear whether this is in contrast to weight change or in contrast to depression.\nNow, in its largest study of its species, experts say that genetic variants associated with high body mass index (BMI) can lead to depression that has a stronger impact on women than men. Moreover, they say that the research suggests that the effect can be reduced to factors such as the body image.\nBun People with more population are more depressed, and at least in part. [a] BMI causal effect [on] Depression, Dep he said. One of the co-authors of the study is Prof Tim Frayling, Exeter Medical School.\nIn the International Journal of Epidemiology, researchers in the United Kingdom and Australia describe how they used data from the UK Biomark, a research study involving 500,000 participants between the ages of 37-73 employed in 2006 and 2006.\nResearchers have also examined 73 genetic variants associated with a high BMI which are also associated with a higher risk of diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. They also examined 14 genetic variants that were associated with a high percentage of body fat but were associated with a lower risk of such health problems.\nThe team then examines the participants' hospital data and answers to a series of questionnaires – including a GP or their reports on psychiatric referral for anxiety or depression. The team found that about 49,000 respondents were confident in their depression.\nOverall, the team found that people with a higher BMI were more likely to be depressed.\nResearchers found that predisposition to a genetically higher BMI was associated with depression by showing a stronger effect on women than men. The results were maintained when individuals with a family history of depression were excluded and the analysis performed additional tests even when the analysis was repeated with data from a large international project called the Psychiatric Genomic Consortium.\n73 focusing on genetic variation and taking into account factors including age and gender, it was found that the increase in depression for each 4.7 point increase in BMI increased by 18% in general and 23% in females.\nWhen collecting data from different sources, the team found 14 genetic variants that increased body fat but were not associated with metabolic disability, and increased the chance for depression.\nBileşen If the psychological component is as strong as any physiological component [the latter] there is no, ğ Frayling said, suggesting that a weak body image might be a mechanism in play.\nThe study has some limitations: it looked primarily at individuals with white European ancestors and some contained their own reported data.\nWhile the study did not show that for other reasons weight gain would increase the risk of depression, Frayling said this was possible. \"They're giving permission [one] He said the larger impacts in the BMI could have a greater impact on depression. BM\nNaveed Sattar, professor of metabolic medicine at the University of Glasgow, welcomed the study. ”These new findings are perhaps the strongest to suggest that higher weights may actually contribute to depression,“ he said. ”Of course, many other factors can lead to depression, but they can even help in weight loss in some people, while the weaker should help reduce the likelihood of depression in general.“", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "We should send food and medicines, not sanctions\nAfter four weeks of delays, the election results are finally set to be announced in Zimbabwe following intense international and domestic pressure. The past month has witnessed violence and arrests that the opposition parties as well as foreign observers and human rights agencies claim are politically motivated. The main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has claimed that at least 10 of its members have been killed, 800 houses belonging to its party workers have been burnt, and hundreds of its supporters have been arrested on fraudulent charges.2 However amidst the recount, delays, and intimidation the official results expected to be released later this week are likely to result in a victory for the opposition parties. People of Zimbabwe have voted for change and to put an end to the 28 year long rule of Robert Mugabe.3\nYet Zimbabwe’s problems will not end with a regime change and a smooth and peaceful transfer of power—which seems unlikely given Mugabe’s desperate attempts to cling onto power. The country faces extreme inflation exceeding 100,000 percent 4 this year, the worst for any country in the world. A U.S. $100 bill now buys 44 lbs of Zimbabwean currency. while a loaf of bread costs 7 million Zimbabwean dollars. And it only gets worse: current trends suggest inflation will spiral even further out of control in the upcoming months.5\nInflation represents only one of the problems of the country. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Zimbabwe has had negative GDP growth rate for the past decade, with GDP per capita falling by 40 percent in the past seven years. During the same time Zimbabwe has experienced a 51 percent drop in agricultural output, a 47 percent fall in industrial production, and a 35 percent decline in resources output.6 The alarming warning signs of the late 1990s led foreign investors to withdraw funds from Zimbabwe further aggravating the economic crisis and unemployment. Today, four in every five Zimbabweans looking for work are unable to find it even the the country’s literacy rate is highest in all of Africa. 7\nUntil last year Zimbabwe was self-sufficient in canned and processed food. 8 However, this year, according to UN World Food Programme estimates, 4.2 million Zimbabweans—a third of the population—will face serious food shortages.9 Many Zimbabweans have been forced to survive on one meal a day. Aid agencies are unlikely to gather enough support from the rest of the world as Zimbabwe has an appalling credit history. After defaulting on its foreign loans in 2004, Zimbabwe was suspended from the International Monetary Fund. Few countries would risk loaning money to Zimbabwe today. Already having substantial difficulty in handling the economy, the government has been unable to attend to other social needs of its citizens, which has resulted in poor health. Thanks in part to its appallingly high HIV/AIDS infection rate, Zimbabwe has the lowest average life expectancy in the world .10\nZimbabwe’s current situation is not representative of its resources or the abilities of its people. Not so long ago, the country was known as the bread basket of Africa11 for its bounteous exports of corn and other staples to the rest of the continent.12 Being rich in minerals, the nation exports copper, platinum, gold and other metals. The workforce too is one of the most educated and talented in the region.\nNor is the current crisis indicative of a greater regional trend. Neighboring countries, while not doing great, are still in much better shape than Zimbabwe. For instance, Zambia grew by 6 percent in 2007. Other neighboring countries have shown similar positive growth.\nEven if the transfer of power does take place smoothly, the new government will have many challenges on its plate. This is the first time there has been a regime change in Zimbabwe, and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has no prior experience running a government. Seasoned policy makers would find revitalizing Zimbabwe an ordeal beyond imagination. In this time of grave humanitarian and economic crises, Zimbabwe definitely deserves international support and attention.\nThe U.S. State Department seems to disagree. Top U.S. diplomat for Africa, Jendayi Frazer, pushed for UN sanctions on Zimbabwe as a world response to violence in the region.13 What Frazer does not realize is that the time lag in the execution of the legislation would result in it hitting the beleaguered Tsvangirai government, rather the oppressive Mugabe regime. Furthermore, sanctions can produce more harm than good in Zimbabwe right now. Pressure applied through sanctions may decrease political turmoil but this could potentially come at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans dying from hunger. The great world economic powers must play their role in recovering Zimbabwe from this doomsday scenario by offering substantial humanitarian aid and support. Hopefully, the U.S. State Department will gain some common sense.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "On September 19th 2017, an earthquake of 7.1 devastated Mexico and shook the foundation of our NPH Mexico family. Although our children and staff are thankfully safe, the earthquake permanently destroyed or damaged an unprecedented number of NPH Mexico properties. Casa San Salvador (Miacatlan), home for 430 children has been damaged. The school needs urgent repair in order to provide our children a safe environment and programs for their future!\nFollowing the recent series of earthquakes in Mexico, Fondo Semillas created the \"Women Rebuilding their Communities\" Fund to provide grants and technical assistance to local women's groups working on recovery efforts in their communities. The spirit of collaboration that emerged in response to the earthquakes makes this an ideal time to not only re-build, but also promote sustainable development and better living conditions in communities throughout Mexico.\nWhile the September 2017 earthquakes in Mexico no longer make international news, one of the many places that has been left forever changed by the event is Tultitlan, State of Mexico. From the darkness of the crisis came a rally of support and trust in the Amextra Community Center. One year after the quake, we are working with the strengthened social fabric to increase the value of education, provide access to more mental and physical health resources, and create new opportunities for income.\nThe historic community of San Gregorio in Xochimilco suffered significant damage in the earthquake on September 19. Of the 4000 homes in the town, 1000 are uninhabitable and reconstruction will take months. The schools are damaged have no plan to reopen soon, and the families who have lost their homes and livelihoods have been eating donated meals amidst the rubble. We have secured the use of a local property and are working with local leaders to transform it into a school and community kitchen\nLast September 7 a devastating 8.2-magnitude earthquake struck the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico. Approximately 2.3 million people were affected and the number of deaths increased to 90. In addition, the tropical storms and hurricanes that have impacted this area have complicate the situation. Thousands of people have lost their homes and are living with no roof in raining, with high health risk.\nMexico is living the worst disaster in history, two earthquake on September 7 (8.2M) and September 19 (7.1M) has devastated many families. Your support will help TECHO to build transitional houses to those families (in Oaxaca, Puebla, Morelos, Mexico City and Mexico State) These emergency houses has an area of 32mts2, are of fiber cement and wood and has a lifespan of 20 years. This is just a breath of hope and relief, a new beginning, to many families who become homeless by the disaster.\nAfter the earthquakes recorded on September 7 and 19 in several states of the country, which have been seriously affected, the civilian population is suffering damage in their homes, food and water shortages, affectations in Infrastructure and services. The Proyecto Caracol project seeks to repair structural damage in schools in vulnerable communities, work with the commmunity and offering Workshops to the school community to provide knowledge about natural disaster prevention.\nFORWARD/ADELANTE Puerto Rico, a fund created by the network of Puerto Rican foundations, collected and quickly distributed funds to vetted local grassroots organizations that provided direct assistance to communities affected by Hurricanes Maria and Irma. Now, longer term support will strengthen their response capacity, promote transparency in government, equitable distribution of disaster recovery funds, and generate data to promote access to housing, jobs, and resilient communities.\n40% of high school students in Puerto Rico are out of school. NUESTRA ESCUELA successfully serves this population since the year 2000 with over 1500 graduates. Our primary function is to support socio-economically disadvantaged youth who for various reasons drop out of school. To continue providing these students an alternative model of education that grants them a high school diploma in a healthy and proper environment, we must rebuild our school premises in Caguas, Puerto Rico.\nWhen Irma & Maria hit Puerto Rico, poor and vulnerable neighborhoods were among the most affected. In the 8 communities along the Caño Martín Peña, winners of the World Habitat Awards,~1,000 families lost the roofs to their homes and a safe place to sleep. Temporary tarps already have filtrations, leading to mold related diseases. Roofs for the Caño, a community-based project, will help ~12 families in dire conditions return to normalcy by transitioning from tarps to permanent, resilient roofs.\nIntercambios has an opportunity to emerge from the devastation of Hurricanes Irma and Maria stronger than ever. By transforming our headquarters into a safe space to offer lifesaving care and emergency relief, Intercambios will ensure that the most vulnerable people in Puerto Rico, including people who use drugs, people with HIV, and people who face other health disparities, can access urgent assistance now and never face another crisis alone.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "ATHENS – With wildly varying estimates of how many people – from 100,000 to 1.5 million – at a demonstration protesting government plans to give away the name Macedonia in a new composite for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Greece’s ruling Radical Left SYRIZA said it fizzled out and failed to impress, or change its mind.\nForeign Minister Nikos Kotzias, the driving force to let FYROM keep the word Macedonia – the name of an abutting ancient Greek province – tweeted his disdain for the protest effort he said wouldn’t dissuade him and said the major opposition New Democracy (ND) was behind the attempt to roil the government.\n“Today, the opinion polls of vested interests were refuted; ND was exposed to all, as well as those (protesters) that did not heed the Ecumenical Patriarch’s address … Millions of Greek patriots made their choice. I, therefore, continue, with a clean conscience and responsibility, to negotiate for the good of the country,” was his Tweet.\nTsipras’ office put out a statement that said the government’s “compass is the patriotic best interest (of the country), moderation, consensus and a perseverance on clear positions, with the target being cooperation, understanding and mutual development … any other stance will only lead to national defeats.”\n“The overwhelming majority of the Greek people…irrespective of their opinions (on the issue) agree that major foreign policy issues cannot be solved through fanaticism and intolerance,” he added.\n“Their hopes to exploit the demonstration for political gain were dashed,” the statement went on to say although Tsipras, who does not hold news conference, was not available to reporters for questioning.\nThe statement also said that New Democracy’s hopes of “millions of protesters” were shattered but there was no comment from SYRIZA’s junior coalition partner, the pro-austerity, marginal, jingoistic Independent Greeks (ANEL) of Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, who is opposed to the giveaway, as is the Church of Greece which allowed clerics to attend.\nWith New Democracy holding a big lead in polls after Tsipras reneged on anti-austerity promises, the Conservatives leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis – whose late father was the Premier in 1992 who let the newly-emerging country breaking off from Yugoslavia use the word Macedonia – said Tsipras was using the name issue to distract attention from the economy and his faltering in polls.\nMitsotakis tweeted that, citizens had “expressed their anxiety and lack of trust in a government that did everything to divide Greeks on a crucial national issue.”\nHis sister and former foreign minister Dora Bakoyanni, in an interview with Real News, said any deal reached by SYRIZA will be over the name only and let force FYROM to renounce claims on Greek territory, including the second-largest city and port of Thessaloniki.\n“We’ll (Greek side) be paying in cash, and Skopje (FYROM on credit. At the same time, we’ll have lost a lever of pressure, namely, the acquis of the (2008) Bucharest (NATO summit).”\nShe was referring to Greece blocking FYROM’s entry into NATO – as well as European Union hopes – which could continue unless the name issue is settled, leaving Greece with nothing in return except FYROM Premier Zoran Zaev’s promise to change the name of his country’s airport and major highway, named for Alexander the Great, but not remove a statue of the Greek conqueror in the capital of Skopje.\nUnited Nations Special Envoy Matthew Nimetz, an American lawyer who’s failed for two decades to find an answer, has resumed talks after a three-year break and reportedly proposed five names for a new composite, but all include Macedonia and he said Greece has no choice but to go along.\nTsipras has also said that and that he wants to open the door for FYROM to get into NATO and the EU with critics saying he’s trying to aid an American hope to build up the defense alliance as a bulwark against Russian interests even though SYRIZA came to power on a promise to take Greece out of NATO and remove a US military base on Crete.\nThe most likely solution will be to add a modifier such as “new” or “north” to the republic’s name. But the proposals have triggered protests in both countries.\nKotzias earlier hit out at Nimetz, who said he believed Greece was “not denying the identity” of the people of FYROM. “I clearly and sternly stressed that it is not within his competence to talk about what Athens’ policy is, much less to describe it incorrectly,” Kotzias said.\nTHE MAIN EVENT\nAt the rally, featuring Greek flags flying and being waved everywhere and draped over people’s shoulders, there was unbridled patriotism and scorn for Tsipras, SYRIZA and Kotzias.\nHundreds of chartered buses brought protesters in from around the country to the Greek capital, while more people arrived on ferries from the islands. Traffic was blocked throughout the city center and three major subway stops were closed.\nChanting “Hands off Macedonia!” and “Macedonia belongs to Greece!” the protesters converged on Syntagma Square in front of Parliament, many waving flags bearing the Star of Vergina, the emblem of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia.\nPolice officials estimated the attendance at 140,000. Organizers, who claimed 1.5 million were at the rally, used a crane to raise a massive Greek flag over the square.\n“We are trying to show the politicians … that they must not give up the name ‘Macedonia’,” said 55-year-old protester Manos Georgiou.\nIn Skopje, a spokesman for the FYROM government said he didn’t know whether his government would react to the rally. FYROM opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski said in a TV interview that the rally hurt the prospects of a deal on the name issue.\nAbout 700 left-wing and anarchist protesters set up a counter-demonstration nearby, bearing banners calling for Balkan unity. “Macedonia belongs to its bears” read one banner.\nDozens of riot police were deployed to keep the two demonstrations separate.\nSuspected far-right supporters attempted to attack the counter-demonstration, but were prevented by police who used stun grenades and tear gas to hold them back. The far-right side responded by throwing rocks at police.\nThere were also reports alleging that anarchists attacked a biker carrying a Greek flag and a person wearing a T-shirt commemorating the participation of Greek mercenaries in the massacres of Muslim civilians in Bosnia during the 1990s.\nThe name dispute broke out after Macedonia gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.\nThe country is recognized by international institutions as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, even though about 140 countries refer to it simply as Macedonia. Many Greeks refer to it by the name of its capital, Skopje.\nGreece argues use of the name implies territorial claims on its own province of Macedonia, home of one of the most famous ancient Greeks, Alexander the Great.\nSUN OF JUSTICE\nOfficials in Skopje counter that their country has been known as Macedonia for a long time.\nComposer and former minister Mikis Theodorakis, 92, the keynote speaker at the rally, repeated the controversial claim that Greece’s neighbor wants to expand into Greek territory.\n“Using the name Macedonia as a vehicle and twisting historical events to a ridiculous extent, they actually seek to expand their borders at the expense of ours,” Theodorakis said.\nRejecting any compromise on Greece’s part, Theodorakis called for a referendum on the issue.\n“There is only one Macedonia,” he said. “It is, was and will always be Greek.” In an apparent dig at the leftist-led coalition he broke with after Tsipras reneged on its alleged principles and imposed more brutal conditions on workers, pensioners and the poor, Theodorakis also hit out at “left-wing fascism.”\nEarlier in the day, an anarchist group claimed responsibility for vandalizing Theodorakis’ home on the eve of the rally, accusing him of supporting “nationalistic and patriotic riffraff.”\nThe crowd at the rally in Athens jeered when speakers mentioned Nimetz’s name.\n“We’re expecting them to hear us,” protester Maria Iosifidou said of Greece’s politicians. “We don’t want Skopje to take the name … let them have another name.”\nAbout 100,000 people attended a similar protest last month in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, the capital of Greece’s province of Macedonia.\nAccording to police estimates, some 140,000 people joined the Feb. 4 protest. Organizers, however, put the turnout closer to 1 million people and even 1.5 million.\nRight-wing lawmakers and clerics joined farmers, pensioners as well as young Greeks in a large crowd outside Parliament. Members of the extreme-right Golden Dawn were also in attendance.\nDespite its size the rally was mostly peaceful, thanks largely to some 20,000 police officers who were deployed across the capital.\nSelf-styled anarchists, who organized a counter-demonstration a few blocks from the main rally in Syntagma Square, briefly clashed with police who fired tear gas to disperse them.\nCitizens’ Protection Minister Nikos Toskas said the Greek police (ELAS) estimate of 140,000 was correct and that aerial video footage at the height of the rally proved it, although he said the time and date weren’t working.\nIn comments to ANT1 television, Toskas said that the estimate given by ELAS was “entirely accurate” and “has nothing to do with political expediency.”\nThe minister insisted that the demonstrators’ estimate was way off. “If there had been a million people, they would have reached Ambelokipi,” he said, referring to a neighborhood farther away.\n(Material from the Associated Press was used in this report)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Since the Bush/Obama bailouts of General Motors in 2008 and 2009, respectively, the government has been badgered by fiscal conservatives and business-minded people to divest of its shares in General Motors. Unfortunately, as Rick Newman writes at US News, losses to the taxpayers could near $40 billion even as divestment begins taking place.\nBack in June, a paper by Heritage Foundation Senior Labor Policy Fellow James Sherk found losses to the taxpayer were entirely due to special treatment given to the United Auto Workers (UAW). According to Sherk in an e-mailed statement on Dec. 20, “Virtually none of these losses were necessary to keep GM operating; they came from subsidizing union compensation. The taxpayers spent over $12 billion to give the United Auto Workers far better terms than bankruptcy law calls for. Had the government not given the UAW preferential treatment it could have kept GM running without losing money.”\nAt the end of the day, the auto bailout has at least three major flaws with it that highlight why bailouts are at best risky policy, and too often horrible policy. Consider:\n1. As Sherk pointed out in his paper, and as he told me in an interview shortly after the paper came out, traditional bankruptcy procedures were not followed by the Obama Administration. When the government is in charge, rules often don’t matter, and in this case the UAW got special treatment that put it above investors.\n2. When then-CEO Ed Whitacre said GM had paid back its government loans in 2010, it was quickly found out this was a lie. Yet Whitacre was not held responsible for this manipulation of taxpayer trust, including his appearance in this April 2010 ad.\nAgain, when government is involved in this way in the private sector, one has to look under every rock to make certain all facts are being presented.\n3. Taxpayer losses are unacceptable when it comes to bailouts. First, the free market does the best job of deciding which companies survive. Second, should government wish to bail out special interests – whether it be through subsidies, straight-up bailouts, tariffs, etc. – it should do its duty to taxpayers and make certain losses are not realized.\nAccording to Newman, losses on the GM “investment” will be around $30 billion in this first round of divestments. In the end, losses could be billions more. Which means while millions of Americans struggle to find jobs and provide for their families, the federal government’s friends at General Motors are sitting pretty.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A study by 247 Sports using Spotrac shows that the 41 Miami football alums active in the NFL rank seventh in the league with career earnings of $594,503,460. Miami is seventh in career earnings despite being tied for 14th with Mississippi State and Texas A&M with the 41 active players in the NFL.\nThe 41 active Miami football alums in the NFL have average career earnings of $14,500,084.3902. Alabama as to be expected leads the list with 81 active players and $958,028,048 in earnings. The Crimson Tide alums earned $11.8275068 million in average career earnings. Miami players earned about $300,000 more per player.\nThe list from Spotrac includes transfers at their former schools. That largely helps Miami who has quite a few alums who transferred after beginning their collegiate careers at other schools. That number will be added to in 2021 with former transfers Jaelan Phillips and Quincy Roche beginning their NFL careers.\nSpotrac lists Calais Campbell as the active leader among Miami alums with career earnings of $118,091,393 in 13 seasons. Campbell has earned $71,750,000 in salary during his career with the rest spread out over option, signing and workout bonuses and incentives. Campbell will earn $13 million in 2021.\n\"7. MIAMIActive players in league: 41Overall earnings: $594,503,460Ah, yes … The U. While the Hurricanes don’t put as many players in the league as they did in the 1990s and 2000s, Miami’s presence in the NFL is still felt, especially in terms of dollars and cents. Despite having just 30 active players, Miami is approaching $600 million in combined active earnings.Topping the list is Baltimore Ravens defensive end Calais Campbell, who will have made just north of $118 million once the upcoming season is complete.\"\nAfter tying the 2004 Miami draft with six first-round picks in 2021, Alabama will continue to pad its number in earnings during the upcoming season. With Phillips and Greg Rousseau being selected in the first round the Miami football program will continue to stack earnings from their alums in 2021.\nTight end Brevin Jordan was a fifth-round pick of the Houston Texans and Roche in the sixth round to Pittsburgh. Kicker Jose Borregales signed with the defending Superbowl Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent. Miami will continue sending players to the NFL for the foreseeable future.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Tough competition for a job in the mainland's civil service, in which some posts attract more than 4,000 applications, has not diminished applicants' desire, reports China Daily. According to official figures, the number of applicants registering to take next year's national civil servants' examination surpassed one million. A total of 137 central authorities and institutions plan to recruit 16,000 civil servants next year, 1,000 more than this year.\nHappiness leads to success\nBeing happy doesn't just make you feel good, it can also make you more successful, according to Shawn Achor, a Harvard University lecturer and author of The Happiness Advantage. Positive thinkers have a biological advantage over people who are neutral or negative, and the good news is that being happy is a skill we can all learn, says Achor, who gives tips in his book on how to retrain the brain to improve productivity and performance. AAP\nDirectory giant looking to dial up greater earnings\nYellow Pages Group, New Zealand's biggest provider of directory information, has added 100 workers to boost earnings through more direct contact with customers. The jobs will cost NZ$8 million (HK$48.88 million) a year, with workers located throughout the country and will also help form a new outbound call centre, the Auckland-based company says. Bloomberg", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It was the type of statement city officials in Afton and Scandia and other exurban cities ringing the Twin Cities had hoped to make. But it came instead from the IT manager for Paul Bunyan Communications in the northern Minnesota town of Bemidji.\n“I am really excited about this project and the positive impact it will have on people’s lives,” Steve Howard said after the state of Minnesota awarded $10 million worth of grants this month to help subsidize broadband in poorly served remote locations. “Students will have access to educational resources, employees will be able to work from home, seniors will be able to stay in their homes longer with telemedicine and a rural medical clinic will finally get the connectivity it has needed for years.”\nOnce again, affluent exurban areas came up empty.\nAfton is the classic rural metro fringe community that has fought to retain an olden-days charm, battling subdivision proposals and modern additions such as cellphone towers. But other areas, such as Scandia, which are more receptive to growth, were also frustrated to have been left off the list once again.\n“This was a surprise to everyone,” said Neil Soltis, city administrator in Scandia, at the northern edge of Washington County. “We felt we would get a grant. It’s disappointing to see that no one in the metro got anything.\n“Quite frankly, it impacts growth,” he added, referring to the reaction of would-be residents when they learn that if they move to Scandia, they will be stuck in a time-warp when it comes to Internet speeds.\nThis year, the $10 million offer statewide was way oversubscribed, with dozens of applicants collectively seeking close to $30 million, and 15 winners.\nEven so, Scandia wasn’t the only place going into the process feeling confident, apparently with encouragement from the state.\nAfton City Council Member Stan Ross told residents in the city’s August newsletter that the High Speed Internet Committee he headed “has been told that Afton has a very good chance of being approved for the state grant.” In an interview, he said it would be “devastating” to come up empty.\nAnd when asked weeks ago about a Plan B in case the application failed, Afton City Administrator Ron Moorse spoke of possibly not getting the full amount requested and of having to choose to put limited funds into parts of town most left out of Internet service.\nBut when funding decisions were announced Nov. 20, the recipients seemed almost deliberately to be as far from the metro as possible. They ranged from International Falls to Winona County, with another applicant covering 30,000 square miles in 20 southwest counties to help more than 3,000 farm-based businesses.\nIt’s an era when “agricultural data usage is exploding nationally,” said the state Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), which decided the issue.\nIn Scandia, Soltis said he knows of no explanation that’s been extended to losing parties. Is all this creating bad feeling? he was asked.\n“I’m sure it has,” he said.\nDan Nelson, the Sioux Falls, S.D.-based director of governmental affairs for Midcontinent Communications, was more sanguine after losing two of three bids for money, including one in the northeast suburbs. The winner was in International Falls.\n“We have not discussed it with the state,” he said, “but last year after being unsuccessful we spoke to them at length about the pluses and minuses and were surprised and pleased to have more success this time.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Rss@dailykos.com (laura Clawson) · Thursday, February 23, 2017, 6:46 pm\nThe sun rises in the east and sets in the west and Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins gets credit she doesn’t deserve for being a moderate who stands up to her party. The latest: would Collins, as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, vote to subpoena Donald Trump’s tax returns as part of the investigation into his Russia ties?\n\"I don’t know whether we will need to do that. If it’s necessary to get to the answers, then I suspect that we would,\" Collins said on Maine Public Radio when asked if she would subpoena Trump's tax records for the investigation.\nShe added that such a decision would be up to the chairman and vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee.\nPredictably, the headlines are all “Republican would subpoena Trump.” But come on. “I don’t know … if it’s necessary … I suspect.” That’s way past standard hedging—if she’d said “never say never, but ...” it would have communicated the same thing. She isn’t willing to say a flat no (because it would look bad and the headlines wouldn’t be half so flattering), but she doesn’t expect it to happen and she is definitely, definitely not standing up to her party to make it happen.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Emotions can become heated among surgeons in an operating room.\nRaised voices can faze some, but Dr. Georgia Schweitzer Beasley handles it with aplomb. She has heard worse — her previous career as a basketball player prepared her well.\n“I’m like, ‘This is nothing,’ ” she said.\nTonight, the former Hartley, Duke and WNBA standout will be among 15 inductees into the Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Schweitzer Beasley and Brookhaven graduate Helen Darling are the two living central Ohio natives who will be inducted.\n“It’s a huge honor,” Schweitzer Beasley said. “I’m truly grateful for all the people who helped me get here.”\nAfter graduating from Hartley in 1997, Schweitzer Beasley helped lead Duke to the NCAA championship game in 1999. She scored 22 points in a matchup with national player of the year Chamique Holdsclaw during an Elite Eight upset victory over three-time defending national champion Tennessee.\nSchweitzer Beasley later played three seasons for the Minnesota Lynx in the WNBA. She entered medical school in 2008 and is seven years into a residency for surgical oncology at Duke University Hospital. She said she will become chief resident this summer.\nSchweitzer Beasley is balancing 80-plus-hour work weeks while also raising a 3-year-old son, Reid, and 6-month-old daughter, Wyn, with her husband, Jonathan. It is a hectic life, but a fulfilling one.\nIt would be silly to compare a basketball game to cancer surgery, but Schweitzer Beasley said her athletic career did help prepare her for her medical one.\n“Winning or losing a game doesn’t really matter that much in the grand scheme of things,” she said. “Now, I do really deal with a lot of life and death. But especially in surgery, there’s an understanding of how to be part of a team, more so than in any other field of medicine.\n“You have to rely on people. It can’t be a one-person show. You have to understand that you’re not the only one. Sometimes you have to be the one setting the screen and not the one taking the shot. There are a lot of similarities.”\nSchweitzer Beasley said she also benefited from learning to deal with failure as an athlete.\n“Unfortunately, we make mistakes as doctors, or bad things happen, and you can’t sit there and dwell on it because you’ve got the next patient coming,” she said. “You take your mistakes seriously, but you also have to be able to get back up. That’s something I’ve definitely learned from basketball.”\nSchweitzer Beasley was inducted into Duke’s Hall of Fame last fall, the day before Wyn was born.\nShe doesn’t have much time for sports now.\n“I think it’s still a part of me,” Schweitzer Beasley said. “I always loved playing. My son is 3, and I’ve got him dribbling and we’re playing now. It won’t be long till I’m out there with him.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The head of Mexico's financial intelligence unit says that a former executive at the state-owned oil company who was sanctioned this week by the comptroller's office is Pemex's former director Emilio Lozoya.\nAnne D'Innocenzio, Associated Press | PostedMay 23rd - 7:43am\nAn escalating trade war between the U.S. and China could mean higher prices on a broad array of products from toys to clothing. But some retailers will be less equipped to handle the pain than others, leaving consumers to carry the load.\nJon Gambrell, Associated Press | PostedMay 23rd - 7:13am\nFor years, Iran's supreme leader only criticized the West over Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers. Now, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is publicly chastising the country's elected president and his foreign minister as the accord unravels amid heightened tensions with the U.S.\nDavid McHugh, Associated Press | PostedMay 23rd - 5:35am\nOfficials at the European Central Bank at their last meeting had grown more concerned about chances for a return to stronger economic growth in the second half of the year as they underlined their readiness to deploy more stimulus if needed.\nSyrian government officials say a power station close to the rebels' last stronghold in the country's northwest has been repaired after insurgents bombed the facility the night before, kicking it off line.\nDavid McHugh, Associated Press | PostedMay 23rd - 3:33am\nThe CEO of Deutsche Bank says he is ready to make \"tough cuts\" to improve the struggling bank's profitability and raise a \"disappointing\" share price as negative headlines continue to plague Germany's biggest bank.\nJoe McDonald and Michael Liedtke, Associated Press | PostedMay 22nd - 11:08pm\nLooking for ways to hit back at Washington as a tariff fight escalates, President Xi Jinping and his economy czar visited a Chinese factory that processes rare earths - exotic minerals used in electric cars, mobile phones and other technology.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Stirling Prize TV show dropped\nRIBA says new coverage is better than “filming guests eating roast beef”\nLeading architects have spoken of their disappointment that the RIBA has failed to secure TV coverage of the 2012 Stirling Prize ceremony.\nThe event will not be televised this year, the first time in more than a decade it has not been broadcast by Channel 4 or the BBC. Instead the BBC plans to give details of the winner during an episode of the Culture Show to be aired “around the time of the prize”.\nSimon Allford, a partner at AHMM which has been nominated for the prize three times, described the decision as a blow for the Stirling’s reputation.\n“Not televising it is undoubtedly a loss,” he said. “Television does dumb down, but being on TV stops this idea that architecture is some internal discussion. It engages people to think about the importance of buildings to their communities.”\nThe RIBA denied that the move would damage the prestige of the prize, arguing that the new format could result in more compelling coverage of architecture rather than “filming guests eating roast beef”.\nAt the peak of its 10-year run live on Channel 4, the ceremony attracted 1.2 million viewers.\nLast year, when it was screened on BBC2’s Culture Show a day late, just 280,000 tuned in.\nWill Alsop, who won the prize in 2000 for Peckham Library, agreed that the move was disappointing.\n“I think it must be worrying for the RIBA because without TV it’s more difficult to get sponsorship for the whole event,” he said.\n“But it’s partly their fault for letting the format get stale. The Stirling Prize is important and needs to maintain that position.\nIf they change the format they might find it back on TV.”\nA BBC spokeswoman said the decision was made as part of a wider review of the Culture Show, which is being revamped as a shorter weekly programme.\n“The Stirling Prize winner will be part of an architecture-themed Culture Show, to be shown around the time of the prize, rather than filming the event itself,” she said.\nThe RIBA said the current format was outdated and it was developing ideas designed to attract bigger audiences.\nThe jury for this year’s prize was named this week as Nicholas Grimshaw chairing Mark Jones, Joanna van Heyningen, Hilde Daem and Naomi Cleaver.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "ANKARA (AA) – Australia’s Victoria state has banned the display of the Nazi swastika. Anyone displaying it in public will face monetary penalty or jail, or both.\nThe Parliament of Victoria passed the Summary Offences Amendment (Nazi Symbol Prohibition) Bill 2022 on Tuesday, which “makes it a criminal offense for a person to intentionally display the Nazi symbol (the Hakenkreuz, often referred to as the Nazi swastika) in public,” read a statement by the state government.\nUnder the new law, anyone intentionally displaying the Nazi symbol in public will face penalties of up to 22,000 Australian dollars ($15,213) and 12 months in jail, or both.\nThe state government said the move “sends a clear message that the dissemination of Nazi and Neo-Nazi ideology through the public display of the Nazi symbol has no place in Victoria.”\n“The Nazi symbol glorifies one of the most hateful ideologies in history – its public display does nothing but causes further pain and division,” said Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes.\n“It’s a proud moment to see these important laws pass with bipartisan support – I’m glad to see that no matter what side of politics, we can agree that this vile behavior will not be tolerated in Victoria.”\nThe new law also recognizes the cultural and historical significance of the swastika for the Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and other communities “as an ancient and sacred symbol of peace and good fortune.”\nThe statement clarified that the new law “does not prohibit the display of the swastika in such religious and cultural contexts.”\nVictoria’s government said it will keep monitoring “the use of hate symbols and may consider the inclusion of additional symbols at a later stage.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Transcript for Rep. Adam Schiff reacts to reported Comey memo\nWe are joined by the top Democrat on the house intelligence committee, California congressman Adam Schiff. Congressman Schiff, thanks for joining us this morning. Straight to the bottom line, do you believe president trump tried to block the investigation? Well, it certainly sounds as if these reports are accurate that he wanted this investigation of Michael Flynn to stop and he was concerned about the investigation in the sense that it might lead to him based on his own admission in the conversation he claims to have had with director Comey. The bottom line, George, we don't really know what took place here and we need to find out. We need to get those notes, if they exist, that Comey took of this conversation and any other that bear on this Russia investigation in any way and, of course, if the president was making a truthful claim or threat to director Comey that he had tapes we'll need to get those also and I think it's only a matter of time and probably not much time before we see director Comey come and testify before congress again. Are you prepared to subpoena those tapes, subpoena those notes? I think congress will need to subpoena them if indeed they're not provided voluntarily. I certainly support that. I think there are many committees that will. We've seen already Jason Chaffetz on the government reform committee call for that information to be provided and threaten to subpoena it if necessary. Congress needs to get to the bottom of it. I think there are enough credible allegations now of an effort to potentially impede or obstruct the investigation that this needs a very serious investigation just on that issue. Is there anything preventing director Comey from coming to congress right now? Nothing at all. And I'm quite sure that's going to happen. I have to imagine that he will want to explain just what took place if those conversations are as they were reported. The country really needs to know about it. If the president is affirmatively trying to interfere with this investigation, that is something that has to be brought out and investigated by congress and, of course, we have some powerful evidence at least reportedly in the form of con temp andous notes taken by the director of the FBI. Those could be powerful evidence. You've got a series of allegations, the January dinner where reportedly the president asked for a loyalty pledge, that February meeting where the president reportedly said I hope you can let this go and also the firing of director Comey with the president saying Russia was on his mind. What it take for that pattern to be an impeachable offense? I tried an impeachment case a few years ago in the senate involving a federal judge. It's obviously a very serious business even involving a judge. When you talk about the president of the United States, that kind of wrenching experience will only happen in the most serious of circumstances. There are, of course, the legal aspects of the issue. In fact, whether the president had the intent to corruptly interfere with the investigation. But then there's a practical consideration and at the end of the day I think the practical consideration is this, would the country believe that an effort to impeach the president was on the basis of a corrupt act by him or that it was simply an act to nullify an election that people disagreed with? If it's the latter it's never going to be successful. The country would have to have come to the point where they think the president's conduct is so disqualifying that he is rightfully removed from office. I don't think any of us should race to that conclusion. It would be enormously obviously jarring for the country to go through this. What we ought to be doing is methodically getting all the evidence and information to find out just what conversations took place, what did the president intend to do and did he have an improper purpose in trying to stop the investigation altogether, stop the investigation as particular people like Flynn and, in other words, protect himself from the administration of justice? Congressman Schiff, thanks for your time this morning. Thanks, George.\nThis transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "KOREA – Asia’s nonwoven production reached 3.09 million tons in 2011, said Wang Yanxi, chairman of ANFA, the All-Nippon Nonwoven Fabrics Association, at the opening ceremony of the ANEX 2012 exhibition in Seoul, Korea on Wednesday (June 13). By Adrian Wilson.\nYet the per capita consumption of nonwovens in Asia, he added, is still far behind that of Europe and North America – illustrating the potential that still exists for significant growth in the region.\nThe show has attracted 237 exhibitors from 24 countries, with major fibre and nonwovens producers from Japan such as Teijin and Toray very prominent.\nTeijin is featuring no less than 15 of its recent innovations, including:\n- V-Lap vertically lapped cushioning material.\n- The Eco Circle closed loop recycling system.\n- Nanofibre oil blotting paper featuring the company’s Nanofront technology.\n- Unisel multi-layered heat sealing materials for unique packaging applications.\nThese will be showcased in a feature in the 3rd issue of Sustainable Nonwovens, as will the Toray polyester nonwovens which form the basis of RO membranes for water filtration, along with a full report from ANEX 2012.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Despite exposure to Three Arrows, Voyager Digital suffers a downgrade from analyst\nCoinDesk's Consensus 2022 is the must-attend crypto & blockchain festival this June 9-12 in Austin, TX.\nIt is estimated that Voyager Digital (VOYG) shares fell more than 60% after it disclosed it could issue a \"notice of default\" if it fails to repay a loan to hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC).\n3AC exposure consists of 15,250 bitcoins ($370 million) and $350 million USDC, according to\nIn its exposure to 3AC, Voyager holds 15,250 bitcoins ($370 million) and $350 million in USDC.\nhe company said in a statement Wednesday.\nIn response to the recent market downturn, D\nDubai-based Three Arrows Capital hired legal and financial advisers to figure a way out.\nReport in the journal. 3AC invested over $200 million in LUNA tokens in February,", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "When Severna Park piled on rival South River enough for a running clock in last week’s regular season matchup, Seahawks junior Morgan Carter felt the sting.\nThat’s why she and the rest of the defending county champions drilled essentially one thing all week in practice – play South River lacrosse the way they knew how, no matter who the opponent was.\nSouth River coach Caroline Cochran reminded them of that as she drew her flock in for a pregame pep.\n“It’s about us,” she said. “It’s not about them.”\nThe Seahawks dampened the effects of an often airtight Falcons defense and a hot-shooting offense to capture the county championship crown for the second straight year, 9-6.\n“We were focused and we brought the intensity tonight,” Cochran said. “We kind of took a step back in the last game. We knew what this meant to us. We’d just seen them last week. We knew if we came out the way we came out last week, then we were going to get beat, because they’re a great team. We focused on us. We won the draw controls. We focused on the attacking and the defensive end. Jordan, our goalie, had a great day in goal.”\nUnlike last week, when Severna Park handily served the Seahawks its first county loss, South River (12-3) flipped roles. With a pair of hat tricks, Carter and Kathleen Sullivan secured South River’s advantage and helped usher in the Falcons’ first loss.\nFrom the first minute, the two squads netted equalizing goal after equalizing goal. Someone had to cut through.\nAs Severna Park defenders descended upon Carter, she could’ve gotten lost in the flood.\nInstead, her shot burst through the pile and punched the back of the net.\n“They’re a really good defense and they’re gonna send those doubles and they’re gonna crash,” Carter said. “It’s just a matter of keeping your head up and trying to get out of it as fast as possible.”\nThe Seahawks brushed off the possibility of a tied game as Carter unleashed her second goal, also under siege, handing South River the lead.\n“I think it’s just a mental thing,” Severna Park coach Kaitlyn Hines said. “Soon as we started to get down … I think that affects them mentally, that they couldn’t get themselves out of that hole.”\nSullivan, Kelsey Winters (two goals) and Carter again combined to carve out a five-goal margin. The offense that had succumbed to an assertive Falcons defense the week before now made clean, smart passes, crafty running paths and every opening they could find behind Falcons keeper Delaney Ott (four saves), especially in free position situations.\n“It just wasn’t our best game at all [last week],” Sullivan said. “We knew we could do better. We didn’t want to embarrass ourselves out here again.”\nSeverna Park struggled with penalties.\n“After a certain amount of time, there’s only so much we can do to hold a team out,” Hines said. “If you’re going to give them every free shot possible, they’re eventually going to score.”\nEven without the whistle’s cry, surefire goal-getters like Hunter Chadwick and Maddy Brady ran into barriers like they hadn’t before, pitching wide shots that would’ve kissed the net on another day.\n“Caitlin McGuirk has been a great leader on the defensive end this year,” Cochran said. “We have Rylee Kelly and Kaylee Mia Geist who run the ball up for our transition and it makes all the difference. They were all talking together tonight and first, second and third slides were coming, so we were able to shut down their big attacking threats.”\nDaily Top Stories\nThen, of course, there was Jordan Vincent. When shots leaked out of the defense’s hands, the junior goalie made the stops, 11 times.\n“She was really important, especially because last game, it was their goalie making all the saves,” Sullivan said. “To have that this game really helped us.”\nThe Falcons found a bit of rhythm as the first half waned, trailing just 8-5 at halftime and then closing the divide to two goals. Senior midfielder Alex Miller tallied three goals between the for Severna Park. Chadwick, Brady and Julia Putzi scored one in the first half.\nBut the South River defense recovered, pushing Falcons attacks to the perimeter as they had in the previous frame, as did the Severna Park defenders.\nAfter Tommi Bresnahan tacked on another one for the Seahawks, no one dressed in blue or white scored for over 17 minutes. It’s that cool-down period Carter wants to tackle next, if the two teams should come together in the Class 4A East Region final again.\n“If we get to them, I think it’s just a matter of staying calm and not taking our foot off the gas,” she said, “because they’re a good team and they can strike back at any time. We have to get there first.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By Erin Duvall\nCMT Crossroads has been pairing country singers with rock and pop acts for nearly 15 years. In 2005, Jennifer Nettles — as a member of Sugarland — was paired with Jon Bon Jovi for an episode in the show’s fourth season.\nNow, Nettles has been paired with Cheap Trick for the episode airing on March 24 on the network. Watch the songstress perform “I Want You to Want Me” with the rockers below.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- Subscribe NowLimited Time Offer\nMiami bank’s European parent could be in ‘serious financial condition’\nMajor Portuguese financial institution Espirito Santo International, which partially owns a bank in Miami, warned that it could be in “serious financial condition.”\nThe company is tied to Miami-based Espirito Santo Bank, a $735 million-asset bank that’s chartered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Losses at its parent company don’t directly diminish Espirito Santo Bank’s capital but, under new financial regulations, bank holding companies must demonstrate that they are healthy enough to support their subsidiaries.\nRELATED CONTENT: Espirito Santo Bank regains profit, grows loans\nAccording to the Wall Street Journal, an audit by KPMG cited in regulatory filings identified “irregularities” in the accounts of Espirito Santo International and concluded that the company is in “serious financial condition.” Espirito Santo International owns 49 percent of Espirito Santo Financial Group, which owns 27 percent of Banco Espirito Santo. The bank has been losing money in recent quarters as its country struggles amid a recession.\nEspirito Santo International has proposed selling about $1.37 billion in stock.\n\"As a subsidiary of Banco Espirito Santo, therefore as a standalone bank with its own capital, and licensed by the Florida Office of Financial Regulation and supervised by the FDIC, we do not believe it affects Espirito Santo Bank,\" said\nG. Frederick Reinhardt, chairman and CEO of the Miami bank. \"However, statements have been made that this situation may affect the name, reputational risk of Banco Espirito Santo and by connection it may, although unlikely, affect Espirito Santo Bank.\"\nEspirito Santo Bank focuses on foreign condo buyers, private wealth management and securities brokerage services.\nBrian Bandell covers real estate, transportation and logistics. Get the latest news with our free daily newsletter. Click here to subscribe.\nIf you are commenting using a Facebook account, your profile information may be displayed with your comment depending on your privacy settings. By leaving the 'Post to Facebook' box selected, your comment will be published to your Facebook profile in addition to the space below.\n- Most popular\n- Citrix to eliminate 900 jobs\n- Timing is everything for Related Group with Brickell Heights\n- Scottie Pippen's home is still on the market 8 years later\n- Royal Blues Hotel & Chanson Restaurant opens in Deerfield Beach\n- Fort Lauderdale restaurant closes temporarily for the second time in 3\n- Judge orders Lennar to execute $114M land purchase, company to appeal\n- How a South Florida brokerage signed 350 agents in the past year\n- West Palm Beach cleantech firm to build two $300M plants\n- New Whole Foods building heads to vote in Miami Beach\n- Ex-TD Bank executive consents to SEC judgment for Ponzi involvement\nSign up to receive South Florida Business Journal's Morning Edition and Afternoon Edition newsletters and breaking news alerts.\nERP Manager TACO Metals, Inc. | Miami, FL\nManager, State Operations AARP | Miami, FL\nPARTS COUNTER PERSON Lou Bachrodt Freightliner - Pompano Beach | Lighthouse Point, FL\nInside Sales - Medical Equipment Repair Medical Optics | Tamarac, FL\nREGIONAL LEADER MARSH USA INC. | Miami, FL", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Whether you're interested in staying in North Carolina long-term or simply think it would be more convenient for the summer, come hear from students who spent their 1L summer working in the state. From government to law firms to research assistantships, find out what where students have worked and how they got there. Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by the Duke NCBA and CPDC. For more information, please contact Catherine Lawson at email@example.com.\n1L Summer: Working in North Carolina\n- Dunlap comments on the \"big business\" of kidnapping westerners in the Middle East USA Today\n- Dunlap: Foley execution could build U.S. appetite for aggressive response US News & World Report\n- Dunlap discusses Western anti-ISIL resolve in wake of increased violence and video showing execution of American Voice of America", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "What appeared to be a slowing pace of jobs creation over the past three months has been reversed, based on current activity and upward revisions of the prior two months. The labor market added 336,000 jobs in September, along with a two-month combined bump of 119,000 jobs that increased previously reported numbers to 236,000 for July and 227,000 for August. September activity is ahead of the 12-month running average of 267,000.\nThe sectors reporting the highest changes in hiring included leisure and hospitality; government; healthcare; professional, scientific, and technical services; and social assistance.\nThe 3.8% unemployment rate was unchanged from August to September.\nAverage hourly earnings rose by 0.2% in September, contributing to a 12-month average increase of 4.2%.\nThe average work week for August increased slightly to 34.4 hours.\nWhile the temp sector continued to contract in the past month, the number dropped significantly, with a loss of 4,200 jobs reported for September.\nSeptember’s unexpectedly strong report of jobs growth confounded analysts who were prepared for a far less rosy outlook. Despite some confusion and consternation by economists, robust hiring activity over the course of the summer signals a strong economy. Even as wage growth slows, consumer spending appears to be on the rise. More people have returned to (or entered) the workforce, generating the highest number of new jobs since January of 2023.\nFewer people are quitting, and more are being hired. The leisure and hospitality sector has finally returned to pre-pandemic levels, although that bar has yet to be crossed by all sectors, including accommodations and government.\nSeptember saw a bump in open positions in the labor market, rising from 8.9 million to 9.6 million openings. Workers are staying in place longer, which is as likely to signal concerns about mobility from employees as a strong focus on retention efforts by employers. The bottom line? Finding and keeping good talent remains a priority for every employer.\nSources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), CNBC, CNN, Staffing Industry Analysts, USA Today, NBC News, Reuters, Forbes, FOX Business.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "BY KAREN CAMPBELL\nWEAKLEY COUNTY (July 23) — Weakley County Schools Director Randy Frazier welcomed new teachers to a year like “we’ve never seen before” when orientation took place last week at the board of education office in Dresden.\nNineteen educators, who will be new to Weakley County classrooms this year or were hired after the required orientation was offered last July came together for two days of hearing from their new colleagues about classroom management, county school demographics, finances and more.\n“We are pleased to get back to some degree of normalcy by having these new hires join us for our regularly-scheduled orientation,” said Frazier. “We need them to be ready for a very fluid school year where each day brings new challenges in educating our children during a global pandemic,” he added.\nTwo days of orientation and skill-building workshops were offered, covering topics such as classroom management and evaluations and updates on policies, health services, interventions, special education and safety.\nThose who took part in the training are (* indicates those who began teaching last year after orientation was offered):\nDresden Elementary – Colby Akin\nDresden High – Victoria Todd, Erika Travis*\nGleason – Susan Drake, Holly Harris\nGreenfield – Susie Hazlewood*\nMartin Elementary – Arlene Hazlewood, LaTessia Shane\nMartin Middle – Stephanie Virgin, Monica Collins, Sarah Hester, Avery Orr*\nSharon – Shawna Sampson, Jennifer Lamb*, Morgan Klinzing\nWestview – Nathan Miles, Jarod Neal*\nLauren Mitchell will be the speech pathologist for Greenfield and Gleason. Joe Chapman will teach at the alternative school.\nThe group holds more than 80 years of teaching experience with six first-time teachers entering the classroom. Many live in one part of the county and will be traveling to a neighboring community. Others will be coming from homes in McKenzie, South Fulton, Paris and Murray.\nWhile almost all openings are filled, some remain at Sharon, Greenfield and Westview.\nClick on Employment Opportunities at www.weakleyschools.com for the latest update.\nFor more information on employment opportunities, contact Jeff Kelley, assistant director of schools, at 731-364-2247.\nBY KAREN CAMPBELL", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "It’s an old adage that a speculative market collapses not when prices get crazy but when the last person who insists prices are crazy gives up in despair.\nWorth bearing in mind when London’s Financial Times tells us that the pandemic has fuelled “the broadest global house price boom in two decades”, even bigger than the one which preceded and helped trigger the 2008 global financial crisis, and which is understandably reviving concerns about financial stability.\nContinue reading “So how does the housing boom end?” →\nDid we miss it? Or was it posted on the Beehive website after we had recorded the Government’s August 26 announcements?\nWhatever happened, we are chagrined to have missed the official posting of the declaration that Green Party co-leader James Shaw has bypassed the strictures of his party’s policy to announce: Taranaki school construction project to create jobs.\nThe statement didn’t seem untoward, in the Covid-19 era of massive borrowing to pump billions into infrastructural work and employment.\nMore than 200 construction jobs will be secured in Taranaki through Government funding for a school expansion project, the Associate Minister of Finance, James Shaw said today.\nGreen School New Zealand will be supported with $11.7 million from the $3 billion set aside by the Government for infrastructure in the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund.\nThe ‘shovel-ready’ project would enable the school to expand its student roll from 120 students to 250.\nBut the announcement subjected Shaw and his party to widespread criticism – indeed, ridicule – because of something the press statement did not mention. Green School is a private school which charges up to $24,000 a year for New Zealand students and $43,000 a year for international students.\nWe are talking Green hypocrisy here, because: Continue reading “Private schools could be on to a Shaw thing – but maybe they need “Green” in their name to secure millions” →\nSeveral Ministers were given an opportunity yesterday to bray about infrastructure spending and try to persuade voters what a splendid job they were doing.\nNational brayed, too, that the government was implementing its investment programme while quibbling about a two-years pause.\nOh – and Chris Bishop took credit for having some of the government’s spending being directed to the Melling interchange.\nThe flood of press statements started with a grand announcement from the PM and two of her ministerial colleagues (here), followed by statements from Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones (here ), Finance Minister Grant Robertson (here), Deputy PM and State Owned Enterprises Minister Winston Peters (here), Education Minister Chris Hipkins (here), Climate Change Minister James Shaw (here), Health Minister David Clark and Associate Health Minister Julie Anne Genter (here), and Transport Minister Phil Twyford (here).\nA quick costing for households from the Taxpayers Union found\n“Grant Robertson just spent nearly $7,000 per Kiwi household in a single announcement. Continue reading “Infrastructure grumbles: Govt is chided for ignoring climate change, neglecting the poor and being too slow” →", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "NASA spacecraft captures new amazing `Earthrise` photos\nZee Media Bureau/Shruti Saxena\nNew Delhi: NASA`s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has released pictures of 21st version of an amazing `Earthrise` as seen from the Moon.\nIn the new picture released, the Earth rises spectacularly as a tiny blue marble rising above the surface of the moon. The picture was captured on February 1 with LRO spacecraft`s wide-angle camera.\nLRO experiences 12 \"earthrises\" every day.\nThe image has been captured recalling the first `Earthrise` photo that was taken by Apollo astronauts in 1968.\nMore from India\nMore from World\nMore from Sports\nMore from Entertaiment\n- Over 60 cadets killed in Pakistan police academy attack\n- DNA: Exclusive report on the extreme sacrifices made by ITBP soldiers\n- Watch: PM Narendra Modi's ''progressive'' remark on triple talaq\n- DNA: Terrorists' new strategy of snatching weapons from Indian security personnel\n- Panel discussion over delayed development in Ayodhya\n- Explosion in Delhi's Naya Bazar, one killed; anti-terror wing, Special cell at spot\n- This is why Cyrus Mistry was removed as Chairman of Tata Sons!\n- WATCH: Akhilesh Yadav's emotional speech revealing the real reason behind Samajwadi Party crisis; he was about to cry\n- Read letters by Ratan Tata to PM Narendra Modi and Group employees after Cyrus Mistry's ouster\n- Prompt action on border pushes Pak to offer olive branch, says both sides need to 'formalise' 2003 ceasefire", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Hi Adelaide, it's been a while......but WE’RE BACK BABY!\nFor the first time since March, Riot City Wrestling RETURNS to action on August 8th Live from RCW HQ.\nFeaturing a star studded SIX MAN TAG TEAM MAIN-EVENT!\nAn historic night in Australian Pro-Wrestling is set to go down so don’t miss out!\nTickets are strictly limited so book early to avoid disappointment.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "L.A.’s unemployment rate held steady last month at 8 percent, even as local employers added 35,000 jobs to their payrolls, mostly in education, according to state figures released Friday.\nThe Employment Development Department reported that the improvement in the unemployment rate stalled last month as the number of residents reporting they were working barely budged. But the unemployment rate is still down from 9.6 percent a year ago.\nYet L.A.’s unemployment rate remains higher than the statewide rate of 7.3 percent for October and way higher than the national rate of 5.8 percent. That’s because the county’s two largest cities, Los Angeles and Long Beach, posted unemployment rates of 8.7 percent.\nLocal employer payrolls for October grew by 35,000 jobs (0.8 percent) to 4.22 million, the highest level since the recession began in December 2007.\nMore than half the net gain in jobs came from the education sector, which added more than 20,000 workers last month. Most of these gains came in higher education, evenly split between public and private universities.\nThe next biggest jobs gainer was the retail and transportation/distribution sector, up 7,000.\n“We’ve seen big increases in warehouse/transportation workers to get out the products to get them on store shelves in time for the holidays,” said Mara Klug, vice president with the Los Angeles office of Adecco, a staffing firm based in Glattbrugg, Switzerland.\nAdjusting for these seasonal hiring trends in education, retail and distribution, the county actually posted a net loss of 13,000 payroll jobs, with the total dipping below 4.2 million, the Employment Development Department reported.\nFor reprint and licensing requests for this article, CLICK HERE.\nStories You May Also Be Interested In\n- L.A. County Unemployment Rate Falls to 4.7 Percent\n- L.A. County Unemployment Rate Held Steady at 4.6 Percent in October Despite Job Gains\n- County's Jobless Rate Falls Slightly\n- L.A. County Unemployment Rate Continues Steady at 4.5 Percent\n- L.A. County Unemployment Rate Held Steady at 4.5 Percent in August\n- Jobless Rate Falls to 4.7 Percent in October\n- Unemployment Holds Steady in LA County for October\n- County Unemployment Rate Dips Below 6 Percent", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Washington had been in contact with Moscow shortly before Biden's visit to Ukraine, reports (File)\nUS President Joe Biden received security guarantees before his trip to Ukraine, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said, TAAS reported, adding that he, however, did not specify who gave guarantees to the American leader.\nMedvedev wrote on his Telegram channel on Monday, \"Biden, having previously received security guarantees, finally went to Kyiv. He promised many weapons and swore allegiance to the neo-Nazi regime to the grave. And, of course, there were mutual incantations of victory, which will come with new weapons and courageous people.\"\nMedvedev noted that Western countries are \"quite faithfully\" supplying Kyiv with arms and money. \"In huge quantities, allowing the military-industrial complex of NATO countries to make money and steal weapons to sell to terrorists all over the world,\" he was quoted in the TASS report as saying.\nBiden visited Kyiv on Monday to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky and express support for Kyiv.\nIt was earlier reported that Washington had been in contact with Moscow shortly before Biden's visit to Ukraine to ensure deconfliction.\nThe Washington Post on Monday reported that in a display of strong American support for Ukraine just four days before the anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, US President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kyiv.\nKyiv is no stranger to official visits, but this one is different. The fact the US president is meeting Ukraine's leader in the heart of the capital in the middle of a full-scale conflict is significant and symbolic.\nThe high-risk visit to a Ukrainian capital, which has been under threat of missile attacks, signals continued commitment from the United States, the largest financial and military backer of Ukraine's effort to repel Russians from its territory, reported The Washington Post.\nBiden was spotted outside St Michael Golden-Domed Monastery with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.\nThe Ukrainian capital was in a tight security lockdown with car traffic halted and even pedestrians blocked from certain streets. Shortly afterwards, an air raid siren went off in the city, reported The Washington Post.\nBiden on his visit to Ukraine pledged a USD 500 million military aid package for the country.\nAddressing a joint briefing alongside Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy, Biden said, \"We will announce USD 500 million in aid to Ukraine. This will consist of javelins, howitzers, and artillery ammunition. Later, we will announce additional sanctions against companies which are trying to back Russia.\"\nBiden said the package would be announced on Tuesday and that Washington would also provide more ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) in Ukraine's possession.\nBiden spoke about America's unwavering commitment to Ukraine's democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.\n\"As we approach the anniversary of Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine, I'm in Kyiv today to meet with President Zelenskyy and reaffirm our unwavering commitment to Ukraine's democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity,\" tweeted Biden.\n(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Thursday morning to whine about the social media platform’s trending topics, which included “Trump Meltdown” and “Obama Was Better At Everything.”\n“It’s never a real Twitter Trending. It’s Twitter Executive’s Choice. Only negative on Republican voices, especially mine!” Trump wrote.\n“Trump meltdown” and similar topics were trending in the wake of the president’s all-caps rants in response to speeches by President Barack Obama and vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris during the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Dallas Cowboys have one of the most unreal stadiums in all of sports. In fact, the HD scoreboard that hangs over the field was once a world-record holder in terms of size. It has since been surpassed, but it has still been so large that it sometimes interferes with the field of play. Two punts have actually been kicked into the oversized high definition television that hangs over midfield and extends from 20-yard line to 20-yard line.\nIt’s hard to miss a play if you’re at the game because there’s a replay right in your face on a giant-screen TV. Anyway, back to the actual point of talking about AT&T Stadium. There has been a bit of a stir created lately by Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. She has been trying to petition the overuse of energy around the world, trying to bring it to people’s attention that there is being energy wasted wherever we look.\nIn fact, she brought up the Cowboys’ stadium, saying that AT&T Stadium actually uses more energy than the country of 3.7 million people. How accurate was her statement?\nWell, Bob Brackett, an energy analyst at Bernstein Research, found did some searching and found that at peak times during game day, the Cowboys’ stadium uses about 10 megawatts of electricity while the entire nation of Liberia doesn’t have the capacity to pump even a third of that amount into its energy grid.\nIs this a case of Jerry Jones and his team just being flat-out selfish or a case of Liberia not having a high enough energy capacity? Either way, weird facts galore.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Fincash, a Mumbai-based finance technology startup has raised ₹1 Crore (approx. $150,000) in a new funding round led by angel investors. The company will now be using the raised money to expand their product solutions.\nThe money will also be used by the company to expand customer base and widen the reach of its financial services across the country. In a statement, the company said that “we plan to utilize this for team & product line expansion coupled with marketing.”\nThe angel investors who participated in this funding round include industry veterans like Mohammed Khan (Founder of Rediffusion), Sameer Narayan (ex- Fund Manager BNP Paribas), and a couple of other industry stalwarts from financial services.\nFounded in the year 2016, Fincash has raised total $250,000 funding to fund its business expansion, product expansion, and team expansion. The company will soon be expanding its existing product solutions— i.e., SmartSIP, SavingsPlus, and TaxSaver.\nThere will be new categories of these solutions that will help customers to invest as per their financial goals and time frames as per the company’s claims. Further, it says that investors will get wide choices to invest in different time frames, right from very short, short, mid to long duration, as per their investment needs & risk-appetite.\nGaurav Perti, co-founder, and CEO of the company said, “I think people to a large extent don’t have an idea about how to plan their investments. We aim to bridge this gap. We strategies customers’ investment goals and help them achieve within respective time frames. Addressing customers risk-appetite and giving them better solutions, I think, is a great way to encourage their investment journey.”\nThe company claims to have crossed more than 5000+ investors and is working exponentially towards adding users every month. The platform has 30% of active users and gains a monthly traffic of 3,00,000+ views. Currently, the company’s services are available in about 150+ cities across India.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Kenyan police said on Thursday that they had arrested six teachers over a viral video of primary school pupils simulating sex as punishment in an incident that caused uproar.\nThe footage showed four boys in school uniform simulating sexual acts under a tree in the school compound as the teachers watched.\nThe six are heard chatting in the background of the 29-second clip and bursting into laughter as one shirtless child wipes tears from his face.\nPolice said the clip \"exposing school pupils in an indecent act\" was recorded in Nyamache, a rural town, some 300 kilometres from the capital Nairobi.\nSix teachers -- five women and a man -- have been arrested and \"are assisting in investigation\", police said.\nEducation Minister Ezekiel Machogu said the teachers will face disciplinary action and would be dismissed if found guilty.\nAccording to Kenya's sexual offences act, a person found guilty of compelling another to engage in an indecent act faces a jail term of not less than five years.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Vodafone has brought its M-Pesa mobile money transfer and payment service to Europe today. The service, which was launched in Kenya seven years ago, is now being offered in Romania.\nCustomers of Vodafone Romania can use SMS text messaging to pay utility bills, make a deposit, withdraw cash from an M-Pesa agent, purchase goods or top up a prepaid mobile phone account. The maximum daily limit is 30,000 lei (around £5,500).\nMichael Joseph, Vodafone’s Director of Mobile Money, said “The majority of people in Romania have at least one mobile device, but more than one third of the population do not have access to conventional banking. Vodafone M-Pesa is already used regularly by nearly 17 million customers and we look forward to bringing the significant benefits of the service to the people of Romania.”\nOver €900 million is transferred between Vodafone M-Pesa users every month.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "“This is my fourth downturn in oil and gas. I won’t say we were well prepared for it, but a well-balanced portfolio made us less vulnerable,” says Philip Pedersen.\nMacGregor has launched a new crane compensation system for offshore ship-to-ship load transfers.\nIn-Control has been accepted as associated participant in GCE NODE.\nNorway’s first ever Ocean Strategy was presented Tuesday. It is a strategy for blue growth and blue jobs.\nCenter for Offshore Mechatronics is an 8-year long research program aimed to develop autonomous operation and condition monitoring of topside drilling systems.\nThe Mechatronics Innovation Lab fills a void in the Norwegian innovation system. There is a need for more pilot-testing, not only in the oil and gas industry.\nSeveral industry clusters in Agder are familiar with robots. Increased use of robots and automation could see more jobs, previously outsourced to low-cost countries, return to Norway.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Myst News is the future of news consumption. Our AI-powered tool transforms how you access and understand the latest headlines. Say goodbye to lengthy articles and biased reporting—Myst News brings you the facts in seconds.\nKey Features and Benefits:\nMyst News empowers you with efficient, unbiased, and informative news summaries. Our AI technology processes vast amounts of information and presents it in an easily digestible format. Stay informed without the noise—experience the future of news with Myst News.\nWhat do you think about Myst News ?\nLeave a review for the community\nThis tool does not have any reviews yet. Be the first to review it.\nGet Informed with AI News Summaries in Seconds\nAdvertiser Disclosure: Futurepedia.io is committed to rigorous editorial standards to provide our users with accurate and helpful content. To keep our site free, we may receive compensation when you click some links on our site.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "How can 10 of our 27 generating plants be idle at the same time?\nFor a country that needs all the power she can generate, particularly at this time when the raging coronavirus pandemic has compounded her economic woes, it is scandalous that 10 of Nigeria’s 27 power generating plants were reportedly idle as at May 25.\nThree additional plants, Geregu 11, Omotosho 11 and Ibom Power plants, joined seven others which had previously been non-functional. These are Sapele 11, Alaoji, Olorunsogo 11, Ihovbor, Gbarain, AES and ASCO. Consequently, power generation in the country fell to 2,626 megawatts on that day.\nIt is obvious that even if all the 27 power plants are optimally functional, the country would still be able to meet only a negligible percentage of its power requirement.\nThis means that it is unaffordable for even a single plant to be idle. While Nigeria’s total installed national generating capacity is put at 12,910.40 megawatts, the available capacity is said to be 7,652.60 megawatts and the peak that the country has ever generated is 5,375 megawatts. Yet, it is estimated that the country needs not less than 40,000 megawatts daily.\nTo put it mildly, the reasons adduced for the forced idleness of these plants are scandalous and unacceptable. These include gas supply constraints, low load demand by distribution companies, maintenance challenges, frequency response problems due to unavailability of distribution infrastructure, rupturing of pipelines as well as water management problems for the hydropower plants.\nThese are the same excuses which have been routinely given over the years for the seemingly insoluble problems. We surely cannot continue to do the things in the same lackadaisical way and expect a change.\nThe need, as we noted last Wednesday, to urgently revisit the privatisation of the power sector undertaken in 2013 as recently mooted by the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, becomes more compelling by the day. It would appear that the problems which the exercise was expected to address are not about getting solved anytime soon.\nFor instance, the power authorities had claimed several times in the past to have put in place measures to check the disruption of gas supply lines only for the problem to recur.\nThe entire power sector appears to be in chaos as there is little or no synergy between the generating and distribution companies, or between both and the transmission authorities. Despite the repeated injection of funds to aid the privatised generation and distribution companies, they appear perennially incapacitated to meet their obligations to consumers with continued deleterious consequences for the country.\nThe harmful effects of poor power supply have been aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic. Nigeria’s revenue sources have been severely crippled, with several sectors of the economy paralysed and businesses are ailing. In such a situation, it becomes even more burdensome for small, medium and large businesses to bear the cost of maintaining generators for prolonged periods.\nThis unnecessarily increases the cost of doing business and makes it even more difficult for enterprises to survive. At the same time, health facilities which are under severe pressure as a result of the pandemic are also forced to contend with the additional responsibility of generating alternative power, or having to operate without electricity as often happens, to the detriment of patients.\nAt this crucial period, it is equally necessary that agricultural producers who have storage facilities have access to regular power supply to preserve perishable products. Doing so through reliance on generators will have negative implication for food costs.\nThe rate at which the economy can recover from the ravages of the pandemic will depend to a great extent on the availability of regular power supply. It is time that the authorities treat the deplorable power situation in the country as an emergency requiring decisive and far-reaching action.\nYou want to share a story with us? You want to advertise? You need publicity for a product, service, or event? Contact us on WhatsApp – +234 803 3018 881", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Reba McEntire recently went public with her new romance with Anthony “Skeeter” Lasuzzo, 68. And now in an interview with Closer Weekly, Melissa Peterman, the country singer’s former co-star, shares her thoughts on the relationship.\n“I see her completely at ease with him,” Melissa tells Closer. “He adores her wholeheartedly, which is what we all want, right?”\nReba, 63, was still recovering from her 2015 divorce from her husband of 26 years, Narvel Blackstock, 61, when she met Skeeter while on vacation in Jackson Hole, Wyo., in 2017.\nSkeeter, who is a retired oil executive, was less familiar with Reba’s celebrity lifestyle but he doesn’t appear fazed by her glittery life. “I don’t think it even causes a stir,” Melissa tells Closer. “He’s a confident guy. And when you’re hanging with the crazy crew that Reba has, you gotta be a good sport and be able to roll, and he totally does!”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The U.S. economy, after months of showing erratic vital signs, appeared Friday to have a steadier heartbeat, with the U.S. Labor Department's report that the unemployment rate in June declined 0.1 of a percentage point to 5.6 percent and that job growth was surprisingly robust.\nIn Illinois, the jobless rate dropped 1.4 percentage points to an astonishing 4.1 percent in June-the lowest in two decades and also the lowest among the nation's 11 largest industrial states.\nOn the heels of Thursday's Federal Reserve Board cut in a key interest rate, the U.S. employment report helped further allay investors' fears of a recession. The Dow Jones industrial average of blue-chip stock prices soared past 4700 points for the first time and the bond market surged as well.\nMeanwhile, the United States and Japan staged a surprise move to support the dollar, trying to make sure Thursday's Fed move didn't backfire in currency markets.\nThe two countries were trying to keep the dollar from weakening against the Japanese currency, a development that could spur inflation in the United States and weaken economic growth in Japan.\nThe Labor Department reported Friday that 215,000 non-farm payroll jobs were created during the month, far more than economists had predicted. The department also revised upward the totals for the previous two months.\nBut many economists were quick to caution that there were numerous quirks with the June statistics, particularly regarding job creation. It would be folly to take the report at face value, they said.\n\"It's not as strong as it looks on the surface,\" said Sung Won Sohn, chief economist for Norwest Corp. in Minneapolis.\nThe report covers five weeks compared with four in the prior month, automatically inflating the employment numbers by at least 25 percent. Furthermore, most of the jobs gains were seasonal, resulting from teenagers and schoolteachers who exchanged classrooms for summer jobs.\nWhile seasonally adjusting the figures normally smooths out such flaws, it didn't this time, economists said.\nThe Labor Department also raised eyebrows by reporting that 35,000 government jobs were created in June during an era when governments at all levels are scaling back. \"That sounds fishy to me,\" Sohn said.\nThe data the Labor Department reported on Friday were preliminary and subject to revision. Indeed, the risks of putting too much emphasis on preliminary data were highlighted by Friday's Labor Department report. The job creation figures for April and May were revised upward, showing that the economy was actually in better shape than the earlier, unrevised numbers suggested.\nEven so, Friday's report indicated that a disturbing loss of manufacturing jobs continued into June. \"Factory employment continued to decline, with widespread losses totaling 104,000 over the past three months,\" Katharine G. Abraham, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, told reporters in a briefing.\nNearly half of June's growth in payrolls came from service jobs. Typical summer work at such venues as amusement parks and vacation destinations accounted for the lion's share of those positions.\nThe number of construction jobs rose in June due to drier weather, according to the Labor Department, although private economists said lower mortgage rates also played a role. This followed two months of declines in construction jobs also tied to weather.\n\"Illinois experienced a lot more rain in May than its sister states in the region did,\" said Diane Swonk, deputy chief economist at First National Bank of Chicago. \"Ohio and Michigan were very dry in May. Illinois was not. It was miserable here. So construction came to a standstill basically (in May).\"\nSwonk added, \"Talking with our (corporate) customers and living in a construction zone myself, I can tell you everything picked up in June,\" Swonk said. \"That's what you saw in the Illinois employment rate. There was a huge seasonal issue going on where we were recouping all those rain losses in May.\"\nBecause of the economic uncertainties that remained unanswered by Friday's employment report, many economists continued to believe that Fed officials acted prudently in moving to lower a key short-term interest rate Thursday.\nFaced with an economy that presently may not be increasing at all compared with 1994's breakneck 4.1 percent pace, the U.S. central bank cut the federal funds rate by 0.25 of a percentage point on Thursday. That reduced the rate that banks charge each other for overnight loans to 5.75 percent from 6 percent.\nIn separate economic news, the Commerce Department reported that the number of unsold goods in wholesaler warehouses rose in May for the 11th consecutive month, though at a smaller rate than expected.\nLarge inventories have been blamed for much of the current economic slowdown, as factories have reduced workers and their hours in order to lower the volume of goods on their shelves until customer demand once again picks up.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Homes targeted for first-time buyers looking to move to Dixon received approval Tuesday.\nThe Dixon Planning Commission voted 5-0 to approve designs for model homes to be built on Syracuse Lane, Heritage Lane and Columbia Drive, south of Dixon High School, for the Newbury Phase II of the Parklane subdivision.\nCommissioners Jill Orr and David Reese did not attend the meeting.\nThe applicant, DeNova Homes, proposed three models, ranging in size from 1,704 to 2,459 square feet, in addition to the existing models previously approved by the commission.\nThese would include one single-story and two two-story models in the styles of “Farmhouse,” “Cottage,” “California Ranch” and “Craftsman.”\nThe objective is “affordability by design” so that first-time homeowners can buy in Dixon, according to Trent Sanson of DeNova Homes.\nThe smaller houses, under $446,000, will be of the same quality of craftsmanship as the other houses in Parklane, but on a smaller scale so they are more attainable for buyers who cannot make a large down payment and are applying for a FHA (Federal Housing Administration) loan.\nSanson said otherwise those who would like to live in Dixon, and commute to the Bay Area, would be looking at homes farther away in Woodland and Sacramento.\nThe approval came with a condition that DeNova work with associate planner Scott Greeley to place the homes that have side-entry front doors on the corner lots on these streets.\nCommission chair Kevin Johnson had concerns with the front doors of these homes facing a wall.\nThe applicant argued there would be a porch and a 10 foot space that the homeowner could decorate and landscape.\nJohnson disagreed, saying it was a major change from the other models approved.\nHe said he appreciates the amount of work DeNova has done and that they’re investing in Dixon, and loves everything else about the models.\nHe admitted the homes will sell, but the side-entry isn’t a feature that many people love.\nThe planning commission also voted 5-0 Tuesday to allow a furniture and cabinet-making business to move into a vacant building at 301 North First St.\nThe applicant, Mark Brothers, plans to repaint the building and install a sliding barn-style door, plywood paneling with a “board and batten” look and replacing the corrugated roof with a new ribbed steel roof.\nThis building, built in the 1960s, is currently in “rather poor shape,” Greeley said, and allowing this business to locate here will improve that.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In June 2018, RBK collaborated with Treasury Solutions to announce a new service offering “The Treasury Hub”, combining the experience and expertise of both our firms and three other advisory firms nationwide.\nTreasury Solutions has been operating for 18 years offering a premium quality treasury advisory service to the medium and large corporate market.\nThe new service will provide clients of RBK with access to the technical knowledge and financial market intelligence of Treasury Solutions to enable them to offer new products and services to their clients and to deal with the impact on interest rates, foreign exchange and the banking market in general that will inevitably emanate from Brexit, geo-political developments, etc.\nThe services to be provided via The Treasury Hub include:\nThe provision of the range and quality of these services under The Treasury Hub effectively brings additional expertise to the existing service offering provided to the clients of RBK bringing them an enhanced treasury management solution.\nFor more on The Treasury Hub, visit: www.thetreasuryhub.ie.\nTreasury Hub Update - August 2020 884.07 KB\nThis is the Summer edition of THE TREASURY HUB Banking and Treasury Markets Bulletin.On the currency front, the biggest mover has been the USD which has weakened considerably over the Summer and broken out of a downward (i.e. strengthening dollar) range that existed for almost two years.From an investment perspective while all three equity indices that we track (ISEQ, FTSE and DOW) are down in the year, the DOW is close to recovering to where itwas at the start of the year. The NASDAQ has continued to power ahead to new highs with Apple now valued at $2 trillion.On the Brexit front, UK/EU talks have recommenced but no news to report as yet. October is the deadline for any deal as it would have to be approved by all EU governments individually.It is likely there could be increased corporate activity in the remainder of the year, some negative (examinerships) and some more positive (mergers/acquisitions). Brexit will have a bigger impactthan is currently forecast as it could provide opportunities as well as threats. Banking will also become more challenging in Q4 as the banks could struggle to deal with the sheer scale of the intervention required for companies and sectors that will findthemselves challenged. Where possible, businesses should continue to avail of the financial planning grants from Enterprise Ireland and LEOs.Download\nTreasury Hub Update - May 2020 966.89 KB\nThis is the May edition of THE TREASURY HUB Banking and Treasury Markets Bulletin. Despite the ongoing pandemic, there has been a bounce back in equity markets and a settling down of the interest rate markets following last month's volatility. EUR/GBP has also remained relatively stable for the month, however the decision on whether or not to extend the Brexit deadline date of 31 December 2020 will soon come into focus. FX volatility should therefore be accounted for in forecasts and budgets and it's management will increasingly be a key facet in the approval or otherwise of bank facilities and grant applications. So, as mentioned in last month's bulletin, poor currency management will likely cause a “triple whammy”: lower profits, higher interest costs and tighter loan terms and conditions. We continue to focus on banking in Section 5 of the bulletin.Download\nMarch edition of the Banking and Treasury Report 981.79 KB\nThe outbreak of the coronavirus continues to disrupt global supply chains and the financial markets. Unsurprisingly, the equity markets are bearing the brunt of the initial negative sentiment with the three equity indices that we track (ISEQ, FTSE and DOW) all in significant negative return territory. Bond prices are up again (as interest rates have fallen) with Irish 10-year rates now negative -0.15%, which is an all-time low. Oil prices have also fallen off a cliff. This is covered in more detail in Section 4.This month’s focus in Section 5 is a review of the Banking Market. While the banks appear to be taking a proactive and supportive approach to assisting businesses, the coronavirus is going to make credit availability tighter. We would encourage clients to act now and make contact with your bank to ensure you get the specific support you need as quickly as possible. The government has also announced a number of measures to help individuals and businesses, including an extra €200m funding through SBCI.Please get in touch with our Corporate Finance team if we can be of any assistance.Download\nTHE TREASURY HUB UPDATE - FEBRUARY 2020 1.19 MB\nWe bring you the second Banking and Treasury Report of 2020 as part of THE TREASURY HUB. Brexit came back onto the agenda at the end of January as the UK officially entered into the transition period. The general election kicked into gear here in Ireland with a lot of spending promises being made, all of which appear to be predicated on an orderly exit deal for the UK…. an assumption which may yet prove to be flawed.From an investment perspective the year got off to a negative start with the three equity indices that we track (ISEQ, FTSE and DOW) all deteriorating in January and a lot of the blame being attributed to the outbreak of the coronavirus in China. EUR/GBP held around EUR/GBP0.8450, especially as the UK exited the EU but with the “hard line” opening negotiation position being taken by PM Johnson last week, we have seen GBP lose 1p against EUR in a single day and move back to EUR/GBP0.8500. We expect further GBP weakness in the weeks ahead. This month’s focus in Section 5 is on the area of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG).Download\nThe Treasury Hub Update - January 2020 1.23 MB\nWe bring you the first Banking and Treasury Report of 2020 as part of THE TREASURY HUB. This report looks back at 2019 trends and looks forward at possible 2020 developments. Brexit dominated for most of 2019 while politics dictated worldwide events in general. The UK elected a new Prime Minister while the US presidential election started to gear up. Ireland will also see a new government elected in 2020.From an investment perspective it was a good year for equity investors, a bad year for bank deposits, a good year for bond investors while on the currency front EUR/GBP bounced around quite a bit but EUR/USD remained very stable again. Section 5 of this report focuses on the prospects for 2020.Download\nTHE TREASURY HUB - DECEMBER 2019 REPORT 1.16 MB\nWe bring you the final Banking and Treasury Report of 2019 as part of THE TREASURY HUB.The current focus appears to be on politics worldwide. The UK election is now in full swing, the US presidential election is also gearing up while the current Irish government is moving into its last months. Brexit news was negligible in the past month as the outcome of the UK election will dictate a lot of what is to come in 2020 on that topic.2019 was a good year for equity investors and borrowers, a bad year for bank deposits and a reasonably stable year for currencies, especially USD.Section 5 of this month’s report focuses on the banking sector and prospects for 2020.Download\nOur offices are strategically located to service our market and are easily accessed from any location nationwide.\nBoole House, Beech Hill Office Campus,\nClonskeagh, Dublin 4,\nD04 A563, Ireland\nRBK House, Irishtown\nN37 XP52, Ireland\nRBK House, Castle Street,\nF42 NR79, Ireland", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Menachem Chinn, 40, was arrested in April at his East Windsor home for the first incident, which occurred at his home in 2012. A second male came forward after the media reports about the first allegation and claimed he had also been inappropriately touched at Chinn's home in East Windsor \"…\nThe James Volpe Foundation Golf Classic is heading toward its sixth annual tee time next month, but the fundraiser in memory of a Jackson teenager who tragically died in 2011 will have a new address this year.\nMenachem Chinn, 36, was arrested at his East Windsor home on Thursday night for the incident that occurred at his home and was only recently to police, according to acting Mercer County Prosecutor Doris M. Galuchie.\nTwo Marlboro teens face kidnapping charges, and a slew of other counts, in Howell Township. in connection with what police describe as retaliation for a drug deal ripoff that eventually terrorized a total stranger.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "By Jody Brumage\nOn July 14, 1962, an editorial column in the Dominion News proclaimed the occurrence of “An occasion history may well rank with the Wright Brothers first flight; Marconi’s message, and the first telegraphic epic of our time.” As the world witnessed this momentous event, one West Virginian congressman played a unique role in the occasion.\nThe first telephone call to be transmitted over Telstar was between Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Frank R. Kappel, Chairman of AT&T and leader of the development of the project. Images of the phone call were also transmitted via Telstar, showing both Johnson and Kappel. Sitting immediately behind the Vice President was West Virginia Congressman Harley O. Staggers, Sr. Together, the two men were captured in the first photograph ever transmitted via Satellite.\nImproving the nation’s transportation and communications infrastructure remained important goals for Congressman Staggers, Sr. throughout his career. As Chairman of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee (1966-1981), he had a hand in supporting many advances in both areas. Shortly after the launch, Congressman Staggers, Sr. wrote to Vice President Johnson, requesting that he sign a copy of the famous photograph to keep as a memento of the historic occasion.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "As Floridians, our lives have been profoundly influenced by citizens taking initiative to amend Florida's Constitution.\nThey have limited political terms, mandated smaller classrooms, banned smoking in public places, required universal pre-K, limited property-tax increases, required government in the sunshine and capped state taxes. All were issues that Tallahassee politicians refused to address.\nThose same lobbyists and special interests that block popular measures in Tallahassee now want to make it harder for the people to petition for changes in the law. They want to require a super-majority vote of 60 percent for voters to amend the Constitution. Their effort, Amendment 3 on this year's ballot, is nothing more than a naked power grab by the special interests that dominate Tallahassee's legislative halls.\nThe citizen-initiative process is already extremely difficult, but it is fair and the only recourse the people have when special interests block popular issues.\nI know this from personal experience. I served in the Legislature for eight years. I watched tobacco companies bury bills to ban smoking in restaurants and workplaces. I saw legislation for smaller classrooms get killed in backroom deals. I know the hostility of most legislators to term limits. I've witnessed big business crush efforts to raise the minimum wage. I've seen how many elected representatives dislike having to govern in the sunshine. I've heard the government arguments against capping homeowners' property taxes. None of these popular initiatives would have become law if left to the Legislature. Each took an impassioned group of citizens petitioning their cause onto the ballot to get their issue decided by the voters.\nAmendment 3's supporters argue that they are simply raising the bar without taking away the people's right to decide. Under their logic, Save Our Homes, universal pre-K, and caps on the amount of taxes the Legislature can raise would have never become law, because each passed by a simple majority vote of the people, not by a super-majority vote Amendment 3 requires. The very constitution we live under today passed in 1968 by 55 percent. If the special interests behind Amendment 3 succeed, Florida would be the only state to require a super-majority vote for citizen initiatives.\nAmendment 3 is nothing more than a thinly veiled insult to the voters. It sends the message that the majority of Floridians don't know what is best for their state, that a minority of voters should be allowed to block what the majority wants as law.\nFloridians have a simple choice on Nov. 7. They can either vote to trust the politicians, lobbyists and special interests by voting for Amendment 3, or they can vote to trust the people by voting against Amendment 3.\nI say trust the people.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The new press regulator has voiced fears over whether he will be given the money by the newspaper and magazine industry to do his job properly.\nSir Alan Moses, a former judge who starts work today as chairman of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso), described his initial budget for investigations into serious press misbehaviour as “hopeless”, and said he was “really worried” that his staff were being paid “very small amounts of money”.\nHe said he would be putting forward a detailed plan to the newspaper’s industry’s Regulatory Funding Company for Ipso’s budget, but believed the new regulator would “cost substantially more” than the £2.5m-a-year spent by its predecessor, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC). Publishers were “very worried about the money,” he said.\nSir Alan accused newspapers of being unable to accept criticism.\n“How thin skinned you all are,” he told journalists last week. “You like doling it out but you don’t like receiving it. The slightest criticism creates an eruption.”\nHe expressed sympathy with the “despair” of press victims such as Madeleine McCann’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, who have already questioned the independence of Ipso.\n“Their expectations were built up and they feel they have been shattered – of course they are angry, of course they don’t trust Ipso and of course they regard it as a fake and I’m not at all surprised but I want to show that they are wrong.”\nSir Alan said he felt an obligation to those damaged by the press.\n“Who’s thinking about the victims… who is actually going to put in place… a realistic, reasonable, firm system for looking after their interests and giving them a voice?”\nHis dependence on publishers for funding Ipso would not compromise his position.\n“I’m not prepared to be controlled in any way,” he said.\nSir Alan wants Ipso to offer an arbitration service for complainants and a full-time investigations unit, but the amount put aside for such work was “hopeless”, he said.\n“There is a lump sum that has been put in there and ring-fenced at the moment but it is only £100,000.”\nThe former judge is clearly concerned that some of the rules under which Ipso will operate, including those on its conduct of investigations, are “completely opaque and almost impossible to understand”.\nHe will not restrict Ipso’s work to individual complaints but will also look at press standards and examine patterns of misdemeanour on issues such as intrusion into grief. He said he would look not just at inaccuracy in reporting but the breach of the obligation in the Editors’ Code “not to distort”.\nIpso amounted to “an opportunity”, he said, and its creation “resounds very much to the credit of the press”.\nThe Independent and the London Evening Standard, along with the Financial Times and The Guardian, have not signed up to the new body.\nSir Alan said he would like these to join Ipso but the regulator needs to prove its worth.\n“I quite understand why they won’t at the moment.”\nJoin our new commenting forum\nJoin thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Dose is Uno\nDose Market (dosemarket.com), the once-a-month gathering of indie sellers and foodie vendors at the River East Art Center (435 E. Illinois St., 312-321-1001, rivereastartcenter.com) celebrates its first birthday this Sunday, June 24. For the past year, Dose has been the place to shop for things you never even knew you wanted—such as compass necklaces from Camp Wandawega or vintage luggage repurposed as speakers by Gentleman's Boombox. With this weekend’s bash, the Dosers also debut a few exclusives, including a new capsule collection of handcrafted jewelry by the designer Laura Lombardi. It’s not a birthday party without cake: ByM Desserts will be on hand with decadent specialty confections baked by Malika Ameen of Top Chef: Just Desserts. Or for a treat with an adult spin, look for booze-filled snow cone cocktails from Jo Snow Syrups. Tickets to the market are $10 at the door; save two bucks by pre-ordering at dosemarket.com/tickets.\nTop Sales This Week\nBonnie & Clyde's Secret Hideout (location: secret) hosts its first hush-hush sale of the summer, with 30 percent off men’s and women’s clothing by Gareth Pugh, Rick Owens, Ann Demeuelemeester, and a handful of other edgy and/or avant-garde designers. Schedule an appointment this week (and be privy to the sale’s as-yet undisclosed locale) by emailing email@example.com.\nVive La Femme (2048 N. Damen Ave., 773-772-7429, vivelafemme.com) celebrates 10 years of repping Chicago’s curvy community with a shopping and style event on Thursday, June 21 at 6:30 p.m. The store, which stocks sizes 12 to 24, teams up with Plus Fashion Week Chicago (pfwchicago.com) and Igigi (igigi.com), a contemporary plus-size line. Guests are treated to light refreshments and 20 percent off everything in the store. Sign up for the free fete at shoppingandstyle.eventbrite.com.\nThe Best of the Rest\n- The kids’ shop Madison and Friends (43 E. Oak St., 312-642-6403, madisonandfriends.com) is remodeling. To clear the way, the boutique holds its biggest sale to date, with 50 to 80 percent off all items for little tykes through Monday, June 25. Snag the same discounts online by entering the checkout code “remodeling.”\n- The local children’s emporium The Red Balloon Co. (theredballoon.com) sets up a warehouse sale at 4021 North Ravenswood Avenue from Thursday, June 21 through Sunday, June 24. Check out summer and—dare we say it so soon?—back-to-school bargains on brands such as Stella, City Threads, and Wonderboy in sizes infant through 12. Items, marked up to 80 percent off retail prices, start at $5.\n- Step into Sarca (710 N. Wabash Ave., 312-255-0900, shopsarca.com) this Saturday, June 23 for a one-day-only shoe sale. Designer brands including Ruthie Davis, Missoni, and Viktor & Rolf are 20 percent off.\n- The Limited at Water Tower Place (835 N. Michigan Ave., 312-266-0700, thelimited.com) is one of six stores in the country to have recently launched the shop-in-a-shop Eloquii (eloquii.com). Stop by for plus-size separates, dresses, and outerwear (all priced from $29 to $190) in sizes through 24.\n- Randolph Street Market (1340 W. Washington St., randolphstreetmarket.com) returns to the West Loop with more than 200 vendors peddling antiques, vintage wares, handmade goods, and more Saturday, June 23 and Sunday, June 24. Tickets are $10 at the gate or $8 in advance at randolphstreetmarket.com.\n- Ligne Roset Chicago (440 N. Wells St., 312-222-9300, lignerosetchicago.com) marks down French-contemporary furniture and home décor—including upholstery, lighting, rugs, and more—by 30 to 60 percent this weekend. The sale runs Friday, June 22 through Sunday, June 24.\nRemember Made In Chicago (presented by AIBI), the pop-up shop for locally designed clothing and accessories that hit the scene last December? It’s back, but this time on a long-term basis. The store (44 E. Grand Ave., 312-836-1041) features capsule collections by 16 Chicago designers, including Killion, Chikahisa Studio, Fourth is King, and Caramel Ribbon.\nPin Curls (1656 W. Chicago Ave., 312-243-4446, pin-curls.com) opens this weekend in West Town. The salon celebrates Friday, June 22 through Sunday, June 24 with trunks shows and specials such as complimentary makeup and skincare consultations, 50 percent off all waxing services, and 25 percent off all products. Also of note: Pin Curls offers a “silent” experience for clients looking to escape haircut-related small talk.\nIf you’ve been there and done that with Chicago’s architecture and foodie tours, maybe it’s time to see the city through the eyes of fashion fanatics. ShopAround Chicago (shoparoundchicago.com), which launched last week, offers three-hour guided tours (from $35) of boutiques in the Gold Coast, Wicker Park, and Lincoln Park.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "HOUSTON (AP) - Leaders of the Houston branch of the NAACP say\ntoo many minority drivers are being stopped in Bellaire and they want city officials to take steps to address a racial profiling they say is common.\nHouston NAACP official D.Z. Cofield took up the issue yesterday with the city of Bellaire's recent statistical report on traffic stops. The report found little change in the racial breakdown of\ntraffic stops from year to year since 2002.\nThe Houston Chronicle reported Cofield said that a lot of people of color had learned to live with it. He said they had learned to stay out of Bellaire, a mostly white affluent Houston suburb of about 18,000 people.\nMayor Cindy Siegel had previously said she hoped racial profiling consultant Alex Del Carmen, who compiles the city's traffic stop statistics, could tell elected officials if the city had a problem.\nBut Del Carmen had no opinion on the issue and said the bare statistics in his report on who is stopped by police were not enough.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Wednesday, June 13th the famous artist and producer, Jay-Z, was spotted at Prime 112 having dinner with a group of six friends.\nJanet Jackson along with a big group of friends joined promoter Justin Levine at his Empire Events party Saturday night at Privé. Jackson will be seen quite often in Miami since she will be recording her new album for three months.\nNearby, Paris Hilton's friend, Brandon Davis, and Scott Storch were also jamming to the DJs mix of Diddy, Jay-Z, and Jackson 5.\nAshlee Simpson and Pete Wentz went out for dinner at Fannucci's on Lincoln Road Saturday night. Pete Wentz is the bassist of the famous group Fall Out Boy who have had many hit singles and are currently touring their most recent album. Enjoying their stay in Miami, the couple headed out to Cameo later that evening with Travis Barker for the Bacardi B-Live bash.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Teen drops dead after eating pancake at restaurantBy Mason White 5:34 PM March 16, 2015\nBy: Tanya Malhotra\n(Scroll down for video) A teen who was allergic to dairy, died after eating a pancake at a restaurant, according to court documents in Minnesota.\nNow, the family of the teen has filed a lawsuit against the restaurant, claiming that they are responsible for causing the death.\nScott Johnson had a severe allergic reaction to the pancake and died. Johnson’s mother Cindy, said that they were told that the restaurant’s pancakes are dairy free, but they were not.\nScott was very allergic to milk. Even small traces of milk would be enough to send him to the emergency room. That is why he rarely ate at restaurants.\nThe exception was on the day of the incident when the family decided to it at the Minnesota Nice Cafe. Cindy Johnson asked the server if the gluten free pancakes were also without milk.\nThe server reported that the chef said that they were. Cindy Johnson also requested that the grill should be cleaned before her teen’s pancakes were made.\nScott ate two pancakes, thinking they were good. When Scott finished eating the pancakes he signaled to his mother that they need to go home.\nScott forgot to bring his EpiPen and nebulizer to the restaurant. Cindy called an ambulance, and Scott was rushed to a nearby hospital.\nDoctors said that Scott had suffered such a severe anaphylactic reaction that his heart had failed. Scott, 16, died three days later.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This week’s atomic weapons test by North Korea fueled a round of condemnation by the US against them, and also against China, with Secretary of State John Kerry declaring that China’s policies toward the north had failed and it was time for new strategy.\nChinese officials today dismissed that, saying that the US-led efforts to isolate North Korea have only made matters worse, and that China shouldn’t be expected to solve the entire problem by themselves.\nChina was an historical ally of North Korea, but tends to see the nation as more of a headache these days, trying to keep them from starting any big wars or collapsing outright, and leading to a massive influx of refugees into China.\nNorth Korea, for its part, is said to be courting more help from China after today’s test, saying they need to come up with a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War, and warning they will continue their nuclear tests until a peace deal happens. US officials have repeatedly ruled out a peace deal with North Korea.\nLast 5 posts by Jason Ditz\n- Despite Assurances, Legality of Trump Nuclear Strike May Not Matter - November 22nd, 2017\n- Israeli Forces Demolish Brand New Family Home in East Jerusalem - November 22nd, 2017\n- East Ukraine in Turmoil Amid Claimed 'Coup' in Luhansk - November 22nd, 2017\n- US Asked for Saudis to Ease Yemen Blockade - November 22nd, 2017\n- Local Afghan Leaders Protest Deadly US Strikes on 'Heroin Labs' - November 22nd, 2017", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Kingston – On April 26, 2019, the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) will be holding mass information pickets at both Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Kingston and Collins Bay Institution concerning ongoing bargaining frustrations.\nWhat: Mass Information Pickets\nWhen: Friday, April 26, 2019\nWhere: - CFB Kingston (26 Somme Ave.) starting at 5 a.m. and\n- Collins Bay Institution (1455 Bath Road) at 6 a.m.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Prominent Nuclear Industry Executive Brings Experience Managing Multi-billion Dollar Global Businesses\nIRVINE, Calif. - Tuesday, March 10th 2015 [ME NewsWire]\n(BUSINESS WIRE) Kurion, Inc., an innovator in nuclear and hazardous waste management, announced it has appointed Jacques Besnainou as president. Besnainou will join Kurion CEO Bill Gallo and Founder John Raymont in the company’s Office of the CEO.\nGallo and Raymont said, “We are delighted to welcome an executive of Jacques’ caliber to Kurion. Jacques is the right leader at the right time to help us realize the company’s full potential.”\nKurion is on a steep growth trajectory, driven by deployment of its nuclear waste technologies in Japan, the U.S. and Europe. Since 2013, it has opened offices in Warrington, England, and Tokyo, Japan, to support its expansion in these regions. The company also announced several major projects and acquisitions related to the cleanup of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and Hanford sites. Besnainou had been consulting to Kurion since mid-2014, assisting in the development of its global strategies.\nBesnainou commented on the news, “I have followed the growth of Kurion and have been highly impressed with the company’s technologies, business model and world-class team. I am convinced that Kurion has the potential to be a major global player in the nuclear waste technology market, and I am excited to join the company at this important moment in its development.”\nPrior to joining Kurion, Besnainou led major divisions of AREVA, the world’s largest nuclear services company. He led a staff of several thousand to manage AREVA’s global back-end business group, which includes used fuel recycling, waste management, mixed oxide (MOX) fuel supply and worldwide nuclear logistics. Following this, Besnainou led AREVA’s North American business as President and CEO of AREVA, Inc.\nPreviously, Besnainou played a pivotal role in the development and sale of Ecobilan, a global environmental consulting group, to PricewaterhouseCoopers. He earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique and a Master’s degree in public policy from MINES Paris Tech. Besnainou lives in Washington, D.C.\nKurion creates technology solutions to access, separate and stabilize nuclear and hazardous waste to isolate it from the environment. Kurion’s suite of technologies and engineering capabilities offer a platform to address the most-challenging waste sites worldwide. Founded in 2008, Kurion is backed by leading energy investors Lux Capital, Firelake Capital Management and Acadia Woods Partners. The company is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has facilities in Richland, Wash., Idaho Falls, Idaho, Houston, Texas, Westminster, Colo., Warrington, England, and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, please visit www.kurion.com.\nKatie Wood Znameroski\nPhone: +1 (650) 801-7952\nFax: +1 (650) 508-8336", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "* NFL comes out of the closet, admits ‘football is gay’ – No really! Also ‘lesbian, transgender, queer, bisexual.’ But not ‘heterosexual’ – Bob Unruh, WND.com. The NFL stands by the LGBTQ+ community today and every day.\n* President Donald Trump speaks at rally in Lorain County.\n* Trump Defends School Prayer, God and the Bible in Schools!\n* Buildings don’t just fall down – Why did the condo in Surfside?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "War and ISIS forced Christians to flee Iraq...\nChristians fled the terror of ISIS and many still live as refugees. The ones in most need – and who cannot get to a safe country – are disabled and elderly.\nChristian Freedom International works with partners to supply aid – such as warm coats and Christmas dinners – to surviving Christians.\nWe shipped massive supplies of medical equipment and health care items that are delivered to needy Christians and health clinics serving Christians in the region.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Police: Crash east of Shullsburg sends 2 to hospital\nLafayette County authorities responded to a crash at the intersection of Highway 11 and County Road P that injured two in the town of Gratiot Thursday afternoon, officials said.\nDeputies said Miguel Colorado, 39, of South Wayne, was traveling west on Highway 11 when a vehicle driven by Daniel R. Walzer, 36, of Plainfield, Ill., proceeded north onto Highway 23 and failed to yield to Colorado.\nColorado and his passenger, Becky L. Colorado, 51, along with Walzer and his passengers, were taken to Memorial Hospital of Lafayette County for non-life-threatening injuries.\nWalzer was cited on suspicion of failure to yield right of way, and Colorado was cited on suspicion of operating after suspension.\nCopyright 2013 by Channel 3000. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Portlaoise Musical Society is set to kick off a week-long run of Grease in the Dunamaise Arts Centre next week.\nThe stage of the Dunamaise Arts Centre is set to be transformed into Rydell High for the seven night run.\nDirector Paul “Nippy” Norton, managing director Niall Mulpeter and choreographer Sarah Griffin are the brains behind the operation and, along with the crew; they are working hard to create the 1950s high school set.\n“Rehearsals have gone really well so far and everyone is gearing up for the run of shows”, said David Delaney, PR and Marketing for the Portlaoise Musical Society. “We have also exceeded our fundraising target this year which is fantastic”.\nThe show is set to star a host of local talent, including Grainne Donoghue as Sandy and Seamus Carroll as Danny.\nWell known songs from the musical, including “You’re the One That I Want” and “Grease Lightening” will be sure to get the crowd going.\nThe production runs from November 16 to 23. Tickets cost €18 and can be bought on the Dunamaise Arts Centre’s website, dunamaise.ie. Book early to avoid disappointment.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Requiem For A Cabaret: The Oak Room Closes\nNew York's historic Algonquin Hotel has been famous for a lot of things: the roundtable where some of the greatest American wits, from George S. Kaufman to Dorothy Parker, held forth in the 1920s and '30s; generations of cats — named either Hamlet or Matilda — who haunt the lobby; and, since 1980, the Oak Room, one of New York's most loved cabaret spaces.\nWhen Marriott purchased the hotel and closed it for renovations early this year, they announced that the Oak Room would not be reopening — instead, it will be a lounge for preferred customers.\nSinger Andrea Marcovicci was kind of a lifer at the Oak Room. For 25 years she performed there, surrounded by its burnished wood panels and ornate wall sconces.\n\"When you walk into the Algonquin, automatically the atmosphere is like walking back in time,\" says Marcovicci. \"Therefore, when you walked into the Oak Room, people were already prepared for listening to the music you sing.\"\nThe Church Of American Popular Song\nMore than 3,000 New Yorkers have signed a petition circulated by songwriter Enid Futterman asking for the Oak Room to reopen. Cabaret historian James Gavin says it was a church of the pre-rock 'n' roll American popular song.\n\"The Oak Room, through the years, presented a lot of performers who are simply the best at what they do; who were unrivaled at weaving a cozy, intimate spell that really made you feel as though you were part of an old-time New York elite,\" says Futterman.\nAmong the singers who performed at the Oak Room over its three-decade history were Harry Connick Jr., Diana Krall and Michael Feinstein. Singers liked performing in the Oak Room for a reason, says Barbara McGurn, who started as the cabaret's publicist and took over as manager in 2001.\n\"In the Oak Room, the performers are right on top of the audience,\" says McGurn. \"It's the intimacy, and I think that's always been the case.\"\nBut that doesn't mean it was easy.\n\"Everybody thought it was the greatest room to get into, until you're actually in it!\" says Marcovicci.\nMarcovicci got together with her protege, Maude Maggart, to reminisce.\n\"And then you realize you have to perform like you're on a lazy Susan,\" says Marcovicci.\n\"That's right!\" says Maggart. \"Constantly turning, turning, turning until you feel insane!\"\n'The Subtlest Move Can Be The Grandest Gesture'\nThat's because the stage was in the center of a rectangular space, with only a few customers in front of the singer, so performers frequently had to turn left and right to connect with the audience. Still, Maggart says she found ways to adjust.\n\"The subtlest move can be the grandest gesture, you know, because the audience is so focused in on you and what you're saying, what you're sharing with them, what you're revealing about yourself and about them, too,\" says Maggart.\nIt wasn't just the room. It was the people who worked in it.\n\"Our waiters are legendary,\" says Marcovicci. \"I adore them all, but it was just almost inevitable that our waiters would decide to pour an extra glass of water during the most ...\"\n\"Lots of ice!\" says Maggart.\n\"... with, yes, extra ice,\" says Marcovicci, laughing. \"And almost inevitably during [sings] 'They asked me how I knew ...' \"\n\"Click, click, click, click,\" Maggart mimics ices falling into the glass.\n\" '[Laughs, singing] my true love was true.' Click, click, click, click! Right?\" says Marcovicci.\nIntimacy Comes At A Price\nBoth Marcovicci and Maggart say they cherished the intimate relationships they developed with the audience. Every year they were witness to birthdays, anniversaries and marriage proposals.\nAfter every show, Marcovicci says, \"We sell our CDs in the lobby, we meet people in the lobby, and we genuinely have audience members that come right up to us, hug us after the show: 'May I hug you?' \"\nStill, such intimacy came at a price. Historian James Gavin points to the Oak Room's high cover charge and food and drink minimum. That meant it had a limited audience, and add to that the cost of staffing it.\n\"The economics of cabaret are simply ridiculous,\" says Gavin. \"I think that these places break even, at best.\"\nWhile Marcovicci is feeling sad at the moment, she says, \"You started in the Oak Room, you will have learned what you needed to learn about cabaret for the rest of your life. So, that room may be no more, but anyone who played in the Oak Room has learned a lesson.\"\nAnd, she adds, cabaret never dies, it just migrates. Indeed, right after news of the Oak Room's closing, there was an announcement of the opening of a new cabaret club in Manhattan. Called 54 Below, it opens next month with singer Patti LuPone.\nCopyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- SEC claims that Coinbase had previously acknowledged the possibility of federal securities laws applying to its listings\n- SEC pointed out that Coinbase’s own public filings noted the potential risk that listed assets might be considered securities.\nThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has responded to Coinbase’s argument that it lacks jurisdiction in the ongoing lawsuit filed against the cryptocurrency exchange. In the lawsuit, the SEC accuses Coinbase, the second-largest crypto exchange by volume, of operating its crypto asset trading platform as an unregistered national securities exchange and brokers, thereby violating federal securities laws.\nIn its filing on Friday, the SEC claimed that Coinbase had previously acknowledged the possibility of federal securities laws applying to its listings. The regulatory body highlighted Coinbase’s adoption of the legal framework established by the U.S. Supreme Court to assess whether certain cryptocurrencies met the requirements of federal securities laws. Coinbase had also discouraged crypto issuers from making statements traditionally associated with securities.\nThe District Court for the Southern District of New York has scheduled a hearing for July 13, 2023, where both Coinbase and the SEC will present their arguments and further explore the legal issues at hand.\nFurthermore, the SEC pointed out that Coinbase’s own public filings noted the potential risk that listed assets might be considered securities. This indicated that Coinbase was well aware of the potential applicability of securities laws to its conduct and understood the rules to evaluate the legality of its operations. The SEC argued that Coinbase consciously decided to take on the risk of operating outside the confines of federal securities laws to fuel its business growth.\nThe regulatory body firmly opposed any motion for judgment that Coinbase might file and requested the court to strike down Coinbase’s arguments related to the major questions doctrine and other concerns.\nThe SEC disagreed with Coinbase’s assertion that an investment contract must include a formal contract, clarifying that the Howey Test does not require a formal agreement. Additionally, the SEC stated that transactions on secondary markets could still violate securities laws, contradicting Coinbase’s second argument.\nCoinbase has been actively lobbying for clearer cryptocurrency regulations in the United States, aiming to address the increasing regulatory scrutiny faced by the industry. In a recent media interview, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong revealed that the company had met with the SEC over 30 times in the past year without receiving any feedback on compliance measures.\nThe SEC also refuted Coinbase’s claim regarding the major questions doctrine, asserting that the case involves the SEC’s exercise of its long-standing authority to enforce statutory requirements.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "\"All I can tell you is if that football team would have played like they did against us, they'd have been 5-0 instead of 1-4,\" Zook said\nIt's too late to change the recent past, but it's not too late for the Bulldogs (2-5, 1-3 SEC) to build on their stunning victory against Florida and salvage some tangible positives from a difficult season.\nThe best thing the victory did was give the Bulldogs the encouragement they need to keep working and listening to first-year coach Sylvester Croom.\n\"It's like Bear Bryant used to say: any time you win, the grass is greener, the flowers smell better and your wife looks prettier,\" Croom said. \"It was pretty much the same routine (on Sunday), except that I wasn't nauseated when I woke up.\"\nCornerback Kevin Dockery added, \"It's always going to feel better after a win, especially over a team like Florida. It's just good to get rid of that nasty feeling we've been having in the pit of our stomach. Good to get a little swagger back.\"\nIt's even better to take that swagger and do something with it on Saturday. Fortunately for the Bulldogs they play at home again this week against a Kentucky team with a five-game losing streak.\nThat means the Bulldogs have to stop celebrating and keep moving forward.\n\"We've got to let it go,\" Dockery said. \"We don't want to take one step up and take a step back. We've got to keep building.\"\nSCOUTING THE OFFENSE: Might as well throw out all those stats from the first six games if the Bulldogs are going to play the way they played against Florida. Mississippi State only scored seven points against Maine and entered last Saturday's game ranked last nationally -- 117th -- in scoring (12.5 points per game) and 114th in total offense (280.5 yards), but the Bulldogs got physical against Florida and ripped the Gators for 31 points and 409 yards, 251 by rushing.\nSCOUTING THE DEFENSE: Mississippi State has the SEC's youngest defense, and that defense became even younger last week when coach Sylvester Croom replaced three veterans with two true freshmen and a sophomore. The Mississippi State defense did give up 441 yards last week and allowed the Gators to climb back in the game time after time, but the Bulldogs also forced three turnovers, including one to set up the winning score.\nQUOTE TO NOTE: \"The things I've been telling our prospects is that we are a better football team than our record indicates, that we will get better and we will build toward a championship trophy. What I hope is this will inspire confidence in them to come be a part of what we're building.\" -- Mississippi State coach Sylvester Croom.\nSTRATEGY AND PERSONNEL\nTHIS WEEK'S GAME: Kentucky at Mississippi State, Oct. 30 -- Two weeks ago this game looked like one that Mississippi State might be able to win with some luck. Now, after last week's 38-31 victory over then-No. 20 Florida, this looks like a game the Bulldogs should win if they can continue to play physical football and move the ball on the ground.\nPLAYERS TO WATCH: RB Jerious Norwood -- Norwood has often struggled for running room this season but he got plenty of help from his blockers against Florida and made the most of it, rushing for 174 hard-earned yards on a career-high 29 carries and two touchdowns. He earned the SEC offensive player of the week award. \"Jerious' play was tremendous,\" MSU coach Sylvester Croom said. \"I'm a big back guy. I like big backs. Jerious is not biggest back in the world, but he runs big. Barry Sanders wasn't a big back, but he played like a big back. He had power.\"\nQB Omarr Conner -- The success in the running game allowed Conner to make more plays, and he took advantage of it. After returning from a knee injury that forced him to miss two games, Conner held the offense together under pressure and completed 15 of 24 passes for 158 yards and a touchdown and rushing 50 yards and a touchdown.\nLBs Quinton Culberson, Titus Brown and Gabe O'Neal -- Coach Sylvester Croom's decision to go with younger players, especially these three linebackers, may run into difficulty at times this season but it's a move toward a better future with faster linebackers.\nROSTER REPORT: The open date before the Florida game helped the Bulldogs get a lot healthier, and the game didn't produce any new significant injuries.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "More than 500 consumer companies active in Israel. They are offerings span the range of innovative solutions. From flying cars to robots that fold laundry, they are active in so many areas: the autonomous vehicles, water, healthIT, smart tech, wearables, Internet of things, drones, home automation, gaming, and more.\nThe annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which is starting today January 8-11 in Las Vegas World Trade Center is the global stage for innovation. Dozens of Israeli companies will join 4,500 exhibitors from 150 countries.\nWill you offer us a hand? Every gift, regardless of size, fuels our future.\nYour critical contribution enables us to maintain our independence from shareholders or wealthy owners, allowing us to keep up reporting without bias. It means we can continue to make Jewish Business News available to everyone.\nYou can support us for as little as $1 via PayPal at firstname.lastname@example.org.\nISRAEL21c takes a look at some of other hottest Israeli firms exhibiting at CES this year.\nInnoviz makes smart LiDAR systems – the “eyes” in next-generation autonomous vehicles. Innoviz’s LiDAR sends out pulsed laser beams to measure and monitor a car’s surroundings. The company has already received a pre-CES “innovation award” in the vehicle intelligence category. BMW is now integrating Innoviz into its autonomous vehicles scheduled to be launched in 2021.\nVayavision acts as a brain to sensors installed in cars from companies like Innoviz, determining which sensor to use at any given moment to keep drivers and pedestrians safe. Vayavision takes its data from radar, LiDAR and camera sensors. The Vayavision “brain” is intended to reduce false alarms and missed detections. The company raised $8 million in October.\nBroadmann17 is similar to Vayavision, in that it aims to improve processing in autonomous vehicles. The company’s artificial intelligence allows cars (and drones) to see, identify and process large amounts of data at once. Broadmann17’s deep neural network software enables “edge” devices (with limited processing power) to take advantage of the power of AI.\nCognata uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to simulate real cities in 3D so autonomous vehicle makers can test their cars virtually before hitting the streets. Given the recent revolt against Waymo’s autonomous vehicle tests in Arizona, where pedestrians attacked the vehicles with rocks and knives, Cognata’s tech may receive particular interest this year at CES.\nPhantom Auto is building a “remote control” for autonomous cars. If there’s a problem with a self-driving vehicle and there’s no steering wheel, brakes or driver, Phantom Auto can insert a human operator to control the vehicle from a remote location. Will that be enough to help passenger (and angry mobs) get past their fear of driverless cars?\nEngie plugs into a car’s dashboard and helps drivers of “regular” vehicles (you know, the ones we’re driving today) diagnose problems and find the closest mechanic (along with rates) from the app’s mechanic marketplace. Engie can tell you if your car will pass its next air-pollution test or if the engine is running hot. It can even remember where you parked your car.\nC2A, Karamba Security, SafeRide Technologies and Argus Cyber Security all help protect cars of today and tomorrow against cyber-threats. They work in different ways: Argus embeds its security software directly into a car’s systems, Karamba secures the infotainment center to keep out hackers, C2A is making its firewall-type “Stamper” product available royalty-free, while SafeRide detects vulnerabilities before a hacker even arrives by flagging any abnormal behavior and reporting it to the connected car’s Security Operation Center.\nTactile Mobility helps self-driving cars “feel” the road. The company uses the data coming from a vehicle’s sensors to tell how tightly a car is gripping the road, whether the vehicle is bumping up and down over potholes or how steep a hill is. Tactile Mobility can help autonomous vehicles drive faster and be less wary of fast-moving highway on and off ramps.\nFlytrex wants to be the FedEx of the drone-delivery world. Its software allows operators to set pick-up and delivery points and see information about weather, topography and other drones in the air. The service is now operational at the King’s Walk Golf Course in North Dakota where it delivers food and beverages to golfers on-demand, and in Iceland where AHA which uses Flytrex to drop goods in customers’ Reykjavik backyards.\nEdgybees’ First Response software suite brings augmented reality, map layers and visual markers to allow drone pilots to monitor more than the drone itself can; it allows commanders to monitor drones remotely; and it integrates a drone’s visual progress into video streams and maps. The software was used during last year’s devastating Camp Fire in California and during several major US hurricanes.\nConsumer drones today mainly carry packages. But will a fully flying car be in our future? Startup NFT hopes to bring a bit of the Jetsons to our cities. The company will be displaying a prototype vehicle with VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) capabilities – no landing pad or heliport required. NFT’s electric-powered flying car has a range of 60 miles driving and 310 miles flying at a projected price of $50,000.\nROBOTS AND MORE\nFoldiMate, a California-headquartered startup founded in 2012 by Gal Rozov, an Israeli software engineer, who decided that folding laundry was a boring task that can be done by a robot. The FoldiMate is slightly larger than a standard washing machine. according to the company, it can neatly fold blouses, T-shirts, tops, pants, and towels. The prototype presented at CES 2017. This year FoldiMate will be demoing its fully functional prototype.\nLumen is a personalized nutrition device that measures users’ metabolism by analyzing their breath. The company’s hand-held product includes carbon-dioxide sensors and flow meters to measure the breakdown of fat, carbohydrate and protein. The results are displayed on an accompanying smartphone app.\nWatergen makes GENNY, a 50-kilogram home and office water generator that uses ambient air to extract and produce between 25 and 30 liters of water a day. One liter of GENNY-made water costs just 2 cents. The company was named a “Best of Innovation” nominee in CES’s “Tech for a Better World” category.\nIntellithings also won a CES 2019 Innovation award for RoomMe, a personalized automation solution for smart homes. Install RoomMe in a selected space and its Bluetooth tech identifies who’s in the room based on their smartphone. RoomMe then automatically adjusts lights, thermostats and other devices to preset preferences.\nTechSee uses cameras and augmented reality to troubleshoot users’ tech problems remotely. Just bought a new router but don’t know how to set it up? Fire up TechSee’s “Eve” app and point your phone at the router. Eve will identify the model and walk you through installation by demonstrating the steps you need to take on an augmented visual overlay. The company raised $18 million in December.\nHandy with computers but hate housework? Foldimate will be demonstrating its robotic laundry folding machine at CES. A ship date is estimated for later this year with a target retail price of $980. You feed your clothes into the top of the machine, which looks a bit like a giant upright printer, and the clothes come out neat and folded. Foldimate adjusts its folding technique based on item size and user preferences.\nCentaur Analytics wants to be the “Internet of crops.” The startup’s platform tracks data from sensors installed along the produce supply chain from farm to train to truck to retail facility. The app applies environmental information and predictive models to decide how best to reduce the amount of poor quality product (no more wilted lettuce!) which in turn should increase stores’ revenues.\nRobots are always showstoppers at tech events, which practically guarantees personal robot-maker Temi a big CES splash. Use Temi ($1,499) to video chat with a loved one using its mobile telepresence functionality, ask Temi a question or to play your favorite song (think of Temi as Amazon Echo on wheels) or tell Temi to fetch some tea from the kitchen.\nIntuition Robotics’ ElliQ has a similar home use as Temi, minus the wheels, and is aimed at chatting with seniors to help them stay active and engaged. The product won a “Best of Innovation award” in the Smart Home category at last year’s CES.\n42 Game Changer might just be the perfect product for vendors at a trade show like CES. The company makes interactive mobile games branded for its corporate customers. When visitors approach the customer’s booth, they’re offered a chance to play a game and win a prize by entering their contact details. The company also will power customer interaction at the booth of another Israeli company at CES, Human Eyes.\nCheck out ISRAEL21c’s previous coverage of other Israeli startups that will be at CES this year, including: smart glass technology maker Gauzy, smart city platform Waycare and smart pollution monitor Breezometer.\nThis 22 startups from Israel will form the Israeli Pavilion sponsored by the Israeli Export Institute:\n- 2Sens www.2sens.co\n- Anagog www.anagog.com\n- Brodmann17 www.brodmann17.com\n- ByondVR www.byondxr.com\n- ChiperSiP www.ciphersip.com\n- Edgybees www.edgybees.com\n- Endor www.endor.com\n- Firedome www.firedome.io\n- Gauzy www.gauzy.com\n- Hexa www.hexa3d.io\n- Lishtot www.lishtot.com\n- Lumen www.lumen.me\n- NanoScent www.nanoscentlabs.com\n- NFT Inc www.nxtft.com\n- Qlone www.qlone.pro\n- Sixdof Space www.sixdof.space\n- Superb Reality www.superbreality.com\n- Syte www.syte.ai\n- TriEye www.trieye.tech\n- Unbotify www.unbotify.com\n- Waycare www.waycaretech.com\n- Woojer www.woojer.com", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Police are treating a fire at housing for young homeless people in Stroud as suspected arson.\nCrews were called to the Old School Buildings on Wood Street late on Thursday evening, following calls reporting the incident.\nEngines from Stroud and Nailsworth attended at 10.08pm accompanied by colleagues from the emergency services.\nAt the scene they used two hose reels and four breathing apparatus to tackle the blaze at the two-storey, stone building.\nA spokesman for Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service confirmed the ground floor was 25 per cent damaged by fire and 100 per cent by smoke.\nNo-one was injured.\nThe firefighters left the scene at 11.31pm.\n\"It was a police led incident which is being treated as suspected arson,\" the spokesman added.\nThe Old School Buildings are listed online as being part of Bromford Support, which helps young single people aged 16-21 who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with support needs.\nThe project only accepts referrals from Stroud District Council and other statutory agencies.\nTwo girls have since been arrested on suspicion of arson. More here", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Ministry of Labour and Employment has formed 23 'Crisis Management Committees' across the country comprising field level officers of the Labour Office, Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments and owners of the factory to keep the labour situation normal during the COVID-19 crisis.\nThe committees will ensure timely payment of wages or salaries to the workers and employees. These committees will also conduct joint inspection to resolve any labor dissatisfaction through tripartite arbitration, an official release said.\nIf necessary, the committees can form sub-committees. The committees will have to send weekly report to the ministry through their respective department every Thursday.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Police: Man killed woman by running her over with minivan\nLAS VEGAS (AP) — Police are accusing a man of killing his girlfriend by running her over with his minivan near the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign.\nPolice in Las Vegas have arrested 39-year-old John Treese on one count of open murder.\nAuthorities say Treese and his girlfriend got into an argument Saturday night because she wanted to drive. She then got out of the vehicle and began to walk on the median.\nWitnesses told police they saw the minivan move backward and accelerate as it drove onto the median, striking the woman.\nPolice say they found the woman lying on the median. She was pronounced dead at a hospital.\nAuthorities have not released the woman’s name.\nTreese is at the Clark County Detention Center. Records do not list an attorney who could comment on his behalf.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "City Bar President Carey Dunne Testifies at Chief Judge’s Hearing on Civil Legal Services\nNew York City Bar Association President Carey R. Dunne testified today at Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman’s hearing on civil legal services for low-income New Yorkers, at the Appellate Division, First Department, in Manhattan. His prepared testimony follows:\nChief Judge Lippman, Justice Gonzalez, and Mr. James: I am honored to testify before you today on behalf of the New York City Bar Association at this third series of hearings on access to justice for New Yorkers who cannot afford an attorney for their civil legal services needs.\nThe City Bar has long been committed to providing access to justice, and we work to achieve this on a local, national and international level. In addition to our legal and policy work in this area, our public service affiliate, the City Bar Justice center, provides direct legal services by leveraging the efforts and resources of the City’s legal community to increase access to justice for low-income individuals. And our Vance Center for International Justice stimulates and coordinates pro bono efforts in Latin America, Africa and elsewhere in the world.\nThe City Bar applauds the Chief Judge for his extraordinary leadership, and the Task Force for its extraordinary efforts, which have made New York a nationwide leader in the provision of civil legal services to the poor. As a result of these efforts, and despite difficult budget constraints and other pressures, the judiciary budget provided a $12.5 million increase in legal services funding last year and an additional $12.5 million, for a $25 million increase over two years, a remarkable result in these difficult times.\nAs we all know, however, this funding increase is well short of where we need to be. Unfortunately, we are confronting an intractable demand for civil legal assistance that all the legal services providers plus considerable pro bono efforts of New York’s lawyers cannot come close to meeting. Though many statistics demonstrate this crisis, I cannot get past the number of two million – over two million New Yorkers walk into court each year with no legal counsel. They generally do not have the skills, and often the language ability, to pursue or defend their legal positions, and thus are particularly at risk of losing their shelter or their subsistence or facing a break up of their family. If these parties received representation, not only would their chances of success be greater, but their cases would be more effectively handled by an overburdened court system, and they might be able to recover some of the hundreds of millions of dollars New Yorkers are owed each year in federal benefits for which they are eligible.\nUnfortunately, nothing happening in the larger world gives us comfort that these pressing needs will be met anytime soon. Recent census statistics show that the poverty level in New York City grew in 2011 to 20.9%, with almost 1.7 million residents classified as poor. Median income in the city declined. Unemployment remains stubbornly high, and the figures do not even reflect all those who have given up looking for work. While more are suffering in New York, the increase in the poverty population elsewhere in the country will result in a redistribution of federal legal services funding, so that New York providers will see double-digit declines even if the overall allocation to the legal services corporation remains the same. Many lay-offs in legal services offices are occurring statewide. And the federal government has not yet retreated from its own budget cliff, risking further cuts to federal funding in the immediate future.\nSurely, we need new responses to this deepening crisis. To start, we have a desperate need for additional civil legal services funding. No single means of providing services to the poor is as effective as the experienced legal services offices and lawyers that operate so heroically. They need more money, to offset federal losses and to try to meet the great need, as they have had to turn away at least 80% of those that reach out for help. We urge that the judiciary budget include a substantial increase in legal services funding, to move closer to the $100 million increased budget goal that has been set by Chief Judge Lippman.\nBut we need to get more help from other sources. We and other bar associations in New York have exerted substantial efforts to mobilize the private bar, and many lawyers have heard the call and given generously of their time and resources. At the City Bar Justice Center, we have 2,171 trained volunteers, who joined with the justice center staff to assist nearly 20,000 people last year. We increased the value of pro bono legal services donated through programs at the justice center from $18 million to $20 million since last year. Our free legal hotline is supported by IOLA and OCA funding to assist thousands of New Yorkers with fast, free legal help on basic legal problems such as consumer debt, housing and family law, and it makes referrals to legal services when appropriate. Our programs also reach veterans, 9/11 victim compensation fund claimants, immigrant women and children, and victims of domestic violence and trafficking.\nWhile other bar associations are also working hard to provide vital pro bono assistance, the current pace of pro bono activity must be greatly accelerated, and we have to be open to new ways of getting that done. We therefore fully support the recently issued 50-hour pro bono requirement for admission to the New York Bar. We see the requirement as inculcating the spirit of pro bono, exposing all new lawyers in the state to the rewards of pro bono service and, with 9000 new lawyers being admitted each year, generating a substantial amount of legal services. The rules provide a flexible approach, giving law students a broad range of ways they can help, and backing that up with a requirement that their efforts be supervised. It is now up to legal services providers, law schools, bar associations and others concerned about providing legal assistance to develop effective ways for law students to assist. The New York City Bar looks forward to doing its part and to working with others to see that law student pro bono efforts are harnessed effectively.\nSimilarly, we experienced lawyers need to do more. There has been much effort to encourage pro bono service but that has to be greatly intensified. The city bar has long been in favor of the concept of mandatory pro bono service. We of course recognize that this has been a highly controversial issue within the bar. However, we also support another approach which we believe would stimulate greater involvement: the mandatory reporting of pro bono activities. In 1997, the City Bar proposed that New York lawyers be required to report the extent of their pro bono commitments, as well as their monetary contributions to organizations providing legal services to the poor (the report is appended to this testimony). Our report drew on the experience of Florida, which was the first to establish the reporting of pro bono activities and contributions, both of which grew substantially after the reporting requirement was put into place. Now, eight states have mandatory reporting. Mandatory reporting in New York can be handled in a number of ways, though perhaps the easiest would be in the form used for the biannual registration renewal. That is one of a number of details that would have to be developed, and we would be happy to work with the task force in designing such a program.\nIn closing, we face an historic opportunity to step up the funding for civil legal services through the New York State Office of Court Administration and the pro bono efforts of the legal profession. The new bar applicant pro bono requirement will bring law schools further into pro bono work and create important resources to help combat the increase in the poverty rate and homelessness in New York City. We must take what we have learned from the past fifty years of expanding access to justice for the poor and create smarter and more efficient ways to reach more people. At the City Bar, I pledge our full support for these efforts.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "You have been successfully added to our newsletter.\nLet our news meet your inbox\nItalian court clears Knox of murder\nAn Italian appeals court throws out Amanda Knox's murder conviction, ordering her release after nearly four years in prison for the death of her British roommate. Msnbc's Martin Bashir and NBC's Savannah Guthrie report.Oct.03.2011", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Macintosh HDJoint Coordination Centre officials board cargo ship Mehmet Bey as it waits to pass the Bosporus off the shores of Yenikapı during a misty morning in Istanbul, Türkiye, Oct. 31, 2022. (Reuters File Photo)\nNs News Online Desk: Türkiye is in contact with Russia and Ukraine to address the concerns of both countries regarding the suspension of the grain deal, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Tuesday.\n“Yesterday, we had a phone call with (Russian Defense Minister Sergei) Shoigu. They said that they were uncomfortable with the explosions and that it was against the agreement and that they could not allow transportation under these conditions,” Akar told reporters in the Turkish capital Ankara, referring to Russian complaints of an attack on its fleet in Crimea last Saturday, which it cited in its suspension on Saturday.\nHe continued: “We thought we’d talk to Ukraine. We shared Shoigu’s views and concerns with the Ukrainians.”\nAkar said that Shoigu is still in talks with his side, adding: “We are evaluating the facts to see if the arrangement will be extended.”\nAkar said that all parties should be sensitive to protecting the deal, adding that Türkiye hopes to see it extended. The minister noted that under the deal, Türkiye welcomed more than 10 million tons of Ukrainian grain exported to the world.\nRussia on Saturday announced its suspension of the U.N.-brokered Black Sea grain export deal.\nOn July 22, Türkiye, the U.N., Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement in Istanbul to resume Black Sea grain exports, which were paused after the Russia-Ukraine war began in February. A Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) with officials from the three countries and the U.N. was set up in Istanbul to oversee the shipments.\nFor its part, Türkiye continues to take necessary initiatives with all parties to solve problems related to the implementation of the deal, which had sent out some 10 million tons of grain since early August, helping to stem a global food crisis.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Married mother-of-one high school teacher, 27, is arrested for having sex with a male student multiple times on and off campus\n- Jessica Welch Greene was arrested on Tuesday and charged with three counts of sexual activity with a student\n- Authorities say the Davie County High School teacher had sex with a male student on and off the campus between November 1 and December 1\n- The age of the male student has not been released\nDavie County sheriff's deputies have arrested a teacher and charged her with having sex with a male student.\nThe sheriff's office told local media outlets Tuesday that 27-year-old Jessica Welch Greene of Mocksville is charged with three counts of sexual activity with a student.\nThe victim is a boy, but authorities would not disclose how old he is.\nAccording to Facebook, Greene appears to be married and the mother of a young child.\nJessica Welch Greene (pictured) has been arrested for having sex with one of her male students at Davie County High School in North Carolina\nAccording to Facebook, Greene appears to be married and the mother of a young child\nLaw enforcement say the 27-year-old teacher had sex with the student on and off campus between November 1 and December 1\nDeputies say the sex occurred on and off the campus of Davie County High School between November 1 and December 1.\nThe sheriff's office received a report from the Davie County Schools on December 2 that one of its employees at the high school might be involved in an inappropriate relationship with a student.\nThe school system said it received the allegations December 1.\nGreene has been suspended without pay on Monday. It was not known if she has an attorney.\n'The safety of all of our students continues to be a top priority,' the district said in a statement. 'And we will continue to partner with parents, our community, and law enforcement to maintain a safe teaching and learning environment for the students we serve.'\nShe is currently being held in jail on $15,000.\nThis is the second teacher in Davie County to be arrested this year for an inappropriate relationship with a student.\nShannon Wood, a former coach and teacher at Ellis Middle School, was arrested in September on charges of a statutory sex offensive with a child under 15, three counts of disseminating material harmful to a minor, one count of taking indecent liberties with a minor and one count of disseminating obscene material to a minor.\nShe resigned in August and had been at the school since 2007.\nMost watched News videos\n- Dash cam shows car turning into path of van before baby pram death\n- Moment: Las Vegas store owner stabs would-be robber seven times\n- Lionesses enjoy ibiza boat trip as Ella Toone takes to Instagram\n- Bellydancer falls into busy street after hanging out of car window\n- Katie Guzenko shot in face while caught in crossfire in Portland\n- Police face backlash for calling out reckless drivers on cyclists\n- Ryan Giggs arrives at Manchester court to face trial\n- Pod of dolphins protects man swimming Cook Strait from a shark\n- Onlookers capture Götheborg sailing under Tower Bridge in London\n- Huge fire in west London seen from a nearby back garden\n- Shocking moment two Mets fans punch Braves supporter\n- 'He fought until the very end': Archie's mum on his final hours", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "In an Ideas piece, Rosen says in the world of politics, wrath can be a powerful motivator.\nObama is on the warpath over distortions about health care reform, but he’s spreading one of his own.\nEfforts by Rep. Jerrold Nadler to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act have suffered a setback.\nRepublican leaders fire up about 800 activists gathered for the rally outside the Capitol.\nRepublicans have lined up a strategy to try and steal some of the thunder from Obama's Wed. speech.\nFor decades, he was a major bogeyman for the right. Not every foe is ready to forgive and forget.\nAttack ads are targeting five House Republicans who voted against the energy legislation in June.\nIn an Ideas piece, Cantor says that the federal debt threatens prosperity.\nSince its launch, Eric Cantor's National Council hasn’t held a single public event.\nHis campaign and his leadership PAC have now paid more than $1 million to lawyers.\nNancy Pelosi is trying to unite her divided caucus around a common enemy — the health insurance industry.\nLawmakers face a challenge on health bill: how to dumb it down so average Americans understand it.\nGOP whip protects top lieutenants with huge fund raising event.\nShe hasn't made an official announcement yet, but Hutchison is already shaking up her campaign team.\nThe DNC pushes back against Republican charges that Obama's stimulus package has been ineffective.\nCalifornia woman leading the birthers movement has made fast \"friends\" with influential Republicans.\nIn an Ideas piece, Rep. Slaughter says one of Congress's basic functions is to approve the budget.\nIn an Ideas piece, Cantor says passing bills under an open rule is becoming a thing of the past.\nVice President speaks in in Richmond, Va., hometown of one of the program’s top critics, Eric Cantor.\nHe's hawking the success of the administration's stimulus plan in Richmond, Va. — home district to Cantor.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "“Damned if you do, and damned if you don’t,” said Trustee Ken Checkel during the final budget deliberations at the most recent Clearview Board of Trustees meeting.\nTrustees at the time were discussing reserves and what would a prudent manager running a $35.5 million-dollar operation keep on hand for the unexpected.\n“On one hand, the government is whining every year about school boards and their reserves”, said Checkel. “They criticize when our reserves are too large, sometimes they claw back reserves. But if you look at the Calgary Public School Board (CSB), they (the government) then criticize that they (CSB) didn’t keep enough money in reserve to handle the situation.”\nThe situation was created when the provincial government in October 2019 unilaterally pulled millions of dollars back from previously approved school budgets. Staffing had been set, students were in the classroom and programs were underway. Presto, Clearview lost $400,000 overnight, and larger city school boards were slammed with multi-million-dollar, mid-year cuts.\nSchools boards are faced not only with unforeseen circumstances such as a leaky roof, but must try and manage reserves to deal with fickle politicians and erratic funding.\nIt brought to mind another discussion that happened at the Clearview Board meeting on March 18. Trustees who had attended the Rural Education Conference in Edmonton came back gushing about how well they were treated by a huge contingency of United Conservative Party (UCP) cabinet ministers and MLAs. Vice-Chair Neitz threw a little cold water on the love-in by acknowledging in the first year of the Notley government the same thing had happened.\nBut it was Trustee John Schofer, a non-attendee at the conference, who asked the pertinent question. Did you ask why year-over-year more public money is going to private schools? Chairman Hayden said, yes, and the answer was private schools have growing enrollments. Schofer’s reaction struck me as someone who was in complete disbelief that public school trustees would just accept that answer without push back.\nI too pondered Hayden’s response. Private schools are getting more students as public schools receive inconsistent funding and are often used as a punching bag by the UCP government.\nLegislation is being changed at mach speed to give charter schools autonomy from school boards—another important step towards a two-tier educational system.\nMy question, who is fighting for public education?\nThe issue with private, charter and even Catholic schools is they all have a veto over who can attend—an unfair advantage. Difficult students, students whose first language isn’t English, special needs students, students who practice a different religion, LGBTQs and poor students can be turned away.\nThe logical next steps will be to eliminate elected trustees, introduce performance funding and establish a voucher system where funding goes with the student. It takes away economies of scale, spreads even thinner scarce financial resources, and creates winners and losers.\nUnlike all the other options, public education is the big loser–it’s the system that can’t pick and choose students to enhance their ‘performance’ and grow their funding.\nThe UCP script about choice is just wrong.\nChoice in education isn’t about public, private, charter or home-schooling.\nEducational choice is either a strong publicly-funded education system where all children, regardless of differences, can attend; or a two-tier system—one for the privileged and one for the marginalized.\nNorthern European countries are the model of the former; America and Britain are models of the latter.\nTwo-tier education always leads to greater societal divides—more elitism, more economic inequality, more tribalization, more racism and more violence—simply because it leaves behind a vast number of marginalized kids ill-prepared to contribute positively to society when they reach adulthood.\nB. Schimke, News Journalist", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Washington Times by Andrea Noble - November 17, 2011\nOn two nights a month apart this year, Takia Johnson drew the attention of D.C. law-enforcement officers, who pulled over her car and took her into custody on charges she was driving under the influence of PCP. But despite the arrests, Ms. Johnson by day continued in her city job — enforcing the laws of the District as a parking officer. During the first incident in February, Ms. Johnson was pulled over for driving erratically, police said. She appeared to be in a drug-induced stupor, according to court records. A charge of driving under the influence from that incident is pending in D.C. Superior Court, but a month after the arrest, she was stopped again while driving and found with two PCP-dipped cigarettes in her car. She pleaded guilty to a possession charge from that incident. The charges are related to a hallucinatory drug formally called Phencyclidine. Users engage in delusional and sometimes violent or behavior, which calls into question whether Ms. Johnson should have been on the job at all after the arrests — and whether her employer, the D.C. government, should have known about them. A spokeswoman for the Department of Public Works, which employed Ms. Johnson, said the agency is investigating the arrests but declined to say whether she remains on duty as a parking enforcement officer. \"Once that investigation is concluded, the department will take the appropriate action,\" DPW spokeswoman Linda Grant said in an email. Attempts to reach Ms. Johnson through the agency, union officials and a lawyer representing her in the open case were unsuccessful. Public employment records indicate that Ms. Johnson, 31, has worked since 2003 as one of about 200 parking enforcement officers with the agency, which enforces D.C. laws related to parking, most notably by writing tickets.\nSince 2003, Ms. Johnson has pleaded guilty to three other criminal charges: driving under the influence of alcohol, possession of PCP in the District in 2005, and carrying a concealed handgun in Prince George's County, where she now lives, in 2007. Only certain \"safety-sensitive\" positions with the D.C. government require random drug testing, and employment can be terminated if an employee tests positive, said Charles Tucker, general counsel for the District's Department of Human Resources. Ms. Grant said parking officers are not among those subjected to random drug testing. The rest of the District's employees are governed by city personnel regulations, which do not specifically prohibit drug use but state that employees should not engage in an interest \"which is in violation of federal or District law\" or \"which might impair an employee's mental or physical capacity to such an extent that he or she can no longer carry out his or her duties and responsibilities.\" Criminal defense lawyer David Benowitz, who has no connection to the case, said Ms. Johnson's prior guilty pleas raise difficult questions for the agency to answer. \"It certainly doesn't speak well to the credibility of any tickets she has written,\" he said. According to court documents from the two arrests this year, Ms. Johnson was stopped by the same pair of police officers in the same Northeast block after the officers noticed a moving Dodge Charger without its headlights activated. In the Feb. 1 incident, officers watched the Dodge make an illegal U-turn in the 6000 block of Clay Street Northeast, then drive at about 2 mph for a block. When they pulled over Ms. Johnson, she was \"staring blankly forward\" and \"only able to repeat the word 'yes ... yes ... yes,' \" say state charging documents filed in D.C. Superior Court. She later told officers that she had smoked a cigarette dipped in PCP about 15 minutes before she was pulled over. During the March 1 arrest, the same officers saw the Dodge going east on Clay Street with its headlights dark and pulled over the vehicle. When they approached the car, the officers noted a strong chemical smell that they suspected was PCP, which prompted them to search the car, charging documents state. Two cups of alcohol and two cigarettes dipped in PCP were found inside the car. Ms. Johnson and a passenger bickered over who owned the PCP-laced cigarettes, but the officers charged both with possession. In July, Ms. Johnson pleaded guilty to the possession charge and was sentenced to one year of supervised probation. A non-jury trial is scheduled in January on the DUI charge.\nThe police Tridico was a lying, crooked, son of a gun. Who makes the whole US MPD looks bad! Officer Tridico was his name. How can a person drive two miles per hour? Tridico had originally charged her with an alcohol charge. That wasnt going to stick. Ther was two different officers called on the scene who gave her a sobriety test. According to the Officers who gave it to her she past. They told her it would be up to the arresting officer (Tridico). That was her first arrest. Her second arrest, Tridico got his partner who rode with him to arrest her. Because Tridico wasnt confident in the first arrest, because the arrest was a big fat lie! The whole entire police report was falsafied. So, being the criminal devil he is, he drove around in her area ever chance he got to find her again until he locked her up. The second time he arrested her, she was NOT in her car, she was standing outside talking to the other person who was arrested also. And that person had the drugs ON THEM. Tridico did not care, he had one agenda and that was to charge her too. Why was she though? I can tell you, because he needed something to stick. Again, Tridico is crooked. Ms. Johnson never stood a chance, because of her PAST criminal history. She knew that, and its extremely hard to battle the Police in a trail and win. Even though, you know your innocent 9 times out of 10 a Judge will verdit in the Officers/Government favor. If this officer still has a job with law inforcement he sure dont deserve it! Tridico, is dishonset, and he is a criminal due to all the corruptness he does. Why does the Gov. allow harrassing, dishonest, corruptive person like Tridico to represent the DMV? It really makes them look not credible or reliable to the people of the community. I believe Tridico will get what he has coming to him.\nPost a Comment", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "All articles by: Leonora Aliu\nThe woman shaping Kosovo’s future soldiers\nMeet Irfete Spahiu, the first woman General in the Kosovo Security Force\nThe verdict that failed to reveal the Assembly’s attackers\nBasic Court decision quashed due to lack of evidence in terrorism case.\nA murder as a turning point\nIvanović assassination: Fear, threats and insecurity ignored in the north.\n“The Snake” raises its head for the Special Court\nKosovo President Hashim Thaci blames the international community for his own political failures.\nBeing part of a state that does not treat you as such\nInstitutional marginalization of children with disabilities in the education sector.\nRamush Haradinaj takes up the role of Prime Minister\nExtraordinary session held after the constitution of the Haradinaj government.\nKosovo’s Assembly finally chooses its president\nEstablishing new institutions unblocked by late night agreements.\nKosovo’s Interpol membership is far from assured\nAs UN General Assembly vote approaches, does Kosovo have the support?\nFears of a repeat of 2010\nLack of time and pre-election coalitions mean monitors are warning of misconduct on election day.\nSali Mekaj’s indictment up for review\nAppeals court allows its former head to object to his indictment\nFrench court refuses to extradite Ramush Haradinaj to Serbia\nFormer KLA commander free to return to Kosovo.\nDrita Hajdari: Without cooperation with Serbia, it is impossible [...]\nSpecial prosecutor discusses the challenges of prosecuting war crimes when the majority of suspects are unobtainable to state institutions.\nKosovo’s army’s uncertain path\nHashim Thaci’s game is more likely to trigger elections in Kosovo than to transform KSF into Kosovo’s army this year.\nThe deserter prosecuted for war crimes\nThe story of Sinan Morina, extradited to Serbia on war crimes charges.\nKosovo takes new steps towards establishing its army\nPresident Thaci bypasses Constitution to push progress.\nAppeals underway for Kosovars on Interpol list\nHaradinaj one of 20 appeals submitted to Interpol in December 2016.\nSurveillance included as evidence against Vetvendosje activists\nInitial blows traded in tense court session.\nQuestions remain over Thaci’s role in train stop\nPresident may have acted unconstitutionally if he issued order to Kosovo Police.\nFrance delays decision on Haradinaj extradition request\nFormer KLA commander remanded on bail while all evidence considered.\nEqual education, only on paper\nKosovar girls not being provided skills for equal labor force participation.\nInternational investigation into Dehari case legally unlikely\nLegal avenues limited for implementing petition's key demand.\nCould Fatmir Limaj be handed to the special court for war crimes?\nNISMA boss already indicted for war crimes in Kosovo.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Podcasts & RSS Feeds\nMost Active Stories\n- Revisiting the origin of the \"Michigan Left\"\n- Does the UAW's victory in Indiana signal the end of the two-tier wage system?\n- Here are 10 West Michigan trails to explore this fall\n- Governor Snyder is fighting a losing game in Aramark scandal\n- New polls suggest we may have the closest governor’s race in 30 years\nMon July 15, 2013\nSeeing more $2 bills lately? Could be because of a campaign by marijuana advocates\nLast Wednesday, medical marijuana groups started a campaign that they hope will shed light on the economic impact of the marijuana industry.\nThey want supporters of medical marijuana and cannabis legalization to spend at least one $2 for every cash purchase.\nOrganizers hope that placing more $2 bills in circulation will show the economic impact of medical marijuana.\nAnd the economic impact is more sizeable than one would think. According to Bill Laitner at the Detroit Free Press, there are 130,000 registered medical marijuana users in Michigan.\nLaitner’s report highlighted statistics about the economic impact of marijuana usage according to the RAND Corp. think tank:\nAccording to a study released this year by several researchers, including one from the prestigious RAND Corp. think tank in Santa Monica, Calif., Americans who use marijuana — both legally and illegally — spend about $30 billion per year just on the drug itself.\n“Michigan has slightly over 3% of the U.S. population, so that should mean that Michigan’s marijuana users currently spend about $945 million a year on marijuana,” said Karen O’Keefe, director of state policies for the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Marijuana Policy Project.\nHarvard researcher Jeffrey Miron found that in 2008 dollars, Michigan could see about $96 million in tax revenue from taxing and regulating marijuana, according to O’Keefe, a native of Grosse Pointe Farms.\n- Julia Field, Michigan Radio Newsroom\nMarijuana in Michigan", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders have decided to withdraw part of a massive federal spending bill set for a vote later this week after an uproar over whether members of Congress might see their first pay raise in a decade.\nThe bill as filed would restore a cost-of-living increase that was suspended amid a recession-battered economy. But lawmakers in both parties, sensitive to the optics of voting to raise their own pay from $174,000, publicly erupted over the issue.\n“We are delaying consideration of the legislative branch appropriations bill while we continue to discuss the issue of the cost-of-living adjustment,” said Mariel Saez, a spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland.\nOther portions of the bill, including funding for the military and for health and human services programs, will move forward.\nThe move is a setback for Hoyer, who advocated restoring the automatic increase, arguing that a rising cost of living in Washington has strained the finances of lawmakers, especially those who are not independently wealthy.\nThe issue was hotly debated in a House leadership meeting Monday night, aides said, with Hoyer arguing to push forward with the bill while others said the move was politically unwise.\nThe issue could be revisited in another spending bill later this month, the senior aide said.\nAmong those most vocally opposing the pay hike were scores of Democratic freshmen. Several sponsored or co-sponsored floor amendments to ensure that lawmakers would not see a raise.\nRep. Anthony Brindisi, D-New York, said Monday that lawmakers were prepared to vote against the overall bill, funding scores of federal agencies, if the pay hike were included.\n“Whether you want to call it a COLA [cost-of-living adjustment], whether you want to call it a pay increase, whatever it is, that’s not something Congress should be focusing on right now,” he said. “We have other things we gotta work on.”\nAside from Hoyer, the biggest proponent of the pay raise has been a newcomer: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, the 29-year-old rising liberal star who has made income inequality a key issue.\nAfter Hoyer pulled the pay-raise issue Monday evening, Ocasio-Cortez said she understood the optics but called it “shortsighted” because the frozen-salary structure on Capitol Hill created too many incentives for members and staffers to leave for greener pastures at lobbying firms.\n“It may not be politically popular to say but honestly this is why there’s so much pressure to turn to lobbying firms and to cash in on members’ service after people leave,” she said.\nMonday’s blowup followed private bipartisan discussions about trying to minimize the political blowback from a congressional pay hike, with Democratic and Republican leaders quietly agreeing to hold their fire to help out their rank-and-file members. Some leaders have also argued that it is a staff retention measure, because salaries for congressional aides cannot exceed those of lawmakers.\nHouse Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, declined to comment Monday on Democrats’ decision to pull the legislative-branch funding bill but defended the need for a pay increase.\n“There hasn’t been a COLA in 10 years,” he said. “I think all federal employees should be treated equally.”\nLawmakers passed a 1.9 percent across-the-board pay raise for federal workers, not including members of Congress, earlier this year. The cost-of-living adjustment, if adopted, would’ve add about $4,500 to lawmakers’ yearly paychecks — roughly a 2.6 percent raise.\nWashington Post writer Felicia Sonmez contributed to this report.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Many valuable scientific research samples are stored in ultra-low temperature (ULT) freezers, each of which consumes as much energy as a single family home. With approximately 1000 ULTs on campus, cold storage continues to be a major target for Green Labs energy conservation efforts.\nBuilding on past pilot studies, this year’s Chill Up Challenge encouraged researchers to adjust the temperature of ULT freezers. An increase of 10oC reduces equipment energy consumption by 20 per cent on average. This action is safe for many research sample types, increases freezer lifespans and contributes to equipment cost savings and waste reduction.\nAn impressive 58% of Michael Smith Laboratory researchers now have freezers set to the energy saving temperature. The department is saving 38,000kWh of electricity each year, equivalent to the consumption of 100 home chest freezers.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "For all the Transformers fans out there, I have great news for you guys. Come March 2012, Singapore will have her first ever Transformers Cybertron Convention at Resorts World Convention Centre in Resort World Sentosa. There is no doubt that this is going to be big and all of you TF fans out there better make yourself available for this party. And the best part is. we will be the first country in Southeast Asia to have this event!\nName of Event: Resorts World Sentosa Singapore TRANSFORMERS Cybertron\nVenue: Compass Ballroom at Resorts World Convention Centre in\nResorts World Sentosa, Singapore\nDate: 11 – 14 March 2012\nTiming: 11 – 13 March (11am – 9pm), 14 March (10am – 6pm)\n\"HASBRO SINGAPORE AND RESORTS WORLD SENTOSA SINGAPORE TO HOST FIRST EVER TRANSFORMERS CYBERTRON CON IN SOUTHEAST ASIA\"\nTRANSFORMERS mania is expected to hit a new high in Singapore and the region, with renowned branded play company, Hasbro (Singapore), and Singapore‟s first integrated resort, Resorts World Sentosa („RWS‟), jointly announcing that the RESORTS WORLD SENTOSA SINGAPORE TRANSFORMERS CYBERTRON CON 2012 („Cybertron Con‟) will be coming to Singapore this year, a first for Southeast Asia.\nHeld at the Resorts World Convention Centre from 11 to 14 March 2012, TRANSFORMERS Cybertron Con will be a TRANSFORMERS brand extravaganza for fans, with different exhibits and activities that promise to bring smiles from the neophytes to even the most avid TRANSFORMERS collectors and hobbyists.\nAppearing at the convention will be Mr. Hideaki Yoke, who has built up a substantial fan following in his role as the lead designer of TRANSFORMERS figures in Takara Tomy.\n“Following the TRANSFORMERS Cybertron Con‟s successful inaugural convention in Shanghai in 2010, Hasbro Singapore is thrilled to share the hugely popular TRANSFORMERS brand with fans in Singapore and around the region. With the recent launch of TRANSFORMERS The Ride, and TRANSFORMERS: Dark of the Moon becoming the fourth highest grossing movie of all time at the global box office, it is a fantastic opportunity to bring this tremendous TRANSFORMERS event to Resorts World Sentosa, a destination resort that is very popular with tourists from the region” said Mr. Harland Chun, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Asia Pacific, Hasbro Singapore.\n“The TRANSFORMERS brand continues to be a pop culture phenomenon with millions of fans all over the world. As such, we‟re excited to welcome tens of thousands of fans to this unprecedented convention to celebrate the stories, characters, art, action figures and entertainment surrounding the popular property. TRANSFORMERS Cybertron Con is about celebrating the love of the TRANSFORMERS brand with lifelong fans and new fans alike,” he added.\nTogether, RWS and Hasbro (Singapore) will help bring the global TRANSFORMERS phenomenon to fans in the region, and inject vibrancy into the tourism sector as the integrated resort continues to bring in world-class attractions and events.\nSaid Mr. Dennis Gilbert, Senior Vice President of Attractions, Resorts World Sentosa: “We have had a tremendous run since the launch of TRANSFORMERS The Ride at Universal Studios Singapore. Bringing TRANSFORMERS Cybertron Con to Resorts World Sentosa is a natural step to take, considering the strong following of this global TRANSFORMERS phenomenon in Asia. We believe that the combination of the convention and the ride will complete the experience for any TRANSFORMERS fan.”\nPaying tribute to the popular entertainment brand that has taken the world by storm through its animated TV series, comic book and movie franchise, the convention will feature an extensive display of TRANSFORMERS toys; cartoon animation and video games! The event will also highlight previously unreleased artwork, as well as workshops for aspiring designers.\nTo showcase the history of the brand, Hasbro will present an extensive collection of historical TRANSFORMERS items from throughout the brand‟s 27 year history via a visually stunning exhibit. The exhibit will take fans through the chronological progression of the TRANSFORMERS brand, beginning with the classic „Generation 1‟ era. As fans proceed through, they will be able to view extensive artwork and information about characters and stories from different eras of the brand from ‘Beast Wars’ to the most recent entertainment blockbuster movie and current ‘Transformers Prime’ animated series produced by Hasbro Studios.\nOther than the historical retrospective, TRANSFORMERS Cybertron Con will feature a wide variety of displays, interactive experiences and special events. TRANSFORMERS brand leaders and designers will also be in attendance to meet with fans and attend special events and panel discussions.\nOther special events and exhibits will include:\nPanel Sessions with special guest, Mr. Hideaki Yoke and TRANSFORMERS brand experts from Hasbro;\nA 22-foot tall OPTIMUS PRIME character statue, one of the largest TRANSFORMERS statues ever;\nTRANSFORMERS drawing classes by top Hasbro artists (at select times);\nThree-dimensional action figure dioramas capturing scenes from popular TRANSFORMERS entertainment including the blockbuster movies\nNational „Fastest Fingers First‟ Challenge, testing convention goers‟ skills at converting TRANSFORMERS action figures from “robot” to “vehicle” modes.\nConvention-goers can also expect to receive limited edition 2012 TRANSFORMERS Cybertron Con souvenirs while supplies last, and see premium TRANSFORMERS collectibles. Hasbro will also display the latest line of TRANSFORMERS toys and products which will be available for purchase during the convention.\nFans who wish to attend 2012 TRANSFORMERS Cybertron Con are encouraged to reserve their packages and tickets fast through the Resorts World Sentosa website at www.rwsentosa.com, ticketing booths located at Universal Studios Singapore, RWS Ticket and Membership Hub, via hotline +65 6577 8888, Ticket sales begin from 3rd February 2012.\nMore information will be released closer to date. In the meantime, for more on 2012 TRANSFORMERS Cybertron Con, please visit www.cybertroncon.com. Fans can also receive updates and take part in contests to receive exclusive prizes by joining the 2012 TRANSFORMERS Cybertron Con Facebook page at www.facebook.com/transformerssingapore.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Whom are you going to trust to tell you the truth on port congestion? With news that the Biden administration is coordinating with the media to spin coverage in a more positive direction, it’s important to take what they’re telling you with a grain of salt.\nIndustry sources seem more trustworthy. The logistics industry is one of the most thoroughly international industries in the world, so the political concerns of any one country will have little effect on the information that they report. Plus, those people all around the world have large amounts of money on the line if information is …\nSaule Omarova has withdrawn her nomination to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency due to opposition from five Democratic senators. Republicans could do absolutely nothing to stop Joe Biden’s nominee other than highlight her extremism and hope that public pressure would do the trick.\nIt did. Now, you wouldn’t know any of this if you were simply perusing the news this morning. NPR claimed in a tweet that Omarova withdrew her nomination “after facing personal attacks about being born in the former Soviet Union.” The New York Times says that “lobbyists and Republicans painted her as a communist …\nMaybe this is my Gen X pride talking, but I must defend the Band-Aid Ethiopian famine song “Do They Know It’s Christmas” from Jack and Mark. Sure, its politics are terrible, its geography is sketchy, its grasp of world religion is deficient, and its tone is condescending, but then, John Lennon’s “Happy XMas (War Is Over)” — which has its own cringey lines about the “yellow and red ones” — called for surrendering the people of South Vietnam to Communist tyranny and massacre. But I will forgive some mushy-headed remember-the-less-fortunate do-goodism in my Christmas playlists if the songs are strong. And both of those songs are strong, musically. “Do They Know It’s Christmas” is a textbook ’80s pop anthem, powered forward by Phil Collins on drums. And frankly, it’s worth the price of admission just to hear Bono barge in like an Old Testament prophet in the buildup to the first chorus howling “well tonight thank God it’s them, instead of YOUUUUUU. . . .”\nThe White House, not happy with the news media’s coverage of the supply chain and economy, has been working behind the scenes trying to reshape coverage in its favor. Senior White House and admin officials — including NEC Deputy Directors David Kamin and Bharat Ramamurti, along with Ports Envoy John Porcari — have been briefing major newsrooms over the past week, a source tells me.\nThe officials have been discussing with newsrooms trends pertaining to job creation, economic growth, supply chains, and more. The basic argument that has been made: That the country’s economy is in much better shape than it was last year. I’m told the conversations have been productive, with anchors and reporters and producers getting to talk with the officials…\nThe thing is, all kinds of institutions and organizations arrange off-the-record or on-background briefings and meetings for reporters. There’s nothing inherently unethical or manipulative about them. The sources from the institutions effectively say, “here’s how we see things,” and usually some variation of, “and we don’t think this has been covered enough.” The reporters usually get to ask questions – if there isn’t a chance to ask questions, it makes one wonder what the point of the briefing is.\nHow this meeting affects subsequent coverage is up to the reporter. Maybe the reporter thought the briefer had a fair complaint or made a good point. Or maybe the briefing shared new information that the reporter thought was newsworthy. Maybe the reporter thinks the briefing was unconvincing spin and a lot of whining. Or maybe the reporter wasn’t persuaded much one way or another. It only becomes unethical or manipulative when the official says, “you should be covering the story this way,” and the reporter effectively answers, “yes, sir.” That’s the only scenario where the complaints of “state-run media” have merit.\nPerhaps the more significant aspect of this story is not just that the Biden administration thinks the country’s economy is in much better shape than it was last year — a pretty low bar, considering how one year ago, we were just about to get the first vaccinations — but they think that they have a perception problem, not a substance or reality problem. But the national average for a gallon of gasoline is still $3.43, inflation has skyrocketed this year, the country has 10.4 million unfilled jobs, and all kinds of small businesses have signs that say “please be patient, we’re understaffed,” and we’re enduring a supply chain crisis. (If you’re not reading Dominic Pino’s coverage here at NR, you should be.) Americans don’t think the economy is lousy because of bad media coverage. Americans think the economy is lousy because they feel the pain in the form of higher prices and stores not having the goods on the shelves that they usually have.\nYou cannot spin someone about their grocery bill, or how much they paid to fill up their tank of gas. Even if Biden administration officials can Jedi Mind Trick their way into getting reporters to give gushing coverage of their economic policies, Americans will not come around if they’re still paying more than $3 per gallon of gas, their grocery bills are significantly higher than last year, new cars aren’t on the lots, bottles and cans aren’t on the store shelves, service is slow, and local businesses are limiting hours or even contemplating shutting down because of limited supplies.\nIf it turns out, as seems likely, that Jussie Smollett staged a fake crime and then lied about it under oath, then his perjury should be treated as a matter at least as serious as the original hoax.\nAs we have seen everywhere from college campuses to the centers of power in Washington, our institutions and our public life can endure many things, but they cannot survive a culture in which outright fabrication is both common and accepted.\nIf I am reading the law correctly, perjury — a felony in Illinois — could get Smollett five years in prison and $25,000 in fines. The $25,000 would be nothing to Smollett, but he should do every day of five years if convicted.\nBernard-Henri Lévy is a leading “public intellectual” of our time. He is a French philosopher, writer, adventurer, and activist. He has written a new book: The Will to See: Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope. I have talked with BHL and have written about him on the homepage today: here. A most interesting and unusual fellow, whether you’re for or against.\nWhy don’t we have some mail? In a column last week, I wrote about jury duty (because I had it). “Jury duty,” I said, “is a pain, a privilege, and a must — our system depends on it.” I received a letter from a lawyer, on various aspects of our jury system. Here’s a slice:\nBest word of advice to avoid ending up on a jury (if that’s your goal) — talk. Talk your head off. Have an answer, an opinion, a thought about every single topic the lawyers cover during voir dire. That gives us, the lawyers, more reasons to use a strike or a challenge for cause against you to keep you out of the jury box. Inevitably, when I look up at the men and women who are seated in the box at the end of voir dire, I think to myself, “I don’t know a damn thing about any of them except for what’s on their questionnaires.”\nIn another column, I had a word about “moral equivalence,” as we said in Cold War days: The United States and the Soviet Union are equally bad. They are superpowers, throwing their weight around. The Russians interfere in other countries, we interfere in other countries. What’s the difference? Who are we to lecture them? And so on and so forth. Today, you hear similar things, regarding the Ukrainian situation and others.\nA reader writes, “Your discussion made me recall WFB’s statement, which I have written down and used over and over again.” For the uninitiated, “WFB” is William F. Buckley Jr., who wrote,\nTo say that the CIA and the KGB engage in similar practices is the equivalent of saying that the man who pushes an old lady into the path of a hurtling bus is not to be distinguished from the man who pushes an old lady out of the path of a hurtling bus: on the grounds that, after all, in both cases someone is pushing old ladies around.\nIn a Corner post, I had a word about fan behavior — specifically, bad behavior. A reader shares with me a passage about Tom Harmon, found on Harmon’s Heisman page. Tom Harmon, of the University of Michigan, won the Heisman Trophy in 1940.\nIn his final football game, against Ohio State, Harmon led the Wolverines to a 40–0 victory, scoring three rushing touchdowns, two passing touchdowns, four extra points, intercepting three passes, and punting three times for an average of 50 yards. In an unprecedented display of sportsmanship and appreciation, the Buckeye fans in Columbus gave Harmon a standing ovation at game’s end. No other Wolverine player has been so honored, before or since.\nEnd with WFB? And football? Is that possible? Only in this way: Johnny Carson once did a skit, with the sports broadcaster Stu Nahan. In the skit, Nahan was announcing Monday Night Football, and WFB, played by Johnny, was doing the color commentary.\nA reader writes,\nAntenna TV had the episode on the other night. Originally, the show was aired on November 17, 1983. I can’t find a clip, unfortunately. But I found some quotes online.\nHere is a sample:\nStu Nahan: “Jack Youngblood of the Rams is down on the field. Can you see what that injury might be, Bill?”\nWilliam F. Buckley Jr. (after looking through binoculars): “Well, it appears to me that Mr. Youngblood might find it . . . difficult to exercise his conjugal prerogatives.”\nNahan: “Uh, I don’t quite follow you.”\nWFB: “He got kneed in the macadamias.”\nAs Bill himself might say or write: “Fun and games!”\nJournalism has fallen almost entirely into the hands of propagandists for the mega-state. Objectivity is sneered at. Most young journalists want to make their mark by writing whatever advances the “progressive” agenda and damages the case for traditional American values.\nIn today’s Martin Center article, Hillsdale College journalism professor Maria Servold writes about her field.\nShe begins, “There’s something rotten in American journalism schools. From a tendency toward bias to outright activism, journalism in higher education is not what it should be: a place to guide young writers through a liberal education that teaches them how to think, report, and write clearly.”\nIf you need any evidence of how bad things have gotten, reflect on the fact that the J-School at the University of North Carolina was eager to hire provocateur Nikole Hannah-Jones, a woman with no scholarly accomplishments but a resume loaded with leftist disinformation, to teach its students.\nJ-Schools certainly should not hire political activists. “Good educators,” Servold writes, “do not dole out information to students as if they are bestowing them with gifts. Rather, good educators guide students in discovering knowledge. It is important for educators to know their fields and be able to effectively relay key information in a way that helps the student rise to understanding.”\nIf our education leaders want to make journalism respectable again, they have a great deal of housecleaning to do.\nThe most important thing to remember about the labor market right now is that the problem is the opposite of what we’re used to after a recession. We don’t need more jobs; we need more workers. After the last recession, the name of the game was job creation. This time, it’s not.\nHow’d we get here? The Bureau of Labor Statistics started keeping track of job openings for the whole economy in December 2000. Since then, there have only been two periods when the number of job openings exceeded the number of unemployed persons: January 2018 through February 2020 and May 2021 through today.\nAt no point between the mild recession in 2001 and the Great Recession did the number of job openings exceed the number of unemployed persons. During the Great Recession, the number of job openings decreased, and the number of unemployed persons increased. Both happened steadily throughout the entire 18-month recession, with unemployed persons increasing faster than job openings were declining.\nThe gap between them reached its apex in October 2009, when there were nearly 13 million more unemployed persons than job openings. It gradually closed over the next eight years, finally disappearing in January 2018. (You may remember this talking point from the Trump administration: We had more jobs than people to fill them.) Things had seemed to stabilize at a little over 1 million more job openings than unemployed persons.\nThen the pandemic recession hit. The number of unemployed persons jumped from about 6 million in February 2020 to 23 million in April 2020. The number of job openings fell from 7 million to 4.5 million over the same span. That was normal recession behavior, direction-wise: The number of unemployed persons goes up, and the number of job openings goes down.\nBut things have snapped back in a very unusual way. By May 2021, only twelve months after the end of the pandemic recession, there were already more job openings than unemployed persons. What took 103 months after the Great Recession only took twelve months after the COVID recession. And the gap is already much larger than it was before the pandemic: There are almost 3 million more job openings than unemployed persons.\nTwo economists wrote about our unusual job market today, and their thoughts are worth your time.\nRecent data show that 3% of US workers – 4.4 million people – quit their jobs in September. That monthly quit rate is not only remarkably high; it is unheard of, especially given that the US employment-to-population ratio is still only 59.2%, almost two points below its February 2020 peak.\nWhat is going on in the US labor market? In normal times, the current figures would suggest that America is dealing with a great shortage of jobs. And yet, workers’ outsized willingness to quit their jobs and look for something better indicates that these are not normal times.\nThere is a standard list of explanations for this so-called Great Resignation. One obvious factor is fear of COVID-19, especially among those who live with elderly or immunocompromised relatives. Low-wage workers do not want to log long hours in service-industry settings that require them to come into close contact with other people, not least the sizable share of the population that remains unvaccinated. . . .\nOne notable effect of the pandemic is that it has fueled a transformation of work and the workplace that either would have taken decades in the absence of the virus, or would never have happened at all. Consider, for example, the widespread shift to remote white-collar work; the rapid automation of substantial components of service work; or the transformation of retail – requiring many more delivery drivers and many fewer in-store sales workers.\nThese changes have brought a great deal of convenience to many consumers and employees. Suddenly, online tools are good enough that one need not shop in person to get a sense of a product’s quality. (And if a delivery isn’t what was expected, one can always return it.) The sectors affected by these changes will not be returning to the pre-pandemic status quo.\nMy own perspective on the labor market is that the economy is unusually far from equilibrium. Prices and wages are too low, so that we have “shortages.” Relative wages and prices are out of alignment, so that we have temporary over-supply in some sectors and under-supply in others.\nThink of the employees who prefer to not go into the workplace every day and whose employers learned during the pandemic that remote work and work-from-home can be managed. This “laptop class” has received what amounts to a windfall of non-monetary compensation.\nBut other workers have gotten a cut in non-monetary compensation. Their workloads have increased. They have suffered a loss of autonomy (having to wear masks, perform cleansing rituals, get tested regularly, etc.)\nThe divergence in non-monetary compensation has left labor markets out of equilibrium. To move toward equilibrium, monetary compensation for remote and work-from-home employees must fall relative to that of workers forced to engage in germaphobe theater. This adjustment will probably take place in an inflationary environment in which everyone’s pay goes up, but the workplace-bound get higher raises than the laptop class.\nTo move toward equilibrium, the price of shipping goods by truck will be much higher. That is what I infer when someone claims that there is a “shortage” of a few hundred thousand truck drivers. Some of the higher shipping prices will be passed through to truck drivers as higher pay, and perhaps more people will choose to become truck drivers as a result. But not a few hundred thousand more, which is what it would take to keep shipping prices from rising. . . .\nWe are seeing “the Great Resignation” because markets are out of equilibrium. Once wages and prices have adjusted upward, and once we see more workers in sectors where they are most wanted and fewer workers in sectors were there is relatively less need, the high quit rates and other peculiarities of today’s economy will fade.\nRegardless, Andrew Stuttaford’s post from a few days ago seems right: The current jobs situation is not something that should be overly concerning for monetary policy and there’s “no reason to reverse the acceleration of the taper now advocated by the Fed.”\nThe push to make women eligible for the draft in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act has likely failed, Politico reports:\nCompromise defense policy legislation set to be filed Monday will not require women to register for a military draft, according to two people with knowledge of the negotiations, a stunning turnaround after the proposal gained bipartisan support in both the House and Senate this year.\nLeaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees left the provision out of the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act, despite the fact that both chambers’ bills would have expanded the Selective Service System beyond men.\nOnce considered an inevitable shoo-in, the initiative was killed at the last minute by conservatives like Senator Jim Inhofe (R., Okla.), who sits on the House and Senate Armed Services Committee, and Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.), who pushed for an amendment to remove the provision. New reports today suggest that the GOP may have traded a debt-ceiling hike to Democrats in exchange for killing the draft-women measure. All in all, that seems like a pretty good deal, given that the debt ceiling was likely going to be raised anyways.\nLeft-wing efforts to expand the draft to women — or to “expand the draft beyond men,” in the careful gender-inclusive wording of Politico — have gained momentum since the Pentagon made women eligible for all combat roles in 2015. The successful move to kill the measure is a victory for conservatives, and one worth celebrating. Republicans who supported — and continue to support — the idea that we should be drafting our mothers and daughters to war are misguided, as National Review’s editors have argued on multipleoccasions. Not only would a conscription of women be imprudent, hurting our military readiness in the name of “social engineering” — it would be immoral. We should celebrate, rather than work to eliminate, the differences between men and women. A gender-inclusive draft would be one more step in the wrong direction in that regard. Kudos to the Republicans who recognized the importance of keeping the provision from becoming law.\nMark, you are totally right about the insufferability of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” the Band Aid “classic” that haunts the Christmas airwaves every year with a haughty dose of celebrity condescension. I wrote about my distaste for the admittedly catchy song last Christmas, in an article titled “‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ Yes — So Stop Singing“:\nTo understand why “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” is so terrible, you should listen to the lyrics, even though the song’s slick and catchy structure can make it hard to really pay attention to them. The gist of the song is a juxtaposition guilt trip, contrasting an indifferent world of “light,” “plenty,” and “joy” — presumably, the world of most Western record-buyers — with the supposedly helpless suffering of the song’s subjects. (“Well tonight, thank God it’s them, instead of you!” as Bono sarcastically thunders.) It’s one thing to use guilt as an inducement; as a Catholic, I am well familiar with the power of that particular force. It’s another thing to milk a condescending stereotype, denying a whole continent not merely agency but also differentiation and even key facts about the way many of its inhabitants live.\nStart with the physical descriptors of the continent of Africa in the song. It paints with such a broad brush as to suggest the entire landmass is like Arrakis, the desert planet in Dune, where water is so precious that spitting is considered a sign of respect and crying for the deceased is so rare that those who do it are thought to be honoring them by “giving water” to them. In the Band Aid version of Africa, it’s a land “where the only water flowing / Is the bitter sting of tears.” Just to make sure you get the point, the song also claims that Africa is a land “where nothing ever grows / No rain nor rivers flow.” It’s true that there are deserts in Africa, notably the Sahara, and that water access can be threatened by droughts and other factors. But the song seems to forget the existence of the Nile River (the world’s longest) and Lake Victoria, to name just two water bodies, not to mention the coastlines of many countries, and the varied landscapes of jungles, savannahs, mountains, and more. Some of the greatest civilizations in human history have managed to thrive in Africa both despite and because of its diverse features.\nConsider also the song’s implicit cultural assessments. Because Christmas in Africa differs so significantly from Christmas in a wealthy Western country, the song suggests, the holiday there essentially cannot be meaningful. After all, “there won’t be any snow in Africa.” Setting aside the single-biome-planet mentality of these lyrics yet again, we can say with confidence that, in many places throughout the world, it’s more than possible to celebrate Christmas without snow. The songwriters seem oddly locked in to a precisely preconceived picture of what Christmas is supposed to look like.\nPerhaps if the performers on “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” were not all so fabulously successful, they’d have been better able to realize that Christmas is not defined by its weather, much less its material trappings, but rather by the immaterial goods the holiday reminds us of. Indeed, the question the song’s title poses is unintentionally funny, given that the powerful cultural presence of Christianity in Africa, particularly Ethiopia, is likely to make Africans even more capable of knowing it’s Christmas than many of the denizens of the materialist culture who contributed to the song.\nThis difference might explain what is by far the song’s biggest moral failing. Right in the middle of the stereotyped catalogue-of-miseries, hopeless-wasteland description of Africa (“And the Christmas bells that ring / There are the clanging chimes of doom”), some combination of celebrity voices intones the lyric, “The greatest gift they’ll get this year is life.” Paying enough attention to the song to actually hear those words for the first time was what led me to view this catchy ’80s synthpop Christmas song as more insidious than I had ever thought. The idea that any person, anywhere on earth, would not consider the greatest gift he gets each year to be life is so vapid and materialistic that only a group of celebrity musicians would dare to advance its opposite as a call to action. “Look at these poor Africans,” the song seems to say, lumping hundreds of millions of people into an undifferentiated, suffering mass, all of them in desperate need of the help that apparently only the musicians who recorded a charity single in the midst of an alcohol-and-drug-fueled bacchanal could provide.\nYou can read the whole thing here, to find, among other things, Morrissey’s pointed (and accurate) comments about the song.\nThere’s a reason Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” is played so frequently — it’s a great song. But my entry for the worst Christmas song is “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” recorded by U.K. and Irish singers coming together as Band Aid to raise money to alleviate famine in Ethiopia. While the sentiment was noble, the tune is awful. The worst thing about it, though, is the condescension. “Do they know it’s Christmas time at all?” Ethiopia converted to Christianity in the year of our Lord 330, half a century before the Roman Empire, when the Britannic and Hibernian ancestors of the singers were running around naked covered in blue paint — so, yeah, they’re fully aware it’s Christmas time. What’s more, the Ethiopian Church celebrates Christmas according to the Julian calendar, on January 7, meaning the twelve days of Christmas in the West are over before Christmas time even begins in Ethiopia. And the Ethiopian famine of the early 1980s wasn’t a matter of “Where nothing ever grows / No rain nor rivers flow” — it was caused, like most famines of the past 100 years, but Communist tyranny.\nThis is obscene. Last week, 8 investors in Pfizer and Moderna became $10 billion richer as news about the Omicron variant spread. It’s time for these pharmaceutical companies to share their vaccines with the world and start controlling their greed. Enough is enough!\nI checked to see what Sanders had tweeted in the early weeks of November, when the Moderna share price fell from roughly $345 on November 2 to some $229 on November 10. Oddly enough, he made no comment on the sell-off. Even today, the stock (at about $274) is still well below its highs of earlier in the year (some $413). The Pfizer stock has done rather better of late but fell by nearly 20 percent between mid August and mid September.\nMarkets are markets, and there’s a limit to how much of a conclusion can be drawn from the movement of a stock price on a short-term basis.\nBesides, who is to judge what is “obscene”? Not, perhaps, someone who, in the past, has expressed at least some admiration for the USSR.\nPharmaceutical companies are certainly not angels, but it should be remembered that the super profits they make on some products also have to cover the cost of drugs on which they have spent a fortune but that fail to live up to the hope their development teams once had for them.\nIt should also be remembered that incentives work. I am unconvinced that Sanders is the right person to decide what represents “too much” of an incentive. Moreover, for all the profits that some companies have made from the vaccines, by limiting, however imperfectly, the damage caused by the virus, the financial value (and that includes jobs) they have preserved is far, far greater. There is also the small matter of all those lives saved . . .\nMeanwhile, there’s this from Jonathan Bydlak, writing in Spectator World:\nOne aspect of the [Build Back Better] bill, however, has attracted far less fanfare than it should have: its impact on the cost of prescription drugs.\nProvisions in the bill would, among other things, impose rebates on drug manufacturers if prices rise faster than inflation. It’s an idea that sounds great in the current moment of creeping inflation, but is ultimately little more than a market distortion likely to produce an array of adverse consequences.\nA new University of Chicago study looked at the impact of the bill on “innovation and patient health” and found that BBB would reduce spending on drug research and development by “about 18.5 percent.” It concludes that such a reduction might limit research and development, potentially leading to 135 fewer new drugs.\nPerhaps most damning, the study also concluded that the corresponding drop in drug production would result in a loss of 331.5 million life years — a number 31 times larger than the life years lost in the United States as a result of COVID-19. That’s presumably not the outcome that Democrats had in mind . . .\nBydlack also goes on to explain how the proposed price regime could mess up the supply of generic drugs. That’s a different topic, but one worth watching too. Be sure to follow the links that he includes in the article, such as to this piece in Stat:\nPolicymakers are also seeking to apply to brands, and misguidedly to generics, in the Medicare Part D program and commercial plans a penalty if their prices rise faster than the rate of inflation. The so-called inflation-based rebate disproportionately harms the low-cost generic drugs on which seniors rely because it applies a penalty based on the percentage that a price increase exceeds inflation; meaning that a 1 cent increase on a 20 cent pill could trigger a penalty for the generic manufacturer. And manufacturers could also be penalized because of changes in downstream purchaser behavior, even if the manufacturer does not increase the price.\nThe imposition of these penalties in Medicare Part D and the commercial market would further compound a mistake Congress made when it applied inflation penalties to generic drugs in Medicaid. This makes it more difficult for older generics with very low prices, which may be the only option available for patients, to stay on the market. It would thus increase the likelihood of drug shortages for seniors and the nation’s most vulnerable patients, a phenomenon recognized by FDA’s drug shortage task force and reports from outside experts. It represents another challenge to the long-term sustainability of an industry that consistently delivers lower costs and generates great value in health care…\nThere have been a lot of court losses thus far for Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates, most of them grounded in the absence of statutory authority for rule by executive-agency orders. Today’s example comes from R. Stan Baker, a Trump-appointed district judge in the Southern District of Georgia, who joined the Eastern District of Kentucky in enjoining the mandate on federal contractors. Judge Baker found that the mandate would “have a major impact on the economy at large” and “appears to have vast economic and political significance,” and that under the administration’s “logic and reasoning, the Procurement Act would be construed to give the President the right to impose virtually any kind of requirement on businesses that wish to contract with the Government (and, thereby, on those businesses’ employees) so long as he determines it could lead to a healthier and thus more efficient workforce or it could reduce absenteeism.” Judge Baker’s injunction, in a case brought by the states of Georgia, Alabama, Idaho, Kansas, South Carolina, Utah, and West Virginia, applies nationwide, raising again the contentious question of the standing of individual states to pursue, and the power of individual judges to order, nationwide injunctions.\nBiden got better news yesterday, as a divided panel of the Eleventh Circuit upheld the mandate for health-care workers in facilities that take Medicare or Medicaid against a challenge filed by the state of Florida. The court divided on lines of party appointment: two Obama appointees, Jill Pryor and Robin Rosenbaum, sided with Biden, while Barbara Lagoa dissented. Judge Lagoa, a Trump appointee previously made a judge by Jeb Bush and elevated to the Florida supreme court by Ron DeSantis, was sometimes discussed as a potential Supreme Court nominee in 2020. The Eleventh Circuit’s ruling conflicts with decisions on the Medicare/Medicaid mandate in Louisiana (which is in the Fifth Circuit) and Missouri (which is in the Eighth Circuit), thus ratcheting up the likelihood of a circuit split that would effectively compel the Supreme Court to hear the case. One ground the Eleventh Circuit majority cited for even hearing the case was that it believed that the court in Louisiana erred in entering a nationwide injunction:\nThe Louisiana order offers no reason why, as a constitutional, statutory, or practical matter, the interim rule cannot be in effect in some states but not others. Nor could we think of any good reason. Quite simply, this does not appear to be one of those “rare” situations where a nationwide injunction is warranted or even justifiable. For those reasons, it seemed to us an eminently “reasonable expectation” that, at the very least, the nationwide aspect of the Louisiana injunction would be eliminated, and Florida would be subject to the interim rule upon its taking effect on December 6.\nThe majority concluded — and it may have a better argument in this statutory context than those of some of the other mandates — that\nthe Secretary has express statutory authority to require facilities voluntarily participating in the Medicare or Medicaid programs to meet health and safety standards to protect patients. Based on this statutory authority, the Secretary was authorized to promulgate the interim rule. In both the Medicare and Medicaid statutes, Congress authorized the Secretary to set standards to protect the health and safety of patients. . . . The regulation reasonably, perhaps necessarily, covers all employees who work at these facilities as a health and safety measure because if any one of them has COVID19 and is present at the facility, she can spread it to the patients, whether directly or indirectly through other employees . . . when it comes to vaccination mandates, there was no reason for Congress to be more specific than authorizing the Secretary to make regulations for the “health and safety” of Medicare and Medicaid recipients. To suggest otherwise would mean that Congress had to have anticipated both the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic and the unprecedented politicization of the disease to regulate vaccination against it.\nNotably, however, the majority drew this conclusion from an analogy to Supreme Court precedent from 1905 upholding state vaccination mandates aimed at the general public:\nThe federal government’s authority to impose the interim rule’s vaccine requirement derives from the Spending Clause. . . . When a facility, even one operated by a State, voluntarily chooses to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs and receives federal funding for services provided to beneficiaries, the facility must comply with the federal law. And, as we explained above, Congress unambiguously conditioned the payment of funds under the Medicare and Medicaid programs to facilities that comply with “health and safety standards” set by the Secretary.\nGive me a place to stand, said Archimedes of his lever, and I will move the world. If only he had the federal spending power! Judge Lagoa, in dissent, noted the breadth of the mandate as a reason to question whether the statute really gave the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) such broad powers: “The mandate applies to a wide range of people including employees, trainees, students, volunteers, and contractors who provide any care, treatment, or other services for the facility.” She also focused on the bypassing of normal procedures without a good cause to invoke an emergency:\nThe mandate was announced two months before it was issued by CMS, and the mandate itself does not take effect until one month after the issuance date. Moreover, vaccines have been available to healthcare workers for nearly a year before the issuance of the mandate, and the Delta variant has been spreading in the United States for months, yet CMS took no action. Additionally, in the explanation of the mandate, CMS itself concedes that it could have acted earlier—almost a year earlier—but chose not to. . . . And what’s more, CMS has previously issued five interim final rules “to help contain the spread of [COVID-19]” since its onset—none of which included a vaccine mandate. . . . These facts alone cast significant doubt on the agency’s claim of an increased urgency justifying abandoning the notice and comment requirement. Indeed, CMS gave itself more time to issue the mandate after the President announced it was coming than it gave participating facilities to meet its terms. CMS’s own regulation establishes a lack of urgency on its part, either demonstrating that the situation is not so dire as it claims, or that it created the urgency by its own delay. Finally, as the agency concedes, “newly reported COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have begun to trend downward at a national level.”\nAs I have noted before, the combination of foot-dragging in issuing these mandates with the use of emergency procedures is a self-inflicted wound that may continue to haunt the administration in these cases.\nIn a time when supply chains are in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, what are some silver linings?\nIn a webinar today sponsored by supply-chain tech company FourKites, panelists discussed that topic, and there is some cause for optimism.\nThe consensus: Supply chains are getting more attention than ever before, and with that attention comes a demand for improvement.\nAudrey Ross, a logistics and customs specialist for Toronto-based cosmetics company Orchard Custom Beauty, said that the supply-chain crisis has accelerated improvements in her company’s supply-chain processes. “When you get into these tense and challenging situations, you can see, ‘This is not working,'” she said.\nThat phenomenon is not unusual, according to Chris Stauber, vice president of products at FourKites. “The good news is supply chain and logistics now has a seat at the table. The bad news is now you’re under the microscope,” he said. Inefficient processes that were skating by before the pandemic are now front-and-center, and it has become imperative that they be improved.\nPeter Tirschwell, Journal of Commerce editor, had a similar assessment. “A shock of this magnitude and the kind of existential importance to organizations has brought all metrics to the attention of the C-suite,” he said.\nThe demand for what the industry calls “end-to-end visibility” has grown significantly. Much of the logistics industry is still run on legacy technology. Live updates of where shipments are located can often be hard to come by. There are many opportunities to digitize operations so that everyone involved in a shipment can be on the same page throughout the shipment’s journey.\nStauber said the question at the forefront of many executives’ minds is: “Can you deal with this level of complexity with manual processes?” He pointed out that shipping freight by sea is one of the oldest industries in the world, and many aspects of it have failed to keep up with new technology. Ocean shipments, for example, are still normally booked over the phone.\nThe downsides of manual processes were a lesson many businesses learned from the pandemic. “COVID taught us that because we couldn’t go into the office and exchange papers the way we did before,” Stauber said.\nRoss said that for the first time in her career, customers have been consistently asking her where the boat carrying their products is. Often, she can’t give them a satisfactory answer because the information just isn’t there, she said.\n“Demand for true visibility has never been higher,” Tirschwell said. “The market wants it, there’s no question about it.”\nThe question is whether it will happen. With the price of shipping containers skyrocketing this year, ocean lines (which are usually not very profitable) have reaped windfall profits. Reinvesting those profits into improving visibility would be beneficial to the entire industry. But challenges remain in collecting data and actually making the improvements. “I think it’s a wide open question right now whether that investment is going to happen and whether this true visibility will be achievable,” Tirschwell said.\nRoss said companies are asking new questions that they hadn’t considered before. She said most supply-chain models are based on the just-in-time model pioneered by Toyota. It has proved successful, but businesses like hers might have different supply-chain needs than car companies. “I think people are realizing that the customization we’ve done to our products is now something we have to do internally to our supply chains,” she said.\nTirschwell said larger companies have been able to make changes and try new things, but it’s been harder on smaller companies. “For those organizations that were able to marshal the scale and creativity, there’s been really incredible entrepreneurialism. . . . For smaller shippers it has been much, much harder, even to the point that business models that depended on prior ocean freight economics over the past few decades are being called into question,” he said.\nThose business models are going to come under increased scrutiny since supply-chain costs have begun to make up a larger proportion of a product’s total cost, said Stauber. “There’s an emphasis and a focus now that there’s never been before,” he said. With that emphasis comes strong incentives for improvement.\nStauber sees the most room for improvement in the area of metrics. Businesses are only as good as the metrics they have to work with, and there aren’t enough in the logistics industry right now. FourKites is trying to change that, Stauber said.\nHe pointed to a new metric called DOTIF as an example. OTIF means “on time and in full,” and it’s the most important metric to many shippers. But it doesn’t provide much specificity as to what parts of the shipping process are causing delays. DOTIF means “documentation on time and in full,” and it lets shippers know whether documentation is what’s holding up shipments (which it often can). Stauber sees the increase in data as a silver lining.\nTirschwell also sees lots of low-hanging fruit for reforms. He said, “Over the past year since the pandemic began, the amount of work that has been required to get freight through the system has gone up astronomically, and in most cases the amount of staff to do that work has not gone up.” In ordinary times, hindrances like inefficient communication are tolerable annoyances, but now things such as email and spreadsheets are urgent areas for improvement, Tirschwell said.\nWhat’s the prognosis for shipping? Tirschwell said that “there are pockets of positive news,” but “the fact remains: The entire system has no give to it whatsoever.” He said that with so much capacity tied up in the extraordinary volume of containers, the “circulatory system required to move containerized cargo” is unable to function properly. On top of that, he said, “There is no significant reduction in the number of ships waiting to berth at LA/Long Beach.”\nHe said between the Chinese new year coming up in February, consumers still flush with cash, and no sign of a return to normal spending patterns, “the system only has a few months next year to right-size itself before another onslaught of holiday purchasing.” He sees problems persisting through the end of next year.\n“The message we have is unfortunately that there is not a great deal of evidence out there that this supply-chain crisis is about to ease,” Tirschwell said.\nWhile short-term forecasts don’t look rosy, there’s cause for long-term optimism. The pandemic has exposed how inefficient American supply chains have always been. Businesses are realizing the importance of supply chains and making record investments in new technology to get things back on track.\nAs Rich Lowry wrote in October, “It’s beyond the power of any one person to change this anytime soon, but trying to scrape off as many of these encumbrances as possible should be a national priority.” Private businesses have been scraping off those encumbrances right from the start, and insofar as this crisis has highlighted what those encumbrances are, it can have salutary effects in the long run.\nLegal experts have suggested that Alec Baldwin’s decision to sit down with George Stephanopoulos for ABC News may have been a mistake. It may also have been a PR mistake. Since the interview, both he and his wife have deleted their Twitter accounts.\nIt’s understandable that Baldwin, who was holding the prop gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza on the movie set of Rust last month, wanted to get his side of the story before the public. However, at points, his agitation came across as defensiveness. And despite his insistence that he is not the victim, his high emotions during the interview meant that a considerable amount of time was spent discussing his feelings.\nLike Kyle Smith, I feel sorry for the guy. There can be few more gut-wrenching feelings than accidentally causing someone’s death. But by speaking to the press before being officially cleared, Baldwin may have only made matters worse for himself.\nA new Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey, released exclusively to The Hill, finds that most Americans disagree with the status quo on abortion policy created by Roe v. Wade. But, of course, The Hill is headlining its coverage of the poll by highlighting that a majority of Americans (54 percent) say they oppose overturning Roe.\nThe very same poll found that a majority of Americans supports moving the viability threshold to 15 weeks’ gestation. When told that Roe permits abortion until viability, marked at 24 weeks, 56 percent said they support either overturning the decision or limiting abortions to the first 15 weeks of pregnancy. These outcomes are impossible unless Roe is overturned.\nWhat are we to make of such a polling outcome? I wrote an in-depth piece about public opinion and abortion for our recent special issue of the magazine and argued that, while many Americans tend to instinctively say they support Roe, a majority supports restricting abortion in ways that are impossible under Roe, Doe v. Bolton, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.\nThis becomes glaringly obvious if you study even the smallest amount of opinion polling on abortion. A Fox News poll from September, for example, found that 65 percent of Americans oppose reversing Roe v. Wade, compared with 28 percent who want the decision overturned. Absurdly, the same survey found that Americans were perfectly split on whether abortion should be legal, tied at 49 percent.\nPlenty of Americans, in other words, both want abortion to be illegal and want to preserve the ruling that makes it impossible to prohibit abortion. This is possible only if some sizable number of Americans simply doesn’t understand what Roe and Casey meant for abortion policy. Polling questions about Roe, in other words, have long outlived their usefulness, if they were ever useful at all.\nJudging from these odd discrepancies in survey responses, it’s fair to say that many Americans, when asked whether they want Roe overturned, seem to hear something more like, “Do you want women to be able to obtain abortions at least in some limited set of circumstances and early in pregnancy?” It is interesting, though, that this recent poll found a far slimmer majority in favor of Roe than polling usually finds — 54 percent to 46 percent who want to see Roe overturned.\nEditor’s Note: This post has been amended since its initial publication.\nI’m a little puzzled by the lack of coordinated outrage at the North for allowing the coronavirus to wreak havoc. The worst ten states for cases today are, per the New York Times:\nDeaths lag cases, of course, so those aren’t the top ten states for deaths yet, but . . . what gives? Clearly, the Northern states are running a “death cult” because they “don’t take the virus seriously” and “are allowing unchecked spread” that will kill us all, if we don’t engage in an organized campaign to sanction and ostracize these dangerous disease-spreading hicks via barrages of furious op-eds. Although it’s probably all Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan’s fault for spreading disinformation. Isn’t that how this works?\nAllocating more government resources to border security increases desired levels of immigration. This effect is likely driven by a sense of control over immigration, induced by border security measures even when the number or characteristics of immigrants remain unchanged. Our findings suggest that border controls, which are widely considered as symbols of closure and isolation, can promote openness to immigration.\nThe first governors to push criminal-justice reforms through were Republicans such as Rick Perry, Chris Christie, and Bobby Jindal — and they likely succeeded because no one thought of them as “soft on crime.” Welfare reform only became law at the federal level when Bill Clinton, a Democrat, admitted it was needed.\nIf you want a particular policy goal — “change policy X” — the need for change is most compelling when it comes from a person who is traditionally a defender of policy X. And that defender of policy X will be trusted to implement changes in a way that a traditional critic of policy X will not.\nIf Democrats want a country that wholeheartedly welcomes and embraces legal immigrants, they should embrace border security in as many effective forms as possible. And if Republicans want a secure border, they should rebuke any public expressions of xenophobia or suggestions that legal immigrants are somehow not “real” Americans.\nEighty years ago today, out of the clear blue sky of an Oahu Sunday morning, the navy of the Empire of Japan launched a pre-emptive surprise attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in what was then the territory of Hawaii. The attack commenced at 7:48 a.m. local time, which was mid-day on the East Coast. Before Pearl Harbor’s defenses could be roused — there had been a party the night before, as nobody expected trouble — Japanese planes descended raining bombs; 2,335 Americans were killed in a war in which they thought their country was still neutral. The dead were mostly sailors, half of them on the USS Arizona, one of four battleships sunk that morning. The Imperial Japanese Navy lost 64 men. It was, as Franklin D. Roosevelt branded it, “a day that will live in infamy.” The infamy lives on.\nPearl Harbor has, like many such pivotal turning points, attracted its share of controversies:\nJapan attacked without advance notice, and only delivered its notification of breaking off diplomatic talks after the battle had started. That notice was lengthy and delayed in translation and transmission. Was the delay just a foul-up, or did elements of the Japanese government purposely seek to catch Americans entirely by surprise?\nFDR was tightening the screws on Japan, including an oil embargo imposed in the summer of 1941. He was increasingly pushing the United States towards more involvement in the war in Europe. Did the U.S. government know more about the looming Japanese threat than it let on from the fragmentary intelligence it had available? Did it share some responsibility for the onset of war, or was it at least negligent in not having Pearl Harbor on higher alert?\nWas Japan’s war with the United States, which proved ruinous, avoidable, such that Pearl Harbor should be seen as a catastrophic mistake? Or was a confrontation inevitable — and if so, was the military advantage of a surprise attack outweighed by the cost of convincing the world that Japan was wholly in the wrong?\nWas Nazi Germany foolhardy in declaring war on the U.S. immediately in solidarity with its Japanese ally, or would FDR have been able to get Congress to add a declaration of war against Hitler as well?\nWas it necessary for the Japanese Navy to retreat from the scene so quickly, having failed to destroy the American carrier fleet or the fuel tanks at Pearl Harbor?\nThe historical what-ifs and who-knew-what-and-whens, however, are beside the point to the instant, world-changing impact of the battle. Japan’s war in Asia, already four years old, suddenly took on a dramatic new character. American public opinion was galvanized, with recruiting stations mobbed the next day and dissent from the decision to join the war having all but evaporated in a day. American thirst for retribution against Japan was not satisfied until the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.\nFew of the victors at Pearl Harbor lived to see the end of the war. Four of the six Japanese aircraft carriers involved in the attack were sunk or permanently disabled at the Battle of Midway seven months later. The attack’s architect, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was shot down by American planes in April 1943. The fifth carrier, the Shōkaku, was torpedoed and sunk in the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944. The sixth carrier, the Zuikaku, was sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944. The bulk of the Japanese pilots were lost with their carriers or shot down in combat.\nWith Bob Dole’s death at age 98 on Sunday, the generation that fought the Second World War has almost entirely left us. Dole was the most prominent combat veteran of the war still living; a few others remain, such as Henry Kissinger, Mel Brooks, and James Buckley. Col. Edward Shames, the last of the “Band of Brothers” of the 101st Airborne immortalized by Stephen Ambrose and the HBO series, died Friday at 99. The number of living Pearl Harbor veterans is dwindling. Even the people with living memories of the war from their childhoods have been departing in their eighties and nineties. Before long, the war will have entirely departed living memory. But the infamy will remain.\nKevin and Kyle have offered their thoughts on the worst Christmas songs. (The most overrated Christmas pop song is the Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York,” but then, even the angelic Kirsty McColl can’t save Shane McGowan’s voice.) Of course, almost anything can become cloying, or at least lose its zing, after enough repetition. I suspect that is what grates at people with Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” It truly is one of the greatest Christmas songs ever written, even if it is a knockoff of the greatest such song, Darlene Love’s “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).” Repetition is especially a problem for a song that is already extremely repetitive – Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” would be a lovely piece of Paul pop if it was a minute long, but 3:46 of that same thing over and over is excessive; if you hear that song more than once in a month, it is an assault.\nThe worst Christmas standard, in my view, is “Santa Baby,” which in the hands of any number of singers is customarily performed as a sort of cooing sexual come-on to…Santa Claus, a posture that is in equal parts cringeworthy and degrading to the singer. The Madonna version, predictably, may be the nadir of this genre.\nBut until this year, I had not known the dreadful manipulative horror that is “The Christmas Shoes.” I am a big fan of sad songs generally, but the fact that this song succeeds in jerking your tears is an indictment of its grave, heavy-handed derailment of whatever Christmas joy you may have been experiencing:\nI’ve never been — how to put this — entirely convinced that the “sustainable” economy is going to be quite the jobs machine that its proponents like to claim. It’ll be good for regulators, and it will be a bonanza for the consultants who will be hired to guide companies through the maze that the regulators will create. But other than that, the case for job creation is . . . unclear. To take a key example, as currently envisaged, the transition away from fossil fuels is almost certain to increase the cost of energy (and, in all likelihood, decrease its reliability). That is not an obvious recipe for job creation.\nNor, for that matter, is severely constraining (or even phasing out) entire industries. Of course, some — maybe even many — new jobs will be required in replacement technologies, but will there be enough of them to replace the jobs that are going to be lost, and how well will they pay?\nI’ve written before about this topic here and here in not the most optimistic way, and now from Joe Miller, in the Financial Times, there’s this:\nHalf a million jobs would be at risk under EU plans to effectively ban combustion-engine cars by 2035, according to European auto suppliers, the latest in a series of stark warnings about the costs of a rapid transition to emissions-free technology.\nMore than two-thirds of those 501,000 roles would disappear in the five years before that date, according to a poll of almost 100 companies for the European Association of Automotive Suppliers, Clepa, making it difficult to mitigate the “social and economic impacts” caused by mass unemployment.\nOf course, the European Association of Automotive Suppliers may be assumed to be somewhat biased when it comes to this topic. Nevertheless, they ought to know what they are talking about. To be sure, not all the entries on the ledger are negative. PwC (as it happens, a company investing heavily in sustainability-related consultancy) has, according to the FT, estimated that 226,000 new jobs will be created in electric-parts manufacturing, thus reducing the net toll, but even so . . .\nPart of the problem with the Paris-model transition is the speed, at least in the EU (and, elsewhere), at which it is being pushed through — and not just in the auto sector — without any regard to markets or economic reality. In this, it is not so different from other strikingly ambitious exercises in central planning, exercises which have a way of ending very badly.\nStellantis NV Chief Executive Carlos Tavares said external pressure on automakers to accelerate the shift to electric vehicles potentially threatens jobs and vehicle quality as producers struggle to manage the higher costs of building EVs.\nGovernments and investors want car manufacturers to speed up the transition to electric vehicles, but the costs are “beyond the limits” of what the auto industry can sustain, Tavares said in an interview at the Reuters Next conference released Wednesday.\n“What has been decided is to impose on the automotive industry electrification that brings 50% additional costs against a conventional vehicle,” he said.\n“There is no way we can transfer 50% of additional costs to the final consumer because most parts of the middle class will not be able to pay.”\nAutomakers could charge higher prices and sell fewer cars, or accept lower profit margins, Tavares said. Those paths both lead to cutbacks. Union leaders in Europe and North America have warned tens of thousands of jobs could be lost.\nAutomakers need time for testing and ensuring that new technology will work, Tavares said. Pushing to speed that process up “is just going to be counter productive. It will lead to quality problems. It will lead to all sorts of problems,” . . .\nAs a reminder, Stellantis is the company formed by the merger of Peugeot and Fiat-Chrysler. Mr. Tavares too may be biased, but he also undoubtedly knows what he is talking about.\nThe FT’s Miller notes that Tavares’s warning\nfollowed a similar claim from Germany’s largest listed car parts supplier, Continental, which cautioned that “social harmony would be jeopardised” if climate policies were not accompanied by programmes to create new employment opportunities for those working in fossil fuel-reliant industries.\nQuite how these new employment opportunities will be “created” is not immediately clear.\nWashington’s diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics is now official. There’s ample reason to question whether the Biden administration has gone far enough to push back against what’s sure to be a Chinese Communist Party propaganda event and to ensure that U.S. athletes and journalists are not subjected to Beijing’s hostage-diplomacy tactics. This is a debate that’ll play out for the next three months, but what’s most immediately obvious is where this leaves corporate sponsors of the 2022 games.\nIntel, Visa, Airbnb, Coca-Cola, P&G, and others are bankrolling an event that party officials are using to bolster their international legitimacy and deflect from the ongoing mass atrocities they’re perpetrating in China.\nNow, these Beijing 2022 sponsors are also sponsoring an event that’s being boycotted by the U.S. government over “the PRC’s ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses,” as White House press secretary Jen Psaki put it earlier today.\nThese firms have already taken some very public hits, such as when executives testified before a congressional panel in July, making themselves the public faces of corporate America’s apologetics for the Chinese Communist Party’s genocide. As I wrote at the time:\n[Coke’s Paul] Lalli and his counterparts from other prominent U.S. companies — Airbnb’s David Holyoke, Intel’s Steven Rodgers, Procter & Gamble’s Sean Mulvaney, and Visa’s Andrea Fairchild — became overnight the living embodiments of one of the most disturbing new trends in American capitalism.\nIf you Google “Beijing Olympics sponsors,” the vast majority of the top results feature some scrutiny of the decision to stick with sponsorship despite the overwhelming evidence of systematic crimes against humanity carried out per orders from general secretary Xi Jinping.\nThe executives atop these companies are going out of their way to deflect criticism of the party’s atrocities, whether they do so explicitly or not. They’re sticking with the games, even though the U.S. government is staying home.\nThere’s been a lot of energy behind congressional efforts to make companies answer for their sponsorship of the Beijing Olympics. The sponsors endured a public-relations crisis during the Congressional Executive Commission on China hearing this summer, and there’s more oversight activity in the works. But if Congress and the administration get serious about building a regulatory regime to deal with this sort of malfeasance, these companies might have more to worry about than bruising headlines.\nGretchen Sisson has contributed to the recent genre of op-eds about how outrageous it was for Justice Amy Coney Barrett to refer positively to adoption during last week’s oral argument. A lot of pro-lifers have commented on this argument already, so here I’ll just note that Sisson’s history is at least overconfident.\nThough it’s difficult to ascertain exact figures from the time, my colleague Carole Joffe, who has studied the history of providing abortion pre-Roe, has identified annual abortion estimates developed throughout the 1950s and 60s that range from 200,000 to 1.3 million . . . . Abortion is, and always has been, a common experience.”\n“Always has been” is a strong claim, and there is reason to doubt it, ranging from the extreme danger of methods of abortion to mothers before modern scientific developments to the widespread practice of infanticide and child abandonment in many societies.\nJoffe, meanwhile, is repeating a tentative claim advanced in a committee report based on a 1955 Planned Parenthood conference. That report said that “a plausible estimate of the frequency of induced abortion in the United States could be as low as 200,000 and as high as 1,200,000 per year,” and also that “there is no objective basis for the selection of a particular figure between these two estimates.” (Sisson’s “1.3 million” appears to be a typo; Joffe quotes the report accurately.)\nResearchers in the 1950s cannot reasonably be faulted for their inability to generate better numbers. But this range, and especially the high end of it, is not plausible. Numbers from the 1970s are more reliable. The Alan Guttmacher Institute estimated 745,000 abortions in 1973, 899,000 abortions in 1974, and continually rising numbers through 1990. If there had been 1.2 million abortions in the mid 1950s, it would have meant that the number of abortions fell substantially during a period in which sexual mores were rapidly liberalizing, the population was expanding, abortion was becoming safer for mothers because of antibiotics, and activists were campaigning to legalize abortion — and got their way nationwide. Much more plausible is that the number of abortions had increased in the years before Roe, especially as some states liberalized the law, and then rose more afterward. It is well past time to throw out the 1955 numbers, which look more like wild guesses than estimates.\nFr. Peter John Cameron, O.P., is joining me for an Advent conversation Tuesday at 2 p.m. via Zoom. We are both reading Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings, 1941-1977, from Fr. Alfred Delp, S.J., who was preacher and leader of the resistance before he was martyred by the Nazis. Even while imprisoned, he managed to write powerful mediations on joy among other things — specifically during the Advent season. The book includes these writings and sermons from his time as rector at Georg Church in Munich.\nIf you are not familiar with him, I know you are far from alone, which is why we want to talk about him. Here’s a taste of what was on his heart while in Tegel Prison in December 1944:\nIn order to be capable of true life, man must live according to a specific order and relationship to God. The capability of true joy and of living joyfully is itself dependent upon specific conditions of human life, upon particular attitudes regarding God. Where life does not perceive itself as taking place in community with God, it will be gray and gloomy and drab and calculating.\nHow should we live so that we are capable—or can become capable—of true joy? This question should occupy us more today than it has in the past. Man should take joy as seriously as he takes himself. And he should believe in himself, believe in his heart and in his Lord God, even through darkness and distress—that he is created for joy. This really means that we are created for a life that knows itself to be blessed, sent and touched at its deepest center by God Himself.\nHe goes on to write about five conditions for true joy and the capability of joy. This is what is on his mind as he faced possible torture and certain death and the possibility, too, that the Nazis could win.\nI know Fr. Cameron has been using some Delp in some of his Advent homilies — and has for years — and I have little doubt you will appreciate the conversation, especially if you are looking for a little inspiration for your Advent.\nI noted today and over the weekend that many people who don’t work in commentary or law or public policy haven’t had a chance to really take a look at what happened at the Supreme Court last week in the Mississippi abortion case. So National Review Institute is teaming up with the Ethics and Public Policy Center on Tuesday (tomorrow) at 2 p.m. Eastern to talk about what we saw and heard last week at the Court. National Review’s and EPPC’s Alexandra DeSanctis, Carrie Severino from the Judicial Crisis Network, and Ryan T. Anderson from EPPC will join me in conversation. You can join live and ask questions via Zoom if you RSVP here. It will also be available after on National Review Institute’s YouTube page.\nOn November 16, the Washington Post’s Josh Rogin broke the story that neither President Biden nor any other U.S. government officials will attend the Beijing Games back on November 16. Two days later, Biden said a diplomatic boycott “was something we’re considering.”\nAnd then not much happened on the U.S. side for more than a week, giving the Chinese Foreign Ministry and state-run media time to announce that U.S. political leaders were not welcome at the Olympic Games. On November 29, the state-run Global Timesreported, “China never plans to invite US and Western politicians who hype the boycott topic to attend the Games.” Earlier today, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian argued that “the protagonists of the Beijing Winter Olympics are athletes from various countries, not individual politicians… No one cares if they come or not.”\nKevin weighs in with his picks. I used to say “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,” but they don’t play it that much anymore, at least not within my listening radius. The last couple of years, the one that has really set my teeth on edge is “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” by 13-year-old Brenda Lee. I maintain that “Wonderful Christmastime,” by Paul McCartney, is not that bad. I do not stan for it, but it’s perfectly pleasant and does not cause me to want to change the station immediately. It’s . . . okay.\nTip for the season: Go on Spotify and check out their selection of “Sad Christmas” and “Lonely Christmas” playlists. This tends greatly to reduce the flow of treacle. But I do like “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” mainly because it was so great in the Christmas rom-com of all rom-coms.\nOn November 24, one day after President Biden announced the release of 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline was $3.39.\nJohn — reading through the Washington Post’s story on Kamala Harris, I wondered if Hasbro ought to mass-produce a board game in time for Christmas called, Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?\nSome sample questions:\nThis person’s management style would lend itself to a TV show called “The Apprentice.” Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?\nThis person’s defenders argue that the criticism they endure is particularly harsh because they are different from the sorts of people who usually occupy high office. Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?\nThis person refuses to wade into briefing materials prepared by staff members, then berates employees when they appear unprepared. Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?\nWith this person, staff have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism, leading them to ask why they are constantly propping up a bully. Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?\nCritics scattered over two decades point to an inconsistent and at times degrading person who burns through seasoned staff members who have succeeded in other demanding, high-profile positions. Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?\nOne of the things staff agree upon is that the common denominator throughout the dysfunction is this person. Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?\nMany worry that this person’s inability to keep and retain staff will hobble their ambitions. Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?\nExplaining the exodus, White House officials argue it’s not unusual that this person’s staff would depart at the one-year mark. Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?\nAnd those are just the questions that flow from the Post’s report. We could add:\nInformed that they could not restrict the Bill of Rights via executive order, this person laughed and responded, “Yes, we can.” Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?\nThis person showed no interest in overturning wrongful convictions, even when they had been secured through official misconduct that included evidence tampering, false testimony and the suppression of crucial information by prosecutors. Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?\nThis person has fantasized about taking guns away from American citizens who have not been convicted of a crime. Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?\nThis person has insinuated that they are in possession of devastating information about a matter of great public import, only to go quiet when the time came to reveal it. Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?\nA new Politico poll shows that just 2 percent of Latinos refer to themselves as “Latinx,” the gender-neutral replacement for “Latino/Latina” that has taken root in many elite progressive circles over the course of the past few years. By contrast, 68 percent use “Hispanic,” and 21 percent use the gendered “Latino/Latina” to describe their ethnic identity.\nThis is not the first poll to show that “Latinx” is remarkably unpopular with actual Hispanics. A November 2019 poll from the progressive ThinkNow Research showed just 2 percent of the demographic preferred the term. An August 2020 Pew poll showed that number hovering around 3 percent. The most favorable sample size in an August 2021 Gallup survey topped out at a whopping 5 percent.\nNone of that has stopped progressive tastemakers and Democratic politicians from embracing the term, however. On the campaign trail, Elizabeth Warren declared that “when I become president, Latinx families will have a champion in the White House.” In a discussion of racial disparities in coronavirus death rates, Anthony Fauci expressed hope that the coronavirus pandemic could be “an enduring lesson for the Latinx community.” Joe Biden himself was widely mocked back in June, for musing that “it’s awful hard, as well, to get Latinx vaccinated as well. Why? They’re worried that they’ll be vaccinated and deported.” As Joseph Laughon wrote in National Reviewback in September, “Latinx” is a distinctly elite phenomenon:\nThe question of how to describe Spanish-language speakers in America has been a thorny one since Nixon’s time, usually ranging between terms including “Hispanic” and “Latino,” though most prefer to refer to their actual national origin rather than the pan-ethnic term “Latino.” By the late 1990s, Latino progressives were batting around the terms “Latino/a” and “Latin@” in an attempt to move away what they saw as patriarchal or “heteronormative” terms. Predictably, these neologisms went nowhere; however, by 2004 the term “Latinx” started to become more popular among American and Puerto Rican progressives seeking to “challenge the gender binaries encoded in the Spanish language.”\nAs Politico notes in its write-up of the poll, this points to “a fault line in the party between moderate traditionalists and the more activist progressive base.” As the term pervades the language of the elite Left, it has “drawn pushback from those opposed to its usage as an alternative that doesn’t follow the gender binary in the Spanish language.” The kicker in the Politico survey is that pollsters went beyond just asking if Hispanic respondents preferred “Latinx,” proceeding to ask how many found it actively offensive. A full 40 percent of respondents found the term at least somewhat offensive.\nWorse still for Democrats, 30 percent of Latinos told Politico that the “would be less likely to support a politician or organization that uses the term.” And interestingly enough, young Hispanics — a group one would generally presume to be more progressive — are not more liberal on this question than their older counterparts. Forty-one percent of Latino respondents in the 18–29 age group said they were bothered or offended either “a lot,” “somewhat,” or a “little” by the term, and 30 percent said they would be less likely to support politician or political organization that uses the word.\nJoaquin Blaya, one of the founders of the Spanish-language Univision and a registered Democrat, seems to have more self-awareness than many others in her coalition. “Democrats are helping Republicans make them look out of touch,” she told Politico. “We built a network around our Spanish language and we have a shared culture around it. Why are we trying to change this? It’s offensive to a lot of people.”\nSome time ago, the Australian ghoul and suicide promoter Philip Nitschke, invented a machine for use in making oneself dead. He calls it the “Sarco Suicide Pod,” a futuristic gizmo the suicidal person enters. Once the lid is closed, the despairing person answers a few questions and then pushes a button to be killed by nitrogen overdose in about 30 seconds. Efficient death that supposedly feels good.\nYes, I know it sounds too bizarrely nihilistic to be real — but then, these days there is no such thing as too extreme. And indeed, the Swiss government — which permits for-pay suicide clinics — has now approved the SSP for those who want to die. From the Yahoo News story:\nSwitzerland has just legalized a new way to die by assisted suicide. The country’s medical review board has just given authorization for use of the Sarco Suicide Pod, which is a 3-D-printed portable coffin-like capsule with windows that can be transported to a tranquil place for a person’s final moments of life.\nConventional assisted-suicide methods have generally involved a chemical substance. Inventor Philip Nitschke of Exit International told the website SwissInfo.ch that his “death pod” offers a different approach. “We want to remove any kind of psychiatric review from the process and allow the individual to control the method themselves,” he said. “Our aim is to develop an artificial-intelligence screening system to establish the person’s mental capacity. Naturally there is a lot of skepticism, especially on the part of psychiatrists.”\nThe pod can be activated from inside and can give the person intending to die various options for where they want to be for their final moments. “The machine can be towed anywhere for the death,” he said. “It can be in an idyllic outdoor setting or in the premises of an assisted-suicide organization, for example.”\nOf course there is no requirement for suicide prevention!\n“If you don’t like Twitter,” goes the popular refrain, “don’t try to control it with the government, go and build your own.”\nI agree with this. That’s exactly what disgruntled consumers should do. But it is too much to ask that, if and when they do, they aren’t mocked for it?\nAxios has a short piece this morning casting the growth in conservative tech outlets as something sinister. The headline is “Right wing builds its own echo chamber,” and the central complaint is that “conservatives are aggressively building their own apps, phones, cryptocurrencies and publishing houses in an attempt to circumvent what they see as an increasingly liberal internet and media ecosystem.” Some of the piece is just silly. There’s nothing unusual or novel about news outlets having their own apps. MSNBC has one; why wouldn’t The Daily Wire? The rest is an attempt to have it both ways. “Conservative media has been a powerhouse for a long time,” it explains, “but this phase of its expansion isn’t just about more or louder conservative voices — it’s about building an entire conservative ecosystem.” (The authors even put “censorship” and “cancel culture” in scare quotes.)\nOkay, but what’s the alternative? If conservatives are outnumbered on the existing services, and if they can’t use the government to force those services to be neutral, the only choice remaining is for them to create their own. One gets the impression from the piece that, for some at least, “if you don’t like what’s out there, build a new one” was more of a taunt than an earnest suggestion, and that now that it’s been taken literally, those who promulgated the advice so liberally aren’t quite sure what to do next.\nToday’s Impromptus has China, Israel, Bob Dole, and more. It even has an ode to Rite Aid. (Seriously.) (Not a good one, maybe, but an ode.) The column begins, however, with football: “I, a Michigan Wolverine, have come to praise Nick Saban, the Alabama football coach. He is a hero in my eyes. Why?” Well, I proceed to explain.\nHere in the Corner, I’d like to stick with football for a minute — and the behavior of fans. I have been harping on this issue for some time now. In this Impromptus of October 1, for example. Last Saturday night, Archie Griffin was present at the Big Ten Championship game, to hand out the MVP trophy. Michigan beat Iowa. Griffin, as you know, is the only player ever to win the Heisman twice. He was a running back at Ohio State. He is now 67 years old.\nThe Michigan fans — whose star defensive end was about to receive the MVP trophy — roundly booed Griffin. Why? Because Ohio State is a Michigan rival.\nThis is pure . . . horse manure, I’ll say. A lot of people think it’s cool, obviously — including the booers. I think it’s . . . well, I’ll stick with my previous description. (To read about the booing on Saturday night, go here.)\nLet’s have some mail:\n. . . I’m always thinking I should write you about this or that, but you cover so much ground I don’t know where to begin. The opportunity passes, you’re on to your next piece, and the cycle repeats.\nBut I know that, while I don’t write, I do talk about your work all the time. How do I know this? Here’s how: A couple weeks ago, my wife and I went to Ann Arbor for the Notre Dame vs. UM hockey game. After each Irish player was introduced, the Michigan students shouted something from behind the newspapers they were “reading” to show their lack of interest in our squad. I couldn’t catch the first half of the chant, so I asked my son what they were saying. He told me: “Who cares? You suck!” Then he laughed and said, “What would Nordlinger say?”\nI think there is something nice about an association between a family and a college: members of a family going to the same college, generation after generation (as long as those members are roughly qualified). Wearing the same colors, rooting for the same team. Maybe having the same professors, for a couple of generations. Making financial contributions to the college. Having a loyalty.\nThis is a happy and benign kind of tribalism, I think.\nI would not favor legacy admissions in Japan, say, or France: countries with a few elite universities and institutes, determining the fates of millions. That’s different. But America, with its jillion colleges and universities, dotting the land? From sea to shining sea?\nAnyway, a topic to mull over and debate.\nI received several letters on this topic, of which I’ll share just one (because I know your time is short!):\nI also read about the Amherst change in admission policy. My alma mater, MIT, states unequivocally that they do not consider legacy in admissions. My father-in-law went there for both undergrad and Ph.D. Now my daughter is a junior in high school and has MIT as her first choice. Assuming she is similarly qualified to other applicants, what is the rationale for not giving her some kind of preference? You make the obvious case in Impromptus.\nIn one of our many discussions about choosing a college, regarding MIT she simply said, “It would be cool being third-generation MIT.”\nOf course, “cool” and “MIT” might not be synonymous, and there are other and better reasons she wants to go there. Still, it would be cool!\nAbout three weeks ago, I was in a store. The price of my (few) groceries came to $14.92. I said to the cashier, “The Columbus year! When he ‘sailed the ocean blue.’” She smiled.\nShortly after that little experience, I was amazed to see the following, from the Women’s March:\nWe apologize deeply for the email that was sent today. $14.92 was our average donation amount this week. It was an oversight on our part to not make the connection to a year of colonization, conquest, and genocide for Indigenous people, especially before Thanksgiving.\nI commented in my column,\nThat’s a real thing, a real apology, ladies and gentlemen. You can’t parody anything anymore. People are just — cracked.\nI’d like to share two letters:\nSometime in the 1990s, my wife and I went out to breakfast on the Fourth of July. When the check came, the total was $17.76. I loved it!\nAnd how do you like this?\nI see we share a quirk. (I guess it qualifies as a quirk, anyway.) A\nnumber of years ago, I was in the checkout line at my supermarket and\nthe cashier read my total aloud: “That’s 19.18.” I said, “The year the\nwar ended.” The cashier looked like he was in his late teens or early\ntwenties and answered, without skipping a beat, “Yeah. The war to end\nall wars. They sure got that wrong, didn’t they?” I was stunned.\nThank you to one and all. Again, for today’s Impromptus, go here.\nI was in Dallas on October 21 for National Review Institute’s eighth annual William F. Buckley Jr. Prize dinner, and the next day I and a friend repaired to the much-loved old bar, the Stoneleigh P, for refreshment. Little did I know my visit would make pop-culture history after I took a look at the jukebox and posted this tweet:\nWhen Mariah Carey notices you, suddenly it’s international news. CNN sent out a Twitter alert on this and published a story. USA Todaydid too. The Washington Post weighed in and called me a “reporter,” which shows that their writer couldn’t even accurately relate what’s in my Twitter bio. NPR covered the story on Morning Edition. The Today show did a piece. People magazine did one (plus several mentions) and failed to mention that I worked there for eight years! (Where’s the love, guys?)\nNBC New York got in on it. HuffPostleapt into the fray. Dallas’s hometown glossy D Magazine didn’t seem too upset to get scooped by a tourist. Nor did the Dallas Observer. And so on, and so on.\nMr. Google tells me there are 82,000 results for Mariah Carey paired with Dallas jukebox. But that really is all there is to the story. Mariah Carey tweeted about my tweet about a jukebox at a bar in Dallas. There aren’t any more details. There’s no narrative. There’s no intrigue. There’s no cultural resonance. There’s . . . nothing . . . here.\nThe takeaways from this story are as follows: The Stoneleigh P is a good bar and you should go there when you’re in Dallas; there are a lot of entertainment reporters eager to write stories about absolutely nothing if there’s a celebrity involved. Anyway, as of last Wednesday, even at the Stoneleigh P, it’s Mariah Carey season, so buckle up. But that means we only have to hear the song for 20 more days.\nToday is December 6, the anniversary of the ratification of the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery.\nDid Thaddeus Stevens actually say of the amendment and Abraham Lincoln: “The greatest measure of the 19th century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America”? Maybe not, but it is a good and true observation.\nThere are many things to think about and remember on this day. One thing worth meditating on is the fact that there was a time when the Republican Party knew what power was for and what to do with it.\nRepresentative Conor Lamb (D., Pa.), says he was outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday and “never saw one sign about mothers once they give birth.” I’m not sure where he was looking, but the Attorney General of Mississippi organized a near six-hour rally with signs that said “Empower Women. Embrace Life.” I still have the button they gave speakers on my coat. (Here were my two cents.) A young girl on Amtrak cheered it on Thursday night as we approached New York, and I’m not even sure she’s pro-life. Unless you are a hardened abortion activist, you can rally around this. We led with the woman, because people of good will want to know that women have the help they need. And I am still pretty sure they would recoil at the right to a dead baby.\nDuring the course of the rally, we celebrated moms who did some incredible things to provide for their babies. Multiple speakers talked about paid family leave and other resources we need to discuss to make sure moms have a fighting chance. We talked about some of the ministries that exist that welcome women and their babies and stick with them for the long haul. You can read a little about what some of that looks like in my contribution to National Review’s “End Roe” issue.\nI’m sorry you didn’t come to see us up front at the bottom of the steps of the Court, Mr. Lamb, we would have had plenty to talk about.\nOn Saturday, I was confronted by two abortion activists who appear to be readers of my work. (Kathryn Jean Lopez, what are you going to blame abortion on next? I’ll own that. Abortion has devastatingly grave consequences on our souls and the soul of our nation, so to speak.) One who stuck with me until the Witness for Life prayer vigil outside Planned Parenthood returned to Old St. Patrick’s for Benediction, kept announcing what a good day she was having because no one was forcing her to give birth that day.\nAgain, this harkens back to the Amy Coney Barrett questioning last week during the Dobbs oral arguments. They want the right to a dead baby if there is a pregnancy. The callousness toward the unborn baby is so cruel. And even more alarming is the number of people who are willing to say, “My mother should have aborted me.” I had that conversation with an Uber driver going back to my hotel after the Supreme Court oral arguments and rally. He said his mother would have been better off aborting him because it kept her with an abusive husband. Any suggestion that his life was a consolation to her didn’t trump his contention that she had every right to decide to have a dead baby — him. I’ll live up to the accusation I met on the streets Saturday: This is the result of a half century of Roe. Regular people — not just the abortion activists — have no sense of the beautiful, unrepeatable value of their own human life. They can talk about the importance of climate change and saving the planet, but they can’t see the value of the creation that is themselves. This is why we treat one another so badly, and even if not with poor intentions, it is transactional at best. Abortion is a deep wound on our hearts, minds, and souls. The end of Roe will be only a first step in healing.\nIt was a chilling, disgraceful weekend for anyone watching the interwebs and the discussion of adoption. Advocates of abortion are going after adoption because of Amy Coney Barrett’s questions about safe-haven laws during the Dobbs v.Jackson Women’s Health Organization oral arguments. She was getting to the point that these laws, in all 50 states, do alleviate the burden of parenting. She wasn’t saying it’s easy to leave a baby with authorities, no questions asked, never to be seen again. But the response from the lawyer for the Mississippi abortion clinic opposed to the state law made it clear, as I note in my syndicated column today, that advocates for abortion are fighting for a right to a dead baby. That’s ugly to have to confront, but it’s the truth. And I don’t think most Americans are behind that. They want to know that a woman in a tough situation has options. But the right to a dead baby? While women often say they couldn’t live with themselves knowing someone else was raising their baby, if we educated people more about the options birth mothers have and that there are people more than willing to open their homes to a baby, there wouldn’t be this confusion. Women deserve better than a culture that encourages and even pressures her to abort her baby.\nWe need a culture that celebrates birth mothers and supports foster and adoptive families. Yes, absolutely adoption is a loss. We don’t want to rip families apart. But if a baby is born addicted to meth, that baby is going to be better off in the home of someone who isn’t enslaved to such a potent drug that keeps her from parenting. I know a young boy who was near dead last year around this time because of similar circumstances. Adoption can be a lifesaving option. It is going to be for him. We need to be realistic, but the denigration is abhorrent.\nAdoption is better than abortion. To say otherwise is to make it clear you are fighting for the right to a dead baby.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Because of the coronavirus job losses between February and May of this year, over 5.4 million laid-off workers became uninsured. These recent increases in the number of uninsured adults are 39% higher than any annual increase ever recorded.\n“We knew these numbers would be big,’’ said Stan Dorn, who directs the group’s National Center for Coverage Innovation and was the author of the study. “This is the worst economic downturn since World War II. It dwarfs the Great Recession. So it’s not surprising that we would also see the worst increase in the uninsured.”\nThe findings are certain to fuel the debate in Congress over the next round of virus relief.\nThe study is a state-by-state examination of the effects of the pandemic on laid-off adults younger than 65, the age at which Americans become eligible for Medicare. It found that nearly half — 46 percent — of the coverage losses from the pandemic came in five states: California, Texas, Florida, New York, and North Carolina.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The last thing Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville wanted to see happen with his Tigers set to host Florida Saturday night (7:45, ESPN) was to have the injury bug take a bite out of his defense.\nUnfortunately for the Tigers, it has.\nStarting linebacker Tavarreus Pounds, who has missed parts of the last four seasons, will likely miss the next three games because of a high ankle sprain.\nHe will be replaced by former fullback Brandon Johnson. Pounds was second on the team in tackles last year before his season was cut short by a dislocated shoulder.\nTwo other players received some bad news.\nTight end Robert Johnson, who missed last week's game with an ankle sprain, is doubtful while cornerback Travaris Robinson is ''probably out'' with an ankle sprain, Tuberville said.\nThe coach said defensive tackle DeMarco McNeil, who appeared in just four plays last week because of a bad knee, has not improved significantly since last week.\nRobinson's loss has Tuberville hoping former Georgia signee Horace Willis will be healthy enough to play Saturday. Willis missed the Mississippi State game because of a strained hamstring.\n''It's going to be a major challenge for our defensive backs,'' Tuberville said. ''There'll be a lot of pressure on these guys.''\nAs expected, Alabama's Oct. 20 game against Tennessee in Tuscaloosa will be carried nationally on CBS. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m.\nThis marks the sixth time in seven games this season that Alabama has been on broadcast television. The team's Nov. 29 game against Southern Mississippi -- the makeup from the postponed game of Sept. 15 -- has already been set for ESPN2.\nCiting problems in the third quarter of a 26-18 loss at Tennessee and in the first quarter against Florida, LSU coach Nick Saban is looking for a complete game Saturday night at Kentucky.\n''We need not to have those kinds of spells,'' Saban said. ''We talk about playing 60 minutes. Well, you've got to execute for 60 minutes and get it done the right way.''\nSaban said senior quarterback Rohan Davey, who missed the second half against the Gators after suffering a second-quarter knee injury, is ''probably going to be OK.''\nDavey returned to practice Tuesday afternoon.\nMississippi State fans will do well to buy a program for Saturday's game against visiting Troy State.\nBulldog coach Jackie Sherrill said Wednesday that the Bulldogs plan to use a more extensive player rotation than in their first four games. A dozen or so sophomore and redshirt freshman backups could see considerable action for the first time.\n''We're going to play some younger players,'' Sherrill said. ''I kind of slapped myself for not making sure we've done it every week. There are a lot of guys who we need to play because we never know when we're going to have to play them full time.''\nExactly how MSU will use its bench remains a question.\nOne of the Bulldogs' most promising youngsters is redshirt freshman Ray Ray Bivines, an explosive wide receiver who also ranks third in the SEC in punt returns (13.5 average).\nCoach David Cutcliffe said his Rebels lost three key defensive players to injuries in Saturday's 35-17 win over Arkansas State.\nEnd Josh Cooper, linebacker L.P. Spence and safety Marcus Woodson were all banged up in the game. Spence is listed as doubtful while the status of Cooper and Woodson are unclear.\n''We have some real concerns right now,'' Cutcliffe said. ''We would have hoped to have one of those seasons where we did not have to face that, but we started the year with four guys missing for the season and we lost three more starters last week.''\nDefensive backs Syniker Taylor and Matt Grier were also banged up against Arkansas State but are expected to play.\nThis article published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Thursday, October 11, 2001.\n© 2018. All Rights Reserved. | Contact Us", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "This week of F&F news saw recognitions, trend reports, rebrands, company news, WPC updates and more. Don't forget to grab your early bird ticket for the World Perfumery Congress 2022 this summer in Miami, Florida, and check out updates on the newly announced sessions below.\nThe American Cleaning Institute (ACI) announced the addition of 19 new member companies.\nBell Flavors & Fragrances has released the 2022 Spark Trend Toolkit to identify innovations within the flavor and fragrance industries.\nBLH, a family-run distributor of aromatic raw materials, has launched its re-invented brand identity and logo.\nFirmenich has announced its ESG 2030 ambition to be first in Conscious Perfumery with targets on fragrance biodegradability, renewability, carbon footprint, responsible sourcing and transparency on environmental impact.\nFirmenich has been recognized as one of the 2022 World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere.\nThe Fragrance Science & Advocacy Council (FSAC), founded by Firmenich, Givaudan, IFF and Symrise in March 2021, has touched its one-year milestone on March 16th, 2022.\nThe latest session announced to the three-day lineup is \"Reclaiming Femininity: The Role of Women in Reshaping an Industry.\" Vice president of Merchandising for Victoria's Secret Beauty Kristen Lagoa, alongside Givaudan vice president perfumer, Adriana Medina, discuss what it takes to create a fragrance brand for women, by women and the evolving role of women in creative positions of leadership.\nData from The Insight Partners on the global aroma ingredients indicates the market was valued at $5.37 billion in 2021 and is projected to reach $7.69 billion by 2028, growing at a 5.2% CAGR during the forecast period.\nKerry has announced the official opening of its upgraded facility in Rome, Georgia.\nSymrise has announced a three-year research and development (R&D) partnership with Antofénol to develop natural agro-extracts obtained by sustainable eco-extraction using microwave, ultrasound and vacuum technologies.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Iraqi Interior Ministry on Wednesday (August 14th) announced it has completed a major security plan geared towards protecting the public during Eid al-Fitr.\nA total of \"670,000 members of the army, police, military and national intelligence agencies and Iraqi national security directorate will participate in the new plan,\" said ministry spokesperson Maj. Gen. Adel Dahham.\n\"The government set up a higher joint security committee -- made up of the defence and interior ministries, the national intelligence service and the national security agency -- to carry out the plan, which will go into effect beginning next Saturday and last a whole week,\" he said.\nThe plan will be implemented in all Iraqi cities and will be characterised by a high level of flexibility -- it can be updated or amended at any time, he said.\nAccording to Dahham, the plan includes placing security forces on a state of alert, suspending leave for the army and police, and conducting pre-emptive raids targeting al-Qaeda strongholds and hideouts to thwart any terrorist plot.\nIn addition to the 670,000 participating security personnel, there will be intelligence and engineering units ready to defuse any explosives that may be uncovered, he said.\nDahham said the plan includes securing parks, gardens, public places and streets in coordination with the General Directorate of Traffic, the Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works, as well as provincial councils.\n\"The plan this year includes using 4,300 surveillance cameras, which were recently installed in touristic areas, parks and parking lots, as well as other aspects that will not be announced for security reasons,\" he said.\nMaj. Gen. Mohammad al-Askari, spokesman for the defence ministry, said security forces made early preparations this year \"to avert last year's mistakes and to identify weak points in this year's plans\".\nAccording to al-Askari, the army arrested nine individuals last week who confessed there was a plan to carry out strikes in parks and markets during the Eid.\nSecurity forces also obtained important information that will help in foiling any attack al-Qaeda might launch, he said.\n\"We are counting on the security forces to abort the terrorists' sick schemes,\" Hassan al-Sunaid, chairman of parliament's defence and security committee, said.\n\"The task will not be easy because it is expected that millions of Iraqis will be going out on the first day of Eid, so the security forces need more effort and co-operation from the public,\" he added.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Syriza didn't need to call a referendum on Greece's bailout because consensus already exists, former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said.» Read More\nResolving the Greek debt mess is about more than the financial crisis and fiscal responsibility, say experts. It's also about keeping Europe together.\nStock futures, already in positive territory on an apparent deal to rescue Greece, added to gains on good news from the labor market.\nThe European Union is wrestling with complex political considerations as much as economic ones that are likely to play a pivotal role in the timing and shape of any aid package to resolve the Greek debt crisis, experts say.\nMuch as I am sick of bailout nation, and bailout global nation, the European rescue of Greece was probably necessary to stop a total euro currency meltdown that might have triggered a worldwide debt deflation downward spiral.\nThere is little certainty in Brussels about what will be delivered to help Greece, or if a move would have any legal basis.\nAs financial markets panic about the risks to the euro from laxer governments in southern Europe, the northern Baltic states are already in tight fiscal bandages as they experience Europe's most severe recession.\nPlus, find out an even more powerful driver behind the markets these days.\nI’m trying hard to remain optimistic about economic recovery here in America — and for that matter, around the world.\nFinancial markets are betting heavily that Greece's crushing debt could drag down the entire eurozone, and that could force reluctant EU leaders into an embarrassing bailout.\nApparently, the Greek government has called in the big hitters to help them with their fiscal dilemma.\nThe rise in Greek yields is a clear warning markets are in the mood to 'punish any country that takes creditors for granted. '\nCountries like Greece are being \"attacked by financial markets\" and the European Union should intervene in the stock market to \"teach speculators a lesson,\" according to Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.\nThe proposed new banking rules here in the U.S. caught many international bankers off guard and were one of the most prominent topics of discussion at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos.\nAmid fears that go-it-alone moves such as President Barack Obama's plan to break up big banks will further hamper the fledging economic recovery, finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven major industrial countries meet.\nGlobal shares slid to three-month lows Friday, but the US market recovered in late trading, while the dollar and Treasurys rose.\nAnybody attempting to make a sub-standard Neapolitan pizza better watch their backs from now on as this pizza has friends in very high places.\nWhy would you ever want to be President? Everyone who comes to the job does so with some vision and dream and quickly has to learn how to dance the dance if anything is to be done. It's harder now than ever with the accumulated debt we have built up.\nThe growing sovereign debt problems in Europe will continue to keep markets under pressure, Bill Gross, co-CIO and founder of Pimco, told CNBC Thursday.\nCatch me if you've heard this one before. A global crisis emerges from some obscure country, and the VIX surges by some mind-boggling amount.\nCase in point, it seems the IMF is the only body that may have the legal capability to assist these countries in their time of need. This reminds me of something, what is it?", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A market in Nuevo, an unincorporated community east of Perris, sold a couple a scratch-off lottery ticket that came up a quarter-million-dollar winner.\nGretchen Dietrich, whose age and hometown were not provided by state lottery officials, and her husband, who was not named, were on their way to visit friends in Hemet when they stopped at the Nuevo Market in the 29600 block of Nuevo Road and bought the California Lottery Black scratcher, lottery officials said in a news release.\nDietrich said she picked that particular ticket to play because a friend had recently won $200 on the game.\nThe couple discovered their $250,000 win, the top prize in that particular scratch-off ticket series, as they were walking through the store’s parking lot.\n“I couldn’t believe it,” Dietrich said. “I was in shock. He was in shock, too.”\nThe couple will take home approximately three-quarters of the face value of the ticket after federal taxes are taken out, between $185,000 and $190,000.\nWhat’s she going to do with her windfall? Dietrich said it will be put away for her children. “Trying to make sure they go to … college,” she said.\nFollow Steven Barrie on Twitter: @Steven_Barrie", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Up to £75m of public money should be spent on a new, high-quality Scottish TV channel, it has been recommended.\nThe Scottish Broadcasting Commission said the not-for-profit digital operation would fill a \"missing piece of the public service jigsaw\".\nThe commission, set up by the Scottish Government, also called on the BBC to review its commissioning policy for Scottish programmes.\nAnd it said some broadcasting powers should also be devolved to Scotland.\nThese would include requiring broadcasters to report to the Scottish Parliament.\nHowever, the commission's final report stated that legislative powers for broadcasting should remain with the UK Government.\nThe commission, chaired by former BBC news boss Blair Jenkins, made a total of 22 recommendations.\nWelcoming the findings, Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond said: \"The report is a major challenge to the Westminster Government and the broadcasters themselves to step up to the plate - there can no longer be no possible excuse for inaction.\"\nThe report said the digital switchover, due for completion in Scotland by 2011, should provide the vehicle for a Scottish channel featuring \"high-quality information and entertainment, including news and current affairs covering Scottish and international issues, and innovative and ambitious content\".\nThe annual budget could be between £50m and £75m, although the commission did not say where the cash should come from.\nThe case for such a channel and a related online presence had \"strengthened considerably\", said the commission in its findings.\nIt added: \"After more than 50 years of opt-out television services, with schedulers struggling on both BBC and ITV to find decent peak-time slots for Scottish programmes, it is right to have a network based in Scotland serving audiences in Scotland.\"\nThe channel, the commission said, would also provide a crucial competitor for the BBC, which suffered from a \"perceived lack of ambition\" in Scottish productions, according to evidence collected by the body.\nThe BBC Trust should also ensure better news coverage of the devolved nations, and the commission also called for a review of BBC Radio Scotland - currently the only Scotland-wide broadcasting service - amid criticism that it lacked ambition and space for new ideas.\nThe commission said the BBC should maintain a steady 8.6% of network commissions from Scotland, with the same target for Channel 4, and consider moving BBC One, Two, Three or Four to Scotland.\nPolitical and media reaction to the report\nBBC Scotland controller Ken McQuarrie welcomed the digital channel proposal, adding: \"I would welcome an investment for audiences in Scotland.\n\"We want to hear more about exactly is intended and, also, how it will be funded.\"\nThe commission also expressed concern over whether ITV, which has been pursuing a more commercial agenda, would remain within the public service broadcasting framework, but recommended that STV be required to continue to produce news and current affairs for Scottish viewers.\nScotland Office Minister David Cairns backed the report's \"underlying principle\" that Scottish broadcasting should remain an integral part of UK broadcasting.\nScottish political parties broadly welcomed the report, although the Liberal Democrats warned that any new channel would have to be properly resourced, while the Tories said it should be paid for party out of private funding.\nThis page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "CINCINNATI (AP) - Federated Department Stores Inc. said on Tuesday it is planning to cut up to 6,200 jobs beginning in 2006 and will drop the landmark Marshall Field's name next fall from 62 stores it acquired this year as part of its takeover of May Department Stores Co.\nFederated said it plans to sell the Philadelphia-based bridal group division it acquired from May and is studying what to do with its Lord & Taylor division. The Marshall Field's stores will be switched to the Macy's nameplate.\nThe job cuts will include 1,700 in St. Louis at May's corporate offices and about 4,500 as Federated phases out May's divisional operations in Boston, Houston, Arlington, Va., and Los Angeles. The cuts will start in March.\nFederated had pledged not to cut any jobs before March 1 as part of its acquisition of its rival.\nThe job cuts are the first announced since Federated completed its $11.9 billion purchase of May in August, creating a combined retailing powerhouse better able to compete against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and upscale merchants. The merger combined more than 1,000 stores with $30 billion in annual sales.\nThe retailer said previously that it was eliminating 10 May nameplates and that it was studying whether to keep the name of Marshall Field's, a Chicago landmark. \"We have great respect for the legacy and traditions of Marshall Field's, and we carefully researched customer preferences and studied alternatives before making this decision to incorporate Marshall Field's into the nationwide Macy's brand,\" Federated Chief Executive Terry Lundgren said in a statement.\nMarshall Field's has stores in eight states in the Midwest.\nThe cuts and name changes are intended to build the nationwide Macy's and Bloomingdale's brands while reducing costs by $175 million in 2006 and $450 million in 2007 and beyond, Federated said.\nThe cuts in St. Louis will come as Federated phases out May's division headquarters and the May Merchandising Corp.\n© 2017. All Rights Reserved. | Contact Us", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "SEVEN CANDIDATES VIE FOR A SPOT ON PALMETTO STATE’S TOP COURT …\nPrepare to be shocked, but the “Republican-controlled” S.C. General Assembly is poised to elect yet another Democrat to the S.C. Supreme Court in 2017.\nHaving previously voted to put former Democratic lawmaker Donald Beatty and liberal circuit court judge Kaye Hearn on the bench, “Republican” lawmakers are now eyeing a pair of left-leaning plaintiffs’ attorneys to fill the seat being vacated by chief justice Costa Pleicones.\nAs trial lawyers from across the Palmetto State prepare to gather on Hilton Head Island for the annual S.C. Association for Justice (SCAJ) conference, sources familiar with the upcoming race tell us Columbia, S.C. attorneys John Nichols and Matthew Richardson are the early frontrunners – although Ralph King “Tripp” Anderson, the chief judge of South Carolina’s administrative law court, is also in the mix.\nAnderson ran for the bench earlier this year – losing out to John Few. Many lawmakers believe that gives him the inside track to win this year’s race, although it remains to be seen what deals will be cut in this infinitely corrupt process.\nKing’s most recent candidacy for the Supreme Court was backed by S.C. Senate president Hugh Leatherman – and his decision to bail on the race marked a rare defeat for the powerful legislative leader.\nBoth Nichols and Richardson have deep political connections – most of them rooted in the far left flank of the state’s increasingly leftward-leaning ideological spectrum.\nNichols was recently brought in by the S.C. House ethics committee to oversee its “investigations” against sitting lawmakers. Richardson? He ran for attorney general against eventual winner Alan Wilson in 2010 – although at this point a lot of people probably wish they had that vote to do over.\nNumerous other candidates have filed for the office – including S.C. circuit court judges Keith Kelly, Diane Goodstein, George C. James and Carmen Mullen.\nOf those four candidates, Kelly and Goodstein both have extensive legislative connections. Kelly was a liberal “Republican” lawmaker from 2006-10, while Goodstein’s husband – Arnold S. Goodstein – was a member of the General Assembly as well as a former S.C. Department of Transportation (SCDOT) commissioner.\nLawmakers tell us Kelly could up drawing some support from the liberal wing of the GOP. Goodstein’s bid is not expected to pick up much traction at all.\nScreening for the seven candidates is scheduled to begin in November – and approved candidates will be voted on by lawmakers in April.\nAs we’ve repeatedly documented, the screening and election of judges by the S.C. General Assembly is nothing but political horse trading. It’s been that way for years.\n“Merit” plays no role whatsoever in who becomes a judge – or the decisions they make once they are appointed. Like most things in this perpetually backward state, it’s all “who you know.”\nThis website has consistently argued for a more direct line of accountability. Specifically, we’ve recommended that lawmakers cede control of all judicial appointments to the executive branch – with the S.C. Senate providing advice and consent on those appointments (i.e. the federal model).\nWe’re also open to judges being elected directly.\nOne way or the other, the current system must be changed as it reeks of dirty dealing and self-interest by powerful legislative leaders and lawyer-legislators who turn around and try cases in front of the judges they appoint.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Just like other countries in the European Union, Belgium faces significant challenges to ensure genuine equal opportunities. This comes in the light of a European comparative education study published on Monday by the European Commission.\nThe European institution stresses that, “Belgium now faces major challenges regarding equal opportunities for pupils.\nPupils’ performance is directly linked to their socio-economic background, particularly amongst young immigrants.”\nThe institution goes on, “This is all the more serious given that we are anticipating a high growth in this group of vulnerable youngsters (in the future).”\nThe report, in particular, stresses that Belgian schools have the most disadvantaged children, especially schools which, so often, lack experienced teachers or headmasters.\nHowever, the study does show that the number of youngsters leaving school early is decreasing in Belgium.\nFrom 12% in 2012, their percentage has thus gone from 10.1% in 2015, or less than the European average (11%) but is still above the 2020 target level of 9.5%.\nChildren born abroad are twice as likely (18.2%) than others (9%) to leave school prematurely, the European institution’s report further reveals.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "With these higher unemployment numbers and the fear amongst those in the banking industry, more and more restrictions were placed upon the opportunity to guarantee new credit to consumers, while the already issued credit lines were at risk of being defaulted on.\nAs a way to intervene in the matter, the federal government would seek to purchase existing debt from major banks, in the hopes of creating more room for new growth. Like anything else the government seeks to do, their plan for the banking industry would have its supporters, along with its vocal naysayers. With a considerable amount at stake going into the Presidential election of 2008, it would become important for both candidates to respond in their own ways, to the legislation that was being proposed by their fellow elected representatives and such legislation, that would be signed into law by the very man that each candidate was hoping to replace come November 2008.\nAt the beginning of debate towards the end of the third quarter in 2008, the initial proposers of such action, would be then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and current Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. This action would see support from both men, the White House, along with both Presidential candidates and the Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill. Considerable opposition to the plan itself, would come from many Republicans, who felt it would be too much government control. In this case, “The first proposal for a sweeping bailout of financial institutions came at the height of the panic in mid-September, 2008. Mr. Paulson, with the backing of Mr. Bernanke, asked Congress for $700 billion to use to buy up mortgage-backed securities whose value had dropped sharply or had become impossible to sell, in what he called the Trouble Asset Relief Program, or TARP. As originally outlined, the", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Liverpool can confirm Corey Whelan has joined Yeovil Town on loan for the remainder of the 2017-18 season.\nThe Reds U23s captain will spend the rest of the current campaign with the League Two club after finalising the deal today.\nWhelan, a Republic of Ireland U21 international, signed a new contract with Liverpool in December shortly after celebrating his 20th birthday.\nHe initially joined the club at U10 level from Crewe Alexandra and has progressed through the Academy ranks.\nWhelan was handed the U23s armband by manager Neil Critchley at the beginning of the current season.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "From UC lectures on vegetable gardening and pesticide use to creating weed barriers and drought-tolerant gardening, Click below to watch and learn!\n- CSU Sacramento students teach aquaponics to Luther Burbank students -\n- Anderson: Bayer CropScience investing $80 million in West Sacramento campus -\n- Grape crush kicks off early at UC Davis -\n- City Beat: Sacramento pursuing plan to allow urban farms -\n- The front line in the olive oil war has been drawn in California -", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- Infowars - http://www.infowars.com -\nSeveral killed in Yemen drone strikes\nPosted By Adan On November 9, 2013 @ 10:47 am In Old Infowars Posts Style,War on Terror | Comments Disabled\nNovember 9, 2013\nFive people have been killed by two drone strikes in Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the country’s interior ministry says.\nA ministry statement released on Friday said that the men were al-Qaeda suspects, and that they were killed on Thursday.\nThe statement did not [say] whether the drones were launched by Yemen or the United States.\nArticle printed from Infowars: http://www.infowars.com\nURL to article: http://www.infowars.com/several-killed-in-yemen-drone-strikes/\nCopyright © 2015 Infowars. All rights reserved.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Poor worker facing a £310,000 bill after crashing into three Ferraris in Taiwan when he fell asleep at the wheel is stunned when strangers offer to help pay\n- A young man running an errand for his sick mother hit three Ferraris in Taiwan\n- Lin Chin-hsiang, 20, dropped out of college to help his mother pay the bills\n- Mr Lin got back from a night-shift when she said she was unwell so went back out\n- In the early hours of Sunday he fell asleep at the wheel and had a costly crash\nA poor young driver who fell asleep at the wheel and woke up to £310,000 worth of carnage has received an outpouring of public sympathy in Taiwan.\nLin Chin-hsiang, 20, who dropped out of college to work for his family, was driving home after a night-shift in the early hours of the morning on Sunday when he fell asleep at the wheel.\nMr Lin, whose father died five years ago, works at a local barbecue restaurant to help his mother, who owns a gold paper shop in New Taipei City which sells incense and worship trinkets.\nThe aftermath shows Mr Lin's Mitsiubushi SUV and the rear bumper of a silver Ferrari which has left burned tyre marks across the road\nA close up of the side of the yellow Ferrari shows how deep the gashes to its bodywork run\nThe force with which Mr Lin's car hit the stationary Ferraris is evident from the severe crumple damage, with the contact appearing to have originated on the front right of his SUV as he veered off the road\nWhen he arrived home after 3am he discovered his mother was feeling unwell so he got back into his Mitsubishi SUV and went to drop off an order for her at a temple, according to the BBC.\nIt was at around 5am when he fell asleep and smashed into three Ferraris parked on the roadside.\nThere were a group of four luxury sport cars parked up in preparation for an early morning drive which Mr Lin unfortunately happened upon.\nA close up of the rear of the blue Ferrari shows the damage to its bumper and left rear light; shipping Ferrari parts is expensive and to Taiwan it is undoubtedly extortionate\nAlthough there has been an outpouring of public sympathy, one of the driver's said he needed to get his car repaired and someone would have to cover the costs\nAn image taken by a driver sat behind the haulage vehicle with the three sports cars stacked up on their way for repairs\nA bright yellow Ferrari which has a horrific gash to its left door and its wing mirror has been ripped off from the crash\nThe crash has made headlines across Taiwan as members of the public have pleaded for the drivers to forgive Mr Lin and relent from seeking compensation.\nMr Lin told the BBC: 'I'm really grateful to everyone who has offered to help and who has come here to encourage me.\n'Some people even drove up from central Taiwan and asked me where they can donate money.'\nThe rear of the blue Ferrari has suffered significant denting and bits of its bumper litter the road after the collision\nThe group of Ferraris were sent across the road after the 20-year-old's SUV clattered into them; his insurance policy will not be able to cover the costs\nThe cars were literally forced bumper-to-bumper after the 20-year-old steamed into the back of their cars in the early hours of Sunday; the red car at the front of the train faced the lightest damage\nMr Lin originally attended Southeast University of Science and Technology before he had to drop out to assist his mother, the Epoch Times reported.\nThe BBC said that one of the drivers told reporters he felt bad for Mr Lin but also needed the damage to his luxury car paid for.\nMany called up the police station to offer donations to the young man, while one kindly stranger named only as Chen personally visited the gold paper shop to donate more than £5,000 Mr Lin, the Epoch Times said.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Earlier today our newsroom was sent a video of police officers man handling a man, Benedict Lopez who was at the Belize Marine Terminal. In the video Lopez was seen arguing with the officers about him not wearing a mask. Lopez appeared as resisting arrest as three officers tried to restrain him. Love News spoke with the Lopez’s stepson, Kirklynn Usher who believes that the police officers used excessive force on his father.\nKirkling Usher, Stepson: “They told me that he had pulled down his mask to say something to a lady that was sitting six feet away because she couldn’t hear what he was saying and the police officers approached him and I sent a video that has the first part of that with all that happening and he put back his mask up as you can see in the video he told the officers “My mask is on. I was just saying something to the lady and then I pulled my mask down.” I mean it wasn’t even completely off it was just pulled down and then placed back up. And then in the second portion of the video you’ll see where he told the officers “Okay I’ll go with you.” and he started walking with them but they started haul and pulling him and then one of them grabbed him and slammed him on the ground and from there the altercation started. I think too often we see where there’s these kinds of force being used where it’s highly unnecessary. I mean I expect a police officer to use force if they feel like their life is being threatened, if somebody is literally hitting them or stuff like that but if somebody says “I will go with you.” that is clear indication this person is complying with you, you don’t need to start pulling them and so forth if the individual says “I will go with you.” and also this is a senior citizen in society so to see them treat somebody like that it’s completely unnecessary and there definitely needs to be some attention being brought to it because it’s just gonna keep happening over and over.”\nUsher also explained that his father will be charged for not wearing a mask and resisting arrest.\nKirkling Usher, Stepson: “Currently he is at the police station, one of the precincts there in Belize City. Someone did go over there to set bail for him and so forth and they told him over an hour ago they said that he was going to be able to come out and make bail in about one hour they were just processing him- well they came out later on and said that he has to stay in until tomorrow. Well tomorrow is a holiday so you nothing can’t be done until Friday so I mean it’s just little things like these that just shows -I’m trying to refrain from using a negative word but there’s not enough organization and stuff like that and you don’t just put somebody in jail and then say okay we’ll let you out whenever we can that’s not exactly how that works and so if they said he was supposed to make bail in an hour then within an hour time if we had somebody there to sign him out and the person was there then they should have released him at the time. They did say they were going to charge him for not wearing a mask and then resisting arrest which I mean the mask was clearly right at the bottom of his face and in the first video he had his mask on so it’s not one of those instances where somebody was walking without a mask and if you watch the video closely you’ll see during the altercation one of the police officers he was not wearing a mask but it’s not about casting out stones to who is this or who is that I just believe three police officers excessively slamming him on the ground and kicking him is just unnecessary and we’ve seen it too much in Belize and I feel this is not one that we’re just gonna let go just completely unanswered.”\nUsher is appealing to the Police Department to look into the matter and address the police’s approach.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "While there are more questions than answers about selling LUS, one thing we know for sure is that it’s a perfect example of the unfairness baked into the structure of Lafayette’s consolidated government.\nMuch of the City-Parish Council, already disillusioned that it was left in the dark during negotiations, appears unified in opposition to LUS’s electrical division changing hands.\nRobideaux administration considering sale of LUS’s electric division Mayor in ongoing discussions with private equity firm to purchase or manage the division\nTalks between the Robideaux administration and Bernhard Capital Partners over the potential purchase of Lafayette Utilities System have been ongoing since at least the beginning of the year.\n▸ Yes, redistricting is ugly: And no, this doesn’t really look like gerrymandering. Something to keep in mind is that Lafayette is roughly 64 percent white and 31 percent black. By ratio, that would legally entitle black voters to 1.55 seats on the council. The last minute revision would provide, ostensibly, two black councilmen on the city council and one on the parish council. Downtown would also move to Kenneth Boudreaux’s district in that proposal. It would thus be hard for Lewis to oppose that revision on the grounds that it disenfranchises black voters. But there is another ugly truth at play here: Redistricting takes into account the interests of the politicians themselves. Lines are drawn to accommodate the ambitions and desired constituencies of the sitting council members. That’s as much true for Pat Lewis’ district as it is for anyone else’s. It’s not pretty. It’s politics.\nLafayette needs less uncertainty from local government not more. But that’s not the direction we’re going.\nThe gist: It’s now clear that Mark Knight is the big fish prosecutors want in the Knight Oil Tools racketeering case. As our May reporting indicated was likely to happen, court records now reveal that former Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Kinch pleaded guilty in late June to one count of public bribery and one count of corrupt influencing in […]\nConventional wisdom holds that the justification for the measure — equal representation for city of Lafayette residents — is obvious enough to make the six votes at final vote on July 24 necessary to put it before voters on Dec. 8 an easy win. But the effort is hardly a lock. The proposed ordinance also includes changes to the zoning commission and to procedures for civil service board nominations and, fittingly, amending the charter.\n▸ Where there was one, there would be two. The nine-member consolidated council would split into two new bodies handling the city’s and parish’s respective legislative business. Each council would have five members, growing total area representation by one seat. Otherwise, “consolidated” government remains more or less the same. The city and parish will continue to share public services. The mayor-president would remain an at-large position with parish-wide authority. This is not, by any stretch, deconsolidation. The logic of the move is to create more equal representation for the city of Lafayette and clear up budgetary processes. Councilman Jay Castille, largely viewed as a parish councilman, says the amendment would free up parish-oriented councilmen to focus on that side of the consolidated ledger and bring to fore the parish’s financial trouble, which is arguably papered over by the city’s largesse.\n“It’s a brand new game” for sitting council members, says Councilman Bruce Conque, one of the amendment’s architects. Creating two new councils would effectively reset term limits for the council members currently serving. That’s a thread of criticism already picked up by Lafayette Citizens Against Taxes. A potential opposition would be that this entire plan is a scheme cooked up to entrench incumbent politicos. The amendment also updates the charter minimum pay (originally $18,000) for the council members’ salaries to the current council pay of $30,356 a year.\n“It’s changed significantly, I can tell you that,” says Councilman Pat Lewis of his district, which is altered heavily as proposed. Lewis declined to comment further until council discussion on Tuesday, telling me he had only seen the updated maps today. The maps are not yet finalized, but as it stands, Lewis would lose center city neighborhoods and would run his next campaign in a racially split council district. He currently represents one of two majority-black districts on the consolidated council. How the district maps are drawn could be the hill the effort dies on.\n▸ What to watch for: Who’s for it and who’s against it. That’s obvious, I know. But the latter half of that equation has yet to be settled. Councilman William Theriot has stated emphatically that he’ll oppose the move. He says it doesn’t fix the underlying parish budget problems. He’s floated the concept of divvying up the unincorporated parts of the parish and assigning them to each municipality. The council vote count favors passage of the amendment but isn’t yet a lock. But even if it passes the council — final vote would occur on July 24 — the amendment would require a general election. Kevin Blanchard, a proponent of deconsolidation, plans to organize a campaign supportive of the amendment. Still, stark battle lines have not yet been drawn.\n▸ A wild card: This election season is going to be nuts. Between a potentially electric congressional race and several tax propositions, your mailbox is gonna get positively stuffed. How that impacts this charter amendment vote is a big unknown. The idea doesn’t fall neatly along ideological lines. Those dynamics are difficult to predict.\nDistrict 1 contorts Pat Lewis’ current district to crawl along the northwestern boundary of city limits. It’s a near even split between black (46 percent) and white (49 percent) voters. Lewis would no longer represent Downtown or UL’s campus. Lewis currently represents a district that’s 63 percent black.\nDistrict 2 adjusts Bruce Conque’s district to include Downtown but removes the Broadmoor area.\nDistrict 3tracks the city portions of Liz Hebert’s district with few adjustments. She would pick up UL’s campus from Lewis’ district and continue to represent River Ranch and the area around the Acadiana Mall.\nDistrict 4 is composed mostly of Nanette Cook’s district in the city’s southeast. Cook’s current consolidated district is a 61/39 split between city and parish constituents. As drawn, the district has an archipelago of unincorporated islands stretching out toward Broussard and Youngsville.\nDistrict 5, based on Kenneth Boudreaux’s district, is the city’s only majority-minority district — 71 percent of the population is African American. Boudreaux would pick up blocks of Freetown near Downtown currently repped by Pat Lewis and continue representing McComb-Veazey and the rest of Lafayette’s northeastern quadrant.\n▸ What about the parish council? The parish council map splits most of the city of Lafayette between two parish districts. Broussard and Youngsville would fall under one parish district that loosely tracks the boundaries of William Theriot’s current district. A western district would essentially merge the districts of Kevin Naquin and Jared Bellard and represent Duson, Scott and a small portion of Lafayette. Jay Castille’s northern district, which includes Carencro and a piece of Lafayette, remains more or less the same.\n▸ It’s not all black or white: Federal law governs how the voting maps are drawn to ensure proportionate representation for minorities, in compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In Lafayette, like the rest of the South, that means we tend to think of Lafayette politics in terms of a power balance between white voting blocks and black voting blocks.\nParsing the data here means looking back at the 2010 census, a time when only 5 percent of the city was neither white nor black. Demographer Mike Hefner, who helped draft the proposed districts, says he expects marginal demographic shifts among white and black residents in both the city and parish. However, Hefner expects the parish to see more growth among Hispanic residents in the 2020 census.\nHow does Lafayette’s experiment with consolidation stack up with the successes and failures of other consolidated governments across the country?\nThe gist: A major real estate developer has reportedly moved to purchase the Less Pay Motel and the adjacent former Coca-Cola building, together comprising a whole block of the beleaguered Four Corners area.\nWhat we know: Two separately owned properties are under contract for an undisclosed redevelopment project: the Less Pay Motel at 120 N. University Ave. and the former Coca-Cola bottling facility at 1506 Cameron St. Representatives of both properties have confirmed independently that the buildings are pending sale, but would not disclose terms or the buyer.\nUPDATE: A public notice for a $15 million artist loft development called Bottle Art Lofts, located at the bottling facility, links HRI Properties, a New Orleans-based development outfit with extensive experience in historic rehabilitation, to the sale of that property. The development would include 40 units with a “leasing preference” for artists and would be primarily financed with the equity sale of low income housing tax credits. State records list HRI’s New Orleans address for Lafayette Bottle Art Lofts, LLC, the company issuing the public notice.\nHRI also submitted qualifications to redevelop the old federal courthouse, a project that was ultimately awarded to a team helmed by Jim Poché of Southwest Group.\nIt’s unclear if HRI is also the buyer of the Less Pay Motel.\n“A number of things we have wanted to see are coming to fruition,” says Greg Dugan, who has owned the Coca-Cola facility with his wife, Stephanie Cornay Dugan, since 2001. The Dugans currently use the building for fabrication and storage for their company ASCO Window Coverings, located a few blocks away in the La Place neighborhood. Dugan declined to comment further but says more information on the deal will be available by early next week.\nDewitt “Zeen” David of NAI Latter & Blum confirms that a sale is pending on the Less Pay property but also declined further comment, citing a confidentiality agreement. David is the listing agent for the Less Pay Motel, which is owned by M&L International LLC, according to Louisiana secretary of state records.\nWhy this matters: The Less Pay Motel has been an albatross of sorts for Four Corners, a historic intersection that once was a bustling city center. Plans for redevelopment of the site, which at one time envisioned a police precinct under former Mayor Joey Durel, have faltered over the last decade. Mayor Joel Robideaux quashed Durel’s plan upon taking office, saying he preferred to see the property moved into private commerce. A successful redevelopment could be transformative for Four Corners and the University Avenue corridor. Robideaux has made University Avenue a signature development project for his administration, although Dugan notes that he and his wife have been working to redevelop the Coca Cola building since before the Robideaux administration’s initiative began. Dugan says he believes they’ve found the right buyer to realize a revitalizing vision for the neighborhood.\n“We’d be very enthusiastic to see that site moved in commerce,” says Robideaux.\nAdditional reporting by Leslie Turk\nSome argue that breaking up consolidated government would liberate the city from an unfavorable political circumstance. Former journalist and Lafayette public works director Kevin Blanchard is in the camp. He says giving Lafayette a city council won’t fix what’s wrong with consolidation, but it’s a step in the right direction.\nTrump and LAGOP formally back Higgins’ re-election, spurred by Rudy Giuliani’s earlier endorsement of challenger Josh Guillory\n▸ The gist: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a top surrogate and personal attorney for President Trump, stirred up national palace intrigue when he endorsed upstart Republican challenger Josh Guillory’s run against incumbent Rep. Clay Higgins. In response, Trump and the Louisiana GOP officially endorsed Higgins. Giuliani made an appearance in Lafayette this week to raise funds for Guillory\n▸ Love and war: Giuliani’s connection to Guillory is Republican fundraiser Jennifer LeBlanc, who’s been romantically linked to Giuliani in some national headlines. LeBlanc works on Guillory’s campaign. Both LeBlanc and Giuliani have downplayed the nature of their relationship and its influence in courting Giuliani to Guillory’s camp. LeBlanc was a fundraiser for Giuliani’s failed presidential bid in 2008. It’s worth noting that LeBlanc previously worked for Higgins but jumped ship, landing with Guillory.\n▸ What’s the difference anyway? Both Guillory and Higgins stump as conservative Republicans. Guillory’s campaign planks align squarely with conservative talking points about government overreach and fiscal responsibility. Here’s an exact quote from his page:\n“Over the years, the federal government has grown to a now unstable point. At this time in our history, we, the American people, must do something or we will implode.”\nRephrase that passage with the flourish of the King James Bible and you’d have Clay Higgins.\nConservative gadfly Scott McKay has downplayed the divided loyalties, but no doubt that narrative will foam over if Guillory’s bid, currently pegged as a longshot, ultimately presents a formidable challenge to the heavily funded and institutionally-backed Higgins.\nGuillory is running on character. In a wide-ranging interview with The Bayou Brief, he openly questioned Higgins’ commitment to conservative fiscal responsibility and positioned himself as a compassionate answer to Higgins’ “lightning rod” divisiveness. In a twist of political theater, Guillory appears to be positioning himself as an outsider to Higgins’ inside man. A young attorney and a vet, he has the Romney coif of a genetic Republican. (I mean that as a compliment, if you’re reading, Josh.) With no track record in politics, he’s a clean slate with, thus far, none of the colorful personal baggage towed around by Higgins. The incumbent spent the first year of his freshman term making headlines for staging a publicity stunt in a concentration camp and threatening his constituents on Facebook. Since then, his messaging has sobered up, for the most part. No doubt Higgins’ snafus will resurface during the campaign as a way of contrasting otherwise similar candidates. It’s tough to beat an incumbent, unless he beats himself.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Updated: January 16, 2022 9:39:30 am\nAfter inoculating around 2 lakh pregnant women and lactating mothers in the capital, the Delhi government has decided to deploy ASHA and anganwadi workers to create awareness and encourage those left to get the Covid-19 vaccine. It is also planning to set up exclusive centres, such as pink booths, in all sub-divisions and prioritise pregnant women at government vaccination centres. There are about 4,000 ASHA and anganwadi workers in all 11 districts.\nUnder the campaign, workers will visit each division, sub-division, RWA, colony, street, and slum cluster to talk about why vaccination is important for expectant women, who constitute 2% of Delhi’s total population, and to break the myth that it is harmful for the baby.\n“We have taken several measures and have vaccinated more than 100% (with one dose), but there is still hesitancy among people. There are many myths surrounding lactating mothers and how the shot might affect the baby. So, the primary aim of the campaign is to break this myth and vaccinate all pregnant women and lactating mothers,” said a senior government official.\nBest of Express Premium\nDistrict authorities have also tied up with ‘Saheli Samanvay Kendras’ to specifically vaccinate pregnant women and lactating mothers. These kendras, numbering 500, were launched last year to empower and educate women.\nThe government has also decided to make vaccination mandatory for women visiting Asha clinics and government hospitals. “Women visiting Asha clinics or government hospitals will be asked to register for vaccines mandatorily, if unvaccinated. They will be supervised by doctors and counselled to get inoculated. District authorities are also calling and counselling these women,” said the official.\nDr Anjali Tempe, Director, Professor & Head of the Department Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Maulana Azad Medical College, said, “This is an excellent initiative… Vaccination is a must for everyone, but some pregnant women may have allergic reactions to drugs… Pregnant women should avoid vaccination till their first trimester, but the rest can get the shot after consulting doctors. Lactating mothers must take the vaccine since it is for the safety of both mother and child.”\nOfficials also added that unvaccinated people are testing positive more than others.\nDistricts are also focusing on vaccinating children in the 15-17 age group at shelter homes, those with special needs in the same category, and to elderly women in old-age homes.\nAs per officials, residents and staff at Asha Kiran, Delhi’s biggest shelter home, have got both doses. There are 759 residents, including children with special needs, and 492 staff. “Of the total inhabitants, only 3 tested positive but they are asymptomatic,” said an official from Asha Kiran.\nAs per government data, 2.78 crore doses have been administered — 1.59 crore have got the first dose and 1.19 crore have taken both doses — as of January 15.\n🗞 Subscribe Now: Get Express Premium to access our in-depth reporting, explainers and opinions 🗞️\n- The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "- Turkish Minister of Economy announces country is to grant citizenship to foreigners who invest in property market\n- Number of overseas buyers in Turkey grows by 19% from January to September, compared to same period in 2014; 26.1% in Istanbul (Turkstat)\n- Newly launched 7th Avenue project already welcoming great overseas interest (Universal21)\nA groundbreaking announcement by the Turkish Minister of Economy has revealed that the country looks set to follow in the footsteps of Portugal and Cyprus and launch its very own ‘Golden Visa’ scheme, a move that could revolutionise the Turkish property market.\nMinister Nihat Zeybekci has stated the intention by Turkey to grant citizenship to those foreigners who impart a certain level of investment in the country’s property industry, suggesting levels of investment would be around the $500,000 to $1 million mark. With the success of the 2012 launched Portuguese Golden Visa scheme bringing in €1.47 billion of investment, €1.33 billion of which was via property purchase, in less than three years, it is easy to see why this would be a welcome move for the country.\nCompounding the notion that the nation is focussed on expanding the already flourishing property market, the government has now made their intention to expand overall foreign investment clear, aiming to take figures to groundbreaking $10 billion levels. The knock-on effect of the proposed scheme to the sector and those who operate in it, as well as to the country’s coffers as a whole, is clear and one that has been welcomed by leading property agent, Universal21.\nAdil Yaman, Director of the largest management company based in Istanbul, explains,\n“Turkey, and the country’s biggest city of Istanbul, is widely lauded as a cultural melting pot and this is certainly – increasingly – the case in the property market. In recent years growing numbers of external buyers have looked to purchase property in this wonderful country, and the exciting new announcement by the Minister looks set to escalate this to impressive levels in 2016.\n“Benefitting individuals looking to purchase in a growing market, providing welcome advantages alongside their property purchase, as well as the economic benefits for Turkey as a whole, this is a positive move from the government for a country open to, and welcoming of, foreign investment.”\nAnd this is already being reflected in the current levels of foreigners buying in Turkey. The most recent figures released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (Turkstat) have shown that such sales grew by 19% from January to September this year, compared to the same period the previous year. Impressive gains by anyone’s standards, there are certain locations even within the country that are witnessing far greater growth levels.\nSeptember saw Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul overtake Antalya as the top Turkish location for house sales to foreigners, registering a growth of 26.1% from January to September 2015, compared to 2014 figures.\nUniversal21 are providing new projects in response to this growing demand in the city for high quality, affordable housing. Having just launched their new project, 7th Avenue, the leading agent is already seeing impressive interest levels. Situated in the middle class neighbourhood of Old Beylikdüzü, in close proximity to local amenities and restaurants, a 20 minute drive from Ataturk international airport, a short drive from the beach and a 10 minute walk from the area’s major shopping centre, Marmara Park, 7th Avenue is perfectly located.\nComprised of 13 floors of 260 beautifully designed apartments, with a choice of studio, one, two and three bedroom apartments available, there is also an array of facilities that include 24 hour security, a fitness centre including spa, hamam and gym, an outdoor swimming pool, tennis and basketball courts. All apartments are offered with a universal21 guarantee of their unique superb rental management package.\nStudios are keenly priced from £30,000 / $51,000, one bed apartments are priced from £44,500 / €71,000, and two bed apartments from £62,000 / €104,500. These are pre-launch prices and are 20% discounted from current price list which is to be implemented from the beginning of the New Year.\nFor more information about Universal21, visit www.universal21.com or call 0203 287 8700.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Pakistan Covid Vaccine PakVac project which was started in 2021 has come to an end with more than 20 million doses. The vaccine is designed to fight pandemics. The government partnered with the Chinese Covid-19 producer CanSinoBio to manufacture local-based vaccines in Pakistan.\nRead more: PakVac: Everything You Want to Know About the Made-in-Pakistan Vaccine\nPakistan Covid Vaccine Pakvac Project Ended\nThe co-production at NIH (National Institute of Health) along with the CanSino has successfully finished on Monday, March 28, 2022. There were more than 20 million doses prepared throughout this journey. The farewell ceremony was held on March 31st, 2022. The function was attended by a large number of workers and officers.\nProfessor Aamer Ikram (Executive Director, NIH), Ghazala Perveen (Cheif BPD, NIH), Muhammad Firdous Nawaz Khan (Senior Engineer), Syeda Shazia Adeel (Qa Manager), Rafique Ahmad Channa (Qc Manager), Rahim Shah (PSSO), Amina Najam (SSO), Khalid Mahmood (Scientific Officer), Hafiz Suboor ul Hassan (Scientific Officer), Hina Fatima (ASO), Kanwal Batool (ASO), Atif Ahmad (Medical Technologist) also participated in it.\nAt NIH, Professor Amir Ikram (Executive Director) thanked the entire team working on the Covid-19 project. On this occasion, he commended the entire team for completing this project.\nPakistan Covid Vaccine PakVac Team\nWhat is PakVac?\nPakistan Covid Vaccine Pakvac was launched in 2021 with the help of Chinese company CanSinoBio. This is an intramuscular injection given into the muscles. CanSino is a Chinese company that produces vaccines against coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The company injects antibodies to stimulate the immune system to prevent further attacks and inevitable. Medical reports after the research conducted say that the Pakistan vaccine will operate in the same way.\nGovernment Collaboration with the Chinese CanSinoBio Covid-19 Producer\nProfessor Aamer Ikram (NIH’s Executive Director) acquainted international media that this is a co-production with the Cansino in Pakistan. According to him, The Chinese company provided vaccines concentrate. Hence, the plant was developed, processed, and packed. Furthermore, he also acknowledged the Chinese company that had transferred some of its techniques and was overseeing activities.\nRead more: Pakistan produces Chinese CanSinoBio COVID vaccine, brands it PakVac\nEfficacy and Side Effects of Pakistan Covid Vaccine Pakvac\nAs per Dr. Faisal Sultan’s statements, Trails in Pakistan showed a promising efficacy rate which is 74.8%. He stated that efficacy at preventing symptomatic cases is 74.8% while 100% at preventing severe disease.\nOn the other hand, Dr. Jamil (the Pro Bono Adviser to the National Command and Operation Centre) in Pakistan said that there is no need for any concerns about drastic side effects. It is advised that those with allergic reactions hold off on taking the Pakistan vaccines. However, there is no other warning associated with PakVac.\nWho is Allowed to Get These Vaccines?\nAlthough, despite following the SOPS but still The Pakistan covid vaccine Pakvac is allowed to be used in certain circumstances as a precautionary measure. Thus, People with allergic reactions or frequent fevers are advised to avoid taking it. Those with comorbidities, above 60, or other risk citizens are highly preferred to be the first to receive the vaccine.\nWhat is the Cost of PacVac?\nIt is officially announced that Pakistan Covid Vaccine PakVac will be offered fully cost-free to people. All you need to do is to register yourself before taking vaccines.\nNevertheless, Simply just send your CNIC no to 1166 (free SMS) from any mobile network or http://nims.nadra.gov.pk/, or just walk into your nearest vaccination center.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The Meridian Star\nPHILADELPHIA-Services for Ruby Tucker will be held today, Saturday at 3 p.m. from McClain-Hays Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Dan Howard officiating. Burial will follow in Cedarlawn Cemetery. McClain-Hays Funeral Home in Philadelphia is in charge of arrangements.\nMrs. Tucker, 85, of Philadelphia, died Friday, September 6, 2013, at Neshoba County Nursing Home.\nVisitation will be held today, Saturday, from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. at McClain-Hays Funeral Home.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "The City has taken on a truly warlike aspect, an encampment surrounded by the enemy. But the enemy in this case is within the house: temporarily disbanded army men who post themselves at the foot of bridges, and at major street intersections, paralyzing and obstructing traffic and the entry into the city. It is clear to the public that the preparations of the army are being directed more against their brother Asians than against air attacks.\nUndoubtedly, the enemy planes are not going to respect anything in Philippine skies or that the Pacific fleet will direct its attacks at the head of the Empire flanking these Magellanic islands. For the last 15 days, Davao has been under heavy bombings, and so has Northern Mindanao. It was announced today that some near the coast bombed Cebu, Negros and Leyte. Where was the Imperial Fleet hiding, that it could not go out and chase these pirates? The waves of aerial invasion are increasing and it will not be long before the enemy enters Manila, as the optimists on one side and the pessimists on the other are predicting.\nWhat destruction had these raids caused? According to the prevaricating press which nobody believes in no damage was caused aside from the death of civilians and the destruction of their houses. Since the American planes dropped their bombs at random, they could not do any damage except to schools, churches, and hospitals visibly marked with the Red Cross and the humble homes of the Filipino workers, and they only aimed to kill women and children. It would seem that the bombs, before exploding examined the birth certificate of the unfortunate victims. The same thing happened at sea, where the American submarines allegedly sank only hospital ships and ships transporting prisoners who were their own countrymen. As a result of these atrocities, the Filipinos in Mindanao are boiling with indignation, to the point that they had gone to join the guerillas.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "A Syrian-born German citizen who is considered an important figure in the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington is being held in a Syrian jail, senior German officials said today.\nThey said the man, Mohamed Heidar Zammar, 41, who left Hamburg on Oct. 27, had been arrested in Morocco, interrogated and then expelled to Syria, his birthplace, with American knowledge.\nThe officials were responding to reports that appeared earlier today in an announcement by the ZDF German television channel and a story posted on the Web site of The Washington Post.\nMr. Zammar has been under investigation by German authorities for his part in the Sept. 11 plot. His family, who say they last heard from him in December, had filed a missing persons report and asked the German Foreign Ministry to inquire about him.\nForeign Ministry officials suspected that the United States had him in detention, but when they spoke to the State Department last week, they said American authorities there denied any knowledge of an arrest.Continue reading the main story\nOfficials at State told their German colleagues, ''We have no information about a detention,'' one German official said.\nInformation on security issues surrounding Sept. 11 has been closely held, and German officials have criticized the reluctance of their American counterparts to share intelligence even with close allies.\nAccording to ZDF, the Syrians are holding Mr. Zammar on a warrant stemming from a charge that he participated in a plan for a bombing attack in Syria. The report indicates that he has been in prison there for several months, but that German officials only learned of his detention a week ago.\nAmerican officials have reportedly been able to put questions to Mr. Zammar, either in person or through the Syrians, in an effort to better understand the genesis of the plot. If so, that would mark a new level of cooperation between Washington and Damascus, which remains on the State Department's list of countries that sponsor terrorism.\nAmerican officials believe that Mr. Zammar was important in the recruitment of Mohamed Atta, the Egyptian student in Hamburg who apparently led the cell that planned and carried out the Sept. 11 attacks. But German officials are less sure, calling that ''speculation.''\nGerman officials are also annoyed because Morocco and Syria failed to inform them of the arrest of a German citizen, as required under international law.\nIn an article today on the online edition of Der Spiegel magazine, a German diplomat was quoted as saying, ''The Syrians seem to be treating the man as simply a Syrian, and ignoring that he is also German.''\nA large, beefy man of 308 pounds, Mr. Zammar was a vocal advocate of holy war in the Hamburg mosques and gave young Muslims advice on how to go to Afghanistan for military training. He was a witness at the wedding of one of the Hamburg cell members, Said Bahaji.\nMr. Zammar was a known associate of Mahmoun Darkazanli, also Syrian-born, who came to investigators' notice in 1998, when he had power of attorney over a Hamburg bank account opened by Osama bin Laden's suspected European finance chief, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, who is now in prison in the United States in connection with the bombings of two American Embassies in Africa.\nMr. Zammar came to Germany, where his father lived, in 1971 and became a citizen in 1982.\nHe was a kind of role model for radical young Muslims, and said he had fought in Afghanistan and Bosnia. Officials have suspected him of involvement with Al Qaeda since 1996. He was also reportedly close to another key member of the Atta cell, Ramzi Muhammad Abdullah bin al-Shibh, who is considered the group's logistical officer. Mr. Shibh did not succeed in getting an American visa despite numerous attempts, and he left Germany for Pakistan just before Sept. 11.\nHe ostensibly went to Morocco to divorce a second wife. When the Germans made inquiries, the Moroccans at first said he had been arrested. Then they said he had arrived from Mauritania and left for an unknown destination.\nAfter that, the Germans were told that a man who identified himself as Mr. Zammar was stopped at a police checkpoint and expelled to Spain. Finally, the Moroccan officials said the country was not Spain, but they could not say which country it was.Continue reading the main story", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Amazon Will Probably Eliminate Jobs at Whole Foods. That’s a Good Thing.\nAmazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods has triggered a fresh wave of teeth-gnashing over the robotic replacement of supermarket cashiers and warehouse workers.\nBut why? Those jobs have been disappearing for years—and, not to sound hard-hearted, thank goodness they’re going away. They are inhuman jobs—people in the role of machines, like assembly line workers of yore.\nLet’s help the cashiers who get cashiered but not worry too much about this very old trend. The kind of technology that eliminates those jobs has also created new ones and over time has turbocharged living standards. The more troubling development, far less noticed, is the technology takeover of deeply human jobs—caregivers, lawyers, doctors. These are relationship jobs that were supposed to be forever immune from technology’s threat. But increasing evidence suggests they are not, and nothing like this has ever happened before.\nA couple of years ago, as it became clear that artificial intelligence would take over the substantive work of financial advisers, accountants, lawyers, and others, the hope for their continued employment centered on relationships and helping clients with their emotions—comforting and steadying them when the market plunges, say, or talking them out of an unwise lawsuit when they’re angry. But now even that prospect is looking endangered.\nGet Data Sheet, Fortune’s technology newsletter.\nTechnology can read your emotions far more accurately than people can and more accurately than you can read them yourself. Software from Emotient (which Apple bought last year), Affectiva, and other companies can discern your emotions by analyzing your face, and it can tell whether your emotion is real of fake. Pepper, the humanoid robot from SoftBank, goes much further: It analyzes your face and your tone of voice to understand what you say, then respond in an emotionally appropriate way. Thousands of Peppers work in Japanese stores and homes, and now engineers are adjusting the robot’s EQ—emotional quotient—for American culture.\nWhich raises the big question: Even if technology can read emotions, can it express them? Can it do what Pepper is trying to do, responding to us in a way that we will find genuinely engaging, as comforting and natural as a human? If it can’t—if we humans are hardwired to engage emotionally only with other humans—then all those financial advisers, lawyers, and other relationship workers are safe. But if it can, then possibly no one is safe.\nThe last time I interacted with Pepper, several months ago, it wasn’t there yet. I didn’t feel even momentarily that this device could really connect with me. But I have to say that its body language is uncannily realistic. Standing in a corner, seemingly dozing, it snapped to attention when I merely glanced at it, its cartoonish eyes inviting me to say something. That moment has stuck with me.\nShould we conclude that robots are ultimately disqualified from relationship jobs? It’s tempting to think so. Chatbots are pretty primitive, and so far not many people seem to talk to Siri, Alexa, Google, or any robot quite the same way they’d talk to a person. But don’t be lulled. Remember that new technology is always terrible at first, and then, unlike people, it gets rapidly and relentlessly better. We’re in the WordPerfect and VisiCalc days of emotional AI.\nLet’s look past the loss of cashier and warehouse jobs, sad though it is for the jobholders; that’s an old story. The possibility that machines could take over relationship jobs with a heavy emotional element opens a fundamentally new chapter in the history of technology. It threatens millions of previously safe jobs and, if the possibility becomes reality, it tears away people’s last protection against tech-based obsolescence. We still don’t know if it will happen, but that’s what we should be worrying about.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "PRINCE ALBERT — Bail has been granted to a woman who was arrested along with an inmate who had escaped from provincial jail guards.\nBraidy Chaise Vermette, 28, escaped March 30 during a medical transport to a Prince Albert hospital for treatment of a self-inflicted wound.\nSmith faces charges related to the escape and from unrelated incidents.\nVermette and another man are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Troy Napope, who disappeared last May after a party outside Prince Albert.\nHis car was later found torched in a stand of trees, but his body has not been recovered.", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "November 29, 2022 — There’s weight-loss advice everywhere you look on social media, but one trend sweeping TikTok has led to a shortage of an important diabetes drug.\nOzempic, a weekly injection that helps increase insulin sensitivity in people with type 2 diabetes, also reduces appetite, leading to weight loss. Stories of celebrities using the drug off-label to lose a few pounds has led to an explosion of interest. And now diabetics – the people whose lives could be saved by the drug – are having a hard time finding it.\nKim Kardashian and Elon Musk\nIn the spring, Kim Kardashian made a significant weight loss to fit into a Marilyn Monroe dress at the Met Gala. Rumors soon began circulating that she was going to do so Ozempic is used To do that. Just this week, new Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted about it own use Ozempic and its sister drug, Wegovy.\ndiverse Ozempic has been called “the worst in Hollywood—especially considering its most enthusiastic users are neither diabetic nor in need of the drug”. The rich and famous spend $1,200 to $1,500 a month for access.\nThis raises concerns about who exactly is watching these videos, and what message they are getting.\n42% of Americans are obese, and even more are overweight. “This affects our young adults and teens,” says Caroline Apovian, MD, co-director of the Center for Weight Management and Wellness at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. “They are looking to TikTok and other social media for help.”\nA new study shows how damaging that can be: Researchers analyzed 1,000 videos with nutrition, food, and weight-related hashtags, with more than 1 billion views combined. They found that almost all of them included messages glorifying weight loss and being thin.\nFinally, an effective weight loss drug\nOzempic is the Danish drug company Novo Nordisk’s brand name for semaglutide, which works by mimicking a naturally occurring hormone known as GLP-1. It travels to your brain and helps you feel full when you eat less. This leads to weight loss. In one 68-week study, semaglutide helped people lose an average of 15% of their body weight. But it’s not a miracle drug: You still have to change your eating habits and stay physically active.\nThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Ozempic to treat people with type 2 diabetes in 2017. Four years later, Novo Nordisk received the green light for a higher dose meant for people with obesity. Wegovy is only approved for use if your BMI is at least 27 with one or more weight-related diseases, or if your BMI is 30 or greater with none.\n“These medications dominate my work, because they’re so effective,” says Amanda Velasquez, MD, director of obesity medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The drug is considered safe, “so the majority of patients are good candidates.”\nMore demand than supply\nAs word spread about how well Ozempic and Wegovy were working, social media posts helped lead more people to seek out the drugs. Now demand exceeds supply – according to the FDA, starting doses of Ozempic will be limited through January.\n“In Hollywood, people lose 10 pounds, gain it for $1,500 a month, and drain the stores for people who are so obese that they have congestive heart failure and diabetes,” Abovian says. “These are the people who are going to die, and you’re walking away from it just for cosmetic weight loss. That’s unfortunate.”\nIn addition to the huge demand, Wegovy also had a disruption in its supply chain. Currently, it is not available at all in lower doses, which helps drive the off-label demand for Ozempic. Novo Nordisk expects to resolve these issues by the end of the year, with the next distribution shortly after.\nWith a list price of $1,350 per month, Wegovy’s cost is worth many mortgages. And Medicaid, Medicare, and many insurance companies don’t cover it. Although obesity is a disease, the insurance industry treats weight loss as a vanity issue — so even if you can find medication, you may not be able to afford it.\n“We see that nearly half of the prescriptions we write are not covered,” Abovian says. “And for the half that’s covered, we have to do a pre-authorization, which takes days, and it’s tedious.” In some cases, she says, insurance companies withdraw permission after 3 months if they don’t see enough weight coming off.\nIt’s not like you can take Wegovy for 3 months, lose some weight, and expect to keep it going, too. Medication requires a real commitment, potentially one that will last a lifetime. This is because once semaglutide leaves your system, your appetite returns. In one study, people regained two-thirds of the weight they lost within a year of stopping.\nMany see a double standard in insurance companies refusing to cover a drug that could prevent serious illness or death.\n“They’re saying it’s not cost-effective to give the 42% of Americans with a BMI over 30 Wegovy. Did they say that when the statins came out?” Abovian says. “Why would they do this with anti-obesity agents? It’s the culture. The culture is not ready to adopt obesity as the disease.”\nUnpleasant side effects\nLet’s say you’re one of the lucky ones – Wegovy is covered by your insurance, and you can actually find some. You may discover that using it is not a walk in the park. Common side effects include gastrointestinal problems such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.\n“The way we counter that is by starting very slowly on a low dose of these medications,” Abovian says. “We only go up when the patient is no longer feeling sick or getting better.”\nElise Davenport was excited to try Wegovy. “I did my research online. I’m kind of into early adopters, tech gadgets and stuff,” says the 40-year-old tech writer. “I wanted to give it a try because I’ve tried so many other things that either failed, or didn’t work in the long run.”\nWith a BMI over 30, Davenport qualified for the drug. I signed up for an online program that guaranteed insurance coverage and started taking it in October 2021. At first, the side effects were mild, just a touch of nausea and diarrhea. The results were impressive. I found it easy to feel satisfied with smaller portions and lost cravings for sugar and processed foods. Weight decreased, approximately 5 pounds per week.\nIt turns out that this is too much, too fast. With close monitoring, Abovian and Velasquez say their patients lose more than 2 pounds each week.\nBy early December, Davenport’s side effects were increasing. Due to a shortage of lower doses, the online program was unable to adjust them immediately. She was feeling nauseous the whole time, a feeling so bad that brushing her teeth made her vomit and she had to force herself to eat. Some weeks, I managed under 500 calories a day. Her sleep patterns became erratic. Then her depression, which had been kept under control for years by medication, escalated.\n“I remember sitting on my bathroom floor crying, thinking I’d rather hold the extra weight,” she says. “I used to enjoy food a lot, and I don’t have anything like that anymore. It was quite a fun experience at that point.”\nEventually, her dose was reduced and her symptoms eased, but her primary care physician encouraged her to stop. By the time she did, in March, she had lost 55 pounds. To date, I have recovered almost 10 years.\nMore than just losing weight\nEven though Davenport’s experience wasn’t as good, with better observation she’ll be willing to try again. For one thing, seeing how easy it was to eat less with medical help helped undo years of shame.\nOur culture treats obesity as a moral failure. I realized I was made to feel this way by doctors and programs — because I wasn’t doing enough,” she says. “This medication made me realize that there were legitimate physiological things going on in my body, things that often get left out of conversation.”\nAbovian and Velasquez say their patients regularly discover similar things.\n“Obesity is not a disease of willpower. Medications are not the easy way out,” says Velazquez. “This is a chronic, relapsing medical condition, and because of that, we have to treat it how we treat diabetes, high blood pressure, and all these other conditions. We will never stop medication for individuals with high blood pressure, and tell them to work on willpower and stop medications they qualify for.”", "label": "Yes"}
{"text": "Here's what people have asked and answered about working for and interviewing at Kennelwood Pet Resorts.\nAsked April 5, 2019\nTeir running the good employees out and coddling the terrible ones. They do not treat anyone fair. They are in it for the profit. And employees that know what's going on at corporate are saying 5-10 years before they close for good.\nAnswered April 5, 2019", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Consumers are going gaga over hemp being used in many new products, many not realizing that much of American society was built upon the industry before marijuana was criminalized in order to spread hatred and fear of Mexican people in the United States. It's great that it's gaining so much public support, but as many people have said, those incarcerated for selling it need to be freed before the rich should be able to profit off of it.\nStill, finding out that companies like Levi are creating new sustainable lines of clothing, like these hemp ones, is exciting for anyone who cares about the planet. Hemp is so much more sustainable than cotton, not to mention easier to grow and faster to replace. Imagine if we'd been using it all along! Even though many smaller companies have been using hemp in everything from pants to checkbook covers for many years, it's still very exciting to see it being used by mainstream companies.\nWhere do you buy your sustainable clothing? Share your favorite sellers in the chat.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Library Home | Reset filters\nSelect one or more filter options and click search below.\nThis technical brief highlights the emerging evidence on the impacts of COVID-19 on fertility. It provides a historical overview on fertility in times of crises, data on reproductive behaviour during COVID-19 in countries throughout Europe and North America, as well as new data from four UNFPA programme countries. The technical brief highlights the crucial importance of classifying sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services as “essential services” during the pandemic, and underscores the responsibility of governments to assure that all persons can exercise their reproductive rights, even during a global pandemic. Lastly, the brief warns not to resort to population alarmism in response to short-term changes in fertility caused by COVID-19, but to ensure the provision of SRH services at all times.\nThis action brief summarizes the latest status and trends of key areas related to women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and well-being from a global perspective. It aims to promote coordinated action among global and national partners to recognize and overcome the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women, children and adolescents and to accelerate progress to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Rise, Respond, Recover is an update to Protect the Progress: 2020 progress report on Every Woman Every Child Global Strategy for Women’s, Childrens’ and Adolescents’ Health (September 2020), capturing key evidence points presented in May 2021 to the World Health Assembly as well as top priorities and activities among partners.\nCirenia Chávez; Marco Valenza; Annika Rigole; Thomas Dreesen\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted every aspect of society. In mid-April 2020, 192 countries had closed their schools, putting 9 out of 10 enrolled children out of school.\nThese closures disproportionately affected marginalized children, worsening existing inequities across education systems worldwide.\nThis brief draws on the experience of five UNICEF education country programmes supported by the Let Us Learn (LUL) initiative, to document tangible lessons in adapting education programmes to support the most marginalized children during school and learning centre closures.\nThe evidence in this brief stems from a series of semi-structured interviews with Education and Child Protection specialists, as well as a document review of available COVID-19 response studies, in the five LUL-supported UNICEF Country Offices.\nDita Nugroho; Youngkwang Jeon; Akito Kamei; Florencia Lopez Boo\nThis paper presents a new estimate that pre-primary school closures in 2020 may cost today’s young children US$1.6 trillion in lost earnings over their lifetimes. Children in middle-income countries will be most greatly affected. However, most low- and middle- income countries are leaving pre-primary education out of their responses to COVID-19. This paper also draws lessons from evaluations of accelerated, bridging and remedial programmes on how introducing or expanding these transition programmes in the early years can mitigate the long-term impact on learning from pre-primary school closures.\nSowmyashree M. Kaku\nThe purpose of this brief is to summarize current evidence and guidance for maintaining safe and effective care across the spectrum of maternal, newborn and infant care while protecting mother and child and health care providers during COVID-19. Furthermore, we review implications of the principle of “do no harm” for maternal, newborn and infant care delivery during COVID-19, so that this information is conveniently and readily available to clinical and health system policy leaders and stakeholders in countries and communities. Additionally, considerations for safe oxygen delivery as well as key Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures at home and in healthcare facilities for pregnant women, newborns and children are described in detail later in the brief.\nHai-Anh Dang; Gbemisola Oseni; Alberto Zezza\nFelicity Aiano; Anna A. Mensah; Kelsey McOwat (et al.)\nLaura De Nardi; Giuseppe Abbracciavento; Giorgio Cozzi (et al.)\nAdolescents with mental health disorders are a high‐risk population, and problems during COVID‐19 lockdowns have included increasing, widespread anxiety, fear, anger and uncertainty. Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) is characterised by disproportionate thoughts, feelings and behaviours about physical symptoms associated with the distress and disruption of everyday functioning. SSD accounts for 15%–25% of adolescent mental health cases in primary care paediatric settings, and 8.6% of non‐traumatic adolescent pain in emergency departments. This cross‐sectional observational study evaluated how the Italian COVID‐19 lockdown, from 9 March to 4 May 2020, affected Italian adolescents aged 13–18 with and without SSD.\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused the largest disruption of education in history. Throughout 2020 most governments around the world temporarily closed schools and other learning spaces in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus. At the peak of the pandemic in April 2020, schooling was disrupted for over 1.5 billion learners in more than 190 countries. This unprecedented disruption to education has the potential to roll back substantial gains made on girls’ education inrecent decades, with broader immediate and longer-term effects on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, including those related to poverty reduction, health and well-being, inclusive quality education and gender equality.\nHalil Celik; Sadettin Burak Acikel; Fatih Mehmet Akif Ozdemir (et al.)\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated an existing learning crisis in Sierra Leone, and has disrupted the learning of over 2.4 million children across the country. The most marginalised and deprived children, including girls, children from poor households, and children from rural areas, already had limited access to good quality education prior to the pandemic, and are now at an increased risk of being left behind, and not returning to school at all. Save the Children are calling on the Government of Sierra Leone to commit to realising the right to quality education for all children by ensuring that all children are able to return to school safely, and that long-term, systemic issues with the education system damaging the quality of learning are acted on to ensure that all children are able to access good quality education.\nTom Bailey; Richard P. Hastings; V. Totsika\nUNICEF Innocenti's Children and COVID-19 Library is a database collecting research from around the world on COVID-19 and its impacts on children and adolescents.\nSubscribe to updates on new research about COVID-19 & children\nCheck our quarterly thematic digests on children and COVID-19\nCOVID-19 & Children: Rapid Research Response", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Your cart has expired\nYour order contained expired items and your shopping cart has been emptied.\nNEW Subscriber Packages\nIf you are a renewing subscriber, please visit our renewal page HERE.\n2019-2020 Sunday Beethoven Complete Series Parking\n- Sunday, March 22, 2020 2:00 PM , Parking: Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto\n- Sunday, April 5, 2020 2:00 PM , Parking: Midori Plays Dvorák\n- Sunday, April 19, 2020 2:00 PM , Parking: Beethoven's Fifth\n- Sunday, May 31, 2020 2:00 PM , Beethoven's \"Pastoral\"\n- Sunday, June 7, 2020 2:00 PM , Parking: Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Tree of Dreams\n- Sunday, June 21, 2020 2:00 PM , Parking: Ode to Joy: Beethoven's Ninth\nThis package is presently not on sale.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The pedal P11 is a modern suspended pedal with a clean design that withstands the toughest conditions. Since Caldaro launched the P09 three years ago, pedal design can never go back to what it was before. Soon customers got in touch, asking them to create a wall-mounted version of P09.\nWe started out trying to do just that”, says Claudio Talamo, CEO of Caldaro, ”but we quickly realised that this pedal needed a new design.”\nThey found a way to create a suspended pedal with a totally new look but keeping the smart features from the P09, such as a minimal number of components and protected electronics in a compact design. The result is the P11, a modern pedal made of aluminium that withstands the toughest conditions.\nBy now, thousands of P09 pedals have been tested in all kinds of challenging environments, so to use the smart construction concept once more in the P11 is done with high confidence.\n“The solution is so unique that we have applied for Intellectual Property Protection”, says Claudio proudly. ”We care intensely about design, and it matters that all our products are well-thought-out. It also makes it easier for machine designers to implement our pedal into their designs. Design and function are one.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Request for Proposals open to professional consultants, academics, survey designers, sociologists, urban planning, public policy, and planning researchers residing in the County of Los Angeles.\nThe City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Office, in partnership with Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), is seeking a consultant team to develop a process evaluation, community engagement strategy, and facilitate listening sessions to determine if and how the city should create a permanent Covid-19 Memorial, and garner community feedback on the form(s) and site(s) for a Memorial. Before the city can begin to envision constructing a permanent representation of the effects of Covid19 on Angelenos, it is important for communities to heal, beginning with the need for personal reflection and contemplation. Thus, the focused attention during the first phase of this initiative shall address three key themes: Honor, Remember and Mobilize. Honor the loss of ordinary citizens and city workers; Remember and ameliorate the grief and disruptions to our lives and livelihoods; and mobilize solidarity amongst Angelenos to come together to rebuild communities. The Consultant, under the oversight of Mayor’s Office, shall work with the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), representatives from other city departments, and other relevant stakeholders as needed to accomplish the Scope of Work. While most memorials mark a specific event or person, a permanent Covid-19 memorial will be the first citywide memorial that specifically recognizes the pandemic as an event that every Angeleno experienced simultaneously and collectively, albeit differently, and how memorializing this moment will shape our civic identity in the future.\nSubmit your proposal to Felicia Filer via email: email@example.com.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "top of page\nPatrick Overton currently serves as Director of the Front Porch Institute located in Boonville, Missouri.\nThe Institute was created in 1996, while he was an associate professor of Community & Cultural Studies at Columbia College and served as director of the Columbia College Center for Community & Cultural Studies. He has continued the work of the Front Porch Institute after leaving his teaching position in 1999.\nbottom of page", "label": "No"}
{"text": "As many as 182 million U.S. Internet users watched 38.7 billion online content videos in 2013. That should be a wakeup call for retail marketers that have not yet implemented a video strategy.\nBut many have gotten the message. Eastern Mountain Sports, for one, has seen a staggering 77% increase in online video viewing over the past year. And Brookstone has seen a significant increase in conversion by bringing its video production in-house.\nThis White Paper guides retailers through the video commerce process, via 5 key steps. To learn more, fill out the form below to download the asset, titled: 5 Steps To Video Commerce Success: Choosing The Components That Will Drive Increased Conversions.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Discovering the Genius Behind DNA: Francis Crick\nOh man, have you heard about Francis Crick? He’s the OG of molecular biology, the mastermind behind the discovery of the structure of DNA. This guy was a straight-up genius, with a mind like a steel trap and a passion for science that was unmatched. If you’re into biology or just love learning about brilliant minds, then you’re in for a treat with this dude.\nSo, let’s start from the beginning. Francis Harry Compton Crick was born on June 8th, 1916, in Northampton, England. He was the eldest of four children and grew up in a pretty normal household. However, he was always curious about the world around him and had a particular interest in science. He studied physics at University College London, but it wasn’t until he met James Watson that he really found his calling.\nWatson and Crick met in 1951 when they were both working at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. They were both trying to solve the mystery of DNA, which was still largely unknown at the time. For years, scientists had been trying to figure out the structure of DNA, but it was Crick and Watson who finally cracked the code.\nTheir discovery was groundbreaking. They found that DNA was made up of two strands that twisted around each other in a double helix shape. This discovery not only helped scientists understand how DNA worked, but it also paved the way for modern genetics and biotechnology. It’s safe to say that without Crick and Watson, the world of science would look very different today.\nBut Crick’s contributions to science didn’t stop there. After their discovery of DNA, Crick went on to work on a number of other projects. He was particularly interested in the workings of the brain and spent years researching how neurons communicate with each other. He even co-authored a book on the subject called “The Astonishing Hypothesis,” which explored the idea that all of our thoughts and emotions can be explained by the physical workings of our brains.\nDespite his many accomplishments, Crick was known for his humility and his willingness to collaborate with others. He was always eager to learn and work with other scientists, and he believed that the best way to make progress in science was through teamwork and cooperation.\nSadly, Crick passed away in 2004 at the age of 88. But his legacy lives on. He was a true pioneer in the field of molecular biology, and his contributions have helped shape the way we understand the world around us. From his humble beginnings in Northampton to his groundbreaking research at the Cavendish Laboratory, Crick was a true genius who will always be remembered as one of the greatest minds in science.\nIn conclusion, Francis Crick was a bona fide legend in the world of science. His discovery of the structure of DNA was a game-changer, and his work in neuroscience has helped us understand the inner workings of the brain. But perhaps most importantly, Crick was a collaborator and a team player who believed that science was a collective effort. His legacy will continue to inspire generations of scientists to come, and we can only hope that we’ll see more minds like his in the future.\nUnraveling the Enigmatic Legacy of Francis Crick\nFrancis Crick was a brilliant scientist, best known for his work in the discovery of the structure of DNA. However, his career was not without controversy. Here are some of the most notable controversies associated with Francis Crick:\n1. The race for the discovery of DNA: One of the biggest controversies associated with Crick was the race for the discovery of DNA. Crick, along with his colleague James Watson, is credited with discovering the structure of DNA. However, there were many other scientists who were also working on this problem, including Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins. Some have argued that Franklin was not given the recognition she deserved for her work, and that Crick and Watson used her data without her permission. This controversy has been the subject of much debate over the years.\n2. Ethics of research: Crick was involved in a number of controversial research projects throughout his career. One of the most notable was his work on consciousness and the brain. Crick believed that consciousness could be explained by the workings of the brain, and he conducted research on this topic using animals. Some have criticized his methods as being unethical, arguing that they caused unnecessary harm to animals.\n3. Views on race and intelligence: Crick was known for his controversial views on race and intelligence. He believed that intelligence was largely determined by genetics, and that different races had different levels of intelligence. He also supported the idea of eugenics, which involves improving the genetic quality of the human population through selective breeding. These views have been widely criticized as being racist and unscientific.\n4. Use of LSD: In the 1960s, Crick became interested in the use of LSD as a tool for understanding the brain. He and his colleagues conducted experiments on themselves, taking LSD and observing its effects. This was a controversial approach, and some have criticized Crick for promoting drug use.\nDespite these controversies, Crick is still widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century. His work on the structure of DNA has had a profound impact on the fields of biology and genetics, and his contributions to our understanding of the brain continue to be studied today.\nUnveiling the Uncommon: Francis Crick’s Lesser-Known Life\nFrancis Crick was born on June 8, 1916, in Northampton, England.\n– He studied physics at University College, London before switching to biology.\n– During World War II, he worked as a scientist for the British Admiralty, where he helped develop magnetic mines and radar systems.\n– In 1951, Crick met James Watson, and together they worked on discovering the structure of DNA.\n– The discovery of the double helix structure of DNA in 1953 was the result of their collaboration.\n– Crick and Watson’s work on DNA structure won them the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962.\n– Crick was also interested in the brain and consciousness and wrote a book called “The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul” in 1994.\n– He was a supporter of the idea that life on Earth could have originated from extraterrestrial sources.\n– Crick was a heavy smoker and died of colon cancer on July 28, 2004, at the age of 88.\n– He was known for his eccentricities, including his love of crossword puzzles and his habit of cycling to work every day.\nTags: Biophysics, Cambridge, CentralDogma, Consciousness, DNA, DoubleHelix, Evolution.Remembertochoosetheonesthatfityourcontentthebestandavoidkeywordstuffing., GeneticCode, geneticengineering, Genetics, HumanGenome, molecularbiology, moleculargenetics, molecularstructure, Neurosciences, NobelPrize, RNA, Sure!Hereare20keywordsrelatedtoFrancisCrickthatyoucanuseforyourmetakeywordstag:FrancisCrick, WatsonandCrick, X-raycrystallographyTweet", "label": "No"}
{"text": "UPDATE: This restaurant is now closed.\nIt’s no secret Alimentum went through a rough patch but despite losing their Michelin star last year and chef Mark Poynton recently leaving for pastures new, there is an already great team in place taking the restaurant forward. Run by Maxwell Allwood (Head Sommelier), John Moss (General Manager) and Samira Effa (Head Chef), Alimentum has seen some positive changes to the menu and service. A more relaxed service and a changing menu – featuring seasonal dishes executed with minimum fuss or alteration – are taking Alimentum to its next chapter.\nAlimentum is a restaurant in transition but they are doing everything right. The whole team – each and every person working at Alimentum – is enthusiastic about the place. This was reflected in the magnificent food and service we received when we went for dinner. Samira Effa has risen to the challenge and there’s no doubt there are talented chefs in the kitchen.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Cameron Boyce‘s dad posted this nice photo of himself and Cameron in their seats at Staples Center today (January 27, 2013) getting ready to watch the Los Angeles Lakers play the Oklahoma City Thunder.\nAlong with his photo, Mr. Boyce wrote:\nWe’ up in here! #GoLakers #StaplesCenter #beatOKC\nLet’s go Lakers!! Need a win!!! 🙂", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Thursday 20 November 2014\nFrom 3.30pm, Town Square, High Street, Slough\n(Switch on and fireworks at 6pm)\nKick off Christmas with:\n- dance by Creative Academy\n- dance from Lara's Bollywood dancers\n- music from Country and Rock band \"One for the Road\"\n- and, of course, Santa!\nPlus your chance to be our star for the evening and win hundreds of pounds worth of prizes including:\n- a new smart phone from HTC\n- an Amazon Kindle Fire\n- perfume from the Fragrance Shop\n- vouchers from M&S\n- three months gym membership from easyGym\n- and much, much more...\nThe event starts at 3.30pm with fireworks and light switch-on at 6pm. You've got to be there to win!\nOur thanks go to these local businesses and retailers for generously donating prizes.\n- The Fragrance Shop", "label": "No"}
{"text": "24.99 Pre Order\nAfter playing 4 quarters of hard-fought football games, the Massillon Tiger football team gathered in a circle at the center of every football field they played on in 2019 to do 15 pushups—a pushup for every game it would take to lead them to the State Championship game. The mantra for the season became: 15 for 15. Each pushup is represented as a chapter in this book and a different piece of the puzzle that explains the football town of Massillon, Ohio. In this dramatic and entertaining book, Author and Tiger running back coach, David Lee Morgan, Jr. shares stories that offer a unique and unequaled perspective into the 2019 season and the Tigers’ quest for that elusive state championship. The Massillon Tiger football program isn’t a typical high school football program. It’s a ministry of football with the first season dating back to 1894. The Massillon Tigers: 15 for 15 is the powerful tale of one of the most storied high school football programs anywhere in the country and their magical 2019 season, as told by an award-winning author and journalist who enjoyed unlimited access to the players, coaches, and families through his role as the running backs coach.\n|Publisher:||Fayetteville Mafia Press|\n|Product dimensions:||6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)|\nAbout the Author\nAuthor and award-winning journalist and sportswriter David Lee Morgan, Jr., teaches English and Creative Writing at Massillon Washington High School. He is the author of seven books. Jim Tressel is an American college football coach and university administrator who is currently the president of Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Time to pay up at the age of 43\nHer Brothers headline comes a 90-day span after her Birthday.\n6*6*6=216, Did she sell her soul and make a sacrifice?\n187 is the National Murder Code. Her brother is Wayne Knuckles.\nThe death happened on 11/22. 83 days after her Birthday", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Posted by Cindy on Jan 14, 2002 at 11:47\nI read in some sites that no advancement has been made in the last 10 years on cold fusion energy.10 years ago, there was alot of hype on the possibilities of cold fusion, but some now say that maybe there is a possibility that we wont gain new knowledge and that cold fusion research is hitting at a dead end. ???\n- Re: Most scientist believe that there was never really any cold fusion.. Ben 16/1 00:59 (0)\n- Re: Fusion DA Morgan 15/1 01:04 (0)\n- Re: Fusion Andy™ 14/1 14:26 (0)\nPost a Followup", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In the dynamic landscape of the digital age, two groundbreaking technologies have risen to prominence, revolutionizing the way we perceive and transact value: Ethereum and Bitcoin.\nAs we delve into the depths of programmable money, it becomes apparent that these two cryptocurrencies stand as pioneers in this revolutionary era.\nWelcome to a journey through the intricate web of Ethereum and Bitcoin, where we explore their origins, functionalities, and the profound impact they’ve had on the financial landscape.\nAs the landscape of programmable money evolves, platforms like IMMEDIATE-MOMENTUM.IO play an instrumental role in guiding users through the intricacies of Ethereum and Bitcoin trading.\nUnveiling the Genesis of Programmable Money\nThe Emergence of Bitcoin: A Paradigm Shift in Finance\nIn the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, an enigmatic figure known as Satoshi Nakamoto introduced the world to Bitcoin.\nServing as a decentralized digital currency, Bitcoin was designed to challenge the traditional financial system’s centralization and intermediaries. With a fixed supply of 21 million coins, Bitcoin’s scarcity became its hallmark, establishing a store of value akin to digital gold.\nEthereum’s Ascent: Turning Dreams into Code\nWhile Bitcoin disrupted conventional currency, Ethereum, conceived by Vitalik Buterin, went beyond to pioneer smart contracts and decentralized applications (DApps).\nEthereum’s innovative blockchain introduced programmability, allowing developers to create and deploy self-executing contracts, thus shaping the foundation of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.\nEthereum’s native cryptocurrency, Ether (ETH), serves as both a digital currency and a fuel for executing smart contracts.\nDiving into the Mechanics: How Ethereum and Bitcoin Operate\nBitcoin’s Proof of Work: Mining for Digital Gold\nBitcoin operates on a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism, where miners compete to solve complex mathematical puzzles to validate transactions and secure the network. This energy-intensive process ensures the network’s security and transaction immutability.\nWhile PoW guarantees security, it has raised concerns about environmental sustainability due to its energy consumption.\nEthereum’s Transition to Proof of Stake: A Greener Future\nIn contrast, Ethereum is undergoing a significant upgrade from PoW to proof-of-stake (PoS) with Ethereum 2.0.\nThis transition aims to enhance scalability and reduce energy consumption by allowing validators to secure the network based on the number of coins they hold and are willing to “stake” as collateral.\nThis evolution aligns with the growing global emphasis on sustainability and energy efficiency.\nEmpowering Financial Innovation: Use Cases and Impact\nDeFi: Revolutionizing Traditional Finance\nEthereum’s programmability paved the way for the DeFi movement, reshaping financial services and enabling users to engage in lending, borrowing, and trading without intermediaries.\nSmart contracts automate processes, ensuring transparency and reducing the risk of fraud. Platforms like Uniswap, Compound, and Aave have gained traction, redefining how individuals interact with money.\nNon-Fungible Tokens (NFTs): Digital Ownership Redefined\nAnother groundbreaking application of Ethereum’s programmability lies in non-fungible tokens (NFTs). These unique digital assets represent ownership of digital or physical items, such as art, collectibles, and virtual real estate.\nNFTs have captured the art and entertainment industries, providing creators with direct monetization and ownership solutions.\nInteroperability and Beyond: Ethereum’s Influence\nEthereum’s impact extends beyond its own ecosystem. Its versatility has led to the development of bridges and protocols that facilitate interoperability between different blockchains.\nThis interconnectedness promotes collaboration and innovation, fostering a more inclusive and seamless blockchain landscape.\nChallenges and Future Prospects: Navigating the Road Ahead\nScalability Woes: Ethereum’s Struggle\nEthereum’s success has also highlighted its scalability challenges.\nAs demand surges, the network often experiences congestion, resulting in high transaction fees and slower processing times. Ethereum 2.0’s PoS upgrade aims to mitigate these issues, but the journey towards a fully scalable solution is ongoing.\nRegulatory Scrutiny: Navigating the Legal Landscape\nBoth Ethereum and Bitcoin have come under regulatory scrutiny across different jurisdictions. This heightened attention from regulators can be attributed to the dynamic characteristics of cryptocurrencies and their potential to impact established financial systems.\nConsequently, regulatory bodies are actively engaged in developing comprehensive frameworks that aim to harmonize the drive for innovation with safeguarding consumers and maintaining financial stability.\nIn Conclusion: Shaping the Future of Finance\nIn the era of programmable money, Ethereum and Bitcoin have emerged as trailblazers, contributing a unique and invaluable facet to the evolving landscape of digital finance.\nWhile Bitcoin disrupted traditional currency, Ethereum introduced the world to programmability, sparking a wave of innovation that transcends financial boundaries.\nAs the journey continues, these pioneers pave the way for a more inclusive, efficient, and decentralized financial future.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Native wild animals have the least impact on ecosystems. While cattle plod along in line with one another, bison dance their own unique steps across the landscape, and don’t develop deep rutted grooves that can erode soil like cattle do. As toxic invasive species invade rangeland and can no longer be controlled, domestic cattle are less likely to be able to cope. So let’s bring the bison back now, so our descendants can once again hunt them on horseback a century (or less) from now.\nWe should restore all wildlife where ever possible including urban back yards. It’s time, past time, for a paradigm shift whereas before we felt the power and pressure to cut and tame nature to our ideas of what a proper backyard should look like to now where we cultivate and nurture nature to take the upper hand.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Smartvend started its operations in January 2014 serving Placer and Sacramento county. A division of Canonigo Enterprise, Smartvend is engaged in retail vending of snacks and beverages. Smartvend advocates healthy options which is why part of our menu are hundreds of healthy choices. Superior customer service is the core of our operations. That's why Smartvend ulitilizes only the latest technology in automated retail. Reducing the hassles for consumers and location managers/owners. Smartvend is locally owned and operated. consumers and locations can be assured of personalized and quick service response 24/7.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "- This event has passed.\nQuarterly Rock Island Meeting\nNovember 23, 2020 @ 8:30 am - 5:00 pm\nAs a health precaution, meeting will be conducted via video conferencing. Please email comments or questions before the scheduled meeting to firstname.lastname@example.org. We are livestreaming the member comment period of the board meeting at: https://www.facebook.com/orcaspower", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Paige’s personal email address, firstname.lastname@example.org is currently closed due to various legal challenges that he’s embroiled in.\nPaige can be contacted at email@example.com or at his office, directly, at 651-433-4554. For more conventional readers, anthrax and mail bombs can be sent to:\n14363 Oren Road\nScandia, MN 55073", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Birthplace: Delhi, India\nRace or Ethnicity: Asian/Indian\nSexual orientation: Straight\nOccupation: Head of State\nExecutive summary: President of Pakistan, 2001-08\nPervez Musharraf began his military career in 1964, commanding artillery and infantry brigades. He climbed through the ranks, leading various commando units, and eventually was named the #2 position in the Army's high command. In 1998, his commanding officer publicly called for the army to be more involved in the country's political decision-making process, and was forced to resign two days later. Musharraf was then promoted to his nation's highest military position. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif believed that Musharraf posed no political threat, because Musharraf had been raised speaking Urdu, while most of Pakistan's military officers are Punjabi. Musharraf rose above such ethnic limitations when he ousted Sharif in a 1999 bloodless coup. In July 2001, just before a summit with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Musharraf announced that he was now President. In 2002, a national referendum was held to approve Musharraf's role as president. In 2004, he won \"votes of confidence\" in both houses of Parliament and in Pakistan's four provincial assemblies.\nMusharraf is a moderate dictator, and though he seized power instead of running for office, his rule seems to be accepted by most Pakistanis. Fundamentalist groups have been banned, but the press remains free and open elections are allowed (for lesser offices than President). He has overseen increased tensions with India, and it has become fairly commonplace to hear threats of war and annihilation between the two neighboring nuclear-armed nations.\nAfter the terror attacks on America in September 2001, Musharraf was offered large U.S. aid packages in exchange for breaking ties with Afghanistan's Taliban. In exchange for additional aid, Pakistan provided some logistical support for America's war against that nation and, later, against Iraq. Another favor extended at this time was permitting intelligence chief Mahmoud Ahmad to retire quietly, despite his involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Ahmad had paid Mohammed Atta $100,000 of Pakistani government money.\nThe war in Afghanistan has not proven popular in Pakistan, a nation 97% Muslim and the world's sixth most populous overall. Many of its Muslims supported the Taliban and opposed the U.S. attacks, and sectarian violence is a growing problem in remote parts of Pakistan. There have been several assassination attempts against Musharraf, including a bomb on 14 December 2003, and two suicide bombers on 25 December 2003. The latter attack killed 16 people nearby, but not its target. Islamic terrorist Amjad Hussain Farooqi is suspected of being the mastermind behind these attempts, and there has since been an extensive manhunt for him.\nIn 2002, Musharraf enacted the Legal Framework Order (LFO), giving himself the absolute power to sack the prime minister and dissolve parliament, and formalizing his position as both head of the army and head of state. The opposition considers the LFO unconstitutional and not legally binding, not having been approved by parliament. He promised to step down in 2003, but dawdled continually, eventually ceding the role of military chief in 2007, and that of president in 2008.\nFather: Syed Musharaff-ud-Din (diplomat, d.)\nMother: Begum Zarrin Musharraf (labor activist)\nBrother: Naved Musharraf (doctor, lives in Chicago)\nWife: Sehba Musharraf (m. 28-Dec-1968)\nDaughter: Ayla (architect)\nSon: Bilal (hi-tech entrepreneur, lives in Boston)\nBrother: Javed Musharraf\nHigh School: Saint Patrick's High School, Karachi, Pakistan (1958)\nUniversity: Forman Christian College, Lahore, Pakistan\nUniversity: Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul, Pakistan\nPresident of Pakistan (2001-2008)\nAssassination Attempt 14-Dec-2003 at Rawalpindi (bomb exploded)\nAssassination Attempt 25-Dec-2003 (two suicide bombers, 16 others killed)\nAssassination Attempt 6-Jul-2007 (anti-aircraft attack on his plane)\nHouse Arrest (2013-)\nFILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR\nCountdown to Zero (25-Jan-2010) · Himself\nBhutto (21-Jan-2010) · Himself\nDo you know something we don't?\nSubmit a correction or make a comment about this profile\nCopyright ©2019 Soylent Communications", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Allegedly every instance of McCoy saying that.\nMy favorite has been “I”m a doctor, not an esclator!”\nTo say Mariah Carey throws like a girl would be an insult to girls everywhere.\nBy the way, according to WikiPedia, she’s 38. No 38 year old looks like that without severe surgery. Who does she think she’s kidding?\nGeorge Will has an excellent column on the subordination of Congress to the Presidency. He traces it through history and makes the important point that Congress’ relative lack of power and irrelevancy are largely its own fault. While it can only provide a cursory overview of the topic due to the length of a newspaper column, it’s still a worthy read and many would likely learn something from it.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "State Of Colorado Map\nLarge detailed map of Colorado with cities and roads Map of Colorado Cities Colorado Road Map.\nColorado State Maps | USA | Maps of Colorado (CO) Map of Colorado.\nMap of Colorado with cities and towns Colorado State Judicial Branch Courts District Map.\nDetailed location map of Colorado state. Colorado state detailed Amazon.: 54 x 44 Large Colorado State Wall Map Poster with .\nColorado State Map Colorado State Map With Cities | d1softball.net.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Oscar here for a bbq.\nLoving how my hair looks.\nTomato searching in the orchard overrun with weeds.\n3 Things, Bright Side Of Life\nBright Side Of Life\nYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *\nThis site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Black Panther did well to bring black representation to the big screen, and I was delighted to see men and women who look like me playing roles that weren't of the “thug” or “slave” variety. Black despondence nor dejection were on the menu for this film, and I am 100% here for it. I’m also here for the diversity this film brings to media and entertainment. As far as film productions go, Black Panther was quality all around, and I sincerely believe it is Oscar-worthy. It really was THAT good!\nBut as other moviegoers across social media have shared their feedback on the film these past few days, the hype has reached a level that has caused me concern for my people - my Family in Christ.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|In case you are new here, |\nthis should tip you off that this post is a Poe.\nPope Benedict XVI has announced his retirement on Monday to a group of cardinals. Citing ill health the 85 year old pontiff's last day as the Successor of St Peter is February 28th. The unexpected statement immediately caused disorder in the chamber. For centuries popes have held the office until death. The last pope to resign was in the 15th century. The pandemonium caused the rest of the pope's speech to go unnoticed.\nI leave the papacy at a difficult time. The true faith is besieged at all sides by Islam, same-sex marriage, and the rising costs of children's tears to use for holy water. However, my legacy for future generations of Catholics will be the weaponization of homosexuality.\nNewly revealed Papal documents show a secret alliance between the Holy See and various American evangelical groups. Over the 8 years of Pope Benedict's reign this alliance, known as the Empire of Christ or simply The Empire, has discovered the genetic switch that turns on homosexuality.\nResearchers at University of Ignorantia have discovered the genetic switch that turns on homosexuality in men and women. HOMO1 is the 'master regulator' gene that controls exactly which gender a person is attracted to. The big break through, however, is the role sin plays in activating this gene. Scientists at the faith-based school for Christ-centered learning have long suspected that the acquisition of sin in a person's body is directly related to the change from a natural heterosexual behavior to the unnatural homosexual state....At the time it was considered that the finding would offer opportunities for those stricken with homosexuality new treatment options. However, the unearthed papal documents expose the true purpose for the research: the making of the Gay Bomb. The Gay Bomb uses Listeria monocytogenes, a bacteria, to inject the catalyst that will turn on the homosexual genetic switch that all people have. The Empire has also been able to target the bio-weapon specifically to Arabs.\n\"Yes, that is our plan: We will turn the entire Arab demographic gay in order to defeat Islam.\" said an anonymous papal source. \"Not only will their population shrink, but there will be many who will fight against these sexual urges, and psychologically project their self-hatred onto their Islamic brothers and sisters, causing civil conflicts. It's a win-win situation for us.\"\nNews analysts, while surprised, are not totally taken aback with this news. Pope Benedict quoted a 15th century Byzantine emperor in 2006 concerning Islam \"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.\" While the pope has also fought tirelessly against same-sex marriage, that in itself has shown an strange fixation with what people do with their genitalia.\nPope Benedict has not commented directly on this newest scandal. However, rumor has it that he has signed a contract to be the new spokespope for Prada shoes.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "<<<NEW RELEASE>>>NEW RELEASE>>>NEW RELEASE>>>\nTaking the post-punk blueprint of bands like Joy Division and Magazine, the frozen intensity of early Banshees, and the art-school nihilism of the Velvet Underground to the Stooges, MORGELLONS have created a sound that has a relevance and urgency that marks them out as something different from their peers.\nThe first album ‘The Memory Of Echoes’ on Flicknife Records received extremely positive reviews, including a 9/10 rating in Vive Le Rock magazine.\nThe new album ‘Morgellons’ will be a benchmark in post-punk music, and a future rock classic. An indication that a genuinely original and exciting new band has arrived.\nQuote from Flicknife Records:\nMorgellons have delivered a fantastic new album, called ‘Morgellons’\nThis is not just us being biased: Gary Lee of Starship Overflow FM said “it was one of the best albums this year” while Bad Reception on Tumblr said: “With this album, Morgellons have established themselves as a band to watch, and they definitely have the potential to do remarkable things. You need this album. And you also need to see them live. I promise you, you’ll thank me for it”\nThe album tracks have already benefited from airplay on BBC Radio 6, BBC Radio Wales, Soho Radio, Croydon FM, Radio Woking and Australia’s Valley Parade FM, as well as various Internet radio shows.\nOpening track ‘Black Dog’ was voted #8 in Australia’s ‘Valley Parade FM’ indie charts.\nVincent Mahon – Vocals\nMark Geraghty – Bass\nJosh Pinto – Guitar\nMannie Zerafa – Drums", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Welcome to the Philosophy Department of the University of Geneva!\nThe University of Geneva's Philosophy Department is one of the most active departments in the Faculty of Humanities and the University more generally. It plays a major role in the revival of Philosophy in Switzerland.\nThe Department is a central partner of the Centre for Affective Sciences, one of the 20 National Centres for Competence in Research, and the Medicine Faculty'y Bio-medical Ethics Institute. It also fosters close collaboration with the nearby Universities of Fribourg, Lausanne and Neuchâtel in doctoral training, through the Western Switzerland Doctoral School in Philosophy.\nThe department welcomes new students and invites them to join our 'mailing list'.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "1st Father’s Day – Sohaila was still burping those sour breast milk burps. That was all the wrong she could do. But believe me. They were WRONG.\n2nd Father’s Day – Here is where Heather began a cool tradition of putting my current favorite hat on my kid. I’m not sure how Heather made her look like she was straight striking a propped up pose at 14 months. That’s my girl\n3rd Father’s Day – Hey looky there. Another kid.\n4th Father’s Day – Pimpin’ the Castro hats.\n5th Father’s Day – As my fashion goes, so the pictures go. I do wear one of these every day now.\nI told Heather I’m cool with the hat tradition thing as long as Father’s Day 17 does not look anything like this…", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Yumi Wilson is a tenured journalism professor at San Francisco State University and a former news reporter and editor. She is a recipient of a Fulbright grant and Knight-Wallace journalism fellowship. In 2013, she was chosen as one of the 12 smartest women of color on Twitter. She started attending JAWS in the early ’90s when she had just arrived at The San Francisco Chronicle, thanks to the urging of her then-colleague, Lisa Chung. Inspired by her first JAWS CAMP, where she met amazing women and sipped delightful wine against a gorgeous backdrop, she kept coming back to JAWS for years while working at newspapers.\nShe took a few years off from JAWS while seeking tenure at San Francisco State, but started coming back to CAMP, first to show folks how to optimize their brand on LinkedIn (2014), and then last year, to take part in the “Practicing Journalism while Female” session.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sherman County Clerk, a Clerk Office, in Goodland, KS 67735, address and phone number. Clerks provide information on public court records and legal documents, criminal, jail, and arrest records, marriage licenses, divorce, judicial, and probate records, businesses liens, notary services, real estate taxes and voter registration services.\n|Cheyenne County Clerk||St. Francis, KS|\n|Burlington City Clerk||Burlington, CO|\n|Kit Carson County Clerk||Burlington, CO|\n|Wallace County Clerk||Sharon Springs, KS|\n|Thomas County Clerk||Colby, KS|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "According to my, the possibility to work from home is probably one of the best innovations of the 21st century. Over the past 2 years, it became a standard for the reasons that we know and it is now time to analyze its impact beyond the operational aspects.\nAre companies really prepared for that and did they adapt their (recruitment) strategy accordingly? And do professionals/candidates realize what does it mean for them and their career, besides having a better work-life balance?\nI don’t think so and if you don’t take the right decision now, it might cause your business failure! And I am giving you my perspective, as a recruiter, on how to prevent this to happen.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "It’s never been more critical for Accounting to run continuously, efficiently, and collaboratively, no matter what happens. This is why midsize companies everywhere are re-evaluating their limited financial close systems and manual processes.\nAccounting and Finance switch to BlackLine because they recognize that their existing financial close software isn’t sustainable, especially when used in tandem with spreadsheets and manual processes. BlackLine helps organizations move to modern accounting by unifying their data and processes, automating repetitive work, and driving accountability through continuous visibility.\nThousands of the most successful fast-growing companies like GoodRx, Zendesk, Red Wing Shoes, and Big Ass Fans have already seen game-changing benefits and are far down the path to modern accounting.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.\nAsk an anonymous Marriage related question...\nPost a reply\n∘7 answers∘Last activity 12 days ago\nPoll ends tomorrow\nA pregnant mother gave birth to her child while trapped under rubble in the Afrin district of Syria's Aleppo governorate after a dea...\n∘4 answers∘Last activity 2 days ago\nHe says POS operators of Northern Muslim extraction have again shown why the average Northern Nigerian Muslim commoners are typicall...\n∘37 answers∘Last activity 2 days ago", "label": "No"}
{"text": "With the 2021 NFL Draft upon us, I wanted to look back at one of the most interesting draft-related stories in the last 30 years. And add a twist.\nFormer Florida State quarterback Charlie Ward won the Heisman Trophy in 1993 and led the Seminoles to a National Championship in the same season. After throwing for 3,032 yards and 27 touchdowns against just four interceptions and a QB rating of 157.8, Ward shifted his attention to basketball, where he averaged 10.5 points per game.\nThe ’93-’94 Seminoles basketball team didn’t have much success, as they ended the season seventh in the ACC. But as a result of his defensive tenacity and ability to orchestrate an offense from the point guard position, Ward began generating buzz as a first-round draft pick among NBA scouts. With his collegiate athletic career coming to a close, the two-sport star was clearly more accomplished on the gridiron than on the court. But with Ward honoring his commitment to be there for his basketball brethren in his senior season, his pro football dreams began to wither away.\nBefore the ‘94 NFL draft, Doug Williams (in ‘78) and Andre Ware (‘90) were the only two Black quarterbacks to be selected in the first round of the NFL draft. Ward was seemingly on his way to being the third, but, unfortunately, it never happened. Not only did he go unclaimed in Round 1 – Ward wasn’t drafted at all.\nHow did this happen?\nAs the draft neared, Ward was projected to be taken anywhere between rounds three and five in the ’94 NFL draft. It became clear that it made little sense for him to remain dedicated to a sport that would not commit itself to accurately evaluating and appraising his skill set. With the knowledge that he likely wouldn’t be taken where he should have, Ward attended workouts for NFL teams and a medical checkup in Indianapolis whilst sharpening his basketball tools. Ward’s willingness to keep his options open between basketball and football certainly gave some NFL teams pause.\nWard allegedly told NFL teams that he’d choose the NBA if he wasn’t a first-round pick. While this is the story NFL execs of that era tell when asked why Ward wasn’t drafted, others in Ward’s camp have stated otherwise. Regardless of Ward’s intent, the damage was done. Washington took quarterback Heath Shuler with the third pick, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected Trent Dilfer with the sixth pick. Meanwhile, Ward’s stock continued to take a beating due to his unwillingness to commit to a game that wouldn’t commit to him fully.\n“If he said football was what he’d have wanted to do, he’d have been drafted in the first two rounds,” then Vikings head coach Dennis Green told the AP after Ward went undrafted. The Vikings offered Ward a free agent contract to back up Warren Moon, who was, at the time, being backed up by Gino Torretta and Brad Johnson. Ward instead focused on the NBA Draft.\nIt wasn’t for lack of talent or “size” concerns that some outlets pointed to in Ward’s not being selected. Even Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Paul Hackett revealed to “Pro Football Weekly” that the Chiefs came close to taking Ward in the draft:\nGiven Hackett’s description of Ward and his favorable comparison to Joe Montana, one would think the Chiefs would have selected Ward in Round 1 instead of a running back who rushed for 3,218 yards and 12 touchdowns over a six-year career. According to Ward, Round 2 wasn’t at all where the Chiefs were planning on drafting him. In an interview with Dan Patrick in 2013, Ward revealed that the Chiefs reached out to him at a later draft stage.\nDespite being the better player, Ward would receive only a fraction of the attention heaped on Shuler during the pre-draft process. Ward didn’t do much to help his cause. When asked in January, before the Orange Bowl, which path he’d take, he replied, “It’s in the Lord’s hands.”\nIn February, Ward commented at the Davey O’Brien dinner, saying “there are other avenues” to playing in both the NFL and NBA. This heated speculation that he could play in the CFL or even turn to baseball — Ward, the AP pointed out, had recently been drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers. “It’s a possibility,” Ward said at the time. “If I decide to play baseball, I’ve already been drafted, so I have a team to go to.”\nWard spent the days before the NFL Draft participating in the Nike Desert Classic, a basketball showcase for college seniors. He told The San Bernardino County Sun that if he didn’t get drafted in the NFL, “I’ve had a great time, and that’s all I ask.” However, the same column featured a quote from Marty Blake, the NBA’s director of scouting at the time.\n“He is a very, very good basketball player,” Blake said of Ward’s performance at the Desert Classic. “The problem with Charlie is he’s an NBA prospect, but he has to decide where he’s going to go. Charlie has to take a look at football, too.”\nHis basketball coach at Florida State, Pat Kennedy, saw things from a different perspective than most, praising Ward for putting himself in position, “to be drafted by both” the NBA and NFL, and “see who wants him the most.”\nIn May of 1994, weeks after the draft, the AP ran an NFL notes piece with a section titled “Goodbye, Charlie.” In it, the AP bemoaned Ward’s fatal flaw: “telling the truth” — not declaring which sport he preferred. But they did bring up a clever solution to Ward’s conundrum, pointing out that he could play in the NBA for a year and still have a future in professional football, “particularly with Jacksonville and Carolina joining the NFL next year.”\nWard went on to be selected by the New York Knicks with the No.26 pick in the ’94 NBA draft and would sign for over $5 million. Ward made the only logical choice for him and his family, but that hasn’t stopped people like me from wondering what if the Chiefs would’ve selected Ward in Round 1 (or any round, really) as the heir apparent to Joe Montana. Is it possible that the ’94 NFL draft missed an opportunity to launch the career of its second African American Hall of Fame-worthy quarterback? I think so. Here’s how Ward’s NFL career would’ve played out as a member of the Kansas City Chiefs. Or, perhaps more importantly to many readers, as a member of your fantasy football team.\nCharlie Ward, NFL and fantasy football superstar, 1994-2003\nGiven that Joe Montana was still making plays for the Chiefs in his final season in the NFL, Ward would’ve likely spent the entire 1994 campaign holding the clipboard. In 1995, he would’ve been handed the keys to the offense after soaking up knowledge from one of the best quarterbacks ever to play the game.\n1995 would’ve been Ward’s first season as the Chief’s full-time starter, and while they didn’t have many playmaking threats on the flanks, they still had Hall of Fame running back Marcus Allen on the roster. If you know how cerebral Marshall Faulk is and how he helped Peyton Manning become a better quarterback as a rookie in Indianapolis, I believe Marcus Allen would’ve had the same effect on a young Charlie Ward, given Allen’s on-field smarts. Not only would Ward be learning from Allen, but Allen would’ve also seen more open space on the swing and angle routes due to defenders being overly concerned about Ward’s ability to make plays with his legs.\nChiefs quarterback Steve Bono posted 3,121 yards and 21 touchdowns against 10 interceptions in 1995, leading the team to a 13-3 record and an eventual 10-7 divisional-round loss to the Indianapolis Colts. If Ward were the QB in 1995, given his skill set and the weapons at his disposal, his stats would’ve probably looked something like this:\n|Year||Team||Games||Completions||Attempts||%||Pass Yds||Pass TDs|\nKansas City Chiefs\nAs for his rushing yards? 75 attempts for 560 yards (7.4 YPC) and six rushing TDs.\nI also have the Chiefs defeating the Colts and eventually falling to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Championship Game, with Ward at the helm. As a result of his impressive numbers and his ability to guide his team to a deep playoff run, Ward is selected to his first Pro Bowl and is joined by Drew Bledsoe, John Elway, and Dan Marino.\nDebates are sparked in fantasy football circles about Ward vs. Brett Favre as the better QB pick. Ward’s rushing prowess is giving him an extra 4-6 points per game, on top of great passing numbers.\nIn his third season, the Chiefs take a bit of a step back as their lack of talent on the perimeter finally catches up with them. Ward posts similar statistics to those that earned him a trip to the playoffs and the Pro Bowl a year before. Still, their defense’s inability to stop opposing offenses limits his possessions, as well as opportunities to build on last year’s success.\nRecognizing that the team needed to retool in the offseason and give Ward another weapon to throw to, the Chiefs brought in Andre (Bad Moon) Rison, who significantly upgraded the Chief’s passing game. The nine-year veteran hauled in 89 catches for 1,092 yards and seven touchdowns, becoming somewhat of a security blanket for Ward. In this season, the Chiefs go 13-3 for the second time in three seasons and defeat John Elway’s Broncos and then the Pittsburgh Steelers en route to facing the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XXXII.\nDespite Desmond Howard’s MVP performance, Ward steals the show, capping off an amazing season with 304 yards and two touchdowns through the air and 12 rushes for 95 yards and a score on the ground to secure a 34-24 victory over the Packers and MVP honors.\nHere at the halfway point in Ward’s career, the Chiefs double down on weapons for Ward and bring in Derrick Alexander and draft a former NCAA basketball player to play tight end for them. While Ward was equipped with new weapons, the team also adopted a new offensive philosophy, going from a West Coast offense to more of a vertical passing game. As a team, the Chiefs regress somewhat as they finish just 7-9 on the season, but Ward’s production is again among the NFL’s elite quarterbacks. Despite missing the playoffs, Ward puts together another 3,000-yard season with over 20 touchdowns, fewer than 10 interceptions, and at least 500 yards rushing. He is fantasy football gold and sparks debate about how early quarterbacks should be taken in drafts.\nWard is now becoming frustrated with his team’s inability to get to the playoffs consistently. Still, a couple of players allow him to remain hopeful that the team is in a position to make one final push for a title before he hangs up his cleats. Tony Gonzalez (the basketball player) has since turned into a Pro Bowler, and players like Priest Holmes and Dante Hall can make big plays for their team on any given down. Unfortunately, the talent at this juncture isn’t translating to wins, but with a little more patience and perseverance, another winning season may be just around the corner.\nWard plays the best season of his career, throwing for 4,106 yards and 27 touchdowns. At 32 years of age, he’s not quite as mobile, but he’s still able to put up 346 yards and 4 touchdowns on the ground while leading the Chiefs to a regular-season record of – you guessed it, 13-3. Ward and the Chiefs outgun and outrun Peyton Manning’s Colts in the divisional round of the playoffs by a score of 38-31, then breeze by Brady and the New England Patriots 24-14 to meet the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl XXXVIII.\nLate in Super Bowl XXXVIII, Jake Delhomme launches a 12-yard pass to Ricky Proehl to tie the game at 29. That’s when Ward displays Joe Cool-like traits former Chiefs offensive coordinator Paul Hackett felt he had upon entering the ’94 draft. Ward marches his team down the field and gets kicker Morten Andersen in position to win the game with a 41-yard field goal with just four seconds remaining. Anderson nails the kick with no time left, and Ward and the Chiefs win Super Bowl XXXVIII 32-29. Ward ends his career on top after claiming his second Super Bowl.\nCharlie Ward’s Would-Be NFL Numbers\n- Career Passing Yards 33,950\n- Touchdowns 268\n- Interceptions 76\n- Rushing Yards 4,725\n- Touchdowns 67\n- Fantasy titles won: Innumerable\n- 2X Super Bowl Champion\n- 2X Super Bowl MVP\n- 9X Pro Bowl\n- 3X All-Pro\nWatching Ward in college, I never thought football would lose such a great quarterback to basketball – but it happened. I and so many others have had to imagine what his career would’ve been like had he gotten a true opportunity to play quarterback in the NFL. Sadly, fantasy is all we have left, and while playing out his NFL career in my mind certainly helps, some wounds never heal. Not only did the NFL derail a potential Hall of Fame career, but they also robbed the fans of an opportunity to see a truly unique quarterback in his prime.\nThankfully, Ward had basketball to fall back on, but hopefully, current and future professional sports leagues learn from this cautionary tale and properly evaluates their incoming talent moving forward.\n(Top photo: Florida State / Collegiate Images via Getty Images)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Highlights on cable channels for tonight include the following:\n7 p.m. — “The Marine.” A recently discharged Marine chases diamond thieves who have his wife. John Cena, Robert Patrick. AMC\n7:30 p.m. — “Unstoppable.” A conductor and a veteran engineer race against the clock to stop an unmanned freight train before it reaches a city and causes a catastrophe. Denzel Washington, Chris Pine. FX\n8 p.m. — “V for Vendetta.” In a futuristic Britain, a mysterious man plots an explosive revolution that will demolish parliament and overthrow the corrupt government. Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving. Syfy\n8:30 p.m. — “He’s Just Not That Into You.” Several young women and men, from committed relationships and singles, try to understand the signals and the intentions of the other sex. Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Connelly. E!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Jaimie Nackan (TDJ News Corps)\nJaimie Nackan is currently studying media at the University of Guelph-Humber. She is a pianist and former ballet dancer, with further passions in literature, writing, and film. She was part of the National Ballet of Canada’s Emerging Arts Critics program and reviewed ballet and orchestra performances as a young writer. She is pursuing a career in critiquing the arts, while also working on her first novel.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Former Governor of Florida\nAchieving Excellence in Education\nFriday, March 23, 2012, 8:00 p.m.\nCollege Park Center, UT Arlington\nAudience Q&A to follow lecture.\nTickets for this event will be available beginning 10:00 a.m. on March 7, 2012.\nThis event has been rescheduled to begin at 8:00 p.m. (originally\nscheduled for 7:30 p.m.). The event will still take place on March 23.\nJeb Bush was the 43rd governor of Florida (1998-2007). He is the son\nof the 41st President of the United States, George H.W. Bush, and\nbrother of the 43rd President, George W. Bush. Before his terms as\ngovernor, Bush started The Foundation For Florida’s Future, a think tank\nmeant to influence public policy at the grassroots level. As governor,\nBush worked to improve Florida’s education system, protect its\nenvironment, and boost its economy. He now heads the Foundation for\nExcellence in Education, and his ideas on education reform are garnering\nBush’s appearance coincides\nwith the Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Symposium and is\nco-sponsored by the Office of the President, College of Liberal Arts, College\nof Education and Health Professions, School of Urban and Public Affairs and the\nOffice of Graduate Studies.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "(BPT) – Warmer weather means days spent in the backyard with barbecues, pool parties and neighborhood gatherings. This year, create a more satisfying and sustainable outdoor living space that you’ll feel extra good about by going “green.” With some expert advice, it’s easier than you think.\nHere are four easy tips from the experts at Trex to help homeowners transform the backyard into an eco-friendly escape.\nReduce, reuse, recycle\nGone are the days when it was difficult to find eco-friendly products constructed with sustainable manufacturing processes. Today, it’s easy being green, especially when it comes to outdoor living. Among the “greenest” products available for the home is composite decking. Case in point, in the past nine years, Trex – the world’s largest manufacturer of wood-alternative decking – has salvaged more than 2.9 billion pounds of plastic and wood scrap, keeping these materials from landfills and transforming them into beautiful, high-performance and sustainable outdoor living products made of more than 95 percent recycled materials.\nMaintaining a wood deck can be a chore with all that scrubbing, bleaching and staining – not to mention the work and harsh chemicals required to repair or replace weathered, splintered or deteriorated boards. Wood-alternative decking and railing is low maintenance and designed to withstand wear and tear from weather, outdoor furniture and foot traffic. High-performance composite decking offers superior durability and long-lasting good looks. Its exclusive composite formula brings together the best qualities of wood and plastic to create a superior alternative to wood, resulting in decks that require only a periodic cleaning with soap and water to stay looking and performing “like new” for years without sanding, staining or painting.\n“High-performance composite decking allows homeowners to create the dream outdoor living space they’ve always wanted while being mindful of the environment,” says Adam Zambanini, vice president of marketing for Trex. “We are extremely proud to offer a product that is as easy on the earth as it is to maintain.”\nDeck and landscape lighting are ideal for adding ambiance and safety to any outdoor space. For maximum energy efficiency, forego conventional lighting systems that use incandescent bulbs – which waste energy by producing heat as well as light – for more energy-efficient LED fixtures. For instance, fixtures featuring Cree LED components use 70 percent less energy than traditional incandescent lighting and deliver up to 40,000 hours of light, so homeowners can enjoy their outdoor spaces long after the sun goes down.\nFinish with eco-friendly furnishings\nRefresh your deck with sustainable and stylish all-weather outdoor furniture. Look for pieces made from durable composites or recycled steels. These materials are weather-resistant, ultra-durable and long-lasting. Composite furniture also is extremely eco-friendly made primarily from recycled polyethylene sourced from discarded plastics such as milk jugs. Like composite decking, composite furniture doesn’t require painting, staining or waterproofing to keep it looking like new for years to come.\nFor more information on the latest in “green” outdoor living products, visit www.trex.com.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The primary areas of focus of the Foundation are improving math and science\neducation and youth development. The Foundation and other corporate\ninitiatives also support programs focused on education and training, health\nservices, and cultural diversity.\nNote: We are not anticipating adding new partners for\n2007. Focus and funding for the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation for 2008 and\nbeyond has yet to be determined.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "THE alleged Highland Park shooter’s uncle recalled how his nephew “wore women’s clothes at least once in the past” after cops said he fled the parade carnage wearing a wig.\nRobert E. Crimo III is accused of firing 70 shots into a crowded parade and his uncle, Paul Crimo, told The Sun how he saw the 22-year-old dressed as a girl about a year ago and didn’t understand why.\n“I’m shocked … It’s too much to process,” Paul said from his car, بعد seventh person died as a result of the July 4 اطلاق الرصاص.\n“كانت هناك no warning signs. Nothing that I saw.”\nPaul said he didn’t know why Robert dressed as a woman and still doesn’t understand why he would open fire on a crowd of innocent bystanders.\nWhen asked if he had a message for anyone who was reading, he apologized to the families who were impacted.\nREAD MORE ON HIGHLAND PARK\n“I feel bad for all the families. My thoughts and prayers are with all the families,” هو قال.\n“I’m heartbroken for all of them. I’ll forever be heartbroken.”\nPaul added that he knew Robert had YouTube and social media accounts but didn’t know the content of what was on them.\nIt was announced by Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart that 22-year-old Crimo is now charged with seven counts of first-degree murder and will be facing “dozens” أكثر.\nالأكثر قراءة في الشمس\n“These are just the first of many charges filed against Mr. جريمة,” Rinehart said Tuesday evening.\n“We anticipate dozens more charges.”\nRinehart also said the seven counts of first-degree murder will lead to a mandatory life sentence, if convicted, without the possibility of parole.\n“We will seek the maximum sentence against this offender.”\nالاربعاء, Rinehart will ask a judge to hold Crimo without bail.\n“We must do everything we can to make sure that the horror that marked these streets never happens again.”\nGunshots rang out just 10 minutes after the start of a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, إلينوي – حول 25 miles north of Chicago.\nBeach chairs, baby strollers, backpacks, and blankets were found strewn across the parade grounds as revelers sought cover.\nHighland Park police believed the shooter scaled a ladder in an alley to access the roof of a business and then proceeded to open fire at parade-goers.\n“He was very discreet and very difficult to see,” Lake County Major Crimes Task Force spokesman Chris Covelli said.\nAuthorities recovered a “high-powered rifle” believed to have been used in the mass shooting.\nThe suspect’s motive appeared to be random, investigators said before they named Crimo as the person of interest.\n“By all means, عند هذه النقطة, this appears to be completely random,” Covelli said.\nThe Lake County coroner’s office said five victims, all adults, were declared dead at the scene, while a sixth victim died at a local hospital.\nTuesday afternoon, it was announced that a seventh person had died following the shooting.\nCrimo was captured following an hours-long manhunt after he allegedly opened fire at parade-goers on Monday.\nHe was arrested when cops hunted down the silver Honda Fit that he was driving – hours after the deadly sniper attack at the parade.\nFootage shared online shows the 22-year-old suspect being held down and cuffed by police just outside of Chicago.\nHe was seen with his face on the ground as cops swooped in on him.\nThe capture comes after the alleged gunman was spotted around 6.30 pm local time on Monday when officers tried to stop him – but he sped away, prompting a brief pursuit before he came to a stop.\nHe was taken into custody “without incident” and charges are pending as police continue to investigate.\nThe FBI put out an alert about Crimo, detailing his appearance and tattoos as they appealed for information.\nCrimo posted videos on a YouTube channel that has since been terminated due to violating community guidelines.\nSeveral of these videos contained music created by him, along with disturbing videos to accompany the tracks.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The digital landscape has evolved unprecedentedly, significantly impacting the entertainment industry. This transformation is particularly evident in online casinos, focusing on slot games, which have grown in popularity.\nAs technology advances, so does the demand for high-quality, responsive, and reliable online gaming experiences. This article delves into the role of cloud technology in shaping the present and future of digital gaming.\nThe Essence of Cloud Technology\nAt its core, cloud technology involves delivering computing services over the internet. These services encompass many functionalities, including storage, processing, networking, and more. In the gaming industry, cloud technology revolutionizes managing game resources, from hosting game servers to storing user data.\nEnhancing Security and User Experience\nSecurity is a paramount concern for any online platform, especially in casinos. Users need the assurance that their personal and financial information remains safeguarded. Cloud technology steps up to this challenge by providing advanced security protocols and encryption measures. Automated backups, disaster recovery solutions, and regular updates fortify the platform against potential threats. With the cloud, users can confidently engage in gaming, knowing their data is protected.\nKey Concepts to Understand\nBefore we delve into the advantages of cloud technology in game management, let’s establish some key concepts:\nInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)\nCloud providers offer virtualized computing resources, enabling game developers to scale their infrastructure dynamically without the hassle of managing physical servers.\nPlatform as a Service (PaaS)\nDevelopers gain access to ready-made development environments, streamlining the game creation and deployment process.\nSoftware as a Service (SaaS)\nGaming platforms leverage cloud technology to deliver games directly to players via web browsers, eliminating time-consuming downloads and installations.\nWith these foundational concepts in mind, let’s explore the advantages of cloud technology in-game management.\nCloud Gaming: The Evolution of Gaming Experience\nSeveral prominent cloud gaming providers have emerged in recent years, each offering a unique gaming experience:\nNvidia GeForce NOW\nLaunched in 2015, GeForce NOW boasts a library of over 500 games and has garnered over 14 million subscribers. It provides instant competition access and offers free and paid subscription options.\nGoogle’s cloud gaming service, Stadia, offers game streaming on various devices, including Chromecast Ultra, Android TV devices, Chrome OS tablets, and more. Despite initial criticisms, it has gained a subscriber base of 2 million.\nSony’s cloud gaming platform, PlayStation Now, was introduced in 2014. It provides access to various games, including older titles from the PS2, PS3, and PS4 eras. PlayStation Now has amassed 3.2 million subscribers and offers streaming and download options.\nBenefits of Cloud Gaming\nScalability is paramount in the gaming industry, particularly for online multiplayer games. Cloud technology empowers game developers with dynamic resource allocation and management capabilities. This means that game infrastructure can seamlessly adjust to accommodate player numbers and demands changes.\nA prime example of cloud scalability in action is the viral game Fortnite. Thanks to its cloud-powered infrastructure, this battle royale game can host millions of players simultaneously. During special in-game events or peak playing hours, millions of players can participate without causing server crashes or performance degradation, highlighting the elasticity of cloud resources.\nAccessibility and Collaboration\nThe cloud is a game-changer regarding accessibility and collaboration in game development. Remote partnership, once a logistical challenge, is now highly efficient. Game development teams scattered across the globe can access shared development environments and collaborate in real-time, boosting productivity and creativity.\nPlatforms like Unity Collaborate and GitHub, integrated with cloud solutions, have transformed how developers work together on game projects.\nThe best online casinos available across Ireland use cloud technology to enhance game offerings by increasing the responsiveness and quality of online games and diversifying the portfolio of themes, including TV, film, mythology, and even sports, in order to provide players with an exceptional gaming experience.\nCloud solutions significantly reduce costs related to infrastructure, maintenance, and manpower in-game management. Managing game servers and physical infrastructure traditionally required substantial upfront investments and ongoing expenses. Cloud technology changes this equation. Cloud providers handle server maintenance and updates, eliminating the need for dedicated IT staff.\nElectronic Arts (EA) transitioned to cloud-based game streaming, reducing the cost of game distribution and infrastructure maintenance. Game companies can allocate resources more efficiently by offloading server management and maintenance to cloud providers, resulting in substantial cost savings.\nSecurity and Recovery\nSecurity is paramount in the gaming industry, where user data and intellectual property are at risk. Cloud technology provides robust security protocols, including encryption, firewalls, and identity management, safeguarding game data and user information. Additionally, it offers efficient data recovery options, protecting against data loss due to hardware failures or cyberattacks.\nProminent instances where cloud technology has played a pivotal role in securing game data include Sony’s PlayStation Network. By relying on cloud-based security measures, Sony has effectively protected user data and responded swiftly to security breaches, preserving the integrity of the gaming experience.\nInnovation and Integration\nCloud technology fosters innovation in the gaming industry through its integration capabilities and developmental flexibility. Developers can leverage cloud services to integrate real-time multiplayer, AI-driven gameplay, and cloud-based analytics into their games.\nGoogle’s Stadia platform, for instance, used cloud infrastructure to enable players to seamlessly switch devices while playing the same game, ushering in a new era of gaming flexibility. This innovation showcases how cloud technology can reshape the gaming landscape by enabling new features and management strategies.\nCertainly, while cloud technology brings many advantages to game management, it’s essential to address common challenges and misconceptions associated with it:\nInternet Reliance and Latency\nCloud gaming relies heavily on a fast and stable internet connection. Users with slow or unreliable internet may experience lag and delays.\nCounterargument: As internet infrastructure improves globally, latency and internet speed issues are gradually diminishing. Cloud gaming providers are also continually optimizing their services to minimize latency and offer smoother experiences.\nData Privacy Concerns\nStoring personal and gaming data on remote servers raises concerns about data privacy and security breaches.\nCounterargument: Cloud gaming providers take data security seriously and employ advanced encryption and security protocols to protect user data. Users can also take precautions by using strong passwords and enabling two-factor authentication when available.\nCosts Over Time\nWhile cloud gaming can be cost-effective initially, subscription fees can add up over time, potentially exceeding the cost of owning gaming hardware.\nCounterargument: Users can manage costs by choosing subscription plans that align with their gaming habits. Some providers offer free tiers, and players can cancel subscriptions during periods of inactivity. Additionally, the cost savings from not needing high-end hardware can offset subscription fees for many gamers.\nLimited Control Over Settings\nCloud gaming restricts users’ ability to customize game settings or apply mods.\nCounterargument: While customization options may be limited in cloud gaming, many players prefer the convenience of a plug-and-play experience. Traditional gaming with local installations remains an option for those who desire more control.\nGame Library Variability\nThe availability of games on cloud gaming platforms may vary, with some titles being periodically added or removed.\nCounterargument: Cloud gaming providers typically communicate changes to their game libraries in advance, allowing users to plan accordingly. Users can also explore multiple cloud gaming platforms to access a broader range of titles.\nCloud technology is reshaping the gaming industry by providing various advantages in-game management. Its scalability, accessibility, cost-efficiency, security, and innovation capabilities drive the industry forward. As technology evolves, we can anticipate further advancements and applications of cloud technology within the gaming world.\nCloud technology is not just a game-changer; it’s the future of game management, promising more immersive, accessible, and collaborative gaming experiences for players and developers alike. As the gaming industry evolves, the cloud will undoubtedly play a pivotal role in shaping its destiny.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sambalpur University is a distinguished public research institution located in the picturesque Burla town within the Sambalpur district of Odisha, India. Established in accordance with the Sambalpur University Act passed by the Odisha Legislature on December 10, 1966, this university has been a beacon of higher education in Western Odisha. It commenced its academic journey on January 1, 1967, with Prof. Parsuram Mishra as its inaugural Vice-Chancellor.\nOne of the standout features of Sambalpur University is its broad academic spectrum, offering a plethora of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Its commitment to quality education is evident through its NAAC Grade “A” accreditation and recognition by UGC/MHRD. The university takes pride in covering nearly ten districts within the Odisha Legislature, contributing significantly to the region’s educational development.\nMoreover, Sambalpur University has carved a niche for itself not only in teaching but also in the realm of research. It’s known for its robust teaching methodologies and leadership in various research disciplines. This institution continues to maintain its prestige as one of the most esteemed universities in the state of Odisha.\nIn essence, Sambalpur University stands as a symbol of academic excellence, regional development, and a commitment to nurturing the intellectual growth of its students. It plays a vital role in shaping the educational landscape of Western Odisha and contributes to the rich cultural diversity of India.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Summary of ANH Funding History:\nThe Alliance for NanoHealth (ANH) has received funding from the State of Texas and U.S. Congress. Over $15 million of funding has been utilized for:\n- infrastructure development & equipment,\n- seminars, workshops, & conferences,\n- graduate student scholarships to attend nanomedicine workshops abroad,\n- seed grant funding for high-risk collaborative research projects,\n- planning grants intended to prepare multi-institutional teams for future Center of Excellence funding opportunities, and\n- recruitment of world-class nano-bio researchers.\nIn 2005, the Alliance received $6.4 million in federal funding. A portion of the funds was designated for construction and equipment of a clean room at the University of Houston at the Science and Engineering Research and Classroom Complex (SERCC). The build-out of this 200,000-square-foot complex has just been completed. The remaining portion of the funds was dedicated to nanohealth research. In the summer of 2005, sixty-eight letters of intent were reviewed and selected by the Internal Seed Grant Review Committee. Based on their decision, thirty-five full proposals for external review were selected for final review, of which, ten were awarded seed grant funds.\nIn 2006, the ANH received $6.1 million in federal funding. $4.0 million was contracted through NASA for the establishment of the Space NanoHealth Laboratory (SNL) of the Alliance for NanoHealth with the objective to be of service to NASA in the solution of problems concerning the health care of astronauts in space exploration missions. The projects are being conducted in close coordination with NASA personnel and are structured to address specific human health risks identified in the \"Bioastronautics Critical Path Roadmap\". We envision the translation of the findings and technology developments arising from this program into potentially breakthrough advances in medicine for astronautic, civilian, and military applications. $2.1 million was contracted from the Department of Defense to create the Medical NanoVector Research and Development Center of the Alliance for NanoHealth. This Center incorporates world renowned experts in the fields of nanotechnology, biological/clinical sciences, bioengineering, in-vivo imaging, molecular resolution electron microscopy, mathematical/computational modeling of diseases and bio-barriers and cancer research in therapy and diagnosis.\nThe State of Texas also funded the Alliance $2.5M through the Emerging Technology Fund Subchapter F “Research Superiority Acquisition Award” to bring Dr. Mauro Ferrari, a world-renowned nanotechnology expert, to the Texas Medical Center.\nIn 2007, the ANH received $1.1 million in federal funding. Approximately half of the appropriation funding was used for critical equipment purchases to enhance ANH Core Facilities at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and the Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC). The remaining funds were allocated towards a new ANH funding program intended to solicit applications for planning grants that will support planning activities for groups of researchers to develop inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional research strategies to solve significant health care problems using nanomedicine approaches. The purpose of the request for applications (RFA) is to foster multidisciplinary nanomedicine projects and encourage communication between ANH member institutions that will lead to significant extramural funding to establish future Centers of Excellence.\nFuture ANH Funding:\nThanks to the incredible efforts and continued support from Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Congressman John Culberson, the Alliance for NanoHealth will be receiving $6.2 million in federal appropriation funding for FY2008 (See Full Story: \"New Federal Funding Expected for Houston's Alliance for NanoHealth\")\nBreakdown of Funding:\n- The $2.8M Department of Defense (DoD) earmark was received in October 2006. The actual disbursement of $2.34M, was partitioned towards the funding of multi-discipline, collaborative, research grant awards and administrative core of the Alliance for NanoHealth. Approximately $2.0M was allocated to fund the ten peer-reviewed seed grant proposals that required the collaboration between at least two ANH member institutions.\n- The $0.6M ($579K actual) Department of Energy (DOE) earmark was allocated for the build-out efforts of the University of Houston’s new clean room.\n- The $1.0M ($982K actual) Labor-Health and Human Services (Labor-HHS) earmark was utilized for equipment and build-out of the University of Houston’s new cleanroom.\n- The $2.0M Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development (VA-HUD)/NASA earmark is currently supporting a joint research program between the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSCH-H), Rice University, and NASA Johnson Space Center for the development of carbon-based nanomaterials for spaceflight healthcare applications. These funds, which $1.984M was actually received, have allowed for the hiring of four new researchers at the UTHSC-H (two research faculty & 2 postdoctoral fellows) and seven new researchers at Rice University (seven postdoctoral fellows). Each of these newly recruited research personnel have specialized training in biomedical nanotechnology. Additionally, the VA-HUD/NASA funds supported six summer internships (four undergraduates and two students from the DeBakey High School).\n- The $2.1M ($1.768M actual) from the Department of Defense (DoD) was allocated towards interdisciplinary research between the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC-H), University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (UTMDACC), and the Baylor College of Medicine (BCM).\n- The $4.0M ($3.696M actual) from the Science, State, Commerce, Justice (SSCJ) appropriation was contracted through NASA. These funds were allocated to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC-H) and Rice University to support nanotechnology research for space medicine with the objective to be of service to NASA in the solution of problems concerning the health care of astronauts in space exploration missions.\n- The State of Texas also funded the Alliance $2.5M through the Emerging Technology Fund Subchapter F “Research Superiority Acquisition Award” to recruit Dr. Mauro Ferrari, a world-renowned nanotechnology expert, to the Texas Medical Center.\n- The $1.1M ($934K actual) from the Department of Defense (DoD) was allocated towards interdisciplinary research in the form of a new ANH Planning Grant Program. These planning grants will be awarded to those multi-institutional teams preparing for future Centers of Excellence opportunities. The remaining funds were reserved for critical equipment purchases by the Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "If you are going on a cruise at night you know that you will have an opportunity to get a sunset photo. Everyone has taken and seen this type of picture. But when it is you it’s like you’re seeing a sunset for the first time.\nThe one word that says it all. Beautiful.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Year Inducted: 1982\nSchools / Organizations: (Chicago) St. Ignatius High School\nBiography: Tony Sacco attended St. Ignatius High School in Chicago where he lettered in football, basketball, and track. Sacco set a record for the longest touchdown run of 99 yards against St. Phillips. A graduate of St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Sacco participated in football, basketball, and baseball. A little All-American quarterback, Sacco played in the 1940 Chicago Tribune College All-Star game. As an official, Tony worked 28 IHSA regionals, 23 IHSA sectionals, 11 super-sectionals and the state finals in 1961, 1962, and 1963. His championship game was the first to be played in the Assembly Hall when Anthony Smedley’s fantastic shot from the corner at the horn gave (Chicago) Carver High School a 53-52 win over Centralia High School. Sacco worked five consecutive Chicago Public League finals with five different officials, and was named in a Chicago Sun-Times poll as the No. 1 basketball official in Illinois. Sacco also worked college football and basketball in the Big Ten, Missouri Valley, CCIW, and the National Football League for over 18 years. He has called NIT, NCAA and NAIA playoff games in basketball and has worked the NFL championship game. Tony Sacco passed away on September 11, 2002 at the age of 84.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Steve Jobs- Brilliant Engineer and Marketing Genius\nSteve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple Corporation in a Silicon Valley garage, built the world’s leading tech company and led a mobile computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the IPod, IPhone, and IPad. The hard driving executive pioneered the concept of the personal computer and navigating them by clicking onscreen images with a mouse. Born February 24, 1955, and then adopted, Jobs grew up in Cupertino, California- Which would become home to Apple’s headquarters, showing an early interest in electronics. As a teenager, he phoned the president of Hewlett-Packard, to request parts for a school project. Jobs received the parts requested and also got an offer for a summer job at Hewlett-Packard. After high school, Jobs had plans to attend college and after one semester he dropped out of Oregon’s Reed College, although he returned to audit a class in calligraphy, which he says influenced his vision of Apple. Later, Jobs had another job at Atari designing video games and left that to backpack across India and take psychedelic drugs. Jobs said that this also helped shape his creative vision. While at HP, Jobs befriended Steve Wozniak, who impressed him with his skill at assembling electronic components. When Jobs was 21, he teamed with Wozniak and two other men to launch Apple Computer Inc. It’s been a long Silicon Valley legend that Jobs and Wozniak built there first product known as the “Apple 1” in Job’s parents garage in 1976. Jobs sold his Volkswagen van to help finance the venture. The primitive computer, priced at $666.00, had no keyboard or display, and customers had to assemble it themselves. The following year, Apple unveiled the Apple II computer at the inaugural West Coast Computer Fair. The machine was a hit, and the personal computing revolution was underway. Jobs was among the first computer engineers to...\nPlease join StudyMode to read the full document", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Cannabis has an iconic and unmistakable smell: pungent and earthy\nBut depending on the terpene profile of a given strain, that earthiness could have notes of orange peel or pine, making it pair better with other ingredients in edibles. A favorite scent or flavor can steer consumers toward your brand of cannabis-infused tincture or balm, let alone flower strain, if only for the novelty.\nSo what are terpenes, what can they do to enhance cannabis naturally, and what do they mean for the future of cannabis production?\nWhat are terpenes?\nTerpenes are naturally occurring chemical compounds found in the trichomes of female plants—on cannabis, they’re found in the sticky, frosted crystalline hairs found around the bud.\nRegardless of species, terpenes affect a plant’s characteristics, how the plant functions in its ecosystem, and even how it interacts with other plants or animals around them.\nWhen plants use their pigmentation or aroma to attract pollinators, or create repellent toxins to defend against herbivores, they are putting their terpenes into action. Terpenes also act as a communication channel between plants.\nLong story short, terpenes can do much more than flavor your favorite flower strain, edible, or balm. In fact, studies have shown that terpenes could be the missing link for customizing the health benefits that cannabis products have on their users.\nHow can cannabis terpenes affect health?\nDistinguishing between cannabis products has always revolved around potency and strain. But by targeting specific terpenes and increasing their presence in cannabis, many biologists believe they can amplify the therapeutic benefits of marijuana consumption. This field of research is still new, but it opens up new possibilities not just for the sale of recreational cannabis but for the role it plays in the lives of patients.\nScientists have identified hundreds of terpenes present in cannabis, some that help reduce anxiety and fight depression, and others that are anti-inflammatory and antiviral. Moreover, increasing the presence of certain terpenes could counteract certain side effects of cannabis consumption. For example, in addition to fortifying memory, terpenes α-pinene and β-pinene have shown to lower the intoxicating psychoactive effects of THC, and β-myrcene can help prevent high-induced listlessness by boosting a user’s energy.\nHowever cannabis growers, processors, or dispensaries reimagine their businesses in light of new terpene research, it’s clear that these chemical compounds are the future of customization in the industry.\nHigh-density vertical grow systems for cannabis\nHigh-density racking for vertical farming offers cannabis businesses the freedom to carve out space for terpene research and development without sacrificing the space they need for plants, processing, and more, not to mention capitalizing on space to grow.\nFor more information, contact your local Authorized Montel Distributor and ask about our free, no-obligation consultations, which include 2D and 3D renderings of what a vertical indoor farming system would look like at your dispensary or grow op.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "SME Needs is based in Croydon, Surrey, and works with owner managed businesses across London and the South East.\nCANDDi for SME Needs\nSME Needs also uses CANDDi to generate insight into how its outbound email campaigns are performing. By integrating the CANDDi tracking code into emails it sends to new business prospects, they are able to identify visitors clicking on the email links which go through to the SME Needs site.\nAlmost a third of SME Needs’ clients are now utilizing CANDDi to deliver insight into the performance of their digital marketing campaigns. The majority are using CANDDi to track website visitors and to improve their email marketing.\nSME Needs runs at least one outbound email campaign a week and CANDDi is used to generate insight into which people are opening and interacting with email content and clicking on links back to client websites.\nSME Needs’ clients have experienced results which have directly led to sales. One client secured a £100k new business deal from the CANDDi Capture tool on its website. Another client – an e-commerce company - has dramatically improved its close rate on products through improved outbound email campaigns.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "New Zealanders receive healthcare through a mixture of public and privately-funded services. The public healthcare system is mainly funded through general taxation.\nIn 2007, total health expenditure (public and private) was worth $16.2 billion (Source: Ministry of Health). Publicly-funded healthcare represented a 79.2 percent share of this total, with private healthcare holding a share of 20.8 percent.\nTotal health expenditure in 2007 represented 9.1 percent of GDP which is the same as the OECD weighted average. New Zealand public health spending currently represents around 7 percent of GDP. Treasury estimates this amount will double by 2050 unless steps are taken to curb the increase.\nIn May 2010, Vote Health received an increase of $512 million but it is only marginally above the level health officials calculate is necessary to keep up with inflation and population growth. So, public health providers are being told to tighten their belts and increase efficiencies. Vote Health for 2010/11 stands at just under $13.574 billion.\nA complex network of organisations and people deliver health and disability services in New Zealand.\nThe Minister and Ministry of Health develop national policy, provide leadership and monitor District Health Board performance. They also work with DHBS, primary health organisations, non-government organisations, Crown entities, health professional and others across the system to achieve health goals for New Zealanders.\nDistrict Health Boards\nThere are 20 DHBs in New Zealand. They were set up in 2001 under the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000. DHBs are responsible to the Minister for providing, or funding the provision of, health and disability services in their district. Funding is allocated via a population-based formula by the Ministry of Health. This includes funding for primary care, public health services, aged care, and services provided by other non-government health providers including Māori and Pacific providers.\nEach DHB is responsible for organising healthcare in the district and meeting the standards and goals set by the Ministry of Health. DHBs range in population size from about 30,000 at the smallest to over 500,000 for the largest.\nDHBs currently have discretion on procuring medical devices. Government has, however, encouraged them to share procurement services to gain efficiencies and some DHBs have set up such arrangements, for example, HealthAlliance in Auckland. In July 2010, the Minister expanded Government drug buying agency Pharmac’s role to include procurement of medical devices. Over time the Minister intends Pharmac to become responsible for managing the prioritisation, assessment, standardisation and procurement of all medical devices. Meanwhile, the new Shared Services Agency is expected begin the process of nationally procuring a range of medical devices that are already used in public hospitals.\nThere are around 220 hospitals (public and private) in New Zealand. The major regional public hospitals are:\nThe Government introduced non-profit, community-based Primary Health Organisations (PHOs) in 2002 to implement its primary healthcare strategy. PHOs comprise doctors, nurses and other health professionals in the community (such as Māori health workers, health promotion workers, dieticians, pharmacists, physiotherapists and midwives). PHOs serve the health needs of their enrolled populations. They contract to DHBs on a per capita basis to provide primary healthcare services. Patients usually pay a subsidised fee to visit a GP unless, like children under six, they are entitled to free care.\nThere are 81 PHOs currently. In early 2010, however, the Minister announced the PHOs would be restructured and reduced to 40 to free up money for more patient care and a wider range of health services. PHOs currently cost around $715 million a year with about $541 million going directly to GPs in patient subsidies and the rest on specific health programmes.\nThe Accident Compensation Commission is another government agency which funds health and disability services particularly in relation to accidental injury. ACC, which was introduced in 1974, supplies ‘no fault’ accident insurance coverage which is intended to compensate people for medical bills and loss of wages. It is funded by employer and employee levies.\nAround 1.3 million New Zealanders have health insurance. The work performed at private surgical hospitals is primarily funded by medical insurers with around 20 percent funded by ACC or other sources.\nPrivate hospitals are also contracted by the DHBs to perform surgery when they require additional capacity.\nThere are 36 private surgical hospitals in New Zealand. They performed 164,000 elective procedures in 2008-2009.\nNew Zealand’s only national private hospital network is Southern Cross Healthcare Group. Other key private surgical facilities are:\nNZ Medical Technology manufacturing\nIn 2009, New Zealand medical technology companies earned revenue of $587 million per annum – 88 percent of which was export revenue. This sector has revenue growth of between 14-16 percent per annum.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Dr Noushin Nasiri\nResearch Field: Nanotechnoloy\nDr Noushin Nasiri is an engineer in the field of nanotechnology whose research aims to develop breath tests that can diagnose diseases like diabetes and breast cancer in their very early stages.\nHer research is focused on developing nanosensors to facilitate early, non-invasive disease diagnosis through biomarkers in our breath.\nEach nanosensor is made of billions of nanoparticles and is only a few atoms across, so small it could fit inside our phones and check our health daily.\nThe implications of Noushin’s research are far-reaching – a breath test is cheaper and less invasive than existing tests and almost instantaneous, which could make detection more widely accessible on a global scale and result in higher recovery rates and lower treatment costs.\nOutside the lab, Noushin has presented her research widely, including at TEDx Sydney Salon, on the ABC’s Ockham’s Razor and at Sydney Spark Festival. Noushin shares her passion for STEM with the next generation of researchers by regularly supporting primary and high school events.\nDr Noushin Nasiri was awarded her PhD by the Australian National University in 2017 and is currently a Lecturer with the School of Engineering at Macquarie University.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Open call – INTERNATIONAL curator residencies PROGRAMME 2023\nDeadline: 17:00 pm Monday 5 December 2022\nRead more about the award and our application procedure here\nI loved my time at Fire Station and can’t thank the team enough for their care, insight and generosity during my stay in Dublin. They went out of their way to help me navigate the city’s arts ecology and make the most of my residency, which was a rewarding and generative few weeks.\nSiobhán Forshaw, International Curator Residency Awardee, July 2022", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Nela Ticket Image Gallery\nNela Ticket is a 2018 Telugu Action comedy film.\nThe film produced by Ram Talluri on SRT Entertainments banner and directed by Kalyan Krishna Kurasala.\nThe film features Ravi Teja and Malvika Sharma in the lead roles\nJagapati Babu plays as the main antagonist.\nMusic and background score is composed by Shakthi Kanth Karthick.\nIn August 2016 US based NRI, Ram Talluri signed Ravi Teja for his next film.\nIn December 2017 director Kalyan Krishna Kurasala joined the project.\nMumbai based model Malvika Sharma was signed in as a female lead, which marks her debut in cinema.\nPrincipal photography began on 5 January 2018 in Hyderabad.\nFilms's shoot was wrapped up on early May 2018.\nThe film is scheduled for a worldwide release on 25 May 2018.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Landing on runway 24R a few minutes after I said, \"I still haven't caught the Smaug livery.\"\nShort final 23L\nFantastic Hobbit livery! Just after landing, thrust reversers still deployed.\nSUH will head of to make her last revenue flights tonight AKL/SFO return.... a sad day indeed At the end of July she will fly AKL/LAX/VCV to be parted out... the engines will go to GE .....and so ... (more)\nZK-SUH operated as \"ANZ1945\" departing for Aukland,\nvery rare to see Air New Zealand in Macau and even more rare to see their Queen of The Skies these days! ... (more)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Anthemis nobilis (France)\nVery calming; helps with insomnia; eases depression and anxiety; effective for colic and teething pain; clears constipation; detoxifier for the body and spirit; refreshes the spirit.\n5 ml., 15 ml., 120 ml.\nThere are no reviews yet.\nYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *\nYour review *", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Kannana Kanne 15-03-2022 Sun TV Serial March 15, 2022 Sun TV Tweet Pin It Kannana Kanne 15-03-2022. Kannana Kanne 15/03/2022 Sun Tv Serial Free Online. Watch Kannana Kanne 15th March 2022 Sun TV Serial online Full Episode in HD. Kannana Kanne Latest Episode 15th March 2022 Hotstar Video. Related Posts Sun TV Aruvi 15-03-2022 Sun TV Serial March 15, 2022 Sun TV Abiyum Nanum 24-11-2021 Sun TV Serial November 24, 2021 Sun TV Sundari 19-02-2022 Sun TV Serial February 19, 2022 Leave a Reply Cancel reply Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Jim 🐝 Cody\nThe Only Social Media Checklist You'll Ever Need\nTrying to keep up with your social media marketing? Here's the guide! This is the only social media checklist you'll ever need!...", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Actress and model Suki Waterhouse and entrepreneur Poppy Jamie were lying in bed about a year and a half ago when the idea came to them. It had been a long week: Waterhouse had spent gruelingly hot days shooting a film in the deserts outside Los Angeles, and the two women had passed the weekend recuperating by wandering Los Angeles’s Bustown Modern boutique when they happened upon a fabulous vintage fanny pack — “the coolest bag ever,” as Jamie remembered it.\n“We were like, ‘Why don’t people make bags like this anymore?’” she said, wondering. And then: “Wouldn’t it be cool if we…”\nAnd thus the seeds of Pop & Suki were sown. Though Jamie and Waterhouse have been friends for nearly four years, they’d never before undertaken a creative collaboration; over the past 18 months, they conceived, developed (in collaboration with a design team), and executed the new, customizable accessories line bearing their names.\n“It’s a dream, being able to call your best friend and gossip about the night before and then have a work call for an hour,” Jamie said, speaking over the phone from Los Angeles. It was Halloween, a frigid day where I sat in New York but balmy and sunny where the two friends were just wrapping up a photo shoot. “We’re kind of soaking up the rays,” Jamie said. “Storing away some sunshine.”\nIt was also, perhaps more significantly for Waterhouse and Jamie, the day their pre-orders finally shipped and the day before the official collection launch.\n“It’s a surreal moment seeing them all packaged up and ready to go,” Waterhouse said. “It’s like our giving-birth day.”\nPop & Suki opened for pre-orders in mid-September; since then, pieces from the collection have been spotted on the likes of Lena Dunham, Amber Valletta and Lucy Hale.\nFor their first venture, Waterhouse and Jamie designed two silhouettes (a small leather camera bag and larger suede shopping tote) in three distinct colors — black, a dark reddish cognac, and pastel pink — with personalized options like monogramming, charms, tassels, and, for the camera bag, a selection of six different straps. (Including a waist strap — their imagining of a fanny pack bringing the Pop & Suki origin myth full circle.) The bags are versatile, convertible day-to-night pieces, with hints of the retro, vintage aesthetic that first inspired Waterhouse and Jamie’s venture. The pieces synthesize their respective aesthetics: for Jamie, it’s girlier, more polished; for Waterhouse, more tomboyish, “sloppy,” she joked.\nThe brand’s Instagram is a treasure trove of cotton candy-colored found images, Pantone chips, and shots of friends and fans modeling Pop & Suki designs. (“I dream a bit of looking like a fairy or ice cream,” Waterhouse said. “I think it stems from an early love of Power Puff.”) Fittingly, one of the duo’s customizable options is a black heart split down the middle reading “Best Friends” in white lettering, a more sophisticated take on friendship necklaces exchanged at summer camp and in first grade classrooms.\nBut, as Waterhouse tells it, the collection less emphasizes best friends and more celebrates women with a strong point of view and sense of purpose — much like Waterhouse and Jamie themselves. “Me and Pops were always just super in awe of girls, really,” she said, citing artist-activists like Rowan Blanchard and Dunham, entrepreneurs like Sheryl Sandberg and Arianna Huffington, and actors like Emma Stone and Sasha Lane.\n“We’re real lovers of women.” Jamie jumped in, noting that not too long ago, they might have faced even greater challenges in funding and executing their vision. “We don’t take it for granted,” she said. “The environment has changed to enable us to be entrepreneurs.” Pop & Suki emphasizes sustainability, both in materials and production; the accessories are manufactured in Los Angeles, and the direct-to-consumer model ensures a more affordable price point. (It’s an analogue, in many ways, to a fledgling Everlane.)\nThough they’ve only just launched, Waterhouse and Jamie have already started imagining the next Pop & Suki collection. They began the design process with hundreds of ideas that they had to whittle down to a focused, core collection: “We really created the bags that we wanted to have and the bags that we couldn’t find,” Jamie said. But there are new bags to dream up — maybe a satchel or a backpack.\n“We love making fashion individual,” Jamie said. “That’s what we really wanted to allow.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Live 9is a radio station in\nBougival,Île-de-France, France Genre:Alternative, Pop, Rock website:http://www.live9.fr/ language:\nYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *\nCurrent [email protected] *\nLeave this field empty\nThe best mix of rock and pop! Local station out of the Neckar-Alb region in Germany.\nZoo Radio from Radio 105 out of Milan, Italy is pure hits and comedy.\nLocal radio station for the region of Upper Sauerland in Germany. 5 hours on air daily.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Big Data Blog\nPosted by Unknown user on Jun 10, 2014\nBig data is the buzzword for data sets too large and complex to be analyzed efficiently using conventional tools. The ability of humans to measure and analyze more and more of our surroundings has created opportunities for control and optimization ne…\nPosted by yzhong; on Jan 06, 2014\nIn Europe, 2013 was an interesting year for the machine-to-machine (M2M) market as participants ranging from telecommunications (telecoms) service providers to software applications providers addressed the connected industries’ opportunities.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Cliff Lee, Professor of Education at Mills College at Northeastern University and Elizabeth Soep, Senior Producer and Research Director at Youth Radio have written a new book\nMy connection with makerspaces is back to three years ago when I was a first-year doctoral student. I was fascinated by the idea of making,\nBeing a researcher who is interested in language acquisition and multiliteracies, I am constantly thinking about the reasons that contribute to language acquisition and learning\nComments are closed.\nJuly 27, 2023\nJanuary 28, 2023\nJanuary 20, 2023\nNovember 30, 2022\nJuly 17, 2022\nThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. # 2005898.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "For decades, the Australian Open has been pushing the boundaries of innovation, growth and technology. With the evolution of tennis equipment has come the evolution of Australia’s Grand Slam. From grass courts at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club, to the surrounds of Melbourne Park and Rod Laver Arena, the AO has come a long way from its humble beginnings and is now one of the world's great sports and entertainment events, playing host to hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. The AO Decades Collection celebrates the most iconic items and moments of the AO. Beginning in the 1970s, and moving through 50 years of archive, the collection showcases the AO as one of the most innovative and forward thinking events in the tennis world.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "2019 Forum on Criminal Justice\n2799 Richmond Hwy\nThe 2019 Forum on Criminal Justice will be held September 15-18 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, VA. Hosted by the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) and the International Community Corrections Association (ICCA), the Forum on Criminal Justice showcase programs, research and policies that will help justice practitioners, researchers and decision makers move the criminal justice system forward, getting to where we need to be through policy, practice and research.\nWorkshop tracks will focus on: systems integration and managing special populations; information sharing and technology; behavioral health and community-based services; policing violent crime and serving victims; and administration and management.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sunday 11th September, 8.30am\nDue to the success of our recent 20km Follies Challenge, we have decided to hold a new challenge. This 22km walk will take in the four Wentworth Follies, plus a slightly extended route. The walk is recommended for seasoned walkers with suitable footwear and clothing. Well-behaved dogs on leads are also welcome to join.\nThis is a fundraising event, which will last approximately six hours, including breaks with snacks/water and a hot drink back at the House upon completion.\nRegistration will be at 8.30am for a 9.00am start.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS\nPetitioner is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Before the court is respondent Sisto's motion to dismiss this action on the ground that it is barred under the applicable one-year statute of limitations.\nOn November 5, 2002, a Butte County Superior Court jury found petitioner guilty of first degree murder and found a firearm discharge causing death enhancement allegation to be true. (Pet. at 2.) Petitioner was sentenced to two consecutive terms of 25 years to life. (Id.)\nOn February 9, 2005, the California Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District affirmed petitioner's judgment of conviction. (Id. at 26.) On May 11, 2005, the California Supreme Court summarily denied a petition for review filed on petitioner's behalf. (Lod. Doc. 3.)\nOn March 3, 2006, petitioner filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus with the Butte County Superior Court. (Lod. Doc. 4.) The petition was denied on March 6, 2006. (Lod. Doc. 5.) On March 30, 2006, petitioner filed his habeas petition with the California Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District. (Lod. Doc. 6.) The petition was summarily denied on April 6, 2006. (Lod. Doc. 7.) On May 9, 2006, petitioner filed a habeas petition with the California Supreme Court. (Lod. Doc. 8.) The petition was denied on December 13, 2006. (Lod. Doc. 9.) According to the California Supreme Court's docket, it appears that the mailed denial of the petition was returned to the court marked as \"unable to forward\" on January 8, 2007 and the returned mail was re-sent to petitioner on July 26, 2007. (Id.)\nOn February 8, 2008 petitioner signed his federal habeas petition and it was received by this court for filing on February 11, 2008.\nRespondent argues that the federal habeas petition should be dismissed as untimely. Respondent contends that petitioner's judgment of conviction became final on August 9, 2005, 90 days after his petition for review was denied by the California Supreme Court. Counsel argues that the statute of limitations thus began to run on August 10, 2005, and continued to run until it was tolled on March 3, 2006 by petitioner's filing of his habeas petition with the Butte County Superior Court. (Mot. to Dismiss (MTD) at 5.) Therefore, according to respondent, the statute of limitations ran for 206 days and petitioner then had 159 days left on the one-year limitations period. (Id.) Respondent contends that tolling of the statute of limitations for filing a federal petition ended on December 13, 2006 when the California Supreme Court denied petitioner's habeas petition filed with that court. (Id.) Under respondent's calculation, the statute of limitations ran for 159 days following the December 13, 2006, denial of the petition for review until it expired on May 22, 2007. (Id.) Respondent contends that since petitioner did not file his federal petition until February 11, 2008, he has exceeded the one-year period by almost nine months. (Id.)\nIn opposing the motion to dismiss, petitioner advances several arguments. First, petitioner argues that he was not aware of the California Supreme Court's ruling until July 28, 2007. (Pet'r Opp'n, Mem. P. & A. (Pet'r P&A) at 1.) Second, he contends that he did not have \"the record to work from, as well as his own mental defects (no medications) and property receipt delays, from June 12, 2007 through August of 2007 also contributed to the delay [in filing his federal petition].\" (Id.) Third, he contends that there was fraud upon the court and that this should prevent any statute of limitations bar. (Id. at 2.) In this regard, petitioner asserts that,\n[t]he detective in this case lied and failed to inform the court during a hearing to suppress Petitioner's confession, that as a matter of law, Petitioner was not free to leave the police interrogation room during a non-Mirandized interrogation, because the detectives had already obtained a warrant for Petitioner's arrest, and they were duty-bound to execute that warrant, as a matter of law. (Id. at 3.) Fourth, petitioner asserts that he is actually innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. (Id. at 4.) Petitioner contends that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic alcoholism and drug addiction and that counsel never investigated or addressed his mental disability at trial. (Id. at 4.) Thus, he argues that \"[i]t is reasonably likely that Petitioner was not guilty by reason of insanity of mental defect at the time of the crime and he is legally and actually innocent.\" (Id.)\nIII. The Statute of Limitations under the AEDPA\nUnder the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (\"AEDPA\"), a one-year period of limitation applies to a petition for writ of habeas corpus filed in federal court by a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a state court. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1). The period of limitation applies to all federal habeas petitions filed after the statute was enacted. Lindh v. Murphy, 521 U.S. 320, 322-23 (1997). Because this action was commenced in 2008, the AEDPA period of limitation is applicable to the petition.\nPursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1), the statute of limitations shall run from the latest of:\n(A) date on which judgment became final by the conclusion of direct review ...", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Christmas has always been a time for my family and friends to get together and enjoy the holidays.\nIt’s not hard to make a gift of a golf car seat cover for friends or family this holiday season. Here’s why.\nStaying home from work when you have been burning the midnight oil is what we called “pulling a Liz”.\nSome accounting jobs were meant to stay or not!\nAn exciting time to be alive for me was computerized accounting. Right down my alley!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "There’s nothing better than escaping the cold winter weather than rugging up in front of the TV with a blanket and a bowl of popcorn… And we’ve found the most enthralling show for you to watch while you do it!\nIntroducing the newest murder mystery on Prime Video, Deadloch! This brand new Aussie series mixes riveting crime shows with the hilarious comedy of The Kates (think @thekateringshow and @getkrackinshow). You’ll be entranced by the sleepy town of Deadloch, Tasmania as you attempt to unravel the clues to this puzzling murder mystery with a twist.\nDeadloch is exclusively available on @primevideoaunz, so don’t wait – check it out now!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "NFL – Season Finale & SWCW\nBIGGEST. ENDING. EVER.\nWhen the NFL branded the 2021-22 season as “The Biggest Season Ever” they did so with good reason; an extra week, an extra game, and two extra playoff teams paired with the extra intensity of fans being able to return to stadiums. Phew, that’s a lot of extra. Once it came time to communicate all that added goodness to fans in a way that built hype around the first-of-their-kind events they turned to their trusty Compadre’s to get the job done.\nLEAVING IT ALL ON THE FIELD\nFirst up, it was on us to build a promo spot and graphics package for the NFL’s first ever Week 18, now better known as “The Season Finale”. Like any great season finale it served up more stakes than a bustling Ruth’s Chris with all 32 teams in action and multiple playoff spots hanging in the balance.\nA CAN’T-MISS FINALE\nTo properly amplify the drama of the weekend, we utilized a high-energy track to drive the spot and a VO-driven script that called out specifically what was on the line. We also developed a premium look and feel for the event that could serve as the Season Finale branding for years to come.\nONE CRAZY A** WEEKEND\nWith the action-packed Season Finale in the rearview and the playoffs set, it was time to turn our sights to Super Wild Card Weekend. Wild might’ve been an understatement as the weekend featured six games across three days including the first ever Monday night playoff game.\nWith so many moving pieces and must-see matchups, it was imperative that all of our spots clearly communicated who was playing on which days without losing the weight and intensity of the playoffs. To pull this off we created a modular matchup graphic so we could slot in different teams, days, and times in a visual language that was easy to digest while leaning on a badass track to rev up the drama.\nAN UNSTOPPABLE TEAM\nAside from being a blast to execute, getting to play an integral role in marketing and introducing these two pivotal events further solidifies our ongoing partnership with the NFL and adds yet another successful collaboration to our trophy case. Here’s to more hard-hittin, beer-sippin, salsa-dippin, thrill rides to come!\nStay in touch with your compadres", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Monday, April 25, 2011\nVH1 Mob Wives\nThe show follows around four women whose husbands or fathers are in jail for mob connections. Obviously drama unfolds. The show may already hold the record for the most bleeped out curse words on television. One of the cast members, Drita, was recently on a radio show to promote the show and dropped some F-bombs, which got the host fired. Renee and Drita will most likely be the big stars, as they seem to bring the most, uh, \"colorful commentary\" with Renee being the most dramatic. It's basically Jersey Shore with older people. Except they are scarier than the Jersey Shore cast.\nI'm pretty sure all four of these women could have successful MMA careers if the show doesn't work out. Or when their 15 minutes are up.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Merrill Oveson <moveson at gmail.com> wrote:\n> It will be a Windows 2008 server. Does it handle RAID 6?\nSoftware RAID on Windows? Don't do it.\nI would get a RAID card and a 6-drive RAID 10. But that's just me.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Tuesday, 22. June 2021, Tickets finden, Aviation Festival Asia - Stand G20\nfrom 22. June 2021 - 1:00\ntill 23. June 2021 - 8:00\nChoa Chu Kang\nTravelliance will be exhibiting on Stand G20 at the Asia Aviation Festival on 22nd and 23rd June 2021 at the Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre, Singapore.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Mostly Credited As: Saul Chaplin Sometimes Credited As: Cahn and Chaplin Sol Chaplin Chaplin\nBirth Name: Saul Elias Kaplan Date Of Birth: February 19, 1912 (Age 85) Country Of Birth: USA Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York City, New York Date Of Death: October 15, 1997 Cause Of Death: Injuries from a fall (Los Angeles, CA)\nSaul Chaplin died at the age of 86 and was born on February 19, 1912.\nHe was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York (USA) and died on October 15, 1997\nHe died in Los Angeles, CA (Injuries from a fall).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Stay Happy and Healthy During AGE Season\nWith Halloween just a few weeks around the corner, people are gearing up for the holiday season. If there is one thing the season is guaranteed to include, it’s stress. “Seasonal Affective Disorder”—or “SAD” as it’s commonly known—affects hundreds of thousands of people every year. While SAD is technically caused by a Vitamin D deficiency (as sun exposure goes down during the colder months), it is also a product of the financial stress, lack of exercise, and excess sugar consumption that commonly accompany the holiday season.\nCheck out some of the ways that sugar can affect your mood, according to the International Bipolar Foundation:\n- Sugar releases opioids and dopamine, causing emotional highs and lows.\n- Refined sugar causes the release of cytokines, which strongly correlate with depression.\n- A reaction called “reactive hypoglycemia,” commonly referred to as a “sugar crash,” causes bodily stress.\n- Sugar weakens your immune system, making you feel crappier. People get sick more often during the holiday season as it is—the immune system needs to be in tip-top shape to fight off the cold-season germs.\nFrom Halloween sweeties to Christmas pie, the holiday season is jam-packed with opportunities to increase your AGE count. As yummy as holiday treats are, increasing your AGE count can lead to dull, wrinkled skin and a slew of ailments, including heart disease, diabetes, cancer, atherosclerosis, and mental illness.\nThere are tons of tips for avoiding sugar consumption over the holiday season. We really like this article on BeMore! Magazine. Be mindful of the sugar you’re eating this season for healthier, happier holidays!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We have detected that you are using an adblocking plugin in your browser.\nThe revenue we earn by the advertisements is used to manage this website. Please whitelist our website in your adblocking plugin.\nOne event on December 18, 2022 at 3:00 pm\nOne event on December 19, 2022 at 8:00 pm\nOne event on December 20, 2022 at 8:00 pm\nOne event on December 21, 2022 at 8:00 pm\nComposed in a mere three weeks, Messiah has endured for over 275 years. Rejoice greatly as the TSO presents its cherished perennial performances of Handel’s powerful and devotional tour de force.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "California rapper Yhung T.O. is most beneficial known as area of the rap collective SOB x RBE (Purely Only Brothers, Actual Boi Entertainment) and he’s described by his vocal/rap cross style. Created and elevated in Vallejo — in the Bay Part of California, where all users of the team resided — Yhung began by causing music on his Playstation with Daboii, documenting vocals on the phones. Following that they linked to Lul G and Slimmy B through shared acquaintances; collectively they strike it off artistically, forming an innovative brotherhood. Because they would frequently reiterate, SOB x RBE wasn’t produced like a rap group, but even more of a mutually supportive collective, providing individual users the freedom release a solo material and show frequently. Yhung T.O., specifically, was no stranger to his single career, offering on monitors by numerous performers including Nef the Pharaoh’s “Spice” and Philthy Rich’s “Around,” the last mentioned which also highlighted Gucci Mane. By 2017 he previously even documented his debut single recording, On My Momma, which presented SOB x RBE users Daboii and Slimmy B, alongside fellow California rapper Mozzy.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The perfect replica Omega Speedmaster, ranked solely on specifications, is one of the worst watches you can buy, especially in base Hesalite trim. It’s too big at 42mm, gets only fifty metres of water resistance and needs winding by hand every other day. It’s a hangover of a less convenient time, and in today’s rush there’s just no room for it. Except it remains one of luxury fake Omega’s most popular watches, and not just because it’s bang on half the price of the equivalent watch from Rolex.\nThere can be no overstating just how important this best 1:1 replica Omega is in people’s lives. What else do we have to drive us on, day by day, but hope? And what more hope is there than in the progress of humanity as a species? Look at the news and there’s a clear reality: we’re all doomed. There are too many people consuming too many things and everyone’s at each other’s throats because of it.\nBut in 1969, people were united by the journey three men took to a place no one had ever visited before: the moon. The hope of possibility was unrivalled at that time. The future was bright. And even today, alongside all the negativity, there’s the glimmer of a brighter future with the revival of space exploration and the discovery of new things beyond our atmosphere.\nThe aaa quality fake Omega Moonwatch not only commemorates what came before, an achievement so incredible it stands today, over half a century later, as perhaps the greatest ever accomplished, but is also a vessel for the fragile essence of hope. That inexplicable feeling wearing a Swiss movement copy Omega Moonwatch is the reminder that there’s still a chance. It’s not over yet.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Lassiter hires Shawn and Gus to prove or disprove paranormal activity at his new condo.\nDespereaux returns. This time on the trail of a legendary dagger rumored to unlock the hidden fortune of a billionaire, recently deceased. Now if only he, Shawn and Gus can put their hands on it before the gang of art thieves beat them to it.moreless\nWhen a dead body is found at a local winery and their hotel room is robbed, Shawn and Juliet kiss their hopes for a romantic weekend away from work goodbye and join the investigation.moreless\nGus may have found his Utopia when he and Shawn hide a witness to a murder no one believes occurred at a commune for \"progressive intellectuals.\"\nJuliet's conman father shows up and wants to repair their relationship, but the lure of a perfect swindle may ruin his plans to stay on the straight and narrow.\nIt's another undercover assignment for Shawn and Gus when SBPD asks them to infiltrate the local mental hospital. They must prove that the billionaire recently found \"not guilty by reason of insanity\" after he murdered his assistant is just as sane as they are. Well, as sane as Gus at least.moreless\nShawn and Gus are asked by Santa Barbara's minor league baseball team's manager to look into the death of its hitting coach. The only way to keep everything under wraps is to go undercover, and Gus may take a hit on his dignity as the team mascot.moreless\nThe Mantis, a masked vigilante, competes with SBPD to capture the Camino Syndicate so PSYCH is called in to capture the Mantis. If only they could see further into the future than he apparently does.moreless\nShawn and Gus help SBPD investigate an exsanguinated body and, as luck would have it, Lassiter's mysterious new lady friend.\nA night of partying which no one remembers that turned deadly sets Shawn, Gus, Woody and Lassiter on the trail of their deeds and a way to clear their names of suspected murder. Unfortunately, they may have to depend on Shawn's \"psychic\" memories of the night's events.moreless\nShawn stumbles on a dead body at Santa Barbara's British Consulate residence while attempting to recover a stolen Darth Vader collectible from the Ambassador's son. Then he must convince SBPD he discovered the body psychically, not physically .moreless", "label": "No"}
{"text": "U.S. worries Russian humanitarian operation in Syria may be 'ruse' reut.rs/2awRK6L\nWatch Khizr Khan's amazing speech. youtube.com/watch?v=uG0K_9…\nA look at the rise of love-speech in our current political cycle: nyer.cm/VOl6Kdw\ngonna petition Snapchat to make this a permanent filter. Everyone is their best self in a butterfly crown\nMy phone after trying to catch a Mankey too enthusiastically. Damn you, pokemonsters!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A modern day hero would be a soldier. They fight for our freedom and our safety. They have all the qualities of a hero and other amazing qualities. Our soldiers are risking their lives to protect us and we should always think of them as hero’s. Every soldier should be remembered by the people of America. They are courageous, brave, kind, wise and they never give up. The soldiers that went to help in the Haiti earthquake and many more natural disasters are to be commended too. Also the soldiers that helped in the clean up of the 9/11 disaster are hero’s. Soldiers are not the only modern day hero’s there are many other hero’s out here that people don’t know about. Anyone can be a hero!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Full Time Other jobs in Germany\nBroaden your search\nRefine your search\nFound 3 jobs\nShandong Normal University is located in the historic city of Ji'nan—— the city of springs.\nTreatment for double-doctor couples will be counted separately.\nThe Ito Group from the Institute of Zoology at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Cologne invites applications\nThe International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science at the University of Göttingen in Germany (Solar System School) offers a rese...", "label": "No"}
{"text": "RAGBRAI Adaptive Bike Tour\nJuly 21-27, 2013\nWhere: Bike tour across Iowa\nRAGBRAI, The Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, is an annual seven-day bicycle ride across the state. Heading into its 41st year, RAGBRAI is the oldest, largest and longest bicycle touring event in the world. Adaptive Sports Iowa will gathering a team of more than 50 riders and volunteers to take on the journey across the rolling hills of Iowa. RAGBRAI is an incredible opportunity to experience Midwest culture, meet cyclists from around the world and experience a journey like no other. More information on the ride is available at www.ragbrai.com\nTo register: Email Mike Boone, Director of Adaptive Sports Iowa, at [email protected] or call at 1-888-777-8881 x 115.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Should I invest in Bitcoin?\nSuch a thing I say is to not be used as economic advice.\nThat being said, bitcoin is certainly worth considering.\nAnd with bitcoin crossing the $10k limit early in the day that week, it’s no surprise people think it is a bubble. It dropped below $1,000 in June of this season, and has absolutely skyrocketed actually since.\nInvestors often poopoo cryptocurrency for the incredibly unpredictable markets. With volatility, though, comes drastically increased income margins. In less-than-6-months, bitcoin has increase in price by significantly more than 1,000%.\nTo many it’s a sure indication of a bubble. To the others, it is a special opportunity to make a bundle in a brief period of times.\nBut let us stage back for a second. Contemplate it with regards to economics. Whenever you search at a source and need data, you see that as source increases, need decreases. And as present decreases, demand increases.\nThat is recognized as an inverse relationship.\nDemand is established through something called “scarcity “.Scarcity means to stay small supply. Contemplate it like water in a draught. There is small water available, and thus demand considerably increases.\nOn the flip side, rain during a monsoon is in extreme excess. And people need nothing to do with more water.\nThey’re examples you see in true to life, but let us search at scarcity, with regards to crypto.\nThere will just actually be 21 million bitcoins mined. On earth, you will find about 33 million millionaires.\nEven though comprar criptomoneda bitcoin of those millionaires needs a complete bitcoin, it’s impossible. You will find not enough bitcoins to get around.\nScarcity develops demand.\nToday, in the United States (and other well-off countries), people don’t necessarily see bitcoin as such a thing besides an investment. But that attitude doesn’t consider people who are influenced by economic crises.\nContemplate Venezuela. They’re experiencing a lot more than 4,000% of inflation. Their fiat currency is actually useless. At the time of June 2015, there have been about 450 firms that recognized bitcoin. In November 2016, there have been more than 85,000 accepting the cryptocurrency.\nThat stat is really a year old, and Venezuela continues to be overwhelmed having an financial demise spiral. So, the quantity is definitely higher.\nIn reality, significantly more than 100,000 miners have entered the overall game in the country. Bitcoin is more secure the Venezuela’s fiat, and hence is seen as a viable type of currency.\nToday, we have observed bitcoin’s value in the eyes of the rich, and we have observed its value in the eyes of the in economic crises.\nTherefore to answer your question, yes. Bitcoin is worth considering being an investment.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "GREEN STUFF / WEST BAY\nPublished 4:00 am, Wednesday, March 8, 2006\nDocent-Guided Botanic Garden Tours 2 p.m. Sat -Sun. Call for details. Regional Parks Botanic Garden, Wildcat Canyon Rd. and South Park Dr., Tilden Park, Berkeley. (510) 841-8732. www.nativeplants.org.\nEcoCareer Day for High School Students Includes lunch and giveaways. Pre-registration is required. 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Sat. Free. Crissy Field Center, Bldg. 603, Mason and Halleck streets, the Presidio, S.F. (415) 561-7752.\nLATEST SFGATE VIDEOS\n- Could you live in a remodeled school bus? Alix Martichoux / SFGATE\n- Kevin Durant on Capela’s “We’re Better” claim San Francisco Chronicle\n- SFPD releases video of choke attack San Francisco Police Department\n- 161 Gilbert St., San Francisco Blue Sky Films\n- Newsreel: \"Danger Women at Work\" Getty Images\n- The joy of powder at Squaw Valley on Jan. 21, 2018 @AEngerbretson / Twitter / Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows)\n- Santa Cruz County Sheriff looking for suspect in Toys 'R Us theft Santa Cruz County Sheriff\n- 2018 Women's March in San Francisco Martin do Nascimento\n- San Jose Women's March 2018 Josh Koehn\n- The Regulars: Godmother of Ganja Liz Hafalia, Manjula Varghese, San Francisco Chronicle\nGarden Class for the Home Gardener With Denise Ward. 9 a.m.-noon Sat. $45. Passanisi Nursery, 8270 Petaluma Hill Rd., Penngrove. (707) 769-8237.\nGrowing Food in San Francisco 10 a.m.-noon Sat. Free. Garden for the Environment, Seventh Ave. at Lawton St., S.F. (415) 731-5627.\nHummingbird Day 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. Free. Arboretum, Horticulture Building, UC Santa Cruz. (831) 427-2998.\nMarch Plant Sale Featuring plants ready for early spring planting. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat. San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum, Ninth Ave. and Lincoln Way, Golden Gate Park, S.F. (415) 661-1316; www.sfbotanicalgarden.org.\nPinole Garden Club With Rose Lovell. 1 p.m. Tues. Public Safety Bldg., Alex Clark Room, 880 Tennent Ave., Pinole. (510) 235-9056.\nPower of the Sun Documentary. 7 p.m. Thurs. $6-$8. Rialto Cinemas Lakeside, 551 Summerfield Rd., Santa Rosa. (707) 539-9771.\nSpring Daffodil Show 1-5 p.m. Sat. Free. Alden Lane Nursery, 981 Alden Ln., Livermore. (925) 447-0280.\nVolunteer for the Marin Agricultural Land Trust A daylong training session for new and returning volunteers. Call for details and registration. Sat. Dance Palace Community Center, 503 B St., Point Reyes Station. (415) 663-1338. www.malt.org.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sage Tullis, also known online as GtfoSage, is a popular American YouTuber. When her YouTube video titled “Tumblr Inspired Tutorial” received one million views, she rose to fame. There have been over 2.4 million views of the video. Since it launched on October 21st, 2014, GtfoSage’s YouTube channel “okaysage” has amassed more than 40 million views. ‘okaysage’ is one of the fastest growing YouTube channels in America, with more than 900,000 subscribers. On a number of other social media sites, including Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr, GtfoSage is also well-known. Her Twitter and Instagram profiles have amassed more than 20,000 and 550,000 followers, respectively, thanks to her lovely writing and images. Her Tumblr profile is the place for her followers to go if they feel like they haven’t seen enough of her because the microblogging site is filled with her emotive photos.\nChildhood and Career\nSage Tullis, better known as GtfoSage, was born in San Luis Obispo, California, on April 11, 2001. She showed an early interest in gadgets and gizmos, which eventually introduced her to the realm of social media.\nWhen she was barely 13 years old, she started using social media. She first started a YouTube channel before signing up for Instagram and Twitter. A young and naive GtfoSage had to deal with cyberbullies who were trying to take advantage of her shortly after joining social media. They began tormenting her online, with some even urging her to commit suicide!\nMany of these bullies were overcome by GtfoSage, who went on to win admirers and supporters. Her maturity and her conduct on social media were commended by the public. They also thought her videos to be entertaining, which led to her gaining YouTube channel subscribers.\nAfter two years on YouTube, GtfoSage became well-known as a social media celebrity when her video titled “Tumblr Inspired Tutorial” received one million views. Even when other YouTube stars started imitating her actions, GtfoSage started to dominate the spotlight.\nShe subsequently started publishing a number of cosmetic lessons, which were well-liked by the audience. Everyday Makeup Tutorial, Everyday Makeup Routine, and Natural Makeup Routine are just a few of her videos that have amassed millions of viewers.\nDue to the high number of views, GtfoSage began to post more videos about makeup. When her YouTube channel surpassed the 500,000 subscriber threshold, she became a star. She later started posting vlogs and story time videos, which greatly boosted her fame and led to her working with other YouTube stars.\nAdditionally, as her Instagram account gathered a large number of followers, her popularity on Instagram was moving in the correct way. With more than 550,000 followers as of right now, her account is bursting at the seams with her incredible pictures and videos. The majority of her photographs are self-portraits, although a handful also include Celine, her pet dog.\nGtfoSage quickly rose to fame on the microblogging site Tumblr, which allows users to submit photos that are meant to be indicative of who they are. She didn’t just publish mouthwatering photos on Tumblr; she also used the knowledge she gathered there to make engaging videos on YouTube. In actuality, it took her video called “Tumblr Inspired Tutorial” a million views on YouTube before she started to gain popularity.\nShe is linked to the well-known cosmetics and beauty company “Sephora Collection.” On her social media channels, she has highlighted a variety of “Sephora Collection” products. Additionally, she posed for a photo shoot where she modeled for the company.\nIndividual Life of GtfoSage\nGtfoSage declared that she was single on her Twitter page on February 18, 2017. She added that she enjoys spending time with her buddies. She is close friends with Catherine Davidson, another online personality. In a handful of her YouTube videos, like “Testing the World’s Most Painful Mask,” Catherine has made an appearance.\nThe well-known English-Irish boy band “One Direction” is a favorite of GtfoSage. She frequently discusses the band on her Twitter and Instagram profiles. Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, the band’s lead singers, come up frequently in her remarks. Her posts very much make it clear that she is a great Harry Styles fan.\nShe revealed her romance with renowned American singer Jacob Sartorius on her Twitter page on June 26, 2016. She tweeted again shortly after to clarify that she was joking.\nGtfoSage Net Worth\nOne of the wealthiest and most well-known YouTube stars is GtfoSage. Our research of Wikipedia, Forbes, and Business Insider revealed that GtfoSage has a net worth of $5 million.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Cameron Tolle was the Director of Digital Action for Freedom to Marry, where he led the organization’s digital strategy for state campaigns across the country. Over five years, he directed digital programs in more than 25 states, including several key marriage victories in Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon and Rhode Island. He was also crucial in shaping and executing the digital programs for the first-ever marriage wins at the ballot box in Maine and Washington in 2012.\nCameron’s expertise led to him being a sought-after trainer, panelist, and presenter on digital media and campaigning. He has appeared at conferences and trainings across the country to help translate his experience into more wins for LGBT causes large and small. Following his work with Freedom to Marry, he became the Digital Director of Freedom for All Americans, the bipartisan campaign to secure non-discrimination protections for LGBT Americans nationwide.\nCameron is a native of Kansas City, Missouri and graduated cum laude from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio with an Honors BA in Philosophy, Politics, & the Public and an emphasis in Gender & Diversity studies. He now lives in Brooklyn, NY.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Navigating the Changing Landscape of Ease of Doing Business in India: Insights for Finance Professionals\nIndia has made significant strides in improving the ease of doing business in the country over the past few years. The government’s efforts to simplify regulations, reduce bureaucracy, and promote entrepreneurship have created a conducive environment for businesses to thrive. As finance professionals, it is crucial to stay informed about the changing landscape of ease of doing business in India and understand the opportunities and challenges it presents.\nThe World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index ranks countries based on ten indicators, including starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and resolving insolvency. India has made remarkable progress in several of these areas, particularly in getting electricity and resolving insolvency cases.\nThe introduction of several reforms, such as the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code and the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax, has contributed to India’s rise in the ease of doing business rankings. The government has also made efforts to simplify and digitize various processes, such as the introduction of the online single window system for obtaining various licenses and permits. However, there is still room for improvement in areas such as dealing with construction permits, registering property, and trading across borders.\nOne of the significant challenges businesses face in India is the complexity of the regulatory environment. Despite the government’s efforts to simplify regulations, there are still numerous regulations and compliance requirements that businesses need to navigate. Finance professionals can play a crucial role in ensuring compliance with regulations by providing advisory and consulting services, helping businesses understand and comply with regulations.\nAnother challenge is the bureaucracy and red tape involved in obtaining licenses and permits. Finance professionals can help businesses navigate the process by providing support in obtaining the necessary licenses and permits, ensuring compliance with regulations and providing advisory services.\nThe introduction of technology in various processes has also created new opportunities for finance professionals. The government’s efforts to digitize various processes have created a demand for professionals with expertise in technology, such as data analytics and cybersecurity. Finance professionals can leverage technology to improve their services and create new opportunities for themselves and their clients.\nIn conclusion, the changing landscape of ease of doing business in India presents both opportunities and challenges for finance professionals. While the government’s efforts to simplify regulations and streamline processes have led to improvements in several areas, there is still room for improvement in areas such as dealing with construction permits, registering property, and trading across borders. Finance professionals can play a crucial role in facilitating and streamlining the process for businesses, ensuring compliance with regulations, and leveraging technology to create new opportunities.\nI welcome feedback and suggestions from other finance professionals on how they are navigating the changing landscape of ease of doing business in India and contributing to the growth of businesses in the country. Please feel free to reach out to me at email@example.com or call me at 8377829627 with any suggestions or questions.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Don't forget to vote for our community witness:\nHere is quick link\nto vote if you want to support dPoll.\nView profile at\nRecent Polls of freebornangel\nIf you had the choice of what kind of planet to live on, which would you choose?\non Feb. 2, 2019, 12:33 a.m.\nShould we allow the memory hole to prevail?\non Dec. 31, 2018, 1:37 p.m.\nIs rule by force your prefered method to rule over others?\non Nov. 5, 2018, 7:31 p.m.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "SpecialityFlorida Secretary of Commerce, President & CEO, Enterprise Florida, Inc.\nBiographyAs President & CEO, Jamal Allen Sowell leads Enterprise Florida, Inc. (EFI), the principal economic development organization for Florida. With his team, Sowell works closely with economic development partners and private-sector businesses across the state to strengthen and diversify Florida’s economy. Prior to joining EFI, Sowell served as Chief of Staff for Port Tampa Bay, Florida’s largest port by acreage and a key economic engine in the Tampa Bay region, generating $17.2B of total economic value. During his time in Tampa Bay, Sowell was appointed to the Pinellas County Economic Development Council which helps develop programs for economic development and trade opportunities for the Pinellas community. Sowell also served as Special Assistant to then-University of Florida (UF) President Dr. Bernie Machen and as Assistant Corporate Secretary for the UF Board of Trustees. Sowell is a sixth-generation Floridian and veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom Afghanistan. Sowell served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and active duty, enlisting as a Private First Class and combat engineer, and was eventually commissioned, completing his time as a Captain. His roles included stinger missile platoon commander, company executive officer, anti-terrorism force protection officer, electronic warfare officer, martial arts instructor and officer-in-charge of a Reserve Tank Unit. Sowell obtained a Masters of Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He also earned a law degree and graduate certificate in constitutional design from Indiana University Bloomington Maurer School of Law, where he was a Pat Tillman Scholar. Sowell has worked for Congressman Todd Young and Shurat HaDin, a Non-Governmental Organization in Israel. The Federalist Society selected him as editor for the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy Symposium. Then-Indiana Governor Mike Pence appointed Sowell to a state board regulating health facility administrators. Sowell holds a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from the University of Florida, where he was UF Student Body President, Vice Chairman of the Florida Students Association and member of the UF Board of Trustees. He was awarded the UF Outstanding Male Leader Award, inducted into the UF Hall of Fame, received the UF Outstanding Young Alumni Award and currently sits on the UF Alumni Association Board of Directors.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Michael Jackson Thriller (HIStory)\nCreated: 19/03/2014 at 1:39 AM\nUpdated: 13/03/2017 at 3:00 AM\nReturn to the blog of PROFSATYA\nWith 1000% the WHO's safety limit for particulate matter, China's pollution is out of control. Unfortunately, only 3 of 74 cities are working to fix it...\n#Posted on Wednesday, 09 April 2014 at 1:02 AM\nDesign by the-skyrock-team - Choose this background\nSubscribe to my blog! (2 subscribers)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Manager, Program Operations, Career Pathways\nJennifer Cortez has joined the Youth Career Pathway Program team in the role of Manager, Program Operations. Jennifer Cortez was born and raised in Harlem, NY and is one of nine children. Growing up in the inner city motivated her to become an advocate for education reform. Her love of learning and growing commitment to young people led her to work as a Program Coordinator with public schools across NYC. As a part of the new Youth Career Pathway team, Jennifer is excited to work with more young people across schools in the South Bronx. Jennifer loves cooking for friends and family and is a certified swim instructor.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This report “Reclaiming the Smart City: Personal Data, Trust and the New Commons” was recently published by Nesta, as part of DECODE (DEcentralised Citizen Owned Data Ecosystems), a major EU Horizon 2020 project. Addressing some of the major flaws in how traditional smart city projects have approached data collection and use, it focuses on how and why city governments are taking a more responsible approach to the use of personal data.\nWatch: Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities\nThis report “Digital Democracy: The tools transforming political engagement” published by Nesta, aims at providing useful insights on the use of digital technologies by governments, municipal authorities or political parties in order to engage citizens in decision-making. Based on lessons from Nesta’s research, it is focused on examples of pioneering innovation in digital democracy across Europe and beyond today.\nThis report, published by Nesta, provides an introduction to collective intelligence in government. It aims to be useful and relevant to governments of countries at very different levels of development. It highlights the ways in which governments are better understanding the world around them, drawing on ideas and expertise from their citizens, and encouraging greater scrutiny of their actions.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "IHSA Competitive Cheerleading State Finals\nThere will be 100 teams in competition. Preliminary rounds will be held on Friday and championship rounds will be held on Saturday.\nFriday, February 1, 2019 - Saturday, February 2, 2019\nGrossinger Motors Arena\n101 S. Madison Street", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We’re living during a digital age where technology has had a transformative effect on the way we live and work. Slowly and steadily, technology has been making strides in revolutionizing methods of learning and teaching. Technology-enabled curriculum and smart boards have long replaced traditional blackboards and two-dimensional textbook images. As we enter the subsequent generation of media transformation, AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality) are getting the most well-liked topics in education technology. Before we understand their impact on education and learning, let’s check out what these technologies are Education System.\nWhen we first hear the words AR and VR, the primary thought that involves the mind is games. this is often because AR and VR technology has been extensively utilized in the gaming arena. Remember the recognition of the AR game “Pokemon GO” which became a worldwide sensation with over 100 million users at its peak in 2016. the sport used Augmented Reality, also referred to as AR. Augmented Reality is that the results of using technology to superimpose digital elements — sounds, images, and text to the planet we see employing a tablet, smart eyeglass, or a smartphone camera.\nThe computer game is significantly more complex with an immersive, three-dimensional, computer-generated environment that can be explored and interacted with by an individual. rather than projecting the pictures and sounds on a true environment, computer game uses a VR headset to immerse users on the 360-degree environment they need to be in.\nVR and AR in Education ( Education System )\nThe education industry has typically been slow in embracing new technologies. However, during this ever-changing world, it’s vital that the industry implement new technologies like AR and VR to remain relevant. By creating an immersive and interactive learning experience without the utilization of textbooks, AR and VR technology empowers learners to explore and learn at their own pace, thus stimulating learning and comprehension and enhances critical retention.\nVR and AR-based apps for education, that combine digital technologies and learning, improve the tutorial process, and permit students to accumulate information visually. These technologies provide a solid base to enhance the education process. for instance, a learner can study jungle animals by taking an expedition through a digital jungle employing a smartphone app, simple cardboard VR glasses, and earphones.\nWithout having to exit the classroom or their home, students are exposed to completely new and active learning environments. Teachers could teach subjects like Physics, Chemistry, and Biology through virtual labs that not just keeps students engaged but also allows them to practice before they will test the experiments in real laboratories. Students of drugs can study the precision of anatomy, learn the intricacies of surgery, and simulate medical situations for practice.\nHere are a number of the key benefits of using AR and VR technology in education and learning.\n*Facilitates student learning through gamification and interactivity\n* Keeps students engaged even while learning difficult topics\n* Enhances creativity\n*Fosters increased collaboration\n*Can be used for practical training\n*Expanded teaching possibilities with 3D design, modeling, and presentations\nWhile VR can deliver the wholesome experience, AR in education are often used as a supplementary tool to textbook learning. No wonder, from giants like Google and Microsoft to startups like EON Reality, Nearpod and Unimersiv, are focused on providing tailored VR experiences. In India, companies are integrating AR/VR technologies for nursery to eighth-grade curriculums for youngsters mapping the AR/VR journeys with course content for various subjects.\nAR and VR Technology ( Education System )\nOne of the common challenges of using augmented reality technology is that there’s a struggle to use the new technologies by teachers. Moreover, not all students have smartphones capable of supporting AR content. computer games, on the opposite hand, face completely different challenges. High costs of hardware, accessibility, and lack of quality content are a number of the constraints that have kept VR from being the breakthrough technology in education.\nAccording to a report by Goldman Sachs, in 2020 the revenue for VR/AR educational software would be around $300 million and this figure is predicted to grow to $700 million by 2025. As investments still rise, the standard of content improves, and therefore the cost of hardware decreases, the technology is now accessible to educational institutes worldwide. The AR/VR technology has the potential of being the most important breakthrough within the education system within the 21st century. it might help students take a step faraway from memorization and exams and permit them to find out through active participation and knowledge. It’s important that the tutorial institutions study aspects of AR and VR technology to seek out the proper tools to form the difference within the learning experience of scholars.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|HQ||Dallas, TX, US|\nPerot Jain has 356 Twitter Followers. The number of followers has decreased 0.3% month over month and increased 1.1% quarter over quarter\nWhen was Perot Jain founded?\nPerot Jain was founded in 2014.\nWho are Perot Jain key executives?\nPerot Jain's key executives are Ross Perot, Anurag Jain and Joe Beard.\nWhere are Perot Jain offices?\nPerot Jain has an office in Dallas.\nHow many offices does Perot Jain have?\nPerot Jain has 1 office.\nReceive alerts for 300+ data fields across thousands of companies", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Matt Molloy Irish musician\n|Birthday||Sunday, January 12, 1947|\n|Countdown||Days left until next birthday: 262|\n|Age||71 years old|\nAbout Matt Molloy\nMatt Molloy (71 years old) (born 12 January 1947 Ballaghaderreen County Roscommon) is an Irish musician from a region known for producing talented flautists. As a child he began playing the flute and won the All-Ireland Flute Championship at only seventeen years old.\nWhen is Matt Molloy's birthday?\nMatt Molloy was born on the , which was a Sunday. Matt Molloy will be turning 72 in only 262 days from today.\nHow old is Matt Molloy?\nMatt Molloy is 71 years old. To be more precise, the current age as of right now is 26036 days, 16 hours, 3 minutes and 26 seconds.\nWhat is Matt Molloy's zodiac sign?\nMatt Molloy's zodiac sign is Capricorn.\nIs Matt Molloy still alive?\nYes, Matt Molloy is still alive.\nTags: Person, Q215627, Q5, DUL.Agent, DUL.NaturalIrishFlautists, LivingPeople, Artist109812338, CausalAgent100007347, Creator109614315, Entertainer109616922, Flutist110098245, LivingThing100004258, Musician110339966, Musician110340312,\nBorn today (25 April)\nToday, Monty Panesar is 36 years old\nToday, Ben Bridwell is 40 years old\nBen Johnston (Scottish musician)\nToday, Ben Johnston (Scottish musician) is 38 years old\nToday, Ben Wilkinson is 31 years old\nToday, Bernard Rajzman is 61 years old\nToday, Bernhard Tritscher is 30 years old\nToday, Bertrand Tavernier is 77 years old\nToday, Bill Fontana is 71 years old\nBilly Rankin (guitarist)\nToday, Billy Rankin (guitarist) is 59 years old\nToday, Björn Ulvaeus is 73 years old\nToday, Bobby Pulido is 47 years old\nToday, Boris Ebzeyev is 68 years old\nToday, Brandon Mendelson is 35 years old\nToday, Brandon Yip is 33 years old\nToday, Breyton Paulse is 42 years old\nToday, Brian Barton is 36 years old\nToday, Brian Pumper is 37 years old", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Nordgreen: Scandinavian Watches\nNordgreen is a new Scandinavian watch brand born out of Copenhagen. Following a successful Kickstarter campaign which raised $250k, the venture capital backed start-up has officially launched 16 global websites with a 25% commission rate for all affiliates.\nNordgreen has partnered with the renowned Jakob Wagner, designer of B&O headsets, to capture the minimalist design that Scandinavia is famous for.\nNordgreen is offering all affiliates a 25% commission for the first 3 months, dropping to 15% from there.\nTags: accessories, fashion, incentive, offer, program launch", "label": "No"}
{"text": "25% off for Fairtrade Fortnight\nWhy choose Fairtrade?\nRight now, millions of hardworking farmers in developing countries aren’t paid enough to support their families. Yet every day, they provide food we eat and products we depend on.\nTheir children often go hungry and can’t go to school. Some are forced to work. They have no choice.\nCommunities are trapped in poverty, unable to pay for wells and water pumps. They drink dirty water and can’t afford to visit the doctor when they become sick.\nAbout 795 million people are undernourished globally (FAO, IFAD and WFP, 2015); Half of the world’s hungriest people are smallholder farmers themselves (Powering Up Smallholder Farmers to make food fair, Fairtrade Foundation Report 2013)\nLack of food security is one of the world’s most critical issues. It's so important that we in the UK help drive a real change for the farming communities who need it most.\nFairtrade means many producers and workers are able to do what we take for granted – put enough food on the table for themselves and the people they care about, all year round. We have been campaigning for Fairtrade for 2 years and have learnt what a difference it makes for the world’s most vulnerable communities by making farming viable and generating vital economic benefits.\nBy choosing Fairtrade products, we’re saying that no one deserves to be short-changed for a hard day’s work. And that it’s wrong to benefit from farmers being paid unfairly.\nWe have the power to make that choice.\nFairtrade works with 1.5 million farmers and workers in parts of Africa, Asia and Latin and Central America enabling them to earn a sustainable income and the Fairtrade Premium that they can invest in community, business and environmental projects.\nAdam Gardner, Communities Campaigns Manager for the Fairtrade Foundation said: “Farming is the backbone of the world. It’s simply wrong that whilst farmers work hard to produce what we eat so many of them should go hungry themselves.\n“Shoppers in the UK can change this by making choices that help ensure food security for farming communities in developing countries; be it buying Fairtrade or campaigning against trade policies that can disadvantage farmers.\nFairtrade Fortnight is an annual campaign aiming to get shoppers, campaigners and businesses in the UK talking, thinking about and buying Fairtrade.\nWe aim to be 100% Fairtrade throughout our supply chain. By purchasing from us you are supporting Fairtrade farmers and artisans. If you would like to find out more about Fairtrade or would like to get involved click here. Offer valid until 12/03/17.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "10 Essential Cookbooks for College Students\nMake Mom and Dad proud by learning how to fend for yourself! These top cookbooks are chock full of recipes perfectly suited for twentysomething Millennials and dorm-dwellers.\nKeep in mind: Price and stock could change after publish date, and we may make money from these affiliate links.\nJuly 29, 2019", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Do you know an independent pharmacist who is an exceptional leader? Please tell us about it. NCPA is seeking nominations for the Willard B. Simmons Independent Pharmacist of the Year Award. The winner of the award, which is sponsored by Upsher-Smith, will be announced at the NCPA Annual Convention, Oct. 17-20, in Nashville, Tenn. Deadline for nominations is July 13. Here's the nomination form.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Say Her Name\nInspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to the victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. Elliott engages poets from the past two centuries to create a chorus of voices celebrating the creativity, resilience, and courage of Black women and girls.\nThis collection features 49 powerful poems, four of which are tribute poems inspired by the works of Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, and Phillis Wheatley.\nThis book is recommended for age 12 and up.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|Ticket for the Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals are on sale now, and the 2014 scheduled price increase goes into effect on February 1st. Order now to save!\nThe 2014 Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals will be held July 18-20th.\nVIP Experience Passes to the Finishline Club will be available at this time, as well.\nClick Here to see the 2014 Mile High Nationals Renwal Order Form.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "And really big breasts are more popular now, he said, because of the availability of silicone implants, which the FDA okayed in As the political crisis in Sudan worsens, global humanitarian organizations have turned to social media to raise both awareness and money. Prisoners of the Woodford lockdown: Home improvements on hold, holidays cancelled, fears over care bills The six-time Emmy nominee dressed her famously curvaceous 5ft7in figure in a modest black lace cocktail creation and matching pumps selected by stylist Lawren Sample.\nNina, independent. Age: 31. Would you like to experience a relaxing wonderful erotic massage, soothing your entire body into a blissful tranquility? Services: Girlfriend Experience (GFE),Handjob,Deepthroat,69,Massage and more,Anal Sex (Greek),Sex Between Breasts,Erotic Massage,French Kissing,ORAL SEX and ALL your Fantasy.\nredhead – Celebrity leaked nude pictures, hacked phone images\nA young black bear was killed after it had been spotted several times near Henry Hagg Lake in Oregon, state wildlife officials said. To tell you the truth, the character dramatically changed from Kathleen to Christina. Jump to: navigation , search. Most watched News videos Parenting Father pranks daughter with new short shorts BBC grills MP on why Boris refuses to say how many kids he has Clumsy baby elephant takes tumble after playfully chasing dogs Thames Valley Police car blocked by van on the M4 for over a mile Youths cause chaos outside Westfield Stratford shopping centre O. It was thanks to a woman, Sonora Smart Dodd, who in proposed a day to celebrate fathers, like the widowed Civil War veteran who'd raised Dodd and her five brothers. She now wants to donate it to kids in hospitals who need it. Trump will win in \"an electoral landslide\".\nHot Ginger Porn Videos\nHackers are active, so busty Kat Dennings nude private pics are leaked to the internet. Shirley Manson is the lead vocal singer of the band Garbage which composes songs ofthe alternative rock genre. Alcohol will be sold with strict health labels under any Labour government detailing content in units and Jun 8 58 photos.\nComedian Tim Allen, star of the hit sitcom \"Home improvement\" and the voice of Buzz Lightyear in the \"Toy Story\" animated films, talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about the difficult past including the loss of his father to a drunk driver that led to a stellar standup career; the struggles with addiction problems that almost ended it all; and the happiness of being sober for more than 20 years. Mystery solved! Hackers are active, so busty Kat Dennings nude private pics are leaked to the internet. They're so out of their comfort zone and yet they're fully committed'. Naomi Watts looks incredibly chic as she steps out in a red and white dress while running errands in New York Kathy Griffin shares a touching tribute to the late Gloria Vanderbilt Next interview hollywood sex archives", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Senior Administrative Director\nMrs. Fitzgerald joined All-Pro Electric in 2012 as an Administrative Director bringing her leadership skills and vast knowledge of office management to the company All-Pro. Linda’s administrative, accounting, contract and legal expertise as well as her many professional resources has helped make All-Pro as successful as it is within the electrical industry. Her efforts continue to streamline All-Pro’s office efficiency. With Linda’s dedication to the success of All-Pro, the company has and continues to grow to be the exceptional electrical construction company that it is today.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "XY Chelsea tells the historic story of whistleblower Chelsea Manning, whose 35-year sentence in an all-male maximum security prison was commuted by President Obama in 2017. The film follows Chelsea Manning as she leaves prison after seven years inside, and begins a new life, whilst at the same time having to deal with the far-reaching consequences of her past.\nThis screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Joshua Oppenheimer via Skype.\nIn this multi-award winning companion piece to The Act of Killing, filmed before its release, Joshua Oppenheimer further explores the terrible legacy of the Indonesian genocide fifty years ago, this time through the lens of one family.\nBelarus is governed by Europe’s last dictator, Alexander Lukashenko. In the run-up to the 2010 presidential election and for a year afterwards, filmmaker Madeleine Sackler followed the trials and tribulations of Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theatre company based in Minsk and led by Natalia and Nikolai. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Madeleine Sackler via Skype.\nUnique, uplifting and heartbreaking, The Network tells the story of Afghanistan’s first independent television network – TOLO TV – and the people behind it. With over 800 Afghans employed producing news, current affairs, drama, comedy, music, and lifestyle programmes, the whole team face their biggest challenge with the impending withdrawal of foreign troops. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Eva Orner.\nWith the epic dimensions of a Shakespearean tragedy, The Queen of Versailles began as a documentary chronicling the excesses of America’s super-rich, but when in 2008 the global recession hit it became a disastrous riches to rags story. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Lauren Greenfield.\nDocuments the courageous efforts of Uganda’s first openly gay man David Kato and his fellow LGBT activists.\nTickets: Book online on the Curzon’s website.\nWhat will a big corporation do in order to protect its brand? Swedish filmmaker Fredik Gertten personally experienced how far one was prepared to go in the aftermath of releasing his previous film Bananas!*. That first documentary follows the lawsuit that 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers successfully brought against the fruit giant Dole Food Company. Just before Gertten left Sweden to attend the world premier of his film at the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival, the film is mysteriously removed from competition.\nJon Shenk’s The Island President tells the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced – the literal survival of his country and everyone in it.\nAfter bringing democracy to the Maldives following thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1,200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable.\nPosition Among the Stars completes director Leonard Retel Helmrich‘s multi award-winning trilogy following an Indonesian family from the slums of Jakarta.\nThe film follows Tari, the only educated child of the family, as she struggles with the impulses of becoming a teenager with their expectations of her as their hope for a better future.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Thank God Sean Penn admitted our military was doing good work in Haiti. We can only hope that Hugo finds a new place to stay.\nBut there is a deeper unspeakable truth being revealed here by Penn, which is that the left never recognizes an american humanitarian effort, until Anderson Cooper saves a black kid on camera.\nUnlike Bush’s aids relief for Africa, this American act of kindness cannot go over looked by the left. Why? Because unfortunately while sick Africans got buried underground, the Haitians were buried above it.\nIts a truth that transforms this doorstep disaster into an inconvenient catastrophe for a relativist ideology that only counts an American act of nobility when it takes place in their own backyard, a place too close to invite Hugo Chavez and the communist consensus that continues to be preoccupied with labeling the humanitarian effort as an imperialist occupation.\nAnd it kinda sheds some light on how liberals have convinced the world that America is evil, by manipulating the emotional disconnect that naturally exists between the hearing of a tragedy and actual witness of it.\nJust think about it. If Americans were able to see innocent Iraqi women being raped beaten and executed, liberals would rethink using the war as a political tool. If activist judges were forced to actually witness the ass-rape of the victimized kids that sit in their courtroom, they would probably rethink just giving probation. And If we could meet the millions of Africans who love America for the lives that our taxdollars helped save, I’m sure we would even view ourselves a bit different.\nBut Lib elites like Penn only buckle to reason when they witness a reality that cannot hide in a cave or womb. Becoming enlightened with the logic of Americas greatness only covers up for what he should really say, which is that his leftist worldview is completely upside down, maybe even that Evil Bush Hitler wasn’t all that bad.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "47,725 or about 8% of the homeless population are veterans and 50% of the homeless people are over 50 years old in the U.S. Homelessness is an unsatisfactory issue that we as humans do not see the importance of the help they need. In our community, we take things for granted and not worry about the importance of helping others. The unfortunate people living in the streets have passed through difficult times and appreciate small or big things. Homeless is a person without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets. Some homeless people have become abusive of drugs, alcohol, and other different type of drugs. Homelessness is a major problem in our society. Homelessness contaminates our city, makes our city look dirty, and it is priority to fix this problem.\nHow do people view homeless people in public places like the park? Do they run away? Do they stare? Do they walk up to them and offer them a hot meal or money? What faces do they give them? Is it a frown or a smile? Unfortunately, there are millions who go without a proper place to sleep every night (1 pg 5). You will find these people sleeping in abandon cars, on the street, on park beaches, and even in hallway buildings. Anywhere they are able to find a place to sleep they will. I decided to do my observation study on how people react when they see homeless people in public places like the park. Why are they looked down on so negatively? These people that we are throwing to the side like yesterday trash is someone’s mother, father, brother, sister, or friend. We are simply ignoring them.\nMany homeless individuals have stories to tell about how they ended up homeless. Some of them became homeless due to drug addiction. Some of them chose the life they did because it felt commendable at the moment, and they did not think about the future. While I was volunteering, I had the opportunity to meet with a few homeless individuals and they told me their experiences about how they manage to survive throughout the year. It was sad that most of them can’t control their circumstances because there are other complex reasons why they became homeless\nImage being homeless, and not having a stable dwelling to call home. For a majority of people throughout the United States reality is true for these Americans. For example, waking up every day, not knowing where your next meal will come from; having to asking strangers for a few dollars, to get something to eat and drink. For instance, Crisis, the homeless charity, Perhaps this week has been active for 50 years says 114,780 people were homeless in England during two-thousand fifth-teen and two-thousand six-teen. Perhaps as many as 34,500 people sleep rough in England in any year around 4,000 a night. Crisis says that for every rough sleeper, there are 100 people in hotels, and 1,100 households in bed and breakfast and over- crowded accommodations. (\" Financial Times, 22 April 2017). So what is the right reaction when someone in need asks for money on the street? In an interview last month, Pope Francis suggested the answer was to give without hesitation; but many charities beg to differ. Thames Reach, which supports homeless people and rough sleepers in London through the Street Rescue service and hotels. Thames Reach is adamant that people should not give cash to beggars. Providing cities with overwhelming evidence\" that shows eighty percent of people begging do so to support a drug habit. Being homelessness has an emotional appeal to consider, simply because as society we don't know what paths of problems arise through -out our lives. ( Thames Reach).\nIn the United States, homeless people have become a problem phase, as many people view the homeless as a menace to our society. The New Orleans Mission, Volunteers of America, and Ozanam Inn are non-profit organizations that provide services to people who are homeless. The group of people that are included in the category of homeless people includes veterans, people who are mentally ill, families who have lost their job, single parents, or runaway children. The New Orleans Mission, Volunteers of America, and Ozanam Inn are working to address issues of homelessness through cooperations and education.\nOn a cold rainy Saturday in December, just two days before Christmas, in 2006 Andy Sandness set out to do some grocery shopping on his day off from work. Everything was going as planned until an announcement came over the speaker at Piggly Wiggly saying “Attention shoppers please do not panic and take cover immediately.” Naturally panic immediately broke out all over the store as gunshots rang through the produce aisle. Babies were crying, mothers were covering their children, elderly people were struggling to move to a safe place, and food was flooding the aisles. Sandness, a local rancher and volunteer firefighter/emt sprung into action. He alerted authorities and located the shooter. “A million thoughts ran through my mind in the seconds\nWhat do you think Homelessness/Poverty is? Why is the circumstances like? And how can we get out of Poverty? In today’s society Homelessness is simply defined as the absence of a place to live. So now that we know what is Homelessness we can think of many things such as houses, finance and the current environment. Approximately, 235,000 Canadians experience homelessness each year. The number of homelessness people, and the length of time they spend homeless, continues to rise. You can be wondering why do people come in Homelessness but the thinking realistic Homelessness is not a choice; anyone can become homeless. Although the root cause is Poverty, underlying issues include; poor physical or mental health, violence or abuse in the home, lack of employment or income, and a shortage of affordable housing. We as human beings can only help them and support; I have seen some people who don’t even value the people living on the street and asking for food or money. Toronto is the capital of Canada, and in Toronto we will see a lot of people who are in this situation. In the past 25 years, there has been a 450% increase in the number of youth shelter beds in Toronto. Living in a Poverty is no fun, it feels like you're living in a jail. I feel bad for those who don’t even have shelters or clothes to put on. I will share an example of mine; when I went to Toronto I seen a man sitting on the ground with dirty and ripped clothes on and he had a bowl asking people to give him money. So there are people who are really in this situation and some pretending to be. But in my point of view, So I would just say don’t just think about yourself but think about others who are suffering.\nAstonishingly, 564,708 people are currently homeless in the United States, according to Social Solutions (Social Solutions, 2016). The topic, “Living Poor,” has only become much more apparent in the news and in everyday life. Two essays, On Compassion by Barbara Lazear Ascher and On Dumpster Diving by Lars Eighner, can be evaluated as discussing two different aspects of the homeless situation in America. After close reading, On Compassion more effectively achieves its purpose of defining compassion than On Dumpster Diving, which describes the wasteful nature of mankind.\nIn the year 2020 the issue of the Homeless had become intolerable. An approximation of the annual number of homeless in america was between 80 million and 100 million people, with fifty percent being “chronic homeless”. It was costing more and more for their medical expenses, social services, and for the criminal justice system. Worst of all, all of these cost came out of our taxes! They were going to bankrupt all the middle class, and possibly drop the annual income of the millionaires by a few thousand dollars. The prisons were filling up with all these dirty, jobless vagrants. Taking all the cells away from real criminals. Prisons started having no choice but to release convicted felons early. Drug rates in cities were constantly rising, and with that came higher crime rates. It was becoming clear that the homeless were now the only people doing drugs or killing people. If we the people didn't do something soon our country would become as bad as Canada, or (God help us) France. Something needed to be done, so the government stepped in. Just like the perfect decision of the “Patriot Act” our government took this one into their own hands and decided that the\nThroughout New York or even the United States, there are many people who are homeless and without jobs to help them survive. Many mothers and fathers are struggling to keep their homes while others are already out in New York streets trying to seek help. Those who are already on the streets are seeking charity from others as the walk by them. And to stop this from ever happening there should be more shelters, jobs, and help/supporters.\nToday I will be talking about how to help homeless people in my community and how it’s a problem today. Today every corner you look around in Detroit, Michigan there is a homeless person in need, begging for help, asking for money, looking for shelter. It’s a big problem that we are trying to fix in the city of Detroit, not just detroit but the state of Michigan. There is approximately 86,189 homeless people in Michigan. 50 percent of those homeless in Michigan are adults, and children in families, and 69 percent of most homeless families are single mothers. The average age of a homeless person is 32.7 years old and the average age of a homeless child is 7.6 years old. There is a homeless shelter/halfway house in almost every city in michigan\nHomelessness is a serious problem in our society. Every night in our nation thousands of people are on the streets. This type of behavior is considered deviant because it does not reflect the norms and values of our society. In many cases the homeless people in our country are treated as total outcasts. Many of these people have severe mental disorders. Some are victims of an economy that has failed them. One may ask how such harsh situations exist in such an advanced society. With all the money and programs created to help people it seems ridiculous that this behavior exists. In a society where people have so much how is it possible that there are still people that have so little. The homeless are humans, no different than anyone else.\nThe homeless stand down was an eye-opener experience for me. I had the opportunity to interact with several individuals, and one family. Initially I conducted some interviews with them to help complete the questionnaire; and the remainder of the time, I escorted the individuals and helped them choose items that were necessary for them. As I talked to each of them, I realized that the present state of these individuals were a product of the current economic situations. According to the National Homeless Coalition (2009), work factors are one of the many reasons why individuals are homeless. One of the individuals that I spoke to informed me that he was working a regular nine to five job at a construction site, but now due to the\nHomelessness as an issue in today's society is largely ignored. To many, the problem of homelessness is invisible or barely noticed. When these people do see the homeless it is found in the form of beggars who need to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” or mentally ill people who “just can't help themselves”. In either case the central point remains; the homeless must be people who are incapable or unwilling to help themselves. After all, wouldn't they stop being homeless if they just tried? These sorts of rationalizations cover a more disturbing truth; that for many in today's society, the spectre of homelessness is more pressing of a problem than helping those who are already on the", "label": "No"}
{"text": "\"There was a time when I would have thought that being in a band meant sex, drugs and rock and roll. It would have been an aspiration originally. But, in a way, once I found myself in that situation, I wasn't so keen on it.\"\ndid you know\nThe song New Year's Day was U2's first top 10 hit in the UK.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A Brief History on the Origin of Christmas\nIt's officially December and the holiday season is in full effect. Every year people look forward to this merriest of seasons and celebrating Christmas with family and friends, exchanging gifts and watching the magic of the holidays envelope everyone.\nWith that being said though, how did we get to the point where we celebrate the holidays, particularly Christmas the way we do? Well just like every superhero or super villain, the Christmas holiday as we know it, has its own origin story.\nThousands of Years of History\nTo properly understand the origin of Christmas, it needs to be said that for thousands of years, the winter season has been a time for celebration. In particular, people would celebrate the winter solstice, the time of year when the darkest days of winter were now behind them and people could look forward to days being longer.\nFor example, people of Norse culture would celebrate \"Yule\" during this time and the celebrations could last for weeks. Father's and sons would bring logs and burn them and while the logs burned a massive celebration would ensue and it would continue until the fire died out.In addition, the winter time was also perfect time to have celebrations, because it was only time of the year where fresh meat was plentiful and it was also the time when alcohol made during the year was now ready for consumption.\nDifferent cultures also had different customs. For instance, ancient Romans celebrated \"Saturnalia\" for the god of agriculture, Saturn. These festivities would begin a week prior to the winter solstice and would continue for an entire month. Basically imagine Mardi Gras on steroids.\nThe Founding of Christmas\nThe Christmas that we celebrate today came to be thanks to Pope Julius I who selected December 25th as the day of celebration due to the fact that no record exists that actually states what day Jesus of Nazareth was actually born. It was also stated that...\nIt is commonly believed that the church chose this date in an effort to adopt and absorb the traditions of the pagan Saturnalia festival.\nWhether it was planned or not, by the middle ages Christianity would end up replacing the vast majority of pagan religious celebrations.\nChristmas As We Know it Today\nChristmas today was really established in America until the publishing of the holiday classic, \"A Christmas Carol\" by Charles Dickens. The story promoted the importance of being good and kind to people around you and in your community and those ideas began to spread through American and English society.\nIt was around this time that the traditions of giving gifts, decorating trees and even sending celebratory cards began. The repackaging and rebranding of Christmas in some aspects would be beneficial to a young American nation which lacked a culturally unifying link in its society.\nHere Comes Santa Claus\nOf course no analysis of Christmas could be complete without the holly jolly old fat man. Santa Claus is based on the real life person St. Nicholas, a monk who during his life gave away his possessions and went on to aid the poor and sick. He would become known as the protector of children and sailors.\nThe classic story \"Twas the Night Before Christmas\" was the story that introduced the world to the idea of Santa Claus. The classic image of Santa was not created until 1881 thanks to Cartoonist Thomas Nast who gave Santa his red suit, white beard, reindeer and all.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How Hot Is Mars?\nThe average temperature on Mars is -80 degrees Fahrenheit. A summer day near Mars’ equator gets up to 70 degrees Fahrenheit, but dips to -100 degrees Fahrenheit at night. Winter temperatures at the Martian poles drop to 195 degrees Fahrenheit.\nMars is much farther from the Sun than the Earth, which partially explains the colder temperatures on the planet’s surface. Mars also has a very thin atmosphere that is incapable of retaining heat. The atmosphere is over 96 percent carbon dioxide. If it had an atmosphere that was thick enough to retain heat, the carbon dioxide would cause a greenhouse effect.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "DoubleTree Hotel, 200 McDonald Drive, Lawrence\nMarch 22-23, 2018\nTheme: Kansas National Guard “One Team- Many Strengths”\nREGISTER TODAY AT NGAKS.ORG or EANGKS.ORG\nThis year’s conference theme is more relevant than ever, our operational environment has shifted from a nation at war for over the last 16 years to a nation reshaping its forces to meet future threats while reducing the overall Department of Defense budget. Come gain insight on the future of the Guard.\nCompany Grade Officer Mixer/R Bar and Patio/610 Florida Street, Lawrence/6:00 p.m.\nPartners in Patriotism (Invite Only)/ The Oread/ 1200 Oread Avenue, Lawrence/6:30 p.m.\nFun Run, Golf Tournament, Skeet Shoot, Hospitality Rooms and our\nMilitary Family Appreciation Night\n• Guest Speaker:\nCOL (Ret) Mike Hadley, Director of Legislative Programs, National Guard Association of the United States.\nMG Lee Tafanelli, The Adjutant General, Kansas\n• NGAKS/EANGKS: Business Sessions, 40 Exhibits, Banquet and Awards, and Professional Development Breakouts:\n• Retirees: Saturday March 24 0700 to 0800 JOINT RETIREE BREAKFAST – Discuss some of the latest Retiree issues.\nNoon Retiree Luncheon\n2100 Joint Hospitality Room open; 50/50 cash drawing and other prizes!\n• Spouses: Lawrence Fire Department-Safety Display/Booth Hall of Athletics-lunch & tour\n• Youth: Lawrence Fire Department Safety Display/ Lawrence Aquatic Center\nUniform: Unit or NGAKS/EANGKS polo’s encouraged for Saturday business, or business casual. Banquet is Civilian – Formal, Business Suit\nMilitary – ASUs, Mess Dress\nREGISTER TODAY AT:\nwww.ngaks.org or www.eangks.org\nDeadline for Hotel is March 13, 2018;\nCall the DoubleTree to make your reservations today.\n1-785-841-7077 Block is National Guard or NGAKS\nIF you have trouble getting a reservation or rate call: 785-749-8920\nRoom is per diem rate or $93.00!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Ivan Vejvoda is Acting Rector and Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria.\nFrom 2010 – 2017 he was Senior Vice President at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMFUS) in Washington D.C.\nFrom 2003-2010 he was the Executive Director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project of GMFUS supporting democratic initiatives and civil society.\nVejvoda came to GMF in 2003 from distinguished service in the Serbian government as senior advisor on foreign policy to PM Zoran Djindjić.\nHe was executive director of the Belgrade-based Fund for an Open Society from 1998 to 2002. During the mid-1990s, Mr. Vejvoda held various academic posts in the United Kingdom (University of Sussex) the US (Macalester and Smith Colleges).\nIvan Vejvoda was involved in the democratic opposition movement in Yugoslavia through the 1980s and 1990s\nA political scientist and political theorist he has published extensively on: democracy, totalitarianism, the French Revolution, comparative European politics, Balkans.\nHe was awarded the French National Order of Merit in the rank of Officer (2006) and the Italian Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity rank of commander (2007)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "SYDNEY CRICKET GROUND\nThe Sydney Cricket Ground is one of the world’s most dynamic sporting venues and home to a whole host of sports, including AFL, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer and Baseball, to name a few. Initially opened in 1886, the ground has undergone numerous redevelopments to keep up with modern stadiums, resulting in the venue that exists today.\nAs part of a recent redevelopment, APS designed, manufactured, erected and operated an APS Suspended Access Platform System to access the underside of the southern stand roof canopy so cladding could be installed.\nA team of APS rope access riggers were on-site and successfully carried out the platforms' rigging and relocation.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Astley has been heavily involved with signage in the financial sector. Located on the high street, financial institutions need to portray a welcoming and professional image to their customers, which means that their signage has to stand out. Building long standing relationships has enabled us to work on some of the most recognisable brands in the sector. These include Barclays, Britannia and The Co-operative Bank.\nEach sector carries its own specialist knowledge which is crucial to achieving successful results", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Welcome back Freshers! It's a new term at University of Hoppetosse. Your Guest Lecturers for the night are...\nand a Special Guest\nTo coincide with Berlin's recent announcement, this event is only for those with proof of recovery, or to those who are double vaccinated.\nPlease don't come if you feel sick.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Pacific Palisades Group, LLC Overview\nPacific Palisades Group, LLC filed as a Domestic in the State of California and is no longer active. This corporate entity was filed approximately eleven years ago on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 , according to public records filed with California Secretary of State.\nCorporate Filings for Pacific Palisades Group, LLC\nCalifornia Secretary of State\n|Date Filed:||Tuesday, September 13, 2005|\n|Registered Agent||Robert Isackscon|\nKnown Addresses for Pacific Palisades Group, LLC\nData last refreshed on Monday, July 25, 2016", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Events in Nelson\nSaturday 25th March 2017, in Community Events, Festival, Food, Wine & Brewing, Music & Performing Arts\nThe Nelson region is New Zealand’s sole hop growing area – and has more craft breweries per head of the population than anywhere else in the country.\nUnlike ordinary beer festivals, all the beers available at MarchFest have been specially commissioned for the event and have never previously been tasted by the public.\nEvery year around 15 regional craft breweries sign up to produce a new beer for the event. These beers all make their world debut at MarchFest. Top of the South breweries include Dale's, Eddyline, Founders, Golden Bear, Hop Farm, Hop Federation, Horsebox, Lighthouse, McCashin’s, Moa, Mussel Inn, Renaissance, Sprig and Fern,Townshend’s and more..\nAnd unlike other beer festivals, MarchFest is not just about beer. It’s also about local wines, ciders and juices, regional cuisine (including a beer and food matching lunch) as well as great live music, this year featuring Ladi 6, The Eastern, Battle-Ska Galactica and cool local acts Not Bruce Willis and Django Schmango. Add to that the Kids Zone and the Brew Zone and you can see why Marchfest is in its 10th successful year!\nSunday 26th March 2017, in Markets, Shows & Fairs\nYou won't want to miss The Wedding Show @Melrose at historic Melrose House, Gardens and Cafe in the heart of Nelson.\nWe've hand-picked a select group of local artists, designers, shops and service providers - and brought them together to make planning your special day a snap.\nExperience the best of the best:\n* Hair, Make-up and Spa service providers\n* Gowns, fancy dresses, lingerie, shoes and suits\n* Wedding cakes\n* Entertainment, musicians and DJs\n* Car and transportation services\n* Travel agents\n* Accommodation for out of town guests\n* Event hire services\n...and delicious catering from our very own Melrose Cafe.\nCheck out Melrose House & Gardens while you're here - the perfect venue for any celebration from weddings, bridal showers, hen's nights, and high teas, to birthdays - and more!\nJoin us for a fantastic day - and leave with your wedding SORTED!!!\nMonday 27th March-Saturday 15th April 2017, in Visual Arts & Crafts\nAn insight into the artist's thought and exhibition concept:\nChoosing to look at the effects of financial pressure on the younger workforce, the artist has combined wall panels with installations to direct the viewer inside the subject’s private thoughts.\nThe new now that we are all facing is a disaster in terms of trying to obtain your first home or even simply signing a rental agreement. Wages don’t stretch like they used to and saving is becoming a national issue.\nConstructed largely using recycled building and renovation materials, the artist’s construction process is designed to reflect the type of choices available to those most affected by the subject being discussed.\nMonday 27th March-Saturday 15th April 2017, in Visual Arts & Crafts\nKristopher Thomas's paintings represent parts of the Tasman District, a place called 'Home'.\nSee more of his work or check his work on www.kristhomasart.com\nTuesday 28th March 2017, in Music & Performing Arts\nAn explosion of hot pink, vintage chrome and live sound, The Rebel Pink by Footnote New Zealand Dance provides three emerging choreographers with an opportunity to create New Original Work in a world conjured by New Zealand dance luminary Malia Johnston, designer extraordinaire Marcus McShane and world class drummer/musician Tom Scrase (ex-Strike).\nWith the brand-new Footnote company members as their performers, Eliza Sanders, Holly Newsome and Nancy Jo-Wijohn are bringing their unique thought processes to life. The three individual works are a colourful mosaic of ideas that explore the joys and pitfalls of human communication, and complex relationships with movement that is nuanced, lively and playful.\nTom Scrase will be providing an epic soundtrack of live and recorded music to accompany each work\nExpect to be enthralled: expect to have a blast\nWednesday 29th March 2017, in Education, Heritage & Culture, Wellness, Eco & Recreation, Workshops & Retreats\nGeshe Tharchin will share his personal experience living and studying in a Monastic University. Listening this inspiring story we will be able to discover a living view on the life of a Tibetan Monk in a Tibetan Monastery, their way of practice, study and train in order to become a Geshe (the highest learned degree in a Tibetan monastery university).\n$10 Waged/ $5 Unwaged donation at the door.\nGeshela has studied Buddhist philosophy for more than 20 years completing his monastic studies to the highest level and has extensive meditation experience. He has a profound knowledge of both meditation and study and coupled with his very warm and engaging teaching style makes him a very popular and enjoyable teacher.\nQuestions? Email email@example.com or use the “Contact Us” form via our website: www.chandrakirti.co.nz\nPhone: +64 3 5432021\nChandrakirti Meditation Centre is a Tibetan Buddhist Centre in Upper Moutere. Our goal is to promote the wisdom, compassion and loving kindness that is the very heart of Tibetan Buddhism.\nWednesday 29th March-Saturday 1st April 2017, in Education, Heritage & Culture, Music & Performing Arts\nIt is a celebration of song and dance, an international phenomenon that has swept across the globe like a tidal wave of soaring voices and stomping feet.\nGumboot dancing was born out of the oppressive gold mines of South Africa. Forbidden to speak and in almost complete darkness, the slave laborers developed their own language by slapping their gumboots and rattling their ankle chains. In time it has developed into a truly unique dance form …\nUnrivaled in its energy and physicality, it celebrates the body as a musical instrument whilst highlighting South Africa’s rich and complex culture.Stimela, 'The Gumboot' Musical is on these dates: 29th March 2017 30th March 2017 31st March 2017\nSaturday 1st April 2017, in Community Events, Education, Heritage & Culture, Music & Performing Arts\nWe are celebrating with a birthday party featuring wonderful New Zealand wahine: author Elizabeth Knox, Member of Parliament Marama Davidson and singer Debbie Harwood.\nA silent auction on the night invites you to bid on high-quality items kindly donated by local businesses, including jewellery, beauty treatments, vouchers, homeware, books and much much more.\nDelicious nibbles and a selection of drinks will be served.\nAll proceeds from the evening will help the Women's Centre to continue to deliver vital services to women in our region.\nThank you to all our generous sponsors who are helping to make this celebration a night to remember.\nMonday 3rd-Sunday 23rd April 2017, in Community Events, Education, Heritage & Culture, Festival, Visual Arts & Crafts\nKatherine Mansfield's classic short story The Dolls House was filmed by New Zealand's most prolific pioneer film-maker, Rudall Hayward in 1973. The short film ( 18min), still has a powerful impact. It uses the authors own words as the narration. The tale of twentieth century New Zealand, demonstrates the class distinction of the time, and shows something of the way of life, styles, clothing and customs.\nSee it on the Heritage Week 2017 screen, at Elma Turner Library, beside the Red Wall. This 1973 film has been chosen from the selection held on Media Net in the library. Ask at the library information desk for more information on how to access other film material on Media net.\nF15950-The Dolls House ( 1973) From material preserved and made available by Nga Taonga Sound and Vision.Courtesy of the Hayward Film Productions. Part of Nelson Heritage Week 2017The Dolls House is on these dates: 3rd April 2017 4th April 2017 5th April 2017 6th April 2017 7th April 2017 8th April 2017 9th April 2017 10th April 2017 11th April 2017 12th April 2017 13th April 2017 15th April 2017 18th April 2017 19th April 2017 20th April 2017 21st April 2017 22nd April 2017 23rd April 2017\nMonday 3rd-Saturday 22nd April 2017, in Community Events, Education, Heritage & Culture, Festival\nFamily fun searching for answers to the questions posed in the annual Heritage quiz. This year our theme is WELCOME HOME. Enjoy finding who might be living in the hidden homes in the Elma Turner library, listed on your quiz map.\nPut your entry into the gold boxes marked Heritage Quiz found at Elma Turner Library and Council's Customer Service Centre. You could win movie tickets or swim passes.\nEntries close 4pm Saturday 22nd April. Download quiz from nelson.govt.nz/heritage-week after 3 April 2017, or pick up a copy from wherever entry boxes are situated.Heritage Week 2017 Quiz is on these dates: 3rd April 2017 4th April 2017 5th April 2017 6th April 2017 7th April 2017 8th April 2017 9th April 2017 10th April 2017 11th April 2017 12th April 2017 13th April 2017 15th April 2017 18th April 2017 19th April 2017 20th April 2017 21st April 2017 22nd April 2017\nSunday 2nd April 2017, in Community Events, Education, Heritage & Culture, Visual Arts & Crafts\nRose Kerr, retired Keeper of the Far Eastern Depatment, and specialist in Chinese ceramics, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.\nAn illustrated talk about her connection with China, and with the beautiful porcelain made there. She studied in Beijing for a year during the last year of the Cultural Revolution and later worked for 25 years at the Victoria and Albert Museum as Keeper of the Far Eastern Department. The V&A has more than 25,000 pieces of Chinese ceramics and Rose made these her special study. She still works as a consultant in Asian art for museums, universities and individuals all over the world, and visits China regularly. In 2015 she was made an Honorary Citizen of the porcelain city, Jingdezhen.\nSunday 2nd April 2017, in Community Events, Education, Heritage & Culture, Music & Performing Arts\nBob Bickerton is a multi-instrumentalist who specialises in both traditional and contemporary Celtic music and has performed widely around New Zealand in concert and at Festivals\nWednesday 5th April-Sunday 7th May 2017, in Music & Performing Arts\nFiddler on the Roof has captured the hearts and imaginations of audiences around the world for over 50 years with its humour, warmth and honesty.\nFiddler on the Roof follows the heart-warming journey of a family that has its traditional life turned upside down as the modern world starts to impact on life in their idyllic village. Fiddler on the Roof’s humour, passion and warmth has touched audiences all over the world with its celebration of life, love and family.\nFriday 7th April 2017, in Community Events, Music & Performing Arts, Wellness, Eco & Recreation\nThere is no light, no teacher, no steps to learn, no technique, just free movement. NLNL is a space where you can completely let go. Enjoy a mix of old and new music to move to.\nWear whatever, bring water- it gets hot!\nSaturday 8th April 2017, in Music & Performing Arts\nAndy Sugg is a leading Australian tenor and soprano saxophonist and band leader, he performs in a range of styles derived from jazz and other contemporary music. His music explores contemporary post-Trane improvisation in original compositions written for a small group setting.\nWhile firmly grounded in its stylistic time and place,The Andy Sugg Group plays music that has left home.\nIt’s music in the moment, played by highly articulate musicians with something to say both as soloists and as members of a collective. The Group’s music embraces an eclectic range of compositional influences, which include contemporary jazz, funk, R&B and avantpop.\nIt’s Andy’s “blowing band”; a vehicle for extended improvisation in the best traditions of contemporary jazz. The Group’s current album, \"Wednesdays at M’s\", was recorded in New York City in 2016 with a stellar cast of expat and home-grown New York musicians, including Sean Wayland (piano), Nate Wood (drums) and Matt Clohesy (bass).\nMusicans for Andy's New Zealand Tour and CD launch are;\nAndy Sugg sax\nBrad Kang guitar\nBradley Grainger bass\nMark Lockett drums\nCome listen in the intimacy of the Fairfield Ballroom\nSaturday 8th April 2017, in Markets, Shows & Fairs\nAnnual fundraising event. Held in Stoke Hall.\nGreat variety of quality items for sale at good prices.\nHousehold items, linen, books, toys, games, sporting equipment, clothing, jewellery, collectables, white elephant .\nHome-made baking and jams, fresh fruit and vegetables, variety of plants.\nSausage sizzle throughout the morning.\nSomething for everyone.\nFunds raised will be used for an Emergency Appeal to continue with programmes in East Africa providing water and sanitation, addressing food shortages amongst the most vulnerable children.\nTo donate items for sale ring Isabelle 03 547 325\nSunday 9th-Saturday 15th April 2017, in Music & Performing Arts\nLeapin’ lizards! Annie is returning to Nelson! The timeless tale of Little Orphan Annie is back, giving a whole new generation the chance to experience this classic musical about never giving up hope. Boasting one of Broadway’s most memorable scores, including “It’s a Hard-Knock Life”, “Easy Street”, “Little Girls”, “Maybe”, “I Don’t Need Anything But You”, and the ever-optimistic “Tomorrow”, Annie is a delightful theatrical experience for the entire family. Don’t miss this all-new production that Variety calls “a winner!”Annie is on these dates: 9th April 2017 10th April 2017 11th April 2017 12th April 2017 13th April 2017 14th April 2017 15th April 2017\nSaturday 15th April-Sunday 13th August 2017, in Education, Heritage & Culture\nTerminator, The Matrix, Wall-E, Get Smart … we’ve always been fascinated with gadgets, robots and machines. We generally tend to think of it as a 21st century construct, yet the earliest conceptualisation of robots can be found as far back as the 4th century BC.\nOne of the first recorded designs of a humanoid robot was made by Leonardo da Vinci in around 1495 AD. Renowned primarily as a painter Da Vinci conceptualised flying machines, a type of armoured fighting vehicle, concentrated solar power, an adding machine and the double hull. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or even feasible during his lifetime. Today, Leonardo is widely considered one of the most diversely talented individuals ever to have lived.\nNelson Provincial Museum is showcasing Da Vinci’s genius with an exhibition of some of his most ground-breaking technologies from the Museum of Leonardo da Vinci in Florence. All of the exhibits are handcrafted using the same materials and techniques used in the 15th century.Da Vinci Robots & Machines is on these dates: 15th April 2017 16th April 2017 17th April 2017 18th April 2017 19th April 2017 20th April 2017 21st April 2017 22nd April 2017 23rd April 2017 24th April 2017 25th April 2017 26th April 2017 27th April 2017 28th April 2017 29th April 2017 30th April 2017 1st May 2017 2nd May 2017 3rd May 2017 4th May 2017 5th May 2017 6th May 2017 7th May 2017 8th May 2017 9th May 2017 10th May 2017 11th May 2017 12th May 2017 13th May 2017 14th May 2017 15th May 2017 16th May 2017 17th May 2017 18th May 2017 19th May 2017 20th May 2017 21st May 2017 22nd May 2017 23rd May 2017 24th May 2017 25th May 2017 26th May 2017 27th May 2017 28th May 2017 29th May 2017 30th May 2017 31st May 2017 1st June 2017 2nd June 2017 3rd June 2017 4th June 2017 5th June 2017 6th June 2017 7th June 2017 8th June 2017 9th June 2017 10th June 2017 11th June 2017 12th June 2017 13th June 2017 14th June 2017 15th June 2017 16th June 2017 17th June 2017 18th June 2017 19th June 2017 20th June 2017 21st June 2017 22nd June 2017 23rd June 2017 24th June 2017 25th June 2017 26th June 2017 27th June 2017 28th June 2017 29th June 2017 30th June 2017 1st July 2017 2nd July 2017 3rd July 2017 4th July 2017 5th July 2017 6th July 2017 7th July 2017 8th July 2017 9th July 2017 10th July 2017 11th July 2017 12th July 2017 13th July 2017 14th July 2017 15th July 2017 16th July 2017 17th July 2017 18th July 2017 19th July 2017 20th July 2017 21st July 2017 22nd July 2017 23rd July 2017 24th July 2017 25th July 2017 26th July 2017 27th July 2017 28th July 2017 29th July 2017 30th July 2017 31st July 2017 1st August 2017 2nd August 2017 3rd August 2017 4th August 2017 5th August 2017 6th August 2017 7th August 2017 8th August 2017 9th August 2017 10th August 2017 11th August 2017 12th August 2017 13th August 2017\nTuesday 18th-Saturday 29th April 2017, in Community Events, Education, Heritage & Culture, Festival\nWhat does your ideal home look like? Join us at Founders Heritage Park to create a cardboard village in the Energy Centre. A fun family activity for all ages during the school holidays.\nPlaces are limited. Bookings to be part of the creation are required. Ring 5482649 to book.\nYou will be allocated a lot number where your house will sit in our village of Nelson,when you book into a workshop to create your house. Workshops are limited to 15 Children who must be accompanied by an adult please.\nCraft workshops will run 18,19,20,21,22, 24,26,27,28 April with two sessions per day .\nViewing only days are 23,25 and 29 April.\nItems can be collected on 30 April.\nTuesday 18th-Sunday 23rd April 2017, in Community Events, Education, Heritage & Culture, Festival\nInternational artists Erica Duthie and Struan Ashby will create a temporary Tape Art mural on the windows inside the Elma Turner Library.\nTaking on the Heritage week theme of Welcome Home, they will draw images of items home makers have used for years to make inviting places to call \"home\". Passers by are encouraged to become part of the imagery, while the artists are at work 10am-12.30pm, 19 and 20 April, and join in the fun.\nA colourful window quilt is planned with help from the community.\nWorkshops are free but require bookings please\n18 April at Broadgreen House 10am-12.30pm\nBook with Mahina.firstname.lastname@example.org\n19 & 20 April at Elma Turner Library Activity Room\nBook in person at the library or email email@example.com", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We are not dead.\nWe just smell bad.\n\"We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the\nwar or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies\nwith marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing\nboth heavily, we could disrupt those communities...and vilify\nthem night after night on the evening news.\" -John Ehrlichman\nSource: The Moment: Wild, Poignant, Life-changing Stories.\nEdited by Larry Smith, Harper Perennial, 2012.\nJohn Ehrlichman, wikipedia", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Kim Kardashian Throws Bloody Towel Out Window To Prove She Was A Virgin: Did A Chicken Die In Vain?\nHOLLYWOOD BEDLAMBASTS: Although Las Vegas bookies have given even odds to which will occur sooner; the current NBA contract impass to be resolved or the breakup of the marriage between Kim Kardashian and New Jersey Jet forward, Kris Humphries, one th...Read full story\nChocolate Banana - For Real!\nScientists at Cardiff University on the Stephen King Sponsored Genetics course have successfully cross-bred bananas and cacao the plant that gives us the most important of foodstuffs, chocolate. \"It's brilliant,\" said head professor of genetics, J...Read full story\nBono's Operation Goes Wrong, Ego Accidentally Removed - World Asked to Pray for Peace\nIrish rockstar Bono checked into a Monte Carlo hospital for a routine medical procedure to have his ego topped up in the frontal lobe of the brain. This is an operation Bono has every year but something went horribly wrong this time and consequences...Read full story\nRepublicans Tout Tax Cuts Create Two Jobs\nWashington--Republicans are touting the creation of two jobs created this week by their tax cut legislation. The two jobs created were at Liberty Consulting, a lobbyist firm of Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. T...Read full story\nCouncils Say We're Throwing Away The Wrong Kind of Rubbish!\nMany of Britain's local councils are reporting a significant reduction in the amount of rubbish being taken to the official tips. The government was at first delighted with the news thinking the reason was simply because the general public were b...Read full story\nPride and Prejudice Reloaded book released\nToday, lines were forming outside bookstores across the country as excited readers couldn't wait to get their hands on the latest classic remake. This time it's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice which gets an update, as publishers try to milk the pop...Read full story\nUS women go topless on \"Women's Topless Day\" using plastic nipples!\nWomen's Topless Day in America has caused quite a \"hoot\" because it is forbidden for women to show their nipples off in public in the natural form. Many bare chested women are demanding equal rights and want to do what many males do on hot summ...Read full story\nToffee nosed QPR chew over Scouse Toffees\nEverton fans were left fuming after the Toffees were turned over by a makeshift QPR side at Goodison Park on saturday. Charlie Scally, writing in the Scouse Echo, called QPR \"a bag of shite\" and claimed they were lucky to beat Everton. \"QPR ar...Read full story\nObama catches 7 fishes; feeds the entire East Coast with an 'Economic Miracle'\nMartha's Vineyard, Massachusetts -- Pres. Barack Obama made good use of day three of his summer vacation, catching seven \"nice size\" striped bass off the coast of this ocean island. But what happened next is being called by some \"the economic mir...Read full story\nSarah Jessica Parker blamed as Libyan state TV goes off air\nTripoli - Months of dire Sex & The City repeats followed by non-stop 24/7 airings of the two movie sequels have taken their toll on the Libyan uprising. This afternoon rebel forces advancing on Tripoli took the decision to humanely kill-off th...Read full story\nObama Is An Alien\nUS President Barack Obama has admitted to being an alien. The 2006 confession was solicited from the then first-term Illinois Senator under torture at Guantanamo Bay, meaning it was not admissible under US law. But a new ruling on the rights of de...Read full story\nCameron Cock-a-hoop Over Allies Victory In Libya\nA jubilant David Cameron was scarcely able to contain his excitement earlier this morning during a press conference that had been hastily called to discuss the overthrow of Libyan dictator, Colonel Gaddafi. The PM, flanked on either side by a claq...Read full story\nMichelle Bachmann Confesses! God Upset With Her; Tells Her She Lost Her Mind\nIn the wake of having reported that God told her to run for President, Michelle Bachmann appeared on Fox News visibly shaken, and announced, \"God has told me something else, and it's something I didn't want to hear. He said, 'Michelle, you lost your mind.' \"Naturally, I was surprised and asked why he would ever think such a thing of me. \"God went on to ask, 'Did you report that I told you t...Read full story\nSarah Palin Names Her Black Dildo Obama - How Deep Will She Go On Her Attacks?\nThe darling of the tea party movement, who has yet to decide if she is going to put herself forward for the republican race for the White House, has said she finally has found a way to channel her anger at Barack Obama which is worse now than when he...Read full story\nLibya bombs neighborhood, Syria fires rockets--a pleasant reminder that there's shit going in places other than Iraq\nHARFOLD, VT-The past week's worth of fighting in Syria and Libya has been seen as a breath of fresh air for those sick and tired of hearing about suicide bombings in Bagdad and Kabul. \"Let someone else rip the shit out of each other,\" said a senio...Read full story\nCall Girls Will Use Priority Lanes on Roads During London Olympics - Speedy Vice Service Guaranteed for VIPs\nAs London continues its Olympic countdown, Mayor Boris Johnson has given the go ahead for an historic decision, that he argues will have positive long term benefits for the city and leave a lasting legacy for all communities. This follows months of b...Read full story\nMario Balotelli becomes first footballer to 'do a Depardieu'\nThe popular craze of Planking is now considered second division by Premier League footballers. Being papped lying face down in unusual locations and 'sharing your plank' on U Tube is no longer the nuts. The latest macho challenge for high prof...Read full story\nLibyan Latest News\nOur contact in Libya is reporting on events as they take place in Tripoli. He was shot at by Gaddafi supporters although he was wearing a green tie but the colours of the Rebel flag (or it the Government now) clash with his pink trousers so he is try...Read full story\nT.S. Eliot's Ashes To Be Scattered on Housing Development\nUproar has followed the announcement that the ashes of the poet T.S. Eliot are to be scattered on a housing development in the village of East Coker. The ashes of the author of The Waste Land are interred in the local church in the somerset villa...Read full story\nDallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Blames Their 20-7 Loss To The San Diego Chargers on The Cowboys Cheerleaders\nDALLAS - The owner of the Dallas Cowboys Jerry Jones has promised all of the Cowboys season ticket holders that the team will win more games this season than they did last year or else he'll gladly refund their money no questions asked. The Cowboy...Read full story\nSteven Tyler Says That Kate Gosselin Is The 'Complete Package'\nAVOCADO HEIGHTS - American Idol Judge Steven Tyler and Kate Gosselin of the newly cancelled Kate Plus 8 were seen having a #3 deluxe fried chicken dinner at The Cackle Cackle Chicken Diner. Tyler was dressed in his customary loud colored sable pan...Read full story\nRob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart Deny The Skinny Dipping Rumors\nTARZANA - Twilight stars Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were recently spotted at The Tarzan and Jane Petting Zoo. The couple looked quite cozy as they walked around petting some of the extremely friendly animals such as Gladys the Goat, Laura t...Read full story\nAnn Coulter Calls Justin Bieber A Spoiled Brat - Bieber Fires Back And Says The Old Nag Needs To Cut Back On The Oats\nNEW YORK CITY - Ann Coulter recently appeared on Piers Morgan Tonight and she told Morgan that she is glad he is around because now there is someone in the nation who people hate more than her. Morgan told her that he would not be too quick to say...Read full story\nWhite House Unveils Jobs Plan; key provisions include increased defense spending, national drivers license, and accelerating rate of home foreclosures.\nThe President addressed a group of reporters and lawmakers today, and announced his long awaited economic stimulus and job growth plan. In his trademark style of measured pace and confident articulation, the Chief Executive outlined key parts of his...Read full story\nJennifer Lopez AKA J.Lo Says She Hates Being A Sex Object\nNEW YORK CITY - The woman who People Magazine named The Most Beautiful Woman In The World says that she is not feeling like her title too much at the moment. Jennifer Lopez says that the Marc Anthony divorce proceedings are starting to take a toll...Read full story\nPresident Obama Unveils Latest Plan to Resolve the US Debt Crisis\nWashington DC: The White House released a draft of President Obama's latest plan to resolve the US Debt Crisis. It was written on the back of a napkin bearing the logo Blue Heron Farm, Martha's Vineyard MA. The president consulted with FED Chairma...Read full story", "label": "No"}
{"text": "St Edward’s warmly welcomes students from all nationalities, recognising the immense social, cultural and educational benefits that they offer to our Sixth Form learning environment.\nWe currently have students from various countries studying with us; with further entries for September 2018.\nThis year we are pleased to have 6 Italian students from Sudtirol, an autonomous province in Northern Italy, studying with us. They speak English, German and Italian, and our students are enjoying learning with students from different cultures.\nAll international students can access our curriculum and study a tailor-made course whilst receiving the necessary support to be successful.\nFor further details please contact Mrs Debbie Bye, Sixth Form Administrator on email@example.com", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Most people first heard the term “dwarf planet” around the time when Pluto lost its planetary status. Although it’s been well over a decade since the former ninth planet officially became a dwarf planet, the term might still be unclear to most of the public.\nAnd indeed, this term isn’t as simple as it might seem. That’s why, in this article, we’ll explain what a dwarf planet is and what it isn’t, following the official definition of the term. Furthermore, we’ll delve into the interesting history of dwarf planet exploration.\nWhat Is a Dwarf Planet?\nTo answer this question, we should first step back and ask: What is a planet?\nThe answer might seem straightforward—a planet should be something like Earth or Mars, i.e., a space object that’s firm, round, and large. However, this answer would be found lacking upon more thorough inspection.\nFirst, planets don’t have to be firm, as shown by the massive gas giants in the outer sections of the solar system. Size is likewise an issue since there are two moons—one orbiting Jupiter, the other Saturn – which are larger than the planet of Mercury.\nThe only accurate part of the intuitive, common sense explanation of what a planet is would be the one referring to the shape.\nLuckily, we don’t have to bust our heads coming up with a definition of a planet—the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has already done that job. But you might be surprised to learn that the official definition of a planet didn’t come around until 2006.\nAccording to the IAU, a planet must directly orbit the sun, surpass 2,000 km in diameter, and has sufficient mass and gravity to sustain a stable shape. But there’s one more condition—a planet must be the dominant body in the immediate neighborhood.\nThis last part of the definition was what cost Pluto its planetary status.\nPluto is located within the Kuiper belt, a massive asteroid belt with numerous other bodies that orbit the sun beyond Neptune. Since Pluto didn’t “clear its neighborhood,” as is the official scientific expression, and continues to share the orbit with other bodies, it was disqualified per the new definition of being a planet.\nAt the same time, the new category of dwarf planet was conceived to describe all celestial bodies similar to Pluto. By IAU definition, a dwarf planet was supposed to orbit the sun and have enough mass and gravity to reach a hydrostatic equilibrium, i.e., a nearly round, stable shape. This part of the definition is the same as for planets.\nThe point where the two definitions diverge is in the neighborhood. Unlike a regular planet, a dwarf planet will share its orbit with celestial neighbors. Finally, a satellite of another planet can’t be classified as a dwarf planet.\nThis answers the question of what a dwarf planet in the strictest sense is. However, the classification has plenty of history, which might be worth exploring here.\nHow Did the Dwarf Planet Classification Come to Be?\nThe first troubles with unusual planets in our solar system came long before Pluto was discovered.\nIn fact, the long history of dwarf planets as we know them started in 1801 and the discovery of Ceres within the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. However, while Ceres was initially deemed a new planet, a crucial problem appeared the following year.\nIn 1802, another body was found in practically the same orbit as Ceres, which was thought impossible. This was Pallas, and it wouldn’t be the last of such an object in the main asteroid belt.\nBy the decade’s end, two more bodies, Juno and Vesta, were discovered, all sharing nearly identical orbits to Ceres and Pallas. Then, as the 19th century entered its second half, the number of discovered asteroids surpassed a hundred.\nAt that point, it was clear that, whatever the original four objects were, they couldn’t be planets in the way we understood them. So the scientific community started referring to Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta as “minor planets,” grouping them with other asteroids.\nIt’s worth mentioning that the term “asteroid” didn’t mean the same thing in the 1800s as today. Then, it had a broader definition that encompassed most small celestial bodies.\nWhen Pluto was discovered in 1930, its definition underwent pretty much the same journey as Ceres. At first, Pluto was considered unique in its neighborhood since no other objects past Neptune could be viewed. However, the newly discovered planet already raised some eyebrows as soon as it appeared.\nPluto didn’t share the traits of its nearest planets, Uranus and Neptune. Both of those had large masses, circular orbits, and were moving in the vicinity of the ecliptic. Pluto, on the other hand, had a mass six times less than our Moon and an orbit that would occasionally intersect Neptune’s. In addition, Pluto was a firm, tiny body covered in ice in a region of space entirely dominated by gas giants.\nStill, the planet was left alone for about six decades. Then, in the early 1990s, advancements in astronomy allowed the discovery of other trans-Neptunian objects. And several of them shared Pluto’s general characteristics.\nThis was the discovery of the Kuiper belt, analogous to how the main asteroid belt was found.\nSince Pluto existed in very similar circumstances as Ceres, it was suggested that it, too, should be counted among minor planets. However, the scientific community was far from reaching a consensus on that matter.\nFurther exploration of the Kuiper belt raised even more issues for Pluto’s planetary status. Similar bodies like Sedna and Quaoar were discovered. Finally, Eris, an object larger than Pluto in the same orbit, was discovered in 2005.\nInitially, it was suggested that Eris be counted as the tenth planet. However, by that point, it was clear that the real issue was in Pluto’s classification.\nAt long last, the following year after the discovery of Eris, the IAU definition of planets and dwarf planets was determined by vote. Besides Eris and Pluto, Sedna, Quaoar, Makemake, and Haumea also received the status of dwarf planets.\nThe astronomical community resolved a crucial question by accepting these definitions. But unfortunately, with the introduction of dwarf planets, it became impossible for the number of planets to keep growing. If the situation had stayed the same, we wouldn’t have eight planets today but tens of them.\nAlthough it might sound as if the entire scientific community has agreed on defining what a dwarf planet is, the actual situation is far from idyllic.\nLike a considerable portion of the public, several researchers have voiced their disagreement with the reclassification. And as far as the experts were concerned, the issue wasn’t only in Pluto losing its status—it was with the definitions themselves.\nFor instance, there’s an argument that any object with enough mass to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium should be considered a planet. In that case, our solar system should have about 95 planets, not counting 19 moons that also meet this criterion.\nAnother argument comes from the point of geology. This argument states that all objects with a similar formation cycle as the recognized planets should be placed in the same category.\nThe issue with the planet’s location in the galaxy and the universe was also brought up. The IAU defined planets as only those bodies orbiting the sun. Simply put, by that definition, no other body orbiting a star can be classified as a planet, regardless of whether or not it meets other requirements.\nIn his study “A Quantitative Criterion for Defining Planets,” Jean-Luc Magot proposed another way to define a planet. According to the proposed definition, a planet would need to orbit its parent star, have the greatest mass and optimal orbital distance in its orbit, and be able to clear its neighborhood and remain in a stable orbit within the parent star’s lifetime.\nHowever, even with a changed definition of a planet, our solar system wouldn’t get any new members in its planetary family.\nThe truth is that the definition of a dwarf planet might be very much on-point. After all, the celestial bodies that we consider planets have similar traits. But, perhaps most importantly, each planet is the dominant influence in its part of the solar system.\nThe same can’t be said about dwarf planets. These exist alongside their mass and gravitational equals, making them vastly different from planets and planet-like satellites.\nIt would seem that, even if the definition of a planet changed drastically, we wouldn’t be getting a ninth planet again. At least not without dozens more to follow.\nUnderstanding the Unusual Solar System Inhabitants\nDwarf planets might look similar to planets at a glance. However, upon closer inspection, these two types of celestial objects show many differences.\nIf the definition of planets is set, their number in the solar system will never grow past eight. But the same doesn’t apply to dwarf planets. So these celestial bodies still have the potential for new discoveries and surprises within our neighborhood.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Jan & Dean Ride The Wild Surf\nChris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 2 November 1974\nABOUT ONE year ago this week Dick Clark, in his infinite wisdom, decided to host a ten year anniversary edition of his TV rock show Shindig. He scratched his head and came up with the idea of bringing back the original hosts from the Shindig show ten years before.\nTotal word count of piece: 1514", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We are excited to release the preliminary program and open delegate registrations for the Day Hospitals Australia National Conference, which will be held from 31 August – 2 September 2022 at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart.\nDelegates from a range of medical, health care and associated professions and industries will attend the conference to hear from inspirational keynote speakers and panel chairs including:\nInvited industry leaders will also explore new scope and advancement for the Day Hospital sector and its increasingly important place in the Australian Health Care system while International Speakers will provide insight into day hospital procedures in the USA, UK and Europe.\nTo keep in touch and make sure you don’t miss out on important information, email: email@example.com to join our mailing list or visit www.dayhospitalsaustraliaconference.com for more information.\nA Poster competition will be offered to delegates at the 2022 Conference to highlight research, innovations, achievements, new systems and ideas to improve services provided by day hospitals.\nPrizes will be awarded in two categories:\nDay Hospitals – Open to staff, Directors of Nursing, CEOs, owners and representatives from member day hospitals. This is your chance to share your ideas and innovations with other day hospitals.\nMedical Professionals – Open to medical specialists who work at member day hospitals including surgeons, anaesthetists and physicians. Share research and or advancements in patient care in your day hospital with colleagues.\nVisit our Conference Website for information about the prizes and selection process\nA trade exhibition featuring over 50 companies will run for the duration of the conference. Full details can be found on our website here.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Da Madhouse and AK Studio productions Presents Bay2L.A. Starring Bukue One and Los Angeles Artist “7ucas”, who just released a new mixtape “The Sketch”.\nOther performers include J Duce, AK on the Beat, 3HD, Spit Savage, T.O.C., Fo Dub, and many more. Special DJ Set from DJ L.O.C.\nSee Flyer Below", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Crane on pavement\nReported in the Obstruction category anonymously at 08:44, Tue 15 October 2019\nSent to Bristol City Council 1 minute later\nThere is a crane on the road outside 132 Bloy street, It appeared this am, and is obstructing the whole road.\nA new enquiry has been raised for this issue.\nPosted by Bristol City Council at 07:45, Tue 15 October 2019\nThis enquiry has been referred to another team for action. They will provide further updates on the issue in due course.\nPosted by Bristol City Council at 08:28, Tue 15 October 2019\nA citizen has provided a follow-up to the original enquiry.\nPosted by Bristol City Council at 14:50, Tue 15 October 2019\nThe crane is back blocking the road on Bloy Street. It was first here for the while day on the 8th October. The builder had no permission to do this and he didn't pre warn the street this was going to happen. Also a huge health and safety problem.\nPosted anonymously at 15:47, Tue 15 October 2019\nThis Fix My Street enquiry has been automatically closed.\nState changed to: Closed\nPosted by Bristol City Council at 00:05, Tue 5 November 2019\nThis report is now closed to updates. You can make a new report in the same location.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "- Did you mean\n- events cleaning precipitation basis 0\nresidents in need of food are welcome to attend this event and receive food. Anyone picking up food should ... involved in volunteering at these events, please reach out to Dr. Roseanne Scammahorn the Darke County Ohio ...\nCanning Basics New Madison Public Library- May 19 at 1p.m. Join Dr. Scammahorn as she discusses ... the basics of home canning and preservation. This workshop will emphasize the science behind ...\nApril 2023 CFAES Connect\nUpdate your information Button context: Takes users to the CFAES Calendar of Events \" ... style=\"text-align: center; text-decoration: none;\"> Calendar of events Gray bar, white mastheadCollege of ...\nincome guidelines. All Darke County residents in need of food are welcome to attend this event and ... questions, or if you would like to become involved in volunteering at these events, please reach out to Dr. ...\nSpring Game Confirmation Email\nforward to seeing you on Saturday, April 15, 2023. Below are important details about the event ... Event Coordinator, Chan Foulk, at email@example.com or 614-292-8740. Copy: Game Day Information and ... for Day of Event Emergencies: Phone Chan Foulk, CFAES Event Coordinator, in the Advancement Office at ...\nDonor Appreciation event email\nevent, please register here by Tuesday, April 11 to receive your lunch voucher. With gratitude, Keith ...\nClone of Donor Appreciation event email\nto partake in this donor appreciation event, please register here by Tuesday, April 11 to receive ...\nAir Fryer Basics\nAir Fryer Basics OSU Extension Office, Darke County- 603 Wagner Ave, Greenville- Thursday, April ... 6 at 10:30 a.m. Come to a great workshop on air fryer basics. Dr. Roseanne Scammahorn will be ...\nOhio Maple Days are coming, a chance to prep for syrup season\nevent for syrup producers set for three dates in three locations: Jan. 17 in Fulton, Jan. 18 in ... sanitation, including the santitation’s effects on sap yields and net profits and how producers can calculate ... its benefits. Those findings show that the economic benefits of improving sanitation outweigh the ...\nJoin us at our Alumni Homecoming celebration!\nLearn more! Takes individuals to CFAES Alumni Homecoming webpage to learn more about events and ...", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The SUMMA Theological Debate Summer Camp brings together high school students from across the country to one of the largest and most beautiful college campuses anywhere – the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. By exploring life’s biggest questions through theological debate, we broaden students’ understanding of Christianity and its enduring power to speak the truth in love.\nWe are planning for the 2021 session of SUMMA Debate Camp to be held in residence at Sewanee on July 20–28. If Covid-19 conditions are such that it is not safe for residential camp, we will hold virtual camp July 19-23. We will let campers and parents know of the decision by early May. Students accepted for SUMMA will be eligible to participate in either camp.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The world is on the cusp of a technological revolution that has the potential to reshape the way we live, work, and travel. Self-driving technology, once considered a far-fetched dream confined to the realms of science fiction, is now a tangible reality. As autonomous vehicles gradually find their way onto our roads, they bring with them promises of enhanced safety, increased efficiency, and transformed urban landscapes. In this blog post, we will delve into the intricacies of self-driving technology, exploring its marvels, the challenges it poses, and the implications it holds for society as a whole. Discover the marvels and challenges of self-driving technology in our latest blog. From enhanced safety to societal implications, explore the road ahead.\nThe Marvels of Self-Driving Technology\n- Enhanced Safety: One of the most significant promises of self-driving technology is the potential to drastically reduce road accidents and fatalities. According to the World Health Organization, over 1.3 million lives are lost due to traffic accidents each year. Self-driving vehicles are equipped with an array of sensors, cameras, and advanced algorithms that enable them to perceive their surroundings and react faster than human drivers. This heightened situational awareness has the potential to prevent accidents caused by human error, such as distracted driving, fatigue, and impaired judgment.\n- Efficiency and Traffic Management: Self-driving vehicles have the capability to communicate with each other and with infrastructure, forming an interconnected network that can optimize traffic flow and reduce congestion. By coordinating movements and adjusting speeds based on real-time data, autonomous vehicles can potentially minimize traffic jams and reduce travel times. This not only improves individual travel experiences but also has positive environmental impacts by reducing fuel consumption and emissions.\n- Accessibility: Self-driving technology has the potential to revolutionize transportation for individuals with disabilities, elderly citizens, and those who are unable to drive due to various reasons. Autonomous vehicles could offer newfound independence and mobility to these segments of the population, enabling them to engage in social activities, access healthcare, and participate in the workforce more easily.\n- Urban Planning and Land Use: The advent of Taipei Self-Driving Gharry technology has the potential to reshape urban landscapes. As parking lots become less necessary and commuting times decrease, cities might experience a transformation in how space is utilized. Repurposing parking lots into parks, green spaces, or commercial areas could lead to more sustainable and livable urban environments.\nChallenges on the Road Ahead\n- Technical Hurdles: While self-driving technology has come a long way, there are still technical challenges to overcome. Operating in complex and unpredictable environments requires intricate algorithms that can handle a multitude of scenarios, from adverse weather conditions to unexpected road closures. Ensuring that self-driving vehicles can navigate safely in all situations remains a formidable task.\n- Ethical Dilemmas: Autonomous vehicles are programmed to make split-second decisions in the event of an impending collision. These decisions can raise complex ethical dilemmas, such as choosing between minimizing harm to passengers or pedestrians. Addressing these ethical concerns requires careful consideration of societal values and the creation of frameworks that prioritize human safety.\n- Regulatory Frameworks: The introduction of self-driving vehicles necessitates the development of comprehensive regulatory frameworks that address safety standards, liability issues, and the integration of autonomous vehicles with traditional ones. These frameworks need to be flexible enough to accommodate rapidly evolving technology while ensuring public safety remains a priority.\n- Cybersecurity Concerns: Autonomous vehicles heavily rely on data exchange and communication systems, which makes them susceptible to cyberattacks. A breach in the vehicle’s software could have severe consequences, ranging from unauthorized access to the vehicle’s controls to potential accidents caused by malicious interference like HQPOTNER .\n- Public Acceptance: Trust in self-driving technology is a critical factor that will determine its widespread adoption. Convincing the general public to relinquish control of their vehicles to machines requires not only technological advancements but also effective communication of the benefits and safety measures in place.\nThe Societal Implications\n- Impact on Employment: The rise of self-driving technology has sparked discussions about its impact on jobs related to transportation. While autonomous vehicles might lead to job displacement in sectors such as trucking and taxi services, they could also create new opportunities in areas like vehicle maintenance, software development, and remote monitoring of autonomous fleets.\n- Environmental Considerations: While self-driving vehicles could potentially reduce emissions through optimized traffic management and more efficient driving patterns, they could also lead to an increase in vehicle miles traveled if personal car ownership remains prevalent. Balancing the environmental benefits with the risks of increased congestion is a challenge that needs careful attention.\n- Equity and Accessibility: While self-driving technology holds the promise of improved accessibility for marginalized communities, there is also the risk that these advancements might exacerbate existing social inequalities. Ensuring that self-driving services are affordable and accessible to all members of society is crucial in preventing a “mobility divide.”\n- Data Privacy: Autonomous vehicles generate and collect vast amounts of data, ranging from navigation routes to personal preferences. Protecting this data from misuse and ensuring user privacy is maintained is essential in an era of increasing digital connectivity.\nThe emergence of self-driving technology marks a pivotal moment in human history, representing the convergence of innovation, engineering, and society’s evolving needs. The marvels of enhanced safety, efficiency, and accessibility hold the promise of revolutionizing the way we live and travel. However, these marvels are accompanied by a series of complex challenges that demand collaboration across various domains, from technology and regulation to ethics and societal norms.\nAs we navigate the road ahead, it is essential to approach self-driving technology with both enthusiasm and caution. By addressing the technical, ethical, and regulatory challenges head-on, we have the opportunity to unlock the full potential of self-driving vehicles while ensuring that their benefits are shared equitably and responsibly among all members of society. The journey toward a future where autonomous vehicles seamlessly coexist with traditional transportation methods is undoubtedly a challenging one, but its rewards are as boundless as the horizons it seeks to redefine.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Date: March 22, 2023\nLocation: Cable Dahmer Arena, Independence, Missouri\nCommentators: Tony Schiavone, Excalibur, Taz\nWe have a dream match this week as Kenny Omega is facing El Hijo Del Vikingo in what should be a heck of a showcase. Other than that, the big question coming out of last week is what is going on with the Elite and Hangman Page, as that is going down again. That should be enough to carry things for a week so let’s get to it.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Boston Moves for Health is an ambitious campaign launched by Mayor Thomas M. Menino in April 2012 to improve the health and fitness of the city of Boston. As part of the initiative, the mayor has challenged residents to lose one million pounds and move (walk, run, hop, swim, skip!) 10 million miles.\nThere are so many ways to join the movement!\nAnne McHugh, DirectorChronic Disease Prevention and ControlPhone: (617) 534-5690 Fax: (617) 534-5968 Email: firstname.lastname@example.org Massachusetts Avenue6th Floor Boston, MA 02118", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Understanding the Risks of Buying Cryptocurrency\nCryptocurrency has become a popular investment choice for many individuals in recent years. However, like any investment, there are risks associated with buying cryptocurrency. In this article, we will explore some of the potential risks associated with buying cryptocurrency.\nVolatility and Market Fluctuations\nOne of the most significant risks associated with buying cryptocurrency is the volatility of the market. Cryptocurrency prices can be highly unpredictable, and sudden market fluctuations can result in significant losses for investors. This volatility can be caused by a variety of factors, including changes in government regulations, changes in consumer sentiment, and changes in technology.\nAnother potential risk associated with buying cryptocurrency is regulatory risk. The cryptocurrency market is largely unregulated, which means that there is little protection for investors in the event of fraud or other illegal activities. Additionally, government regulations can change quickly and unpredictably, which can impact the value of cryptocurrency investments.\nSecurity risks are also a significant concern when it comes to buying cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets can be vulnerable to cyber-attacks, which can result in the loss of funds. Additionally, if an investor loses their private key, they may not be able to access their cryptocurrency investments, resulting in significant losses.\nScams and Fraudulent\nActivities Scams and fraudulent activities are also a significant risk associated with buying cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency scams can take many forms, including fake ICOs, phishing scams, and Ponzi schemes. Investors must be vigilant and do their due diligence to avoid falling victim to these types of scams.\nTo mitigate the risks associated with buying cryptocurrency, there are several steps that investors can take. First, investors should only invest money that they can afford to lose. Cryptocurrency investments are high-risk, and investors should never invest more than they can afford to lose.\nSecond, investors should do their due diligence before investing in any cryptocurrency. This includes researching the cryptocurrency, the development team, and the community behind it. Investors should also be wary of overly optimistic promises and avoid investing in projects that seem too good to be true.\nThird, investors should take steps to secure their cryptocurrency investments. This includes using a secure wallet and enabling two-factor authentication to protect against cyber-attacks. Additionally, investors should keep their private keys safe and never share them with anyone.\nIn conclusion, buying cryptocurrency can be a high-risk investment choice. The market is highly volatile, regulatory risks are a concern, and security risks are significant. However, with proper due diligence and security measures, investors can mitigate these risks and potentially profit from their cryptocurrency investments. As with any investment, it is essential to do your research and only invest money that you can afford to lose.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Intraoral Scanner technology is improving every day. These scanners are finding their way into dental practices across the country. Pittman Dental Laboratory is processing hundreds of cases a day from digital scans sent by doctors. But what are the advantages these scanners provide? Below is a list of 8 advantages that the intraoral scanner can bring to your practice.\nPittman Dental Laboratory Blog\n0 Comments Click here to read/write comments\nTopics: oral scanners, intraoral scanner", "label": "No"}
{"text": "\".does anybody have any light on the subject of electric motors?\nYeah. Right now they are still 100% experimental aside from \"docking\" use and disneyworld type rides.\nIf you want to screw around with one, remember there will be zero resale value, ridiculously short warranties, a lot of pioneering work\nto be done, BUT if you can sell the rights to the Discovery Channel...you might make enough money\nto walk away with some pride.\nI've got nothing against electric propulsion\n, life's just too short to buck the trend on this. Rebuild\nyour military grade Gray, or drop in another conventional engine", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Mountaintop - A Patten Theatre Performance LA Theatre Works Tuesday, April 10, 2018 7:30 pm Ticket info at: www.utc.edu/fine-arts-center Artist website: http://www.latw.org/ On the evening of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside room 306 of The Lorraine Motel in Memphis. What happened inside room 306 before the killing is a mystery. In her internationally acclaimed play, The Mountaintop, playwright Katori Hall fantasizes what may have transpired in the overnight hours between the legendary civil rights leader and a seemingly inconsequential hotel maid. Winner of the prestigious Olivier Award for Best New Play, The Mountaintop is rife with humor and political jabs, while giving us a glimpse at the human side of Martin Luther King Jr. Hours after his famed final speech, punctuated by the immortal line, “I’ve been to the mountaintop,” the celebrated Reverend reveals his hopes, regrets, and fears, creating a masterful bridge between mortality and immortality. The Mountaintop premiered in London in 2009 and subsequently ran on Broadway starring Angela Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson. In 2018, as Americans and the world mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr., The Mountaintop brings context to us in our struggle to resolve the racial tensions which remain a challenge for communities everywhere. Bringing this remarkable performance to UTC’s Fine Arts Center is LA Theatre Works, the foremost radio theater company in the United States for four decades. They broadcast weekly in America on public radio stations, daily in China on the Radio Beijing Network, stream online at www.latw.org and air internationally on the BBC, CBC, and many other English language networks. LATW has single-handedly brought the finest recorded dramatic literature into the homes of millions while also delighting audiences in over 300 small towns and major cities with its unique live radio theater style performances. An L.A. Theatre Works performance is immediate, spontaneous, and features a first-rate cast, live sound effects, and a connection to the audience rarely felt in a traditional theater setting. This theater... is an event. And LA Theatre Works is bringing one of its finest events ever it to the UTC Fine Arts Center this April. You don’t want to miss this play!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Ballroom dance champion and Emmy nominated choreographer, Louis Van Amstel, is probably best know for his stunning dance moves on ABC”s “Dancing with the Stars”. Louis joined DWTS in season one when he partnered with The Bachelorette’s Trista Stutter, season two with hostess Lisa Rinna, season three with High School Musical star Monique Coleman, season six with actress Priscilla Presley, season nine with singer Kelly Osbourne, season eleven with Reno 911 star Niecy Nash, season twelve with comedian Margaret Cho, season twelve with reality tv star Kendra Wilkinson and season 15 with Sabrina Bryan.\nLouis has yet to win the coveted “Mirror Ball Trophy” but in the upcoming fifteenth season of DWTS his partner is actress and dancer, Sabrina Bryan, Louis is excited and told Good Morning America that for the first time since season twelve, he was partnered with the most advanced partner, “This is the first season I can knock myself out as a dancer, as a choreographer because she’s so good.”\nLouis has incredible talents that reach far beyond the ballroom, he has choreographed for shows like So You Think You Can Dance, appeared in several TV shows, served as creative director and the creator of LaBlast – an innovative partner-free dance fitness program.\nThe DWTS pro is now taking his passion for fitness a step further in launching his first collection of fitness apparel called LVA by Louis Van Amstel.\nI think it is amazing that Louis left school at the age of 16, became a world renown ballroom dancer, choreographer and now not only the owner of LaBlast but LVA as well, it’s an amazing and inspiring achievement.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "On episode three of Beyond the Stacks, we hear from Miguel Figueroa, the director of the Center for the Future of Libraries at the American Library Association. Join us as we discuss Foresight Studies, fandom, collective impact, the Cone of Plausibility, and the influence of fast-casual dining on the future of libraries.\nLength – 31:27\nEpisode 4, on digital forensics and non-profits’ archives, will be released on December 1st!\nSee below the fold for a full transcript of the interview.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Like most industrial operations, the business of creating and selling music is consumer-driven. That is to say, if music buyers want to have their cake and eat it too, music sellers must be able to whip up one mean Red Velvet in order to compete effectively. Faced with a diverse clientele, individuals tasked with marketing and selling music have to meet an array of demands that encompass all sorts of musical preferences. So, for instance, if demographic trends suggest that teenage girls respond more favorably to feel-good dance music (for lack of a more stereotypical example), it is up to marketing gurus to introduce them to what would surely be the next Katy Perry or One Direction radio hit.\nMusic consumers, depending on factors such as age, socioeconomic standing and gender, crave countless varieties of songs; however, if there is a certain musical species that has, over the years, become endangered due to waning consumer interest, it is that of protest music-the genre-less musical domain that, more or less, pushes for social change through political advocacy. Protest music has left an indelible mark in the annals of music history courtesy of rebellious songs such as Bob Dylan’s “The Times are Changing, Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not be Televised” and Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power.” Unfortunately, over the past decade, such music has increasingly been passed over in favor of more lighthearted tunes-a phenomenon that has sparked the curiosity of many music critics, myself included. There are many theories in circulation as to why music consumers are demanding less political inspiration from their favorite artists, most of which posit an overall decrease in political awareness on the part of younger generations. But, before getting to the meat of such theories, it would be best to revisit the past as a way of getting a better understanding of the extent to which protest music-a melodic medium that once captured the essence of living in an imperfect world-has been reduced to nothing more than an antiquated form of expression.\nWWII, Vietnam, Apartheid and Other Reasons to Condemn the Establishment\nThe WWII era would mark the emergence of protest music in America. As growing pro-communist sentiments began to transform the political landscape of the mid 40s, musicians such as Woody Guthrie would further such transformation by composing politically-driven folk songs such as “This Land is Your Land”- a popular oldie whose vague lyrics often mask the anti-private ownership message that underlies it. As Guthrie and fellow folklorists, including renowned artists Alan Lomax and Lead Belly, popularized protest folk music in the 40s, artists such as Bob Dylan would take the sub-genre to new heights in the 60s. In 1964, Dylan released what many critics consider to be the quintessential protest song: “The Times They Are-a Changing.” The song, as the title suggests, serves as an admonition against rejecting the social change that transpired during the Civil Rights Movement. And if Dylan redefined protest music in the 60s, Marvin Gaye would rejuvenate the very essence of the genre in the early 70s. Released in 1971 and widely regarded as Gaye’s magnum opus, “What’s Going On” can be aptly described as a mellifluous commentary on not just the Vietnam War era, but much of the political and social turmoil that plagued an early 70s America.\nBy the 80s, the domain of protest music had transformed into a vast musical empire whose boundaries encompassed a variety of musical genres, from heartland rock, as Bruce Springsteen’s “War” would suggest, to reggae, as evidenced by Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song.” As the late 80s/early 90s arrived, the protest music empire would expand to even greater proportions with the emergence of politically-driven rap. As legendary icons such as Public Enemy reproached police brutality and institutionalized racism with heated rhythmic rhetoric, most notably “Fight the Power,” protest music would begin to exude a certain grittiness the likes of which had previously been a rarity in music. Such grittiness would become all the more common in protest music when Tupac Shakur would steal the hip-hop limelight in the late 90s with the release of unforgettable hits such as “Changes.” As the 90s culminated in mainstream radio subsuming protest music, the 20th century would forever stand as a testament to the latent popularity of exercising free speech through songs.\nAs previously mentioned, politics has had an everlasting impact on the art of music; however, if there is one major difference between the protest music of today and that of the 20th century, it is that the latter gained the admiration, approval and acceptance of an increasing number of music consumers. The former, however, since the arrival of the 21st century, has played a diminishing role in the mainstream media. Such phenomenon has struck the curiosity of many critics, including renowned songwriter Billy Bragg who condemned contemporary music for its political naivety. “Look at what’s happening in the world: the credit crunch; our young people getting maimed in a war that nobody knows how to resolve,” opined Bragg in an interview with The Guardian. “When I was first plying my trade, people were willing to talk about these issues. Now they’d rather write about getting blasted than changing the world,” he added. Bragg’s sentiments are shared by many fans of protest music: The truth is protest music no longer appeals to music consumers as it once did.\nBut why? For one, it would not be implausible for one to argue that there is a positive correlation between political awareness and liking for protest music. And considering the fact that the younger generation, which makes up a considerable portion of music consumers, is not as well-informed as previous generations, it also would not be implausible for one to theorize that an overall decline in political awareness among music buyers has contributed to the fall of protest music. In the book Young People and Social Change, author Andy Furlong argues, “The trend towards less engagement in politics among the young appears to signal a generational change,” adding, “Any decline in political participation among the current generation of young people has to be set against what was perhaps a relatively high level of involvement among the ‘baby-boomers’ generation who were particularly active in youth counter-cultures.” To the theorist, it is the younger generation’s lack of political interest that has contributed to the fall of protest music. But to the politically-attuned music listener, there is one truth and one truth only: Protest music is slowly sinking into oblivion… and unless we, music consumers, demand it, music may never again serve as medium through which one can push for a righteous cause while bringing out your inner dancer", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What did Roman bring to the table?\nOn Chicago Fire Season 8 Episode 15, Roman returned to the city to help out with a series of teen opoid overdoses.\nSeveride started to wonder whether there was more to the story than what he was being told.\nWhat did he do to get answers?\nElsewhere, Casey tried to be there for Brett when she considered metting her birth mother.\nUse the video above to watch Chicago Fire online right here via TV Fanatic.\nCatch up on all your favorite shows and reviews and join in the conversations with other fanatics who love TV as much as you.\nAnd we sure would appreciate a follow of our new Twitter account as we work to rebuild our audience!\nPaul Dailly is the Associate Editor for TV Fanatic. Follow him on Twitter.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Stagger Lee is a local band that originated from Sub:liminal’s hometown Oradea. They will launch their debut EP titled ‘Loop Control’ which will be released on Diffuse Reality Records – a record label from Barcelona, ...\nData Transmission Releases\nBUY ALL RELEASES ON BEATPORT\nWhy not buy our team members a coffee and help support their incomes. Thank you for your continued support.\nBuy the team a coffee", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|Title||The Conversation: Why TTIP will live on – but not for the EU|\nThe Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – also known as TTIP – could be the next casualty in the Brexit fallout. But not in the way you might expect. The controversial trade agreement between the EU and United States could well fall apart, only for the UK to pick up the pieces for its own trade deal.\n|Keywords||Trade, European Union, Free trade, EU, referendum, Brexit, TTIP,|\n|Web address (URL)||https://theconversation.com/why-ttip-will-live-on-but-not-for-the-eu-61718|\n|Published online||30 Jun 2016|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Technology isn’t just “part of life” anymore.\nFor many of us, technology is our lives.\nAs Apple’s catchy marketing mantra goes, “there’s an app for that.” And in 2020, there’s an app for virtually everything.\nCompare that to 30 years ago, when almost no one carried a cell phone, home computers were just becoming commonplace, and the most invasive part of technology was getting telemarketing calls at dinner time. The prominence of technology has changed our lives—for better or for worse—in almost every way imaginable.\nBut what many of us don’t consider is how that constant connectedness has changed our most basic behaviors. When considering the role of technology in our daily habits, a sort of chicken-and-egg question arises.\nDoes technology drive our habits, or do our habits drive technology?\nHere’s How Technology Changes Our Habits\nResearch shows that a major key to changing human habits is rewards.\nThat’s a big part of why apps are so successful in changing our behaviors—because they offer immediate rewards in the form of lights and sounds that give our brains a quick hit of dopamine, the chemical that causes happiness and satisfaction.\nThat’s what makes smartphones addictive at their most basic level. We tend to reach for our smartphones constantly (and often subconsciously) because our brains are craving the dopamine hit that will come if there’s a surprise notification—like a new text message or social media update—on the screen.\nIn this sense, almost all software is designed to drive habits. The problem is that habit-causing rewards lose their power the more often you experience them.\nKnowing this, many developers have keyed into the habit-making power of rewards to create software specifically to change our behavior.\nTake, for example, the popular exercise app “Zombies, Run!” The game turns exercise into an adventure, tracking users’ movements to create a sense that they’re running to escape from hoards of zombies, pick up supplies, make deliveries to survival compounds, and more.\nIn the game, runners can track their best times and progress. By succeeding at different challenges, they can unlock new levels and rewards. That’s what makes the game fun and what makes it so helpful to people who are trying to build exercise habits. Because rewards lose their power over time, the linear progression of the game and the possibility to unlock new levels creates new and better rewards the more you use it.\nBehavioral Changes and Technology’s Role\nThere are two main types of habits:\n- Changes to behaviors that were learned through experience—existing habits.\n- Changes to behaviors that are new or unlearned—new habits.\nTechnology has the best chance to cause the second types of behavioral change, because the technology is what drives a person's learning of a new habit. Technology can offer simple rewards that help train you to do a new behavior. Over time, the reward loses its power, but once the technology is removed, that training means you still do the behavior.\nIn other words, you’ve formed a new habit.\nOn the other hand, technology isn’t as effective at causing behavioral changes to existing habits. That’s because in order to change a habit that’s already formed, there needs to be a reward for the new behavior that’s greater than the reward you already get for the old behavior. That’s not an easy thing for an app to do (more on that in a minute).\n7pace Timetracker is the only integrated, professional time management solution for teams using Azure DevOps.\nTop comments (1)\nInteresting post! I have been trying to build a new routine to be more organized. I'd say that technology helped me change my habit to become easier. I tried the old-fashioned way by writing it down on paper, but it is not really efficient. Then, I was recommended to use task management software like Wrike or Quire. So far, they are great at keeping me productive and prioritizing tasks.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Posted by James Fox on January 19, 2004\nI did a search in the Phrase Thesaurus for \"exposure\" and this phrase \"Put to shame\" came up.\nWhat does \"Put to shame\" have to do with \"exposure\"?\nIs it like exposing a person and then letting everyone know about it? E.g. His dodgy dealings were exposed and his company was put to shame??", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Guys and Dolls\nThrough Nov. 3. 3 and a half stars (Colin Dabkowski)\nStarting on Friday, April 12, 2013 and continuing through Sunday, November 3, 2013 every week on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.Next Date: This event ended on Sunday, November 3, 2013\n10 Queen's Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "There’s no place like ho, ho, home for the holidays…but Disney is a close second.\nThe most wonderful time of the year allows the most magical and happiest places on earth to transform into merry destinations that guests of all ages can escape to for creating holly jolly memories that are sure to last a lifetime.\nKids young and old (\"Adults are only kids grown up, anyway,\" as Walt Disney once said) can experience the childlike spirit of Christmas at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. Special events like Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party and the Disney Festival of Holidays will be returning to the parks, along with festive live entertainment and holiday-themed treats.\nSo, if you're a big or little kid dreaming of a Disney Christmas, here is everything you need to know about the holiday magic that awaits you this yuletide season, plus how Disney+ subscribers can save during the month of December.\nHolidays at Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort\nHoliday offer for Disney+ subscribers\nTo kick us off, as if we needed another reason to love our Disney+ subscription, subscribers can take advantage of a holiday room offer that allows them to save up to 20 percent at select Disney Resort hotels for most nights starting Dec. 11 through Dec. 25, 2022.\nRelated: Over 50 Walt Disney Quotes\nWalt Disney World Resort\nMickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party returns to the Magic Kingdom for 24 select nights starting Nov. 8 through Dec. 22. The special event includes Minnie's Wonderful Christmastime Fireworks, in addition to Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmastime Parade, Mickey’s Most Merriest Celebration stage show, Club Tinsel dance party, Disney Junior Jingle Jam and A Totally Tomorrowland Christmas party.\nOn nights when Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party isn't scheduled, Cinderella Castle at Magic Kingdom Park will get the holiday treatment with special projection effects, festive colors and a rotating series of designs.\nHow much are tickets for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party?\nTickets are limited and range from $159 to $199 per person.\nWhen is Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party?\nThe holiday celebration is taking place November 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 27 and 29, as well as December 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20 and 22. Parkgoers with tickets to the party can enter the Magic Kingdom at 4:00 p.m. ahead of the event, which starts at 7 p.m. and ends at midnight.\nMickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party bites and drinks\nIndulge in sweet treats at Magic Kingdom Park and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party. Guests will find an array of goodies, including a Mickey mousse ornament treat, sugar plum shake, candy cane hot cocoa, polar bear claw and much more. Check out the bites and drinks below:\nMickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party Bites and Drinks\nThe International Festival of the Holidays presented by AdventHealth, is returning to EPCOT the day after Thanksgiving. The event, happening between Nov. 25 and Dec. 30, 2022, allows guests to experience \"sights, sounds and flavors of the holiday season.\"\nGloria Estefan, Josh Gad, Simu Liu, Neil Patrick Harris, Whoopi Goldberg, Marie Osmond, Angela Bassett and Mariska Hargitay are among this year's celebrity narrators who will be telling the story of Christmas joined by an orchestra and choir during the park's Candlelight Processional. The show happens nightly at 5:15 p.m., 7:00 p.m. or 8:30 p.m. at the America Gardens Theatre.\nWhile in EPCOT, satisfy your sweet tooth with the Holiday Cookie Stroll, or enjoy festive drinks and bites from Holiday Kitchens throughout World Showcase. Before or after traveling around the world, go for a ride on Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind. Riders will hear a holiday single as they blast off!\nSanta Claus will be sailing down the Discovery River at Animal Kingdom in the Santa Claus Festive Flotilla. Percussionists will also be cruising along the river in the Discovery Island Drummers Festive Flotilla. While in the park, guests can check out artisan-sculpted puppets of Arctic animals.\nDisney's Hollywood Studios\nThe Hollywood Tower Hotel will be getting a holiday makeover nightly with holiday projections, while the \"For the First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration\" will feature a holiday finale with Olaf. A \"merry mealtime\" called Minnie's Holiday Dine will be offered at the park's Hollywood & Vine restaurant.\nDisney Springs at Walt Disney World Resort will be decked for the holidays. Disney-decorated trees will be on display at the shopping complex as part of the Disney Springs Christmas Tree Stroll presented by AdventHealth. Shoppers will be walking in a winter wonderland as they stroll through Town Center and the West Side.\nVisitors will also be able to snap a picture with Santa at Once Upon a Toy, and grab limited-time holiday-themed drinks and snacks at Jock Lindsey’s Hangar Bar, which will be turned into a Holiday Bar, or warm up with an Olaf Hot Cocoa Surprise from The Ganachery.\nDisney California Adventure Park\nOn the west coast, Disney’s Festival of Holidays, which celebrates Christmas, Navidad, Hanukkah, Diwali, Kwanzaa and Three Kings' Day, is coming back to Disney California Adventure Park on Nov. 11, 2022. The event, featuring Mickey’s Happy Holidays, character sightings, holiday toy drummers and more runs through Jan. 8, 2023.\nThe \"World of Color - Season of Light\" show and the Disney ¡Viva Navidad! street party also return to Disney California Adventure Park on Nov. 11, 2022, in addition to Mater's Jingle Jamboree and Luigi's Joy to the Whirl.\nDisneyland Park has plenty of holiday celebrations and attractions too. It’s a Small World and the Haunted Mansion rides will be decorated for the season. Parkgoers can look forward to seeing Disney characters join Santa in the \"A Christmas Fantasy Parade\" and watch the \"Believe...In Holiday Magic\" fireworks spectacular starting Nov. 11.\nDisney Cruise Line\nEscape the cold and set sail on one of Disney Cruise Line's \"Very Merrytime\" cruises this season. Enjoy the holidays at sea onboard the Disney Magic, Disney Wonder, Disney Dream, Disney Fantasy and newest ship, the Disney Wish.\nDuring the select sailings in 2022 and 2023, passengers can expect a special guest onboard, Santa, along with characters dressed in holiday attire, a special tree-lighting ceremony and holiday decor. Disney's private island Disney Castaway Cay will also be turned into a winter wonderland.\nWhether you're on land or at sea, have yourself a merry, Disney Christmas this holiday season!\nNext up, 100 Disney Movie Quotes", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Vilhelm \"Vilho\" Vauhkonen (6 February 1877 – 1 February 1957) was a Finnish sport shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics and in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was born in Pieksämäki and died in Helsinki. In 1912 he finished fifth with the Finnish team in the team free rifle event and 41st in the 300 metre free rifle, three positions competition. Eight years later he won two bronze medals as member of the Finnish team in the team running deer, double shots event and in the team 300 metre military rifle, prone competition.\n|is dbo:bronzeMedalist of|\n|is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of|\n|is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of|\n|is dbp:bronze of|\n|is foaf:primaryTopic of|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Book discussions Summer book discussions continue at The Ferguson Library as part of the Adult Summer Reading Club, Get Caught Up in Reading. No registration is necessary -- just drop in. Book discussions are generously supported by the Friends of The Ferguson Library. Thursday, Aug. 25 at 6:30 p.m.: French Book Discussion -- \"Oscar et la Dame Rose\" by Eric Emmanuel Schmitt. Main Library Third Floor Conference Room Tuesday, Aug. 30 at 7 p.m.: \"Room\" by Emma Donoghue. Patricia Brown, facilitator. Main Library Third Floor Conference Room Fall book discussions get under way in September. Tuesday, Sept. 6 at 12:30 p.m.: \"Cutting for Stone\" by Abraham Verghese. Weed Memorial & Hollander Branch Monday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m.: \"A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. Harry Bennett Branch Saturday, Sept. 24 at 3 p.m.: Spanish Reading Club -- \"La Magdalena\" by Juan Arias. Main Library Third Floor Conference Room. Monday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m.: African and African-American Authors -- \"Wench\" by Dolan Perkins-Valdez. South End Branch Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m.: \"Super Sad True Love Story\" by Gary Shteyngart. Patricia Brown, facilitator. Main Library Third Floor Conference Room Thursday, Sept. 29 at 6:30 p.m.: French Book Discussion -- \"Le Jardin de Baldapour\" by Keniz\\u00e9 Mourad. Main Library Third Floor Conference Room Children's programs The Ferguson Library's Children's Summer Reading Club, One World, Many Stories, continues in Aug. with programs for children of every age. Sign up online at www.fergusonlibrary.org. All programs are generously supported by the Friends of The Ferguson Library. Traveling Tots Time: Thursday, Aug. 25 at 11:15 a.m. at Main Library. Songs, fingerplays, stories and movement activities. Ages 1 ? to 3?, with an adult. Read to Samantha: Saturday, Aug. 27 at 11 a.m. Practice reading with Samantha, a certified therapy dog. Ages 6 to 8. Registration required. Call (203) 351-8242. Main Library Lower Level Program Room Computer Classes Main Library Third Floor Computer Lab. Main Library Third Floor Computer Lab. Call (203) 351-8221 to register. Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, Thursday, Sept. 8 at 11:30 a.m. Learn English - Computer Based Instruction, Saturdays, Sept. 10 & 17 at 10 a.m. Basic Computers, Saturday, Sept. 10 at 2 p.m. Basic Internet, Thursday, Sept. 15 at 11:30 a.m. Microsoft Excel 2010, Thursday, Sept. 15 at 2 p.m. Facebook, Saturday, Sept. 17 at 2 p.m. Basic Computers, Thursday, Sept. 22 at 11:30 a.m. Microsoft Word 2010, Thursday, Sept. 22 at 2 p.m. Microsoft Word 2010 in Spanish, Thursday, Sept. 29 at 2 p.m.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Collaboration is a key word for Craig, who says working with his team and clients on positive outcomes is what fuels his passion. “That is what drives me as a leader – being inclusive and genuinely interested in clients and teams,” he says. As the Global Leader of Transaction Services, Craig has extensive experience within the financial services, real estate and infrastructure sectors. He thrives on overcoming challenges on a day-to-day level and being proactive for clients. “We do things at ‘deal pace’, as there is no point in being late to the party,” he says.\nIn more than 30 years with KPMG, Craig has held some exciting positions, with international experience working in Hong Kong and London. He has managed transactions in South Africa, Asia, US and Europe. “Our team is seen as being a best of breed deal advisory transaction services house. A point we are very proud of and strive to maintain. We have excellent, deep recurring relationships,” he says. “We work with the other Deal Advisory teams including Tax to bring a whole-of-family approach to clients.”\nIn stark contrast to the business world, Craig is part-owner of a cattle farm and loves to hit the beach with the wife and kids. “I have a relatively young family – I believe in working hard, and also in work-life balance,” he says.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Maryland Out of School Time Network proudly serves as a statewide intermediary sponsor for AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) projects supporting more and better out of school time (OST) programs for Maryland youth.\nMOST VISTA members are full-time, paid national service members, who serve with an organization for a one-year term. VISTAs find creative and lasting solutions to build capacity for OST and youth development organizations.\nHaving served the region for nearly a decade, our AmeriCorps VISTA program members serve as a catalyst for change, living and working alongside community members to advance local solutions.\nMOST VISTA Program Highlights:\n- Over 100 VISTA members placed at 35+ program sites through MOST\n- 18+ VISTA members serving in the 2022 MOST Cohort\n- Over $3,000,000 in cash resources raised for OST programs serving youth across Maryland\n- MOST VISTAs have recruited and managed over 2466 volunteers, serving a combined total of 16,436 hours\nMOST VISTA Program Goals:\n- Inspire the future STEM workforce by engaging youth in high quality STEM learning opportunities.\n- Support summer programming to combat learning loss and provide healthy, enriching activities for students.\n- Help launch innovative projects that expand access, improve quality, facilitate collaboration, and create new initiatives for OST programs statewide.\n- Develop a diverse, equity-centered workforce to strengthen the capacity of the youth development field to meet the needs of communities impacted by poverty.\nQuestions about applying to be a VISTA or becoming a sponsor site? Contact Andrew Neuman at email@example.com.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Once again Dr. Merepeza was invited by the Albanian Skiing Federation to be the Albanian Alpine Skiing Team’s medical staff. This was a special event as Dr. Merepeza and his very good friend Dr. [...]\nPort Hope Health Centre puts patients first. We believe a well-rounded, multidisciplinary approach leads to the best overall health. Feel welcome and relaxed at Port Hope Health Centre as highly trained health professionals collaborate to keep you in optimal health.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sometimes, the most mundane boring things can be pretty interesting. Mostly food here. I'm a photoshop junkie.\nI'm also Batman in another universe.\nmy other Castiel fandom blog.\nVegan cereal peanut butter chocolate chip cookies!\nVegan peanut butter chocolate chip chewy cookies!\nNow that’s a mouthful.\nVegan chocolate chip cookies!\nVegan peanut butter cookies!:D", "label": "No"}
{"text": "One way to know you've truly made it? The creators of The Simpsons will immortalize you.\nLove the Pedal Pubs? Hate them?\nWho cares! They've been on The Simpsons!\nComplete with a Duff Beer keg on the front, but sans the bad behavior.\nSpringfield pubbers are better at holding their liquor, it seems.\nSend your story tips to Hot Dish.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "- CONTENT TYPE\nDespite the stereotype that an Arts degree will give no real world application, many companies recognize the value in creative thinkers.\n- Article By Sara McGuire\n- – December 23, 2015\nSchool isn't for everyone. This article helps you determine what makes the most sense for you and your anticipated career trajectory.\n- Article By Ryan Hickey\n- – December 18, 2015\nDoctoral programs enable students to gain the highest levels of proficiency possible in their subject, while preparing them to push the ...\n- Article By Donna Gisolo Christenberry\n- – April 20, 2011\nLearn about the benefits of getting an online degree and how to choose the right school.\n- Article By Marisa Sanfilippo\n- – September 28, 2016\nIs a diploma really necessary to secure your professional success? Statistics might point to yes, but these entrepreneurs defied the odds.\n- Article By Shayna Marks\n- – September 10, 2014\nThere's no disputing that tech jobs are where the money is at, but what can you do without a proper college degree? Try these 7 jobs.\n- Article By Larry Alton\n- – May 20, 2015\nAn MBA is without a doubt still valuable. But does it still hold the same clout as it once did? Not exactly—and here's why.\n- Article By John Moyer\n- – June 24, 2015\nWhether you go for a bachelors or masters is up to you, but simply having the degree won’t translate to success.\n- Article By Lucinda Watrous\n- – May 12, 2016\nA recent trip to the doctors opened my eyes to new trends in the healthy industry. Here's what's changed—and why it matters.\n- Article By AJ Agrawal\n- – November 23, 2015\nThe vaunted masters in business administration degree -- seen by so many as the golden ticket to upper management -- has slipped in its ...\n- Article By Greg Brown\n- – August 10, 2010", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Event Date/Time: Oct 04, 2007\nEnd Date/Time: Oct 05, 2007\nBanff Venture Forum 2007, the leading financing forum for alternative and traditional energy technology and information technology companies, will be taking place at Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel on Thursday 4 and Friday 5 October 2007. This annual event offers exceptional opportunities for early stage companies and investors to network, share visions and explore identify exciting new investment opportunities in alternative energy technologies, oil & gas, and information technology. In the context of these investment opportunities the Forum’s aims are to increase understanding of industry challenges and explore investigate some of the innovative solutions that are being developed by technology companies. Forum highlights will include energy and information technology presentations by leading edge companies from across North America and opportunities to explore alternative energy technology issues. Expert panels will discuss the state of the industry, its challenges and future outlook.\nDelegate registration is now open visit www.banffventureforum.com to register today!\nApply before August 15th, 2007 to present your emerging alternative energy, traditional energy or information technology company.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Saturday, May 22, 2021 Gal Pal Susan and I went up to Wisconsin on May 5, and returned to Columbia, MO on May 10. After the long drive up there, we celebrated Cinco de Mayo at Compadres Mexican Restaurant. We … Continue reading →\nEnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.\nJoin 72 other followers", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Boei, the lead generation widget that requires no coding, is having a blast using ProductLift! With over 50 channels, including WhatsApp and Facebook chat, Boei is no stranger to keeping things fun and exciting.\nNow, with ProductLift, they've taken their product development process to a whole new level of fun and efficiency. They've created a wishlist where users can vote on their favorite features, and based on those votes, the Boei team can prioritize their work.\nWith 1600+ votes on 350 features, Boei is constantly receiving valuable feedback from their users, and they're loving every minute of it! They've even included a new feedback form and an overview of what's new directly inside the product, making it easier than ever for users to stay in the loop.\nProductLift's sidebar feature has become the ultimate party favor for Boei, allowing them to keep the festivities going with their team and users. With features like prioritizing, creating a roadmap, and keeping everyone up-to-date, ProductLift has become a staple of Boei's fun-filled product development process.\nSo, if you're looking to add a little fun and excitement to your product development process, follow in Boei's footsteps and give ProductLift a try! Who said product development had to be boring anyway?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "BORDNE, Margot Else - March 12, 1933 - August 27, 2017\nMargot passed away peacefully with family by her side at Milton District Hospital on Sunday, August 27th, 2017, at the age of 84.\nBeloved wife of Richard Ernst.\nCherished mother of Walter (Karen), Birgit (Bill), Martin and Annette (Barry).\nDevoted grandmother of Lynsey, Bradley, Sarah, Chantel, Jennifer, Tyler and Amy.\nA special thank you to the caring staff at Amica Whitby and Season’s Milton.\nVisitation will be held at OSHAWA FUNERAL HOME, 847 King Street West (905-721-1234) on Friday, September 1st from 12:00 noon until time of Funeral Service in the Chapel at 1:00 p.m. Interment to follow at Union Cemetery.\nMemorial donations to the Canadian Diabetes Association would be appreciated.\nOnline condolences may be made at oshawafuneralhome.com.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Cutting Through the Complexity in the Rental Market\nThe market for renting plant and machinery has always been complex. But never quite so complex as it is today. Today’s multi-location companies are also multi-lingual, multi-currency and work across multiple time zones too. Doing business globally can be a logistics nightmare with customers in one country urgently needing kit that’s currently on the other side of the world and with varying rental lengths which, in an unpredictable world, may or may not need to be renewed. Close-knit supply chains mean that late delivery or unavailability can have a financial impact on customers and, in turn, their customer too – and so it goes on.\nWith the growing sophistication of machinery and the increasing reluctance of contractors to have large specialist equipment with limited exposure on their asset registers, there’s little doubt that rental has great potential. But growing competition means that in many regions, hire rates have become stagnant. So how can companies profit from growing demand, without falling prey to the pitfalls?\nInevitably, multi-faceted companies have multiple IT systems to deal with the diversity and variability of their business. Larger companies have grown through acquisition, which probably means inheriting a jumbled IT architecture, often made up of second or even third generation systems. These are often rich in functionality because they have grown over time but nonetheless tend to function as silos and are difficult to integrate across the entire organization.\nThese are also making it difficult – if not impossible – for rental businesses to gain an overarching view of worldwide availability and to generally manage their order lifecycle, from the initial inquiry by a prospect to sending out invoices and collecting money in a consistent and efficient manner. So increasingly, rental companies are finding ways to bring together their six, seven and in some cases even more, systems to provide an integrated reliable, current and easy to access information hub, using industry-standard solutions such as Microsoft Dynamics AX, tailored to their own individual processes and workflow.\nTake the system we have recently implemented for a large global corporate heavily involved in the rental industry. Working across different time zones meant that there was always a lapse of intelligence and insight on utilization and, indeed, the current state of the business. Now all the data across all their geographies is reflected in coordinated universal time (UTC) so whether a hire begins at 3 am UTC in Singapore or 10 am in Brazil, users view this consistently from every location.\nIn other words, regardless of where they are working from, the business processes are identical. Documents such as invoices are all in the appropriate languages and currencies, but fundamentally they are consistent and standard.\nOther rental companies found they were investing too heavily in buying new equipment to hire out simply because they found it difficult to keep tabs on where their existing assets were across the globe and whether it could be transferred in time. Having totally current and accurate data has increased their utilization dramatically and so is helping to save on capex. After all, a few hundred pounds to move a DMS Heave Sensor from Singapore to Aberdeen, for example, if the customer is going to keep it for three months is nothing compared to the cost of having to buy a new one.\nNew technology can also help release ‘hidden’ kit; for example, equipment such as heaters and driers held in warehouses and kept in an ‘under repair’ status so that they don’t appear available to rent out. Latest systems show how long these have been held at this status and these timings are linked to the warehouse KPIs – which can usually help to jog memories and ensure they are soon back in circulation, to help further increase utilization levels.\nIn fact, having a central source of real-time information can help ensure all equipment is returned on time and help with financial planning. But, in the case of one of our customers, making this information freely available at first created some controversy within the sales team. Some were reluctant to chase their customers unless the equipment was needed elsewhere, believing that it was better if the hire time was extended by default rather than asking if the equipment was ready for return.\nHowever, having this information at their fingertips is now helping to increase business rather than lose it. The sales team are now proactively calling their contacts regularly, who now see this simply as great customer service. They save up their requirements in anticipation of the call, as it’s far easier for them to give the business to someone they know than have to make more calls and take it elsewhere. In other words, the rental company has made more friends – and money – by having a list of everything that’s due to be returned.\nNew enterprise systems also make it easy for rental firms to introduce an element of CRM to keep track of prospects – and to price and quote to potential and existing customers. Because an order may be made up of many different components – particularly for those companies dealing in low-cost, high volume goods – it may go through many iterations before everything on it is ordered and delivered. Automating processes can dramatically cut the time taken to do this, as well as increase accuracy.\nSome of these improvements may seem relatively small – others, such as the introduction of CRM could become huge. But they all illustrate the importance of being totally on the ball when it comes to the current state of play across an entire organization.\nIn my view, the rental industry has an extremely bright future; just look at how servitization and subscriptions are taking over beyond the world of plant and heavy industry. However, promising prospects usually lead to increased competition. Only those willing to optimize their use of technology will be able to cut through the complexity to maintain and grow their profitability.\nDean Jacobs, Rental Services Director HSO UK", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Monday, May 01, 2006\nUnited 93, The Movie\nI can't go see this. I get really upset when seeing shows about the 9/11 attacks.\nSo, I avoid watching these things, knowing that my anger and frustration will make me want to explode, and have no real release.\nYou see, I haven't forgotten about 9/11. Not at all. Not a day goes by that I don't contemplate the attacks of that day and remind myself of why America is fighting two wars.\nIt sickens me to see almost all of the leaders of the Democratic party in the U.S. now have decided we did the wrong thing by invading Iraq. Clinton, Gore, Lieberman, and others, in the years running up to 2000, expressed publicly that Saddam's regime in Iraq was one of our biggest threats. That Iraq publicly backed Palestinian terrorists and was an avowed enemy of the U.S. They expressed concern over Iraqs weapons programs. I guess, if Iraq had no WMDs that all the rhetoric by all the Democrats before the 2000 U.S. Presidential election were lies too. And all their posturing and speeches were lies as well.\nBut now, hey, it was all a lie by George Bush, nobody else, even though they were making these same statements before Bush's first election as President.\nAnd as usual, Americans have to have someone to blame for all they see wrong in the world. They blame the current President George Bush for acting on the very fears they themselves expressed repeatedly before Bush's election. They just didn't have the cojones to do anything about them.\nThen came 9/11. And we now live in a different United States. The problem is that it has been long enough now for people to be complacent and get whiny again and want to pretend we are back in a pre-9/11 America and world.\nBut we are not in a pre-9/11 America any more. It's like wishing we had let the attack on Pearl Harbor slide and done nothing. But we fight a different type of enemy now. Not an individual country like Japan, but Al-Qaeda, with adherents in many countries. And we had a President at the time of the attacks that decided to 'take it to them' instead of always acting in reaction to attacks.\nSo here we are. In two wars, and so many who originally backed the ideas of the wars have wimped out. Their flip-flop on the issue doesn't change that we were attacked and we did the right thing by taking the fight to where the enemy lives.\nBut I'm not ready to see United 93. I'm still fired up enough without that.\nI hope the movie does well and reminds people of why we're fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. My wish is that knuckleheads like Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, and their ilk will go see it and get upset at our enemies instead of our President.\nPresident Bush did the right thing just as the passengers of United 93 did. I need no reminders.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Children’s Dance Photography Session at Lake Temescal, Oakland\nWe recently had a fun photo shoot at Lake Temescal in Oakland with a young ballerina. She’s been in dance classes for several years and had a great time dancing and posing her way through the park! It was a…\nWe recently shot a Diwali celebration in Sunnyvale, CA. There was music, dancing, a fashion show, skits, performances and a whole lot of fun!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Ranger Danger began in 2013 as a weekly Power Rangers recap podcast, starting with the 1993 pilot episode “Day of the Dumpster” and continuing on through the show’s history. Since then, Ranger Danger has expanded to include weekly recaps of new seasons of Power Rangers as they air, a series of “actual play” role-playing game specials, and the Ranger Danger Boom Room, a series of monthly interviews with Kyle Higgins, writer of the ongoing Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers comic from Boom! Studios.\nSince 2013, Ranger Danger has released more than 500 episodes totalling over 450 hours of audio, and the regular weekly show has never missed a scheduled release date. In addition to co-hosting the show, I also serve as producer, editor, designer, social media manager, and web developer – everything except writing the episode descriptions, which I only do sometimes.\nThe Ranger Danger identity was redesigned in 2016, including an updated lightning bolt mark, new podcast images, a new website, and new social media icons and post templates.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In 2016, Pew Research reported that roughly eight-in-ten Americans are online shoppers, which equals 15 percent of consumers per week. Consider me a part of the “eight” Americans. This past Christmas, my shopping consisted of three things: a computer, a mouse and nice recliner as I aimlessly browsed the Internet looking for the best deals on the particular products I was looking for. It’s safe to say that my experience was far different from the experiences I had during my teenage years of Christmas shopping when I would spend hours traveling from store to store looking for the perfect gifts.\nWelcome to the digital age. The advent of technology in today’s global marketplace has forever changed the way individuals shop. Gone are the days of employees sitting behind a cash register waiting for the crowds to come through the door. Today, owning and operating a store means it’s a necessity to think more creatively about how to get customers through the door.\nThis past holiday season provided a great lesson for marketers in every industry: How do you take a concept that’s been working for years but is now losing steam and make it relevant again? It’s a complicated issue — because some of that online business is still going to the same retailer – but it’s been interesting to watch big name stores scramble for the right solution to this growing problem.\nSome retailers rely on curb appeal to increase its in-store foot traffic and as a result, take the necessary steps to ensure their storefront remains attractive. Others offer complementary services or provide free unique items that incentivize customers to make a trip inside their store. This includes jewelry cleaning, refreshments, phone charging stations, among other things.\nRetailers also offer classes or workshops that are related to their product. For instance, Babies”R”Us offers several classes per week for parents, or expectant parents, who are interested in learning more about a particular part of parenthood.\nAt Arundel Mills, Maryland’s largest shopping mall and an SHC client, we advised that they host a series of special events for local bloggers and key social media influencers. With a goal of increasing foot traffic, the hope is that these influencers will share their positive experiences on their social channels. A move to incorporate entertainment into shopping meccas has also been seen across the country, and also at Arundel Mills. In addition to a “one-stop experience” for shoppers, the venue also houses a casino, movie theater, restaurants, sports and entertainment facilities.\nTo attract in-store shoppers during the holiday season, Target offered guests a variety of in-store experiences that brought the spirit of the holidays into focus. In approximately 200 stores throughout the country, Target provided cocoa and cookies to consumers while they shopped. They also allowed shoppers to play with the season’s hottest toys during Saturday toy demonstrations.\nAs technology becomes more innovative, it will be interesting to follow the retail industry to see what strategies are being implemented to keep up with the marketplace. It’s vital that all industries stay ahead of the trends and keep thinking creatively and innovatively for solutions to challenges that arise. What is your company doing to keep on top of trends and stay ahead of the curve?\nOne thought on “Shopping in the Digital Age”\nI am always thought about this, thanks for posting.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Colorful street casual look in Harajuku by Neo while out and about on the street.\nclear grommet belt Japanese Street FashionBrowsing\nHarajuku duo sporting casual street styles while out and about on the street.\nHarajuku guy sporting a punk-infused style w/ sheer sukajan, black jeans, and platform spike boots.\nA group of Harajuku teens all sporting stylish streetwear while out and about on the street.\nHarajuku girl sporting a dark sporty street style in Tokyo.\nJapanese duo showcasing purple hair and casual-cool streetwear styles while out and about in Harajuku.\nJapanese students in snazzy outfits while out and about in Harajuku.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything (Paperback)\nEmail or call for price.\nLessons from the groundbreaking grassroots campaign that helped launch a new political revolution\nRules for Revolutionaries is a bold challenge to the political establishment and the \"rules\" that govern campaign strategy.\nIt tells the story of a breakthrough experiment conducted on the fringes of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign: A technology-driven team empowered volunteers to build and manage the infrastructure to make seventy-five million calls, launch eight million text messages, and hold more than one-hundred thousand public meetings--in an effort to put Bernie Sanders's insurgent campaign over the top.\nBond and Exley, digital iconoclasts who have been reshaping the way politics is practiced in America for two decades, have identified twenty-two rules of \"Big Organizing\" that can be used to drive social change movements of any kind. And they tell the inside story of one of the most amazing grassroots political campaigns ever run.\nFast-paced, provocative, and profound, Rules for Revolutionaries stands as a liberating challenge to the low expectations and small thinking that dominates too many advocacy, non-profit, and campaigning organizations--and points the way forward to a future where political revolution is truly possible.\nAbout the Author\nBecky Bond served as a senior advisor on the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign and was an architect of the campaign’s national, volunteer-driven grassroots campaign. Prior to joining the Bernie Sanders campaign, Becky served as political director at CREDO where she was an innovator working at the intersection of organizing, politics, and technology for over a decade. Becky is a cofounder of CREDO SuperPAC, which was named by Mother Jones as one “2012’s Least Horrible Super-PACs” for helping to defeat five sitting Tea Party Republican Congressmen. She lives in San Francisco, California, with the writer, designer, and book artist Emily McVarish.\nZack Exley served as a senior advisor on the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign and was an architect of the campaign’s national, volunteer-driven grassroots campaign. Zack was a union organizer before becoming MoveOn.org’s first organizing director in its campaign to prevent the war in Iraq in 2003. As an early advisor to the Howard Dean campaign, he helped transfer MoveOn.org’s early fundraising and organizing discoveries into presidential politics, and he then served as John Kerry’s director of online fundraising and communications in the general election where his team raised more than $100 million online for the nominee. Subsequently, Zack worked as a consultant to global NGOs, campaigns and companies, and served as Wikipedia’s chief community officer and chief revenue officer. He lives in the Ozarks with his wife, Elizabeth, and daughter, Esther.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Expressions of Nature by Lucrecia Waggoner\nto 6 PM\n1105 Dragon St. , Dallas, TX\nStart date: Saturday, February 23, 2013\nEnd Date: Sunday, March 24, 2013\nDallas-based artist Lucrecia Waggoner is showing her latest exhibition at Samuel Lynne Galleries. Entitled Expressions of Nature, the show will kick off with a premier artist reception on Saturday, February 23rd from 5 to 9 p.m, and will be on display through March 24th. Viewers will be able to see her perceptions of the world captured and translated through the unique medium of porcelain.\nInformation submitted by a Pegnews.com user\nSorry, this event ended on March 24, 2013.\nSee more events classified as:\n- Theater reviews: Anglophiles, especially, will love Less Than Kind at Theatre Three\n- Review: Don't miss brunch at Kitchen LTO in Trinity Groves\n- Before Miley's Dallas concert: She promises \"every show is going to be different\"\n- Remember the Bud Light Hotel in Dallas at Super Bowl? It's back for Final Four\n- Neil Young returns to the Meyerson in April", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Who Is Emburrxo? Viral Photos And Videos Clip On Twitter And Reddit Income Earnings\nThe internet has come to love Emburroxo, an Instagram sensation who seamlessly blends incredible photos with hilarious captions to become a social media superstar. So what’s the deal with this guy? Who is Emburroxo? Emburrox Viral Photos and Videos Clip on Twitter and Reddit For more information, visit the link below…\nEmburrxo is Going Viral on Twitter and Reddit\nEmburroxo is social media star who’s taking the internet by storm, and he’s gaining so much attention that he may soon rival any famous celebrities on social media! But who exactly is Emburroxo? And why do people seem to love him so much? Read on to find out more about this fascinating social media personality…\nWho is Emburrxo? Twitter and Reddit Go Crazy Over Viral Photos and Videos\nIf you’ve been on the Internet in the past few days, you’ve seen him: Emburroxo, the mysterious man whose photos and videos have taken over Twitter and Reddit. Who is he? Where did he come from? Why does he look like that? And why does he only have one eye?! These are all questions I had after seeing this viral social media star, so I tracked him down to get the scoop on his life, his thoughts on fame, and his plans for the future. Let’s dive right in!\nIs this all Emburroxo ever does?\nThough many claim to know who Emburroxo is, and what his motives are, it’s rare to get a direct answer from him. He simply picks up photos and videos that catch his eye on Twitter or Reddit, and posts them with witty comments—always making sure to tag his followers.\nFirst of all, it’s important to point out that Emburiox is NOT a living creature—it’s just an image created in MS Paint. In fact, you might even argue that it looks less like a person and more like something from your nightmares (see below). However, perhaps what makes Emburiox so special is that it has been shared around social media networks.\nEmburroxo twitter video", "label": "No"}
{"text": "WEATHER FROM OUR SPONSORS\nSHERIDAN — Jon Scherry carded a hole-in-one on Wednesday, July 2, at the Powder Horn.\nScherry hit a pitching wedge on the Eagle course’s number three hole, a 135-yard par three.\nWitnesses were Brian Morgen, Frank Hagen and George Dukich.\nLatest posts by Outside Contributor (see all)\n- Left is real purveyor of ‘fake news’ - December 8, 2016\n- Trump’s Carrier ploy was a repudiation of conservatism - December 8, 2016\n- Western space created by dreamers - December 8, 2016", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Vanessa Hall is the International Ambassador for Trust, also known as 'The Trust Lady.' As founder and director of\nentente pty limited\nshe is leading the world's first International Movement of Trust.\nVanessa, an award winning Author, Speaker and Adviser to business leaders, governments and individuals around the world, has\naccepted the challenge to re-establish the trust paridgm as the foundation on which any successful business, personal relationship and community must be built.\nVanessa's business and personal experience has ignited an unstoppable passion that has made her an outstanding entrepreneur and globally recognised thought leader on trust.\nRead Vanessa's story here.\nAlso in this section...\nvanessa in the media\n© 2010 entente |\nTerms & Conditions\nSite by REDD Interactive", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Your Sourcing Solution\nThe growing love for these ingredients is proof that American diners are looking to break down culinary boundaries. They want different cultures and flavors on a single plate. Regardless of what the front-running ingredient is, it’s clear that this desire to blend flavors will stick around.\nUnlike a real election, there are no losers in these races. One or two of these ingredients might become staples across U.S. restaurant menus in the near future. Or maybe an underdog will take our taste buds by storm. Some have been staples in their communities for years. Regardless, there’s a world of possibilities for these candidates and so many other ingredients to diversify menus and introduce consumers to exciting flavors.\nDot Foods customers can find the biggest items of today and tomorrow on our website.\nMeet our candidates—order these ingredients and more.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In 2016, Nursing Studies at the University of Edinburgh celebrates 60 years, making us the UK’s longest standing university nursing department. There is much history to celebrate whilst we look forward to new challenges in the future.\nAs one of the first universities to offer a nursing degree in the UK (since 1956), the University of Edinburgh has a long tradition of preparing graduate nurses.\nPostgraduate study at Edinburgh can open up new horizons and career paths, with graduates from Nursing Studies highly regarded throughout the world.\nWe offer a lively research environment that has a mix of research interests and methods, with a focus on how individuals and families experience illness.\nDevelop your career in nursing with one of our flexible, dynamic and relevant courses.\nThis article was published on Nov 23, 2015", "label": "No"}
{"text": "July 13, 1947 — December 29, 2018\nWilliam Harvey White Jr. (Bill) passed away at home at the age of 71 in Dallas, Oregon.\nBill was born on July 13, 1947, in San Mateo, California.\nBill went peacefully to be with his Lord and savior after succumbing to a bravely fought battle with cancer. Bill was the son of William and Marie White.\nThe family moved to Albany in 1948, where he graduated from Albany Union High School in 1965.\nBill then met and married the love of his life, Janet Lee Teachout (White), of Dallas, Oregon on December 28, 1968. They just celebrated 50 amazing years together.\nBill worked for Pacific Power for 42 years as a Journeyman Lineman. Following his heart for God and people, he went to Indonesia three different times to help provide electricity to remote hospitals in the jungles of Borneo.\nHe was also very active and well-loved in the Dallas City community. He was a well-known presence at both his children's and grandchildren's many various sporting events. Bill was always quick to lend a helping hand to his family members, friends, church and many others in need throughout the community.\nBill also loved to spend time with all six of his grandkids.\nHe was an avid fisherman and car restoration enthusiast. Bill was also a member of the Pickleball Club, where he truly enjoyed the camaraderie of everyone he played with. Bill never wavered in his faith in God, and his steadfast love for family and friends was evident throughout his life.\nHe is preceded in death by his father, William Harvey White Sr.\nHe is survived by his mother, Marie White; wife, Janet White (Teachout); four children, Jason (Tami) White, Jeremy (Regan) White, Becky (Noel) Gill, and Bieu (Siu Hoan) Quach; six grandchildren, Jorhdyn, Andrew, Emilee, Aaron, Dallas, and Kalie; one sister, Nancy (Tim) Wilson; and two nephews, Nate and Zach.\nA memorial service will begin at 2 p.m. on Saturday, January 12, in the Grace Community Church.\nThe Dallas Mortuary Tribute is caring for the family.\nTo leave a message or memory for the family please go to www.dallastribute.com.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Our Emergency Fund urgently needs funds to save lives. It’s what helped us to respond to the war in Ukraine, the Gaza crisis, the Lebanon blast, and so many other disasters without a delay in waiting for funds.\n$140 – be a lifeline to a family in crisis. Provide a vulnerable family with food, clean water, and medical aid. Your donation can transform the recovery of a family that has lost their home and livelihood.\n$100 - keep a family-of-five fed and nourished for an entire month with a wholesome and nutritious food parcel.\n$50/month - help us be ready to respond rapidly, wherever and whenever disaster strikes, helping families to survive.\nWhen a disaster strikes, our Emergency Fund allows us to respond within 72 hours, dispatching the aid and experts that the most vulnerable need. Arriving on the scene in these first hours is critical to controlling the scale of an emergency, and to helping to get families to safety.\nReap the blessings of sadaqah and a mercy to brothers and sisters who are hit by disaster around the globe. Donate to our Emergency Fund and help us to respond to emergencies within 72 hours, helping communities to survive, recover, and rebuild.\nWhat’s different about this fund?\nEach week, communities across the world face a new crisis to deal with. Most don’t make the headlines. In the last year alone, our Emergency Fund has saved lives by responding to the war in Ukraine, the escalation in Gaza, and malnutrition and drought in Somalia, and winter flooding in Syria.\nHow our Emergency Fund has saved lives\nSadly, many communities are already dealing with major crises when they are hit by another.\nIn Somalia, after three seasons of no rain, hunger levels are at their worst for 30 years, with 350,000 children at risk of starvation.\nHow our Emergency Fund is helping: Before a single pound was donated to our Somalia Emergency Appeal, we began distributing nutritious food parcels, malnutrition treatment and shelter, as well as delivering clean water to last a month to communities. The fund allowed us to react swiftly to rising malnutrition and famine-like conditions, without waiting for donations to come through.\nIn Gaza, families struggling with the blockade, marginalization, and unable to properly access education, healthcare, and jobs, are frequently hit by devastating escalations. Last May, during 15 days of bombings, 278 people died, and over 9,000 were injured. More than 77,000 people had to flee their homes, around 30 clinics and hospitals were damaged, and Gaza’s only COVID-19 test centre was destroyed.\nHow our Emergency Fund has helped: We provided 18,000 families with food vouchers, we hired people to clear rubble from the street, providing them with jobs and helping the community to recover, and we provided medical supplies and 25,000 litres of fuel to hospitals and clinics in Gaza, helping 15,443 people.\nIn Yemen, communities that are starving were hit by flash floods.\nHow our Emergency Fund has helped: We provided shelter, hygiene kits, and clean water, in addition to our other Yemen Appeal activities.\nWe have 30 years of experience in responding to emergencies all over the globe.\nTo be there, whenever and wherever a disaster strikes, we urgently need more donations to our Emergency Fund. In every emergency, it’s always the most vulnerable – children, older people, those already struggling for food – who suffer the most.\nCharity is a blessing – for those who receive it, and for those who give too. It offers protection from calamity, no matter how little you can afford to give.\nAs our brothers and sisters across the world face a scale of crisis that we’ve never seen before, be a mercy to the Ummah. Donate to our Emergency Fund appeal and reap the reward of helping us to act swiftly to save lives in emergencies.\nWhen disaster strikes, Human Appeal is one of the few humanitarian organisations able to rapidly access some of the world’s most hard-to-reach communities.\nEven when emergencies are overlooked in the news and by other charities – meaning it can be hard to raise funds – our Global Emergency Fund enables us to react within 72 hours, so we can provide people with the essentials they need to survive, even when public awareness about their hardship is low.\nWhen the emergency is over and long after TV cameras have left, Human Appeal remains on the ground to support those impacted by disaster.\nAs well as helping to prepare for emergencies, our Global Emergency Fund helps us to rebuild lives and communities after a crisis. From providing shelter and safe water to vital healthcare assistance, we are there to rebuild communities and help vulnerable families to begin to recover.\nThe impact of a disaster is felt for weeks, months and even years.\nBy supplying the vital tools and resources vulnerable communities need to rebuild their resilience, we can help ensure their future safety. We empower communities so that they can take ownership of their own futures - from helping them to build sustainable safe water systems to providing resilience livelihood training, we are there to transform and empower futures through our Global Emergency Fund.\nChanging lives for 30 years\nFor 30 years, thanks to our supporters, Human Appeal has been helping people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are.\nWe react within hours and are proud of our teams who risk their lives to provide food, clean water, shelter, and medical aid for those trapped in a conflict or disaster situation. We also help vulnerable families to withstand and overcome crises in their communities, enabling them to recover and remain resilient to future disasters.\nLast year alone, thanks to generous supporters like you, we helped 3,782,785 people, including over 2 million Palestinians, over 400,000 Yemenis and 10,000 people here in the UK, thanks to your support.\n“Give charity without delay, for it stands in the way of calamity.” (Tirmidhi)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, September 13, 2006\nFive years ago this week, I was sitting in French class when just a few miles away from my high school the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center fell on lower Manhattan.\nThey say that everything can change in a New York minute. On the morning of Sept. 11, it did for me and many of my classmates. Several of us lost neighbors, friends and coaches. Some lost parents. One lost her brother – a firefighter with Engine Company 26.\nThe Greek tragedian Aeschylus warned even in our sleep pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart until in our despite, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.\nFive years removed from the attacks, the horror and violence which descended upon our part of the country that September morning has ceased. The pain, however, has not. For so many in our local parishes and towns, this week – just like every week since – marks indelibly the magnitude of personal loss.\nOn Monday, we commemorated the lives of our neighbors, colleagues and family who perished in the Towers by reciting their names to the world at Ground Zero. On Tuesday and thereafter, when the world returns again to everyday life, their absence – like the gaping hole in our New York skyline – will linger at the forefront of our minds and hearts.\nToday, we have no concrete memorial for our dead. But in shared grief, pain has nonetheless revealed that the most fitting way to commemorate lost life is to celebrate it.\nThis fall, as you pursue your studies at Notre Dame, I ask you to do so with vigor and purpose. Look at our world through a global context, but always keep sight of the smaller things in life. Enjoy afternoons cheering our Irish on to victory and, above all stolen moments spent with family and friends.\nAs you do so, hold in your hearts all, those who lost that privilege on the morning of Sept. 11.\nPray for them daily, and pray for their families.\nclass of 2006", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Wednesday, April 21, 2010\nHyphenated American said it first\nOne of the listeners of my interview to Jimmy Z claimed a few weeks ago that I could read Obama as an open book. I must say that I was unduly pleased by this comment – but must confess that unfortunately I am not that good. And yet, I would like to make a quick analysis of what Obama has in stock for our nation.\nIn order to look through Obama’s eyes, I have to make a number of certain claims about his personality. Firstly, he is a psychopath and a narcissist. Secondly, he is obsessed with ruling other people (for their own good, of course), and he cannot imagine himself being wrong. Thirdly, he is ruthless and unprincipled – and has the experience of a Chicago political street brawler. Lastly, he may be badly educated – but he surely understands the human soul, and he is only too happy to use this knowledge for his lowly ends.\nWhat do these assumptions give us? Obama’s health care is in shambles – with a good chance of being repealed or seriously weakened in one year. Republicans are destined to take over the House and maybe even the Senate, and his chances to win the 2012 elections are bleak. If he is thrown out of the White House in 2013, he will have to live the rest of his life as an utter failure scorned by everyone – even Carter circa 1980 would look victorious compared to him.\nSo, what would a narcissistic psychopath with sadistic tendencies do in these circumstances? History teaches that people like Obama find one sure way to bolster their popularity- start a war. The enemy seems to have chosen itself quite well – Iran, or as Obama likes to call it – The Islamic Republic of Iran (funny that I never heard Obama talking about the Jewish State of Israel). Any attentive reader would notice that all of a sudden we were fed plethora of news about Iranian nuclear program, and how Obama administration is not prepared to deal with the challenge of nuclear Iran. In fact, Iranian nuclear bomb is now shown as inevitable – something than no one can stop now.\nAnd surely, I must note that Obama is unlikely to launch a war against Iran – this would jeopardize his chances for re-election. After all, Obama needs to convince the independents that he is a decent candidate while keeping his loony left-wing base (about 10% of the voters). An attack on Iran will thus be counter-productive to his goals. So, what is the solution to the problem?\nThe solution is fairly simple. In the last few months Obama spent inordinate amount of effort in showing to Israel that her safety is the least of his concerns. One can easily read between the lines his message - if Israel suddenly disappears into the sand, Obama will rejoice. For all intents and purposes, Israel is alone today. Moreover, Obama’s obvious anti-Israeli bias encourages the most vicious anti-semitic groups in the moslem world – just a few days ago we’ve learned that Syria transferred scores of Scud missiles to Hezballah. The negotiations with PLO can be ruled out – Obama’s insistence on Israel’s unilateral concessions went much further than what PLO had demanded and made PLO’s agreement to talk to Israel quite impossible.\nOn the other side, Iran is quickly developing its nuclear arsenal. At this point, no self-respecting expert would guarantee that Iranian mullahs won’t transfer a nuclear bomb to an Al Qaeda-type group that would later smuggle it inside Israel and detonate in a large population center. Anyone who doubts that should explain how Israel is supposed to act if it is attacked by a nuclear terrorist group. Who should Israel nuke in return? And moreover, will the world stand by and allow Israel to nuke, say, Iran, if UN publicly announces that it is not convinced that the nuke came from Iran. Or maybe Iranian government will suddenly discover that indeed one of its nukes was hijacked by a Palestinian – and they are apologizing for the inconvenience. Will the world sit idly while Israel sending hundreds of nuclear missiles into Iranian civilian centers and killing tens of millions of people?\nSo, it is clear that the situation for Israel is dire, and she cannot let Iran acquire nukes. And if history teaches us anything – when Israel is faced with a dangerous situation, she makes one choice – she strikes back as hard as she can. The experience of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising taught the Jews that it’s better to die standing, and I have no doubt that millions of Jews feel the same way (American liberal Jews non-withstanding).\nIn this light, Obama’s actions make perfect sense – he is attempting to distance himself from Israel as far as possible to achieve two goals:\n1. Isolate Israel and push her to attack Iran.\n2. To have reasonable deniability when the attack occurs.\nAfter Israel is forced to attack Iran, I have no doubts that the mullahs will retaliate – and they will not limit their attacks to Israel. It is very likely that one way or another, the US will be hit – be it a terrorist attack against the US base, closing of the the Strait of Hormuz (which will choke the world oil supply), an explosion on a US oil tanker – or even a domestic attack in American heartland. And when that happens – Barack Obama will make a long speech on television about the “Day that will live in infamy”, make a few passing comments about the fault of the previous administration and hasty response of Israel – and declare war against Iran. It will all be very heartbreaking – peaceful US led by a reasonable leader Barack Obama was attacked by an evil regime, and America was pulled into a foreign war. Just remember all the conspiracy theories about the Spanish War, WW1, WW2 and Vietnam War – and remind yourself that Obama most likely believes these theories. In the end, the left will bite their tongues, the moderates will applaud and conservatives will join the military and go to war against the mullahs.\nAnd while the war is going on, Obama can nationalize healthcare and banks, put price controls on everything, and set the unions in control of all major companies and raise taxes.\nI would really want to see anyone who could find a flaw in this plan – I really would…", "label": "No"}
{"text": ">>/44620/ > They said that in the 1990s when they let normies use the internet. The normies are not the biggest problem. It's the centralization of the world wide web and the political & economic power grabbing domination of the internet that is the biggest problem! The monopolization of the internet by a few is killing our ability to spread alternative ideas and unwanted truths. > Then they said the same thing when social media became a thing. A dozen mega sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google and Tik Tok, et al, becoming well over half of all the internet traffic is what has lead to the death of innovation and the destruction of a unique diverse online experience today. Sure we can post on a handful of alternative platforms today but face it, we are vastly outnumbered and heavily censored on nearly all major platforms that provide most online traffic, we are considered a \"tiny portion of the fringe\" as normies would say. The internet needs more decentralization and innovation, without that we are doomed to hive mind safe spaces or tiny fringe areas of the net that hardly ever get real human traffic. >>/44657/ Yes, and that's the end result of mass censorship and hive mind safe spaces with a massive lack of decentralized innovation. >>/44659/ Very sadly possible.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Nanog-like regulates endoderm formation through the Mxtx2-Nodal pathway.\nGenome-wide maps of binding sites of Nanog-like and Mxtx2 in blastula stage zebrafish embryos\nTranscription Factor Binding (ChIP-Seq)\nAge, Immunoprecipitation Antibody\nHere, using ChIP-Seq, we examined the targets of Nanog-like and Mxtx2 in blastula stage zebrafish embryos. We found that Nanog-like bind to its known targets like Oct4, Sox2, and Nanog-like. Nanog-like also bound to genes involved in extraembryonic lineage differentiation, like gata3 and krt4 for EVL differentiation, and mxtx2 and slc26a1 for YSL differentiation, mesoderm specification like ntl and tbx3, cell movement like wnt11 and cxcr4b, and signaling genes like ndr1, bmp2b, fgf8a and wnt8a. The binding profile suggests that Nanog-like may play a versatile role involving many developmental processes. We found 11.3% of the genes (1751 out of all annotated 15500 zebrafish genes) and 43.6% of the YSL genes (118 out of 271 genes expressed in the YSL) were bound by Mxtx2, suggesting Mxtx2 bound directly to YSL genes to activate their expression\nShannan Ho Sui\nStudy metadata (ISA-Tab: isa_13880_954189.zip)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Classic 66 Radio Show is a 1 hour program that is launched every week with the best rock, country, blues, humor, news, events on the route. Every week we play the newest music in the show. Welcome!\nTu Sitio Web Gratis\n© 2022 Classic 66 Radio show", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Guest blog by TruLite Health intern, Sanya Somani.\nWomen have historically faced, and continue to face, various inequities in healthcare, ranging from gender bias in treatment to underrepresentation in clinical trials and limited access to reproductive healthcare services.\nThis month, we honor and celebrate the extraordinary women who have broken barriers to shape healthcare in the U.S., each leaving an indelible mark on the field with their inspiring journeys:\n- Margaret Sanger: An American birth control activist, Sanger played an integral role in the introduction of birth control in the 1960s. She advocated for women’s reproductive rights and bodily autonomy. Her efforts challenged the restrictions and societal taboos of her time, laying the groundwork for modern reproductive healthcare.\n- Elizabeth Blackwell: As the first woman to earn a medical degree, Blackwell faced and overcame years of discrimination and barriers in a male-dominated field. Her unwavering dedication and success opened doors for women in the medical profession and challenged the prevailing norms of her time, laying a foundation for future women in medicine.\n- Mary Edwards Walker: Known for being the only woman to receive the Presidential Medal of Honor and as the first female U.S. Army surgeon, Walker was a trailblazer in medicine. Her remarkable career and bold choices, often defying conventional societal expectations, set a precedent for women in medical and military roles traditionally held by man.\nThese examples serve as a reminder of the power of determination, courage and advocacy in shaping a better future for all. As we celebrate Women’s History Month, let us remember the trailblazing women of our past who shattered stereotypes and continue to inspire women in medicine and beyond.\nJoin the movement toward equitable healthcare with Truity™. Contact our team to learn more.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Parks and Recreation\n2022 Spring Game Schedules\n|3-4 Co-ed||5-6 Co-ed||7-8 Boys|\n|9-10 Boys||11-12 Boys||13-15 Boys|\n|8U Girls||10U Girls||12U Girls|\nOur Mission: The Wendell Parks and Recreation Department strives to be a leader in Eastern Wake County by offering high quality recreational, cultural and leisure opportunities that will promote positive development and growth for Wendell citizens and visitors alike. It is our mission to provide open space facilities that will meet the needs of parks and recreation, preserve our natural resources and protect the historical integrity of our community for generations to come.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Place : Thailand, Chiang Mai\nContact Person:Ms. Adda Lu\nDescription:IEAI 2023 information: 1. IEAI 2023 is supported by ACM Singapore Chapter. It is the workshop of MISE 2023. 2. Accepted papers will be published in Conference Proceedings, which will be indexed by EI Compendex, Scopus, Thomson Reuters (WoS) etc. 3. Prof. Chen-Fu Chien from National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Taiwan, XU Yang from Beijing University and Prof. Maged M. Dessouky in University of Southern California, USA will be the keynote speakers.\nDeadline for abstracts/proposals : 10th December 2022\nOrganized By :ACM Singapore Chapter\nKeynote Speakers :\nVenue :89/8 Chang Klan Road, Muang, Chiang Mai 50100 Thailand\nCheck the event website for more details.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Taxiing out of the RELIANT AIR ramp. RELIANT AIR has the lowest fuel price on the Danbury (KDXR) airport.\nWant a full history search for N525EZ dating back to 1998? Buy now. Get it within one hour.\n|31-Aug-2015||C25B/I||East Hampton (KHTO)||Westchester County (KHPN)||09:04AM EDT||09:24AM EDT||0:20|\n|27-Aug-2015||C25B/I||Westchester County (KHPN)||East Hampton (KHTO)||02:41PM EDT||03:00PM EDT||0:18|\n|Registered users (registering is free and easy!) view 4 months history. Join|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Pride Month is dedicated to uplifting LGBTQ+ voices, celebrating LGBTQ+ culture, and supporting LGBTQ+ rights.\nOakland County’s vision is to be a healthy, safe, and thriving place where everyone is valued, quality of life is high and economic opportunity abounds. We’re committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, not only for the LGBTQ+ community, but all the county’s diverse populations.\nThroughout the summer, many Oakland County cities, villages, and townships, along with many communities nearby, are hosting Pride events. Use our list below to find a celebration near you!\nJune 3: Ferndale – A Starry Night Pride Prom\nJune 4: Ferndale Pride\nJune 4: Ferndale – Pride at the Pavilion\nJune 4: Ortonville Pride Festival\nJune 4: Hazel Park Pride Flag Raising 2022\nJune 5: Ferndale – 2022 Pride Comedy Gala\nJune 6: DIA Behind the Seen: Art/Pride – virtual event\nJune 7: Holly Pride 2022\nJune 11: Madison Heights Arts & Pride\nJune 11-12: Detroit – Motor City Pride Festival\nJune 16: Pride Night 2022: Celebrating Progress in Fenton\nJune 18: Grosse Pointe Pride\nJune 26: Berkley Pride Block Party\nJune 26: Macomb County Pride Picnic\nAffirmations LGBTQ+ community center has been the hub for southeast Michigan LGBTQ+ communities and its allies for the last 30 years. They provide a welcoming space where people of all sexual orientations, gender identities & expressions, and cultures can learn, grow, socialize, and access the vital support they need!\nThe Ruth Ellis Center offers integrated primary health services, behavioral health services, and residential care facilities for insured and uninsured LGBTQ youth and young adults.\nStand with Trans provides resources and support for transgender/GNC/gender non-conforming youth and families. Resources include support groups, social events, empowerment workshops, skill-building, community education, and phone support via Ally Moms for transgender youth and parents/caregivers.\nEquality Michigan is Michigan’s statewide lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) political advocacy organization. Formerly the Triangle Foundation, EQMI has been Michigan’s premiere LGBTQ anti-violence and political advocacy organization for over 25 years and counting.\nThe LGBT National Help Center services the LGBTQ+ community by offering free and confidential support via peer chat support, a national hotline, a senior hotline and youth chatrooms.\n- LGBT National Hotline: (888) 843-4564\n- LGBT National Youth Talk line: (800) 246-7743\n- LGBT National Senior Hotline: (888) 234-7243\nMore community resources are available on the Oakland County Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion resources webpage.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Originally Posted by svtpwnz\nThanks for posting the vid. Voter fraud will be in full swing come november.\nOh, come, now; what possible evil could the supporters of a world-renown Constitutional Expert Lawyer, Supreme Court authority and president of a 57+ state union ever accomplish?\nLife member: LEAA, NYSPRA, GOA, JPFO, Endowment Member NRA, NRA Legion of Honor\n\"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.\"- George Orwell", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Laketown Wharf is home to the 2013 9-11 Memorial Stair Climb Fundraiser, which has become a favorite annual event in Panama City Beach. Panama City Beach Fire Rescue is hosting the event in memory of firefighters and first responders who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. The public is invited to attend this event on Saturday, September 7. The climb consists of 110 flights of stairs (22 story building: 3 times up and 2 times down or you can climb up all 5 times) to duplicate the 110 stories of the World Trade Center Towers that the Emergency Responders had to climb that day. The climb begins at 8 a.m. and there will be a lunch/reception awards ceremony immediately following.\nWe’re offering a special for those who would like to participate in the climb and stay at Laketown Wharf! You can stay in one of our beautiful condos with rates starting at $79 a night.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "- Worldwide Rank #2,010,463\n- Follower/Following Ratio 1.05\n- Daily New Followers 0\nElif $ul£ اليف شولا Twitter Stats\n@2323Barbie - Tracking Elif $ul£ اليف شولا Twitter profile since March 13, 2015\nTaYYiP aşığı✌ MalatyAlı sevgi dolu bir kulcuk☺GaLaTaSaRaY Aşktır☺Okul Okumaya Calisan Ögrenci✌Her Biji TAYYİP✌KORKMA TİTRE~16~\nElif $ul£ اليف شولا's story\nElif $ul£ اليف شولا, also known as @2323Barbie has a reasonably significant presence on Twitter and is ranked by us in the 40% percentile for account strength. Active on Twitter since November 2014, Elif $ul£ اليف شولا made it to having a respectable 5,562 Twitter followers and to being ranked 2,010,463 for number of followers among all Twitter users.\nUh-oh... seems like someone has fallen asleep while on duty and is dropping in social relevance. The plot thickens when considering Elif $ul£ اليف شولا's follower-to-following ratio, which is 1.05. This means that this account basically has the same amount of followers as it follows other accounts. It kind of makes one wonder about tactics...\nOver the past month, @2323Barbie's was hardly active on Twitter, with an average of 0 tweet(s) per day in the past 30 days. That's pretty consistent with a total of 2,775 since @2323Barbie joined Twitter.\nThis account is tracked by us Only March 2015. As of May 25 2018 we track 289266479 Twitter accounts, so feel free to search for other accounts you're interested in and reveal their Twitter story!\nElif $ul£ اليف شولا Tweets\n@2323Barbie has posted 0 tweets in the last 1 days, which translates to an average of 0 tweets per day.\nElif $ul£ اليف شولا Twitter Followers\n@2323Barbie has 5,562 followers on Twitter.\nThis account is #2,010,463 in the worldwide rank of the most popular Twitter users.\nElif $ul£ اليف شولا Following on Twitter\n@2323Barbie is following 5,295 Twitter accounts.\nLast month this account followed no users.\nElif $ul£ اليف شولا Predictions & Milestones\n@2323Barbie will hit 5,562 followers in the next 3 months, and 5,562 in one year.\nYou are on Elif $ul£ اليف شولا's Twitter stats page\nWe track these Twitter stats since March 13, 2015 . You can see how many followers Elif $ul£ اليف شولا lost or gained and what the prediction is for tomorrow or the next 15 days, together with all kinds of other stats like rank compared to all Twitter users, tweets etc.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Issues: A New Direction\n“I am running for Congress because we need a new direction for our country. We need new leaders who will reach across the aisle to find common sense solutions and prioritize the needs of the American people, not the special interests. I am not a typical politician. I am a business leader who is ready to bring change to Washington.” — Bob Roggio\nA New Focus on our Economy and Infrastructure\nBob Roggio understands that the most important task Washington should undertake is to revitalize the economy. Because of the failed policies of Jim Gerlach and George Bush throughout the last 8 years, our country is struggling with an enormous financial crisis and taxpayers have been tragically forced to foot the bill. Bob will work to get our economy back on track. He plans to aid the economic recovery with tax cuts for middle class families and by repealing the Bush/Gerlach tax breaks for people making over $250,000 a year. He believes that restoring our economy means making investments in infrastructure and renewable energy that will create new jobs for today and for tomorrow's generation.\nRead More: ECONOMICS PLAN\nA New Dedication to Fiscal Responsibility\nBob is a fiscal conservative who believes in the strength of free enterprise and that the economy functions best with lower taxes for the middle class. As a business leader, Bob Roggio balanced a budget, provided health care for his employees, and took care of the bottom line. In Congress, he will fight for a balanced budget, work to reduce America’s record debt, and advocate for common sense pay-as-you-go budget rules. We are currently spending 10 billion dollars a month in Iraq, giving subsidies to oil companies, and giving tax cuts to people making over $250,000 a year. It is time for responsible and accountable leaders who will curtail the spending spree in Washington and encourage sound regulation in our financial markets.\nRead More: ECONOMICS PLAN\nA New Energy Policy, A Cleaner World\nBob Roggio believes that we must act boldly to invest in clean and renewable energy and improve energy efficiency. We need to create a path to energy independence by reducing our consumption and increasing fuel economy standards, not by yielding to Big Oil’s agenda by drilling our way out of the problem. Top economists, government agencies, and environmental groups have all affirmed that drilling would have at best, a “minimal and delayed” impact on our nation’s gas prices. [Time Magazine, 6.18.08] We need to take meaningful action now in order to reverse the Bush/Gerlach policies of inaction over the past 8 years.\nMost importantly, we need accountability and real independence from the oil companies. We also need a renewed commitment to making America a global leader in the fight against climate change. We need sound and considerable investments into the development of alternative energy sources and new job creation. We need to work with the international community to develop fair trade agreements that demand rigorous compliance to environmental standards. We need to aggressively support a cap-and-trade plan that reduces greenhouse emissions 80% by 2050.\nRead More about Long-Term and Short-Term Solutions: ENERGY PLAN\nA New Direction in Iraq\nBob Roggio believes that the war in Iraq was a mistake. He will fight to bring our troops home safely, responsibly, and in a manner that honors their accomplishments. Over the past 6 years, almost 4,000 of our troops have been killed. 20,000 more have been injured, many of whom will need – and deserve – comprehensive, quality care for the rest of their lives. We have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on foreign soil while ignoring the domestic needs of our country. President Bush continues to ask for more money and more troops, but has no new ideas to win the peace. Yet, Jim Gerlach has voted with Bush on Iraq 100% of the time. We must turn control of Iraq over to the Iraqis and start investing here at home to boost our economy, reduce gas prices, curtail rising health care costs, help struggling homeowners, and regather our military strength.\nA New Commitment to Veterans\nAs a former Army Reservist, Bob passionately believes that honoring the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform must go beyond rhetoric. He will fight to make sure that Washington holds up its end of the deal by demanding better funding and health care for all of our nation’s veterans. He will work to update and improve the G.I. Bill so that our servicemen and women have access to affordable education and lasting benefits.\nA New Approach to Health Care\nAs a businessman, Bob Roggio understands how rising health care costs are hurting businesses, but he also understands how important it is that employees maintain access to quality care. During his business career every one of his employees had access to affordable health care coverage. In Congress, Bob will fight to improve the quality of health care while making it more affordable and accessible for all. He believes that we have a moral responsibility to insure the 47 million Americans who don’t have access to health care. We need to focus on building a comprehensive, universal health care system that relies on the shared responsibility of the government, employers, and individuals. We also need a renewed commitment to our seniors, ensuring that they have affordable access to good doctors and prescription drugs.\nA New Investment in Improving our Education System\nBob Roggio believes that education is the cornerstone of our economy and of our ability to compete in the global marketplace. We must fix “No Child Left Behind” by concentrating on flexibility and demanding full funding without lowering standards in performance or accountability. We must invest in early childhood education and make college affordable for all Americans. Bob believes that teachers deserve more competitive salaries, and he will fight for continuing education and professional development opportunities for our teaching professionals.\nA New Determination to Protect Choice\nBob Roggio supports a woman's right to choose. We must work to prevent unintended pregnancies and reduce the need for abortion by expanding access to contraception and family planning services. Bob Roggio has been endorsed by Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America for his “commitment to protecting women's reproductive rights through the political process.”\nA New Voice for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties\nBob Roggio believes that we need to vigorously defend our constitutionally protected civil rights and civil liberties. The Bush Administration has undermined the American standard of democracy by curtailing our fundamental rights and freedoms. We must fight to end discrimination by supporting legislation such as the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and by expanding the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act. We need to strengthen civil rights by working to eliminate sentencing disparities, prohibit racial profiling, and end prejudicial policies like “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” As a country, we need to restore our global reputation by following the Geneva Conventions and adamantly opposing the use of government torture.\nA New Plan to Halt Illegal Immigration\nBob Roggio believes that we need to prevent illegal immigration by focusing on strengthening our borders and enforcing the laws on the books. We need to allow immigrants who pay taxes and abide by our laws to earn the right to pursue a path to US Citizenship.\nA New Group of Leaders Committed to Integrity and Accountability\nBob Roggio believes that we need to hold our elected leaders to the highest ethical standards. We need to go further than restricting the number of years that public officials have to “cool off” before lobbying Congress. To curtail the influence of special interests in governance, we must put into law a lifetime ban on ex-lawmakers from becoming registered lobbyists. Bob knows that the only way to change Washington is to fight for people and families instead of the special interests.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Oct. 3- On Being Puerto Rican-American Michelle and Oscar Gonzalez will be speaking on the history of Puerto Rico and the current state of affairs. Please join us for this talk to gain some insight on what it is like to be Puerto Rican-American (U.S. Citizen) both in Puerto Rico and here on the mainland. Thursday, Oct. 3rd 12 noon in the Chalberg Theatre\nNov. 7- Jingle Dresses of the Mille Lacs People In conjunction with Native American Heritage Month, Adrienne Benjamin will be our Dec. 5 presenter. Amikogaabawiikwe (Adrienne Benjamin) grew up in Chiminising, one of the district offshoots of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. She has received numerous artistic fellowships, programmatic awards, and recognitions for her community work. Her artistic work is currently on display in the Ziibaaskaa’igaanigooday exhibit at the Mille Lacs Indian Museum, which highlights the four colors of jingle dresses that came to the Mille Lacs people in a dream. Amik will tell this story of how the jingle dress came to be and how the tradition still exists and flourishes. Thursday, Nov. 7 12 noon in the Chalberg Theatre.\nDec. 5 – Insights into Deaf Culture Emily Smith-Lundberg of Lake Shore speak to the college community on the deaf culture. Smith-Lundberg was reappointed to the state Commission on Deaf, Deaf-Blind and Hard of Hearing Minnesotans as an at-large member in 2016. Thursday, Dec. 5th 12 noon in the Chalberg Theatre.\nThese events are being co-sponsored by the CLC Office of Equity and Inclusion.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS APPLY. SEE https://www.easports.com/nhl/game-and-offer-disclaimers FOR DETAILS.\nThe ice is your playground – new creative attack moves give you Full keep watch over to execute the highlight-rebels, jaw-dropping plays seen by young Superstars in today’s new NHL.\nArcade-inspired 3-on-3 Hockey\nExperience expansion in the new NHL – in franchise mode, reshape the entire NHL with the new expansion Draft feature where you get to create and Draft a 32nd NHL team and shake up the League.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Caleb and Sam’s engagement session is one of my favorites EVER! The weather couldn’t have been more beautiful.\nSean and Lauren are the most precious couple and I connected with them from the first time we met! They have an adorable baby girl Eliana who got to be a part of their engagement session which I loved!\nWe took their engagement pictures last summer on a gorgeous day in Fairhope! I had the best time getting to know Aaron and Courtney better and spending the afternoon with them.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Rise And Fall Of Pan Am\nPan Am was once the largest international airline in the US. In 1970 alone, it carried 11 million passengers to 86 countries worldwide. But after 60 years of flight, decades of financial turbulence, and a devastating terrorist attack above the skies of Lockerbie, Scotland, Pan Am went bust.\nHow One Company You’ve Never Heard Of Swallowed Tens Of Thousands Of Text Messages — Then Spit Them Back Out\nPeople woke up to strange text messages from friends and loved ones. The messages had actually been sent months earlier, on Valentine’s Day, but had been frozen in place by a glitched server and were only shot out when the system was finally fixed nine months later.\nThe Rise And Fall Of Sega\nWith an aggressive marketing campaign and a new star in Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega solidified itself as a top contender in the industry and a force to be reckoned with. However, its reign at the top was short-lived, as it eventually caused its own downfall with a series of tragic mistakes.\nBuried In Sand For A Millennium: Africa’s Roman Ghost City\nTimgad is a lost Roman city on the edge of the Sahara desert in Algeria that remained hidden beneath the sand for nearly a thousand years. Positively obscure compared to the international notoriety of Pompeii, this ancient city is nonetheless one of the best surviving examples of Roman town planning anywhere in the historical Empire.\n‘We’re The Only Plane In The Sky’\nNearly every American above a certain age remembers precisely where they were on September 11, 2001. But for a tiny handful of people, those memories touch American presidential history. Where was the president in the eight hours after the Sept. 11 attacks? The strange, harrowing journey of Air Force One, as told by the people who were on board.\n“Balloonfest”, The Spectacle That Became A Tragedy\nIn September 1986, the city of Cleveland attempted to set a special record: the simultaneous launch of 1.5 million balloons. But fate intervened, and the result was both crazier and more tragic than anyone could have imagined.\nAmerica’s ‘War’ Against Switzerland\nThe not very widely known aerial fighting and bombing that occurred between the United States and Switzerland during World War II.\n1980s Teenagers And Their Bedroom Walls\nDesire, adoration, safety, identity and escape are all there on the teenager’s bedroom walls. In the 1980s, these teenagers were photographed in their bedrooms – the place where they go to dream.\n“This Land Is Your Land”, The Story Behind America’s Best-Known Protest Song\nOn its most basic level, “This Land Is Your Land” is a song about inclusion and equality—the American ideal broken down into simple, eloquent language and set to a melody you memorize on first listen. But there’s more to “This Land Is Your Land” than many people realize.\nThe Lawyer Whose Clients Didn’t Exist\nA well-known attorney helped land a $2 billion settlement for Gulf Coast seafood-industry workers after a BP oil rig 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana, had exploded. But who was he really representing?\nThe Dictatorship Of Data\nBig data is poised to transform society. Yet big data also exacerbates a very old problem: relying on the numbers when they are far more fallible than we think. Nothing underscores the consequences of data analysis gone awry more than the story of Robert McNamara.\n“Full Moon”, Night Skiing Without Artificial Light\nNight skiing without artificial light: Closing lift stations and the setting sun mark the end of the action for most skiers. Not for Max Kroneck and Jochen Mesle. While ski towns fall asleep they head into the mountains and see them awaking in a new light. The snow starts glistening again.\nCan We Terraform The Sahara To Stop Climate Change?\nWe are going to examine the feasibility and effect of afforestation in the two largest subtropical deserts in the world, the Sahara and the Australian outback. These are the perfect candidates for afforestation, neither have large competing human populations, agricultural activity, or large natural animal and plant populations.\n“AlphaGo”, Artificial Intelligence Taking On The Chinese Game Go\nWith more board configurations than there are atoms in the universe, the ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand challenge for artificial intelligence. On March 9, 2016, the worlds of Go and artificial intelligence collided in South Korea for an extraordinary best-of-five-game competition, coined The DeepMind Challenge Match.\nUp Close And Personal With Norway’s Modernist Architecture\n‘Bauta’ takes a lingering glance at Norway’s government and administrative buildings—as well as public spaces—both inside and outside of the country; celebrating the poetics of everyday architectures, and the beauty to be found in buildings made by and for the people.\nI Fled Yugoslavia In 1941. Then I Returned to Join the Resistance.\nAfter the Germans consolidated in northwestern Yugoslavia, I left New York for London, crushed by the news of what was going on. I told my parents I was returning to Yugoslavia to become a freedom fighter.\nIs The Cruise Industry Finally Out Of Its Depth?\nThe question is whether the coronavirus will dent, deflect or alter what has been a phenomenon of our times, the many-times multiplication of ship sizes, of passenger numbers and of profits, generated by an industry that manufactures its own version of reality, then shapes the places that its ships visit in the image of that reality.\nDid The Advent Of The First Desktop Computer Lead To Murder?\nIn the summer of 1965, the Olivetti P101 made it to the New York World’s Fair but only just. It was hidden away in a small room behind the main stand. If anyone found it, it was supposed to be an accident. But a few people did. Soon more and more began to squeeze their way in.\nInside The Most Watched YouTube Channel In The World\nIndia’s T-Series built an online empire from Bollywood. Now it has to survive Netflix. Bhushan Kumar argues that T-Series has no reason to fear this invasion, and not just because it sits behind a moat filled with more than 200 million YouTube subscribers.\nPortrait Of A Place: Atlantic City\nUnmasking the declining seaside resort through a portrait of its inhabitants. With a no-holds-barred approach, directors Ben Carey and Billy Linker deliver a full-frontal profile of the once-booming resort town on New Jersey’s Atlantic coast—often sidelined as the “poor man’s Las Vegas.”\n“In The Absence”, Award-Winning Film About The Sinking Of A South Korean Ferry\nWhen the passenger ferry MV Sewol sank off the coast of South Korea in 2014, over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them schoolchildren. Years later, the victims’ families and survivors are still demanding justice from national authorities.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Watch Free Movies Online Without ADS\n2003 120 min\nAction, Drama, Mystery, Thriller\nDae-han Ji, Hye-jeong Kang, Ji-tae Yu, Min-sik Choi\n26 wins & 16 nominations.\nOldboy 2003 – Oldboy is the revenge drama from Director Park Chan-wook. Based on a manga by Nobuaki Minegishi, it depicts the suffering path of a man who must deal with the never ending torment of having unknowingly made someone his enemy.\nYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The show is over. Jim tells the staff they can go home. Charlie tells Jim that he'll probably be getting sweet, lucrative job offers and to talk to Charlie before accepting them. Yeah, or Charlie could give Jim a raise since he basically just said ACN isn't paying Jim what he's worth. \"That won't be an issue, sir,\" Jim says. Idiot. Charlie invites him out for a drink with Will. Jim tries to beg off. \"Be a damn newsman, would ya?\" Charlie says.\nHey, remember how Neal was a blogger? Well, he's blogging! But he's doing it via a microphone instead of typing because those voice recognition things do so well with English accents. They know that when Neal says \"colon\" he means a : and when he says \"sixty-three\" he means 63. Amazing! He signs off even though some of the election results aren't in yet. Worst news station ever. Jim and Neal make fun of each other for being nerds, and then Neal points out that Maggie is sitting on the stairs by herself.\nJim is about to make his move when Don comes down the stairs and starts making out with her. Fire them both. Not appropriate. Also, does anyone care about this love triangle?\nAnd now, Brad has brought us up to date on the NewsNight problem. Jane Fonda finally speaks up and asks everyone to leave the room except Charlie and Reese. They do. Jane Fonda launches into a speech about Moses and Jesus playing golf because all people do on this show is tell random stories that sort of maybe relate to what's actually going on but it take way too long to actually get there. But Jane Fonda manages to deliver the lines better than most people on this show, so good for her.\nCharlie thinks they're having fun until Jane Fonda orders him to stop laughing. He seriously says the ratings \"have stabilized\" and he's going to get them back up. In the meantime, ACN has a great show. That no one likes. \"What happened to human interest stories?\" Jane Fonda asks; \"he was great at that shit!\" \"He was sleeping during that shit,\" Charlie says. And now we are sleeping during this shit. Just in case you haven't been watching or paying attention for the past two episodes, Charlie informs us: \"I engineered a situation wherein an executive producer with a unique ability to bring out the very best in an anchor with a unique ability were paired to do a news broadcast this company can and should be proud of.\" There is just no way to describe the premise of this show without boring us all to tears. Jane Fonda says they're doing news that appeals to the left. \"For the center,\" Charlie says. No, it's not the center. Come on. \"Are you fucking out of your mind?\" Jane Fonda says. \"Facts are the center,\" Charlie says. Yeah, but NewsNight has made an obvious decision regarding which facts it's going to address.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Summit Woods Women's Weekend Retreat\nMarch 10, 2017 to March 12, 2017\n10:00am – 9:00am\nLocation: 18993 SE 65th Road, Dearborn, MO 64439Category: Summit Woods Women\nOur Summit Woods Women's retreat is now at capacity. If you have already registered, and need to do so, final payments of $30 are due by February 15.\nPlease plan to join us for the Fall Retreat on Friday, October 6 from 6-10 pm!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "I am very happy to be a part of a community in which not only does the city provide amazing resources that are not available in other places but the civic engagement is astounding. Santa Monica is a place where community members truly care. I was not born here, nor did I grow up here but I am still a Santa Monican.\nI moved to Los Angeles after college in 2010 and spent four years trying to move into Santa Monica. While I wasn’t physically a resident during those four years, that doesn’t mean I wasn’t a community member or stakeholder—I worked in Santa Monica, I went to parks, restaurants, and shops in Santa Monica, but it took me four years and five different job changes to be able to find an apartment in the city I could afford.\nThis majestic city we live, work and play in is not without its problems but I think we can work together to move forward and come up with the best solutions to solve them. I’m a supporter of Santa Monica Forward because I know that in order to maintain and improve our incredibly high standard of living, we need to anticipate the problems of tomorrow and learn from the mistakes and missteps of the past.\nI am particularly passionate about housing because I want to remain in Santa Monica and while I’m extremely comfortable with my current living situation, I don’t see myself living in a tiny studio for the rest of my life. I consistently hear from people who are already a part of our community that they can’t afford to live here. The housing/jobs imbalance is absurd. The fact that the city has been unable to build much housing in the past 25 years has only made it worse. Economic laws of supply and demand say that if you restrict the supply (don’t build housing), while increasing demand, prices go up—which is exactly what we’ve seen happen here. I’m not saying building more housing will solve all of our problems but it’s good first step.\nI’m very proud to be a supporter of a group that is fighting for a diverse, sustainable and equitable Santa Monica.\nSupporter of Santa Monica Forward", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The stories are set in a near-future England, centred around Hamilton's own home county of Rutland. Mandel is a former officer of the \"English Army\", who fought in the \"Mindstar Brigade\", a tactical psychic unit. He was given the psychic powers of intuition and detecting emotions, skills he uses for his new profession of psychic detective.\nIt's the 21st century and global warming is here to stay, so forget the way your country used to look. And get used to the free market, too – the companies possess all the best hardware, and they're calling the shots now.\nIn a world like this, a man open to any offers can make out just fine. A man like Greg Mandel for instance, who's psi-boosted, wired into the latest sensory equipment, carrying state-of-the-art weaponry – and late of the English Army's Mindstar Battalion.\nAs the cartels battle for control of a revolutionary new power source, and corporate greed outstrips national security, tension is mounting to boiling point – and Greg Mandel is about to face the ultimate test.\nDr Edward Kitchener, a brilliant researcher into quantum cosmology for the Event Horizon conglomerate . . . but no good to anybody now, lying dead with his lungs spread out on either side of his open chest.\nThe security system at Launde Abbey was premier-grade, yet a mercenary could still have got through, and plenty of people anxious to stop Kitchener’s work would pay the killer’s fee. But why would a professional waste time in ritually slaughtering the target?\nEvent Horizon needs to know fast, so Greg Mandel, psi-boosted ex-private eye, is enticed out of retirement to launch himself on a convoluted trail involving confrontation with a past which – according to Kitchener’s theories – might never have happened.\nJulia Evans, billionairess owner of Event Horizon, has for fifteen years been the power behind England’s economic renaissance – but now she’s in trouble.\nWith her husband missing, and rival companies suddenly claiming to have acquired a technology impossibly superior to anything on Earth, she has no time to take notice of a single flower delivered anonymously. But this flower possesses genes millions of years in advance of any terrestrial DNA.\nIs it a cryptic alien message, or a poignant farewell token from her husband? One man might discover its origin – but Greg Mandel will not be alone in his desperate search. And, as they both now discover, simply being first in the race isn’t nearly good enough when the Nano Flower begins to bloom ...", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Carbon Neutrality Initiative\nBonnie Reiss CNI Fellow Class of 2019\nBonnie Reiss CNI Fellow\nGraduate Student, Biological Systems Engineering\nTyler will serve for a third year as a Fellow focused on graduate and professional student engagement in the CNI. He has been active with the Graduate Student Association, and will continue to assist UC Davis in broadening our engagement efforts with our graduate student and professional student communities. In his previous years as a Fellow, Tyler has been particularly effective in connecting with graduate students in the Veterinary Medicine program and will continue working to engage students in the Law, Medical, and other professional schools on CNI.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "14th Annual Smithsonian.com Photo Contest\nMushrooms after fall showers\nThis photo was taken after a couple days of rain of some newly sprouted mushrooms in the park. The sky was just beginning to clear up and I had desperately needed to get out and do something. Taking some photos of the aftermath of the rain seemed ideal.\n© Isabelle Pagano.\nAll rights reserved.\n||Oct. 5, 2016, 2:52 p.m.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Apollo 11 crew is Commander Neil Armstrong, civilian test pilot, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin, both US Air Force pilots.\nApollo 11 Commander Neil Alden Armstrong was born 5 August 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. From 1949 to 1952, he served as a US Navy aviator, flying 78 combat missions during the Korean War. Armstrong joined the US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA's predecessor) as a research pilot on many pioneering high speed aircraft, including the X-15.\nIn 1962, Armstrong became a NASA astronaut. He served as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission in 1966, and performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. In 1969, on the first Apollo lunar landing mission, he gained the distinction of being the first man to land a craft on the Moon and the first man to step on its surface.\nMichael Collins, Lt. Col. USAF, was born on 31 October 1930, in Rome, Italy. After serving as a jet fighter pilot, he became an experimental flight test officer at the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California, logging 5000 hours flying time.\nHe was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963. As pilot on the three-day Gemini 10 mission in 1966, Collins shared with command pilot John Young in the accomplishments of that record-setting flight, including setting an altitude record and making a spacewalk.\nEdwin 'Buzz' Aldrin\nEdwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, Col., USAF, was born 20 January 1930, in Montclair, New Jersey. As a USAF jet fighter pilot during the Korean War, he flew 66 combat missions and shot down two MiG 15 aircraft.\nIn 1963, he gained a PhD in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before being chosen for the third group of NASA astronauts. In November 1966, he and command pilot James Lovell were launched into space on the Gemini 12 spacecraft on a four-day flight, which brought the Gemini programme to a close. Aldrin established a new record for extravehicular activity (EVA), spending over five hours outside the spacecraft.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Galaxy Zoo Talk\nFull subject data (JSON)\ni wondered what the long green streak is ?\nPosted March 21, 2013 9:28 PM\nThis is a satellite trail. The satellite reflects the sunlight and because of its speed it only gets imaged in one filter.\nPosted March 21, 2013 9:29 PM", "label": "No"}
{"text": "kagoshima bank ltd/the\n(8390:Tokyo Stock Exchange)\nSenior Managing Director and Representative Director, The Kagoshima Bank,Ltd.\n|Age||Total Calculated Compensation||This person is connected to 22 board members in 1 different organizations across 1 different industries.|\nSee Board Relationships\nMr. Akihisa Kooriyama has been Senior Managing Director of The Kagoshima Bank,Ltd. since June 2014 and also served as its Managing Director since June 2011 and Manager of Integrated Planning Division since June 2012. Mr. Kooriyama served as Manager of General Planning at Kagoshima Bank Ltd. He has been a Representative Director of The Kagoshima Bank,Ltd. since June 2010.\n6-6 Kinsei-choPhone: 81 99 225 3111\nKagoshima, Kagoshima 892-8650\nBoard Members Memberships*\nSenior Managing Director and Representative Director\nEducation*There is no Education data available.\nOther Affiliations*There is no Company Affiliations data available.\nAnnual Compensation*There is no Annual Compensation data available.\nStock Options*There is no Stock Options data available.\nTotal Compensation*There is no Total Compensation data available.\n|There is no Competitor Compensation data available.|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Colleen Hannon, 52, Becker\nJuly 16, 1963 - March 23, 2016\nMass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at Mary of the Visitation Catholic Church in Becker for Colleen Hannon, age 52, who died Wednesday from ovarian cancer at Quiet Oaks Hospice in St. Augusta. Cancer took her life, not her spirit. Rev. Eugene Doyle will officiate and burial will be at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Tuesday at Williams Dingmann Family Funeral Home in Becker and one hour prior to the services Wednesday at the church. Parish prayers will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home in Becker.\nColleen Hannon was born July 16, 1963 in Minneapolis to Raymond & Sheila (McGuire) Hannon. She lived in St. Michael, St. Louis Park and Brooklyn Park before moving to Becker in the early 1990’s. Colleen recently retired after 33 years of devoted service to Xcel Energy and her nuclear family. She was a member of Mary of the Visitation Catholic Church in Becker. Colleen was a proud mother, stepmom and grandmother. She was a big rock and roller, outdoors woman, animal lover and Peanuts gang enthusiast. Colleen was outgoing and could light up a room with her smile.\nColleen is lovingly survived by domestic partner and longtime boyfriend, Greg Rask; her Gentle Giant son Brady Hannon; loving mother, Sheila McGuire Hannon; siblings, Shawna Goldammer (David), James Hannon (Sheila), and Bill Hannon; nephews, AJ, Tim and Austin; niece, Michaela; stepchildren, Naomi Rask Golden (Bill), Cameron Rask (Megan), and Toni Rask; and two grandchildren, .Brenna and Dylan. Colleen was preceded in death by her father, Raymond.\nThe family extends a big thanks to Quiet Oaks Hospice. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the squirrel and people feeding fund at Quiet Oaks Hospice.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Kudos to Carlos Celdran for raising awareness on the Catholic Church’s unreasonable and dogmatic views on family planning.\nLast I heard Celdran remains detained in spite of his readiness to post bail. It appears some powerful hand (not likely to be God’s) is trying to keep him in jail. Who could it be?\nIf it didn’t so happen that Celdran has to leave for Hawaii on Monday to accompany his father I would actually prefer that he be detained longer if only to highlight further the fact that the Catholic Church in the Philippines is no longer anything but an organization of bullies. No question about it, the Church is pushing it and the time has come for the people to see that it has been meddling in State affairs far too long.\nThe church should have a dose of its own medicine. Express your indignation during mass this coming Sunday. Join the fight against Padre Damaso!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "At Penistone Grammar School Advanced Learning Centre we are committed to ensuring all students ‘Aim High’ and are supported to achieve their full potential. This includes narrowing the attainment gap between different groups of students, including those eligible for Pupil Premium Funding.\nIn the current 2016/2017 financial year, Pupil Premium funding of £152,000 has been allocated to Penistone Grammar School ALC. Pupil Premium funding is available to schools as part of a government funded programme to promote the achievement of students who have received free school meals at any point in the previous 6 years, those students who are in Local Authority care and children of serving members of the armed forces.\nDownload a copy of our Pupil Premium Annual Statement for full details of how we have allocated our funding in financial year 2016/2017.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "As I’m sure our Rioters have noticed, sweetriot is pretty crazy about cacao, but our coffee addiction is definitely a close second. From dark roasts to pumpkin spice lattes, we need our caffeine to get us through the day. That being said, we care a whole lot about where our coffee comes from, and we hold it to the same standards we do our chocolate!\nHave you ever considered where your coffee started out? Farmers from countries all over the world harvest coffee beans and sell them to importers. But sometimes these farmers are tricked into selling their beans to middlemen for much less than they’re worth. By buying fair trade coffee, you’re supporting hardworking farmers, ensuring they get the money they deserve. Fair trade gives farmers an honest price for their harvest and connects them directly with importers. As a result, farmers receive higher incomes and can properly maintain their land to produce quality product.\nIn celebration of Fair Trade Month, sweetriot is asking our Rioters to buy fair trade products. That might mean walking the extra block to reach a fair trade coffee shop in the morning, but we promise the trek is worthwhile. Check out fairtradeusa.org for a list of fair trade coffee companies and products, because equitable coffee is more joyful, more delicious, and filled with more good vibes!", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "The Black Heart Procession broke a three-year silence to mount a modest European tour celebrating 20 years since recording their debut album, the pre-search engine...\nIt’s a little surprising that, after the breakaway success of her fourth album last year, Mistki should still be confined to Vega’s Ideal Bar. But as we discovered when we...\nLIVE REVIEW: The Kills, Store Vega, 09.06.2017\nLIVE REVIEW: Gnod, Loppen, 01.06.17\nPHOTOS: Gnod, Loppen, 01.06.2017\nLIVE REVIEW: Jesca Hoop, Vega, 17.05.17\nCopyright © 2012-2016 Here Today", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Soccer goalkeeper nicknamed El Sapo (The Toad) who played in one World Cup.\nHe studied law at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and was goalkeeper on the school's football team.\nHe went on to become a noted journalist.\nHis family was from Scotland, and his father was also a noted football player.\nHe was a Chilean soccer player like Kevin Harbottle.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Celerity Pharmaceuticals is a company that Water Street created in partnership with one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical corporations to support it with maximizing its drug development investment. Water Street invested in Celerity in 2013 to lead development of multiple generic product families on behalf of our pharmaceutical partner. Once the products receive regulatory approval, the corporation will purchase them from Water Street at a previously agreed-upon price. We engaged Al Heller, a Water Street operating partner who has more than 35 years of pharmaceutical leadership experience, to serve as chairman of Celerity. We are currently in discussions with other pharmaceutical companies interested in adopting this innovative new model of outsourcing to give them greater flexibility to support their drug development and realize the full value of their assets.\nDan Robins, Ph.D.\nPresidentWork with us\nDan Robins, Ph.D., has 20 years of pharmaceutical industry experience focused principally on research and development. He is the former vice president of global development for Mylan, where he was responsible for injectable products. His former business, Bioniche Pharma, where he led research and development in Ireland, was acquired by Mylan in 2010. Prior to Bioniche Pharma, Dan was vice president of product development for Abraxis BioScience (formerly American Pharmaceutical Partners Inc.) He also held leadership positions at Barr Laboratories, Inc. and scientific roles at Schering-Plough Research Institute, Mallinckrodt Veterinary and Pentech Pharmaceuticals. Dan received master’s and doctorate degrees in chemistry from The Ohio State University and his master’s degree in business administration from New York University. He earned his bachelor’s degree from LaSalle University.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Teachers around the state are implementing the new Arkansas K-12 Science Standards. We believe that teachers desperately need other teachers as well as follow-up support in order to be successful in this endeavor. The new standards are not like any other standards we have released over the past years. The standards involve a three-dimensional learning approach as well as high rigor and engineering. Just learning to read the standards can be daunting. Participants will work with other science teachers to develop a greater understanding of 3D learning and how science instruction will look in their classrooms as a result of implementing these new standards. This time will also be used to spark discussion through activities and strategies that illustrate the true intention of the Science and Engineering Practices as well as Cross Cutting Concepts that are integral to the research upon which the new standards will be based.\nNote: This will be a 2-day event (one during the fall semester and one during the spring semester).\nTESS Components: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 1f, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Shaddi Kamiabipour A premier and sought after resource for the prosecution of all forms of medical provider fraud. Ms. Kamiabipour is routinely sought out as a speaker on the topic of provider fraud and has lectured to law enforcement, insurance and employer groups statewide in the topic. Ms. Kamiabipour was awarded the 2016 Law Enforcement Officer of the year for the state by the International Association of Special Investigative units (IASIU). She was also awarded the 2016 Prosecutor of the Year Award by the Employers’ Fraud Task Force.\nMs. Kamiabipour has almost 20 years of prosecutorial experience and was previously in the vertical prosecution of sexual assault cases having been assigned to the OCDA Sexual Assault Unit for several years.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "It's Tuesday and I'm still recovering from a fun-filled Fourth of July weekend. I had Friday and Monday off from work so the past four days have been spent laying around by the pool, playing with the pups, hanging out with friends and eating good food. However, due to a thunderstorm last night, I missed out on the most important part of our great country's birthday... fireworks! Good news however, the big fireworks displays in Richmond have been rescheduled for tonight. So it looks like my four-day bender has just turned into five days of exciting celebration. Happy Belated Birthday America!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Worship times: Sunday morning at 9:30. (Livestreamed on Facebook; no in-person worshiping due to health crisis at this time.)\n- Food Pantry, Tuesday afternoons from 4:30 to 6:30\nSoup Supper, Wednesday evenings at 5:30 to 6:30Soup suppers are given out at Shalom Center daily during health crisis.\n- Grace Welcome Center breakfasts, Thursday and Friday mornings\n7:00 to 9:30given out 8:00-9:30 during health crisis\n- Infant Moses diaper ministry, Thursday afternoons 2:00 to 5:00\nPastor: Rev. Jonathan Barker\nFollow us on Facebook\nPhone: (262) 654-9143. email firstname.lastname@example.org\nGrace is a welcoming member congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "1. Galaxy Quest is half science-fiction parody, half meta documentary.\n• Sigourney “Get Away From Her You Bitch” Weaver as Gwen DeMarco as Lt. Tawny Madison (Uhura/Chapel/Token Female).\n• Tim “The Toolman Santa” Allen as Jason Nesmith as Cmdr. Peter Quincy Taggart (Kirk).\n• Alan “Always” Rickman as Alexander Dane as Dr. Lazarus of Tev’Meck (Spock).\n• Tony “OCD Should Be CDO” Shalhoub as Fred Kwan as Tech Sgt. Chen (Scotty).\n• Sam “President Of The Galaxy” Rockwell as Guy Fleegman as a redshirt.\n• Daryl “He Looks Familiar IMDB Him” Mitchell as Tommy Webber as Lt. Laredo (Sulu/Wesley Crusher).\n4. It totally had a space opera plot, where the washed up actors are called upon to save an alien race.\n5. WHO ACTUALLY LOOK TERRIFYINGLY ALIEN*.\n*When their cloaking disguises are turned off.\n11. It wasn’t afraid to show what fallen actors really think about being pigeon-holed into one role for all eternity by fans.\n12. And it acknowledged the fans knew more than the actors, letting them help save the day.\n20. If you can watch this opening sequence without wishing Tim Allen’s mullet captained the Enterprise, you’re a liar.\n21. Even the Star Trek actors acknowledge its superiority.\n- Some 150 migrants stranded in the French city of Calais stormed the Channel Tunnel on Saturday in an attempt to make it to British territory.\n- One person was killed and two others were seriously injured Friday when an air medical transport helicopter crashed in Colorado.\n- Popular sections of Reddit went dark this week as confusion and protests swept the site.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The station,airport or port security sector is characterized by a high flow-rate of passengers. The products of security equipment employed in this particular sector therebefore have to guarantee the security required by the competent authorities and provide the highest possible transit flow-rate at same time.\nOn June 2016. a gun and bomb attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport has killed 45 people, and injured more than 230.\nWeiEn has developed good performance products of security equipment for this specific application.\nHandheld Metal Detector\nWalk-through Metal Detector", "label": "No"}
{"text": "September 4, 2017 –\nOur monthly club meeting at ESSC from 1930.\nThis will be a bring and show event in which members are invited to bring along interesting items for display. This can be anything from the latest technology to WWII radios. Collections of Valves, Electronic Calculators, Cell Phones, Test instruments and projects etc.\nMembers are also welcome to display items for sale.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The future of the tech industry is no secret and its growth’s magnitude can be felt worldwide. Coding and robotics are becoming essential skills in more and more fields as all industries shift towards more technologically accelerated workflows, processes and systems. It is important to evolve with the rapidly changing requirements of the industry. Many schools and programs have already adopted coding and robotics into their curriculums to prepare future generations for the increasingly tech-dominant future. This changing future presents an opportunity for our children, to grow in this space aided by the necessary knowledge to stand out and make a difference in their schooling, post-secondary and industry.\nSchool programs, however, provide the basic foundation of what is necessary to thrive in the industry. With the constant change and all the information necessary for students to move forward in this space effectively, it is important to be more immersed in the tech space to have a deeper understanding of the content. Institutions like Zebra Robotics allow students to foster their interest and technological aptitude to the next level. Zebra Robotics has been able to push the limits and elevate students to the level necessary to compete in this space, taking over 75 winning teams at the highest level of STEM competitions and representing Canada in the World Robotic Olympiad International competition in 2016, 2018, and 2022.\nIdentifying industry trends, changes, and evolution and teaching students what they need to learn to secure their success in post-secondary and industry is important to provide them with the tools they need to grow. The reality of our tech-dominant world calls for parents, guardians, and educators to pivot what they provide for young kids in STEM to provide them with the essential skills to push through the barriers and not only make a positive change in their future careers but hopefully, a positive change in the world around them. With school programs supplying students with the foundation, and institutions like Zebra Robotics elevating their experience, students can be poised for success.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Leaving on a Friday is a viable option for saving on travel. Heavily demanded days of the week can typically drive up the prices you see. Booking your travel for a less competitive day can save up to 112% on the overall cost on flights from La Guardia to Santa Barbara.\nUsers have found that booking a flight from La Guardia to Santa Barbara at least 17 days early can save you up to 20% on average compared to booking a flight this week. If booking 17 days before your flight isn’t an option for you, users have found flights from La Guardia to Santa Barbara for as little as $75 when booking for a departure date within the next two weeks. You can also check prices now. Some users have found airline tickets as low as $95 for flights departing within the next 3 days.\nDue to multiple factors, expect to potentially pay more when booking in December. For low rates, April can be a great choice for travel to Santa Barbara. Flights to Santa Barbara from La Guardia in April are about $86 on average during April, but can be found for as low as $43.\nOne of the essential ways to save on airfare from La Guardia to Santa Barbara is to remain as flexible as possible. Flights that are at noon tend to be the most expensive. A flight in the evening could potentially save you up to 65% on airfare.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Checking and savings, affordable loan options, state-of-the-art online services and even a mobile app makes WCCFCU an indispensable resource for members that like to see their money stay in their community where it can do the most good.\nAt WCCFCU the members call the shots, and the services they need to keep pace with an ever-changing and challenging world are readily available and free to members that live, work, attend school or worship in Wayne County.\nTwo branches, access via computer or smart phone and the convenience of using any ATM allow members to have access to their accounts and more importantly, their money, when they need it.\nStop in the Smithville or Orrville branch to find out why more than 5,000 members have chosen to bank with WCCFCU.\nWayne County Community Federal Credit Union (WCCFCU) is made up of your friends, neighbors, and even family and is in place for the sole purpose of making life easier for their members. With no stockholders to please, the commitment to member satisfaction is what fuels the hard-working and dedicated staff at both Wayne County locations.\nWCCFCU has invested in the latest technology in order to bring members the services they need and expect when they choose to bank with a hometown organization. With checking and savings, low-cost loans for real estate, automobiles and even that boat or camper you've always wanted, WCCFCU's rates aren't just competitive, they are lower. \"We are able to keep our rates low for our members because we have a lower overhead,\" said CEO Chris Blough. \"We continue to put our resources back into our products and services that will benefit our members.\"\nThe way you bank is changing and WCCFCU offers convenient online services that allow members to do their banking even when they can't get to the credit union. \"Despite these modern conveniences, it does not negate the fact that a human is always available when you call or stop in the credit union during business hours,\" Blough noted.\nWith online banking, members can keep track of their accounts and utilize the online bill payment service. \"Having the ability to pay all your bills from one central location eliminates the confusion of multiple passwords, saves stamps, and can be custom tailored to meet the needs of the member,\" said Blough.\n\"Online banking is infinitely more secure than ever before,\" Blough added. \"It eliminates a lot of human error like forgetting to sign a check when paying a bill or forgetting to document a withdrawal or deposit.\"\nIn keeping pace with the more mobile lifestyles of Wayne County residents, WCCFCU has taken nearly a year to develop and test a mobile app that enables members to do nearly all of their banking from their smart phone. \"Members can transfer money and send us secure messages regarding their accounts,\" said Blough. \"Another great feature is the ability to graph their spending. Sometimes that is not always going to be good news, so the app will allow members to set goals and adjust their spending habits so they are making smarter choices.\"\nMembers can access any ATM in the world and be reimbursed for fees up to $15 a month. \"There is no reason to believe banking with a locally owned credit union is going to put you at a disadvantage,\" said Blough. \"Rather than invest in infrastructure that already exists by building more ATM's, we realized it made more sense for our members to have the freedom to access the machines that are already in place. Wayne County has more than enough ATM's already in place. Giving our people the fees back is just one way we put the needs of members first.\"\n\"The credit union is banking in the verb sense,\" said Blough. \"But in every other sense, it is a service organization. Our focus is far from that of a bank that is merely trying to generate a profit for stockholders. Our members are what matters here. We are pushed from the bottom up. Our members own us.\"\nThere is no membership fee at WCCFCU and anyone that lives, works, attends school or worships in Wayne County can become a member. \"We want our members to make sound financial decisions. Our goal is to help our members get to a point where they don't have to borrow,\" said Blough. \"With more than 5,000 members, we are succeeding in changing the way Wayne County banks.\"\nStop in the Smithville office, located just off state Route 585 east of the Wayne County Schools Career Center, at 311 Kaufman Dr., Smithville or the Orrville office on the corner of Market and Main at 100 West Market St. downtown, for a hot cup of coffee and learn more about becoming a credit union member.\nThis article was underwritten by Wayne County Community Federal Credit Union.\nPublished: April 27, 2012", "label": "No"}
{"text": "All South African independent schools have their right of establishment enshrined in the Constitution, Section 29(3), which states that:\nEveryone has the right to establish and maintain at their own expense, independent educational institutions that:\nProvincial education departments (PEDs) are responsible for registering independent schools in their province. PEDs also have the responsibility to monitor independent schools to ensure effective implementation of teaching and learning programmes and the achievement of outcomes and standards of the National Curriculum Statement.\nIndependent schools have to operate within the confines of the Constitution and national and provincial legislation. However, critical to their independence is the freedom of a school to use its professional judgement to make decisions without undue state interference.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Senior Director, Global Innovation Marketplace\nRosie Hawke is a technology leader with over 12 years experience in innovation consulting, technology, digital strategy and product management. Rosie‘s focus is in building high performing teams across the globe to drive large scale technology transformation at multinational companies. She has a track record of turning creative ideas into innovative, revenue-driving solutions for Fortune 500 companies.\nRosie is a strong advocate for Women in Tech and is passionate in finding ways for technology to inspire, educate and develop new business models.\nCurrently Senior Director in Global Technology Innovation at NIKE, Inc., Rosie is leading a team that is helping to catalyze digital innovation across Nike and build the next generation of digital experiences for athletes* (*if you have a body, you are an athlete).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Food Waste Recycling Bin (Brown Wheelie Bin)\nOn average, every household in Ireland throws away 117kgs of food waste every year. That’s between €400 and €1,000 thrown into the bin. Food waste is not just a waste of money, it is bad for the environment. Food waste sent to landfill does not harmlessly break down but instead releases methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.\nWe can all plan ahead to prevent food waste in the first instance. However, some food waste is unavoidable (e.g. banana skins and animal bones). Food waste doesn’t have to end up in landfill. It can be recycled by using your food waste recycling bin (normally a brown bin).\nAll households living in a population agglomeration of greater than 500 people are entitled to a food waste recycling service from their waste collector. Households with a kerbside collection for food waste can simply separate food and leave the bin out as part of your normal collection. The food waste will be sent to a composting site or to a sustainable anaerobic digestion plant.\nTo check if you live within an area entitled to have a food waste recycle bin service, please visit the WERLA website (link to map) or contact your waste collection company.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Nanjing company registrationIn order to save costs, the owners of start-ups choose zero declaration.And business owners believe that zero reporting means no accounting.Can be very responsible to the majority of entrepreneurs, even if your business zero declaration or need to account.And don't think that the zero declaration of enterprises is very simple, but the risk is also great. What are the specific situations that do not conform to the zero declaration?\n1. Business owners think that all enterprises are tax-free income and can make zero declaration.A small-scale enterprise has already handled the record of VAT exemption and reduction, so the enterprise income in this quarter all meets the tax-free conditions, can't it be directly zero declaration?The answer is No. the tax-free income of the current period should be filled in other tax-free sales, not all of which will be declared zero directly.\n2. Business owners think that there is no need to pay taxes, so they can make zero declaration.Now the state has issued a policy, small-scale taxpayers whose quarterly income of VAT is less than 90000 yuan can be exempted from VAT. Isn't it that they can directly declare zero and save time?In fact, there is no conflict between preferential policies and truthful declaration. Although it is within the scope of exemption, it is still necessary to report as much as required. As a result, VAT is not required, but corporate income tax and other taxes should be paid.\n3. Tax has been paid in advance, can I make zero declaration?Is it possible for an enterprise to make a zero tax return when it makes a tax declaration?This is not allowed. No matter whether you pay tax in advance or not, you should fill in the income in the specified tax return items. If you have paid the tax, the system will automatically offset it.If not, there will be corresponding taxes.\n4. The company has not issued any invoice, so zero declaration is OK?Some companies think that the enterprise has income, but they have not issued an invoice, so they think that the tax bureau will not know whether I have a business, so they think that zero declaration is OK.If an enterprise has income, it must declare it truthfully, no matter whether it issues an invoice or not.Otherwise, we should not only pay the current tax and fine.\n5. Loss of the company, income tax declaration directly zero.Business owners feel that it is easier to report losses directly and zero.However, the loss of an enterprise can be made up for in the next five tax years. If zero declaration is made, the profit in the second year can not be offset, so it is not cost-effective.Even if there is a loss, we still have to declare it truthfully. Maybe the next year's profit can be deducted.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What methods is anyone using to generate phone calls for critical alerts? I can generate emails all day, but I want phones to ring for a few key events. Any recommendations?\nI don't want to change my email ringtone. Whatever alert I get need to wake me up in the wee hours if needed, and I don't want that obnoxious of a ringtone going off 300 times per day.\nFor now, I set up an IFTTT applet that, when a specified email address I create for critical alerts hits my Gmail inbox, triggers a phone call with a text to speech conversion. It's kinda pieced together and hardly bulletproof, but it's better than nothing until I set up a more robust system.\nI would love to see the current IFTTT script. Try using a script with a online phone service.\nScript is pretty simple. When there's a new email in my Gmail from the specified address, it triggers the call action. the call action is linked to my number, and there's a \"message to say\" link at the bottom to enter a script that will be read out loud to the call recipient.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Started by Steve, April 14, 2007, 10:39:40\n0 Members and 4 Guests are viewing this topic.\nQuote from: MeltingMan on November 14, 2020, 13:43:13...I used *hr*p*x p*nk at night for the first time (no, it's not what you're thinking 😉).OMG...hello 🌍\nQuote from: SueC on November 17, 2020, 11:34:36Happy to live near such an amazing coastline and not to be on photographic duties whenever our friend Eileen is here. Here's some of her snaps from a place called Conspicuous Cliff:\nQuote from: dsanchez on November 27, 2020, 17:08:11wow... adding Australia to my bucket list", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Workshop at Ngaremlengui, North of Palau, luxuriant but desolate with awesome kids trying to study with almost nothing, then back to Koror for a new session at Maris Stella School !\nWorkshop with almost 200 kids at Harris Elementary School, Koror Elementary School and Maris Stella School !\nThen slides and video presentation at Fish n’ Fins: “The painter of Blue ”\nShark Week is an entertaining and educational week held annually by the Micronesian Shark Foundation and Fish’n Fins. With nightly lectures, presentations and documentaries the fun continues after the diving stops! Every year we have guests from filmmakers to scientists and marine enforcement officials helping you understand the world of shark conservation. Shark Week is planned to take place during the Grey Reef Shark mating season, when hundreds of Grey Reefs come into the reef to mate, giving you the chance to get close to these wonderful predators.\nFirst day workshop at Meyuns Elementary School\nExhibition at the Palau Pacific Resort March 7th and 8th , presentation Tuesday the 4th at Fish and Fins, workshop with kids with Pascal in Palau schools Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.\nMore infos at Fish’n Fins website\nBroward County Convention Center\nSaturday Feb 22d– 10:00 to 7:00 pm – EXPO (at Convention Center)\nSunday Feb 23rd — 10:00 am to 7:00 pm – EXPO (at Convention Center)\nOriginal oil paintings by the painter of the blue who signs prints and book in his booth #707\nRaffle Pascal’s artworks\nPascal at The Blue Wild\nMore infos at Blue Wild Expo , Directions\nPascal’s 10th exhibition at OW-U BOOTH # 821-823-825.\nShow opens Friday 5-9pm, Sat 9-6pm, Sun 10-4pm\nNew original oil paintings, new giclees (limited edition print on paper and canvas), postcards and Art Tiles..\nPASCAL’S EXHIBITION BOOTH 821-823-825\nDon’t miss the Silent Auction with items donated by Pascal to the benefit of the Tim Early Foundation:\nGreat meetings as well and a great thanks to Sherry, Pat and Jim for one of the most exhibitor friedly show !\nCurator’s Voice Art Projects and Dr. Milagros Bello Digressions & Detours during the Art Basel Season. The show takes place at the gallery from November 23, 2013 – January 25, 2014, featuring for the first time Pascal’s oil paintings at #artbasel #artbaselmiami.\nWYNWOOD ARTS DISTRICT 299 NW 25th Street – MIAMI\nExhibition extended until Feb 22nd.\nPascal will be part of the next show: Interrogations March 8 -April 5 with large formats. 2 of them are already hung at the gallery.\nNorth Beach Art Gallery will be bringing the month of February in with Love and Valentines! with Pascal\nThis Saturday in Fort Lauderdale with Pascal’s appearance 7-8pm NOBE Art Gallery, Permanent collection of Pascal’s 3334 NE 34th St 954 667 0660", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Subheading: Embracing Diversity in Fashion\nFashion has long been segregated by gender, but a significant shift is reshaping the industry. Gender-neutral fashion is breaking down traditional boundaries, offering a more inclusive and diverse approach to style. This movement goes beyond clothing; it’s a statement, a step towards a more equitable fashion landscape.\nSubheading: Redefining Wardrobe Essentials\nThe essence of gender-neutral fashion lies in redefining wardrobe essentials. Brands are creating pieces that transcend conventional gender norms. From versatile silhouettes to neutral color palettes, these designs offer inclusivity, allowing individuals to express themselves authentically without the confines of societal expectations.\nSubheading: Blurring Fashion’s Binary Lines\nThe conventional “men’s” and “women’s” sections in stores are becoming a thing of the past. Gender-neutral fashion blurs these lines, creating collections that defy categorization. It’s not about fitting into preconceived boxes; it’s about freedom, expression, and the celebration of individuality.\nSubheading: Inclusivity at the Forefront\nAt its core, gender-neutral fashion is about inclusivity. It’s about ensuring that everyone, regardless of gender identity, feels represented and welcomed in the world of fashion. This movement encourages an open-minded approach to style, fostering a sense of belonging for all.\nSubheading: Fashion as a Form of Self-Expression\nFashion has always been a powerful means of self-expression. Gender-neutral fashion amplifies this by offering a canvas where individuals can express their identity without conforming to societal norms. It’s a celebration of uniqueness, allowing personal style to shine authentically.\nGender-neutral fashion embodies the spirit of inclusivity and self-expression. It’s a movement that transcends boundaries, offering a platform for everyone to embrace their true identity through clothing. As this trend continues to evolve, it reshapes not only fashion but also societal perceptions, fostering a more accepting and diverse world.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "At Mangoerrands, our mission is to foster the connection between Jamaicans (and friends of Jamaica) around the world, and those at home in Jamaica.\nOur company was created by Jamaicans who found it hard to manage spending in Jamaica, while overseas.\nThrough technology and partnership, our website enables users anywhere in the world to pay vendors in Jamaica for goods and services for friends, family and community there.\nFor us, each transaction is meaningful. Every spend restores and supports our bond with family and friends back home, while contributing to small businesses in the local economy.\nIt is a reminder that loved ones, alma maters, community, and country – our roots, are never far from their minds.\nMangoErrands is proud to connect the Jamaican Diaspora to the people and things in Jamaica that means the most to them: family, friends, and home.\nFounder and CEO\nIrwine Claire (US) Sophia Azan (JAM)\nTeam Jamaica Bickle Custos (St. Catherine)\nKarlene Largie (US) Marva Thomas (UK)\nBoard Member (UJAA) Entrepreneur\nStephen Willie (JAM) Sophia Walsh (US)\n876Connect Notary Public", "label": "No"}
{"text": "You still have time to register for classes. Attend our “one-stop-shop” to move forward in Spring 2022. These term start sessions give you a chance to speak with the experts about your important next steps. Advisors and staff will be available to speak with you on a drop-in basis. We’re here to help you navigate the process of starting—or restarting—school.\nDrop in for these services to get you ready for the Spring 2022 semester:\n- Completing the FAFSA (financial aid)\n- Career Exploration\n- Academic Advising\n- Application Assistance\n- Placement Testing\n- Registration/Enrollment in classes\nThese drop-in services begin at our Truax Campus on Saturday, January 8. Below are the available. days and times.\n- Saturday, January 8: 9am-1pm\n- Monday, January 10: 10am-2pm\n- Tuesday, January 11: 10am-2pm\n- Wednesday, January 12: 10am-2pm\n- Thursday, January 13: 10am-2pm\n- Friday, January 14: 9:30am-4pm\n- Tuesday, January 18: 10am-2pm\nWe are closed Monday, January 17 in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Saturday, April 30, 2011\nMore on the Ms. Mays Mess\nAs we all know(or most of us), there has been a FB support group set up to support Ms. Mays. I'm all for that, and have in my own way supported her by buying her books.\nYesterday, it was brought to my attention that this group has now set up a online store selling items with Ms. Mays name on them which they are peddling.\nThey have been asked where this money is going, if a share of it is being given to Ms. Mays. Multiple times they have not addressed any of the questions asked by multiple supporters on the site. This strikes me as being very odd. I don't like the idea of someone making money from anothers distress.\nWhat are your thoughts?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Interview with a Trends Manager: Seungha Heo\nSeungha Heo is a Culture and Trends manager for YouTube in Korea. She began her career as a news reporter for Arirang TV, an English-language Korean network aimed at an overseas audience, and later became an anchor for Yonhap News TV, a Korean news channel run by Yonhap News, the country’s leading news agency.\nA few fun facts: In college, she led a dance team, and although she doesn’t dance anymore, she loves watching choreography on the YouTube channel, 1MILLION Dance Studio. Seungha has also personally tried Kellogg’s new green onion-flavored cereal, which she’ll dig into later.\nDuring COVID-19, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality test (MBTI) has become very popular for Koreans to take. What explains the interest in taking this test, and how has this been reflected in the viewing of YouTube videos about Myers-Briggs?\nSeungha: For those who are not familiar, MBTI is a personality test where one is classified into one of 16 personality types after answering dozens of questions. At the beginning of Covid-19, Koreans started spending more time at home alone, and it gave them the time and desire to reflect on themselves and try to understand who they are. Taking a test like MBTI was a good way to do that.\nThe emerging popularity of MBTI has been seen in various video formats, including videos that show how people with different personality types react to the same life situation. We also saw that videos uploaded by creators or artists showing themselves taking the test and revealing the results have especially resonated with viewers. One particular favorite was when Solar, a member of the K-pop group MAMAMOO, took the MBTI and shared the results. Many fans who learned they had the same MBTI type were thrilled. Such videos clearly demonstrate how people are using YouTube to gain a sense of connection and belonging during these times of isolation.\nThe online multiplayer social deduction game “Among Us” is over two years-old, yet has seen incredible growth this year, especially in Korea. How has this played out with respect to the kind of content that creators are building around it?\nSeungha: The game Among Us was launched in June of 2018, but it only rose to fame a few months ago when Twitch streamers and YouTube creators started playing the game. In the month of September alone, views of Among Us videos topped four billion views globally on YouTube, with over 6% of the views coming from Korea, surpassed only by the U.S. and Mexico. In Korea, the most popular creator is 우주하마 (“Space Hippo”), who frequently posts Among Us videos.\nThe incredible success of the game this year can be attributed to how it allows people to socialize with others while being socially distant. What's interesting about the Among Us trend on YouTube is the variety of videos being uploaded. Aside from the typical gameplay videos that we would expect from gaming creators like 빅헤드 (“Big Head”), we are also seeing animations, comedic sketches, DIY videos and even original songs.\nThe expression “Listen to your elders” has recently taken root in YouTube videos in Korea. What’s behind this trend, and who are some of the senior creators propelling it forward?\nSeungha: In Korea, we're seeing more senior creators building a stronger presence on YouTube. Part of what’s driving their success with younger viewers is that Korean society is becoming more individualistic than it used to be. Many young people are having difficult times financially or emotionally here, yet they sometimes don't have the safety net to support them. Now they're getting advice and even inspiration from these older creators.\nThere are two channels I would like to highlight. Korea Grandma kicked off in 2017, when the granddaughter of the channel’s namesake decided to quit her job to spend more time with her grandmother after she was diagnosed with being high-risk for developing dementia. Since then, they have been uploading a lot of content, including a very popular video in which Korea Grandma reveals for the first time her secrets for how to live life. The second channel is Milanonna. She spent decades in the fashion industry and was a classmate of Domenico Dolce (of Dolce & Gabbana) when she was studying fashion in Italy. She mostly talks about fashion, but recently started a series where she gives advice in response to the questions that her subscribers submit.\nJune was a special month in Korea with the release of Kellogg’s highly anticipated green onion-flavored Chex cereal. The videos around this event saw huge numbers of views. What types of content did creators come up with for the launch of this cereal?\nSeungha: To understand this phenomenon, you have to go back to 2004, when Kellogg’s Korea launched a marketing campaign asking Korean consumers to vote for the next new flavor of Chex cereal: chocolate or green onion. They expected children to vote for chocolate, but votes for green onion surged after an adult online community, Humor University, cast multiple votes for green onion. Kellogg’s eventually invalidated duplicate votes for the green onion flavor and declared victory for the chocolate flavor. However, adult consumers did not accept this result and have been demanding that Kellogg’s release the green onion-flavored cereal for the last 16 years.\nWhen the much-anticipated green onion-flavored Chex cereal was released by Kellogg’s Korea in June, Korean creators were quick to upload fun videos of themselves tasting the peculiar product. But pairing the green onion flavor with milk didn’t seem to be a good choice, so creators tried pairing the cereal with various soups, like chicken soup or beef bone soup, which are commonly enjoyed by Koreans, usually with slices of actual green onion. Some creators have also tried using the cereal instead of an actual green onion to make side dishes like kimchi or green onion pancakes.\nThe annual KCON event, which is one of the key K-pop festivals for fans, was cancelled earlier this year because of Covid-19, but we know nothing can stop K-pop. How did the K-pop world keep the music going?\nSeungha: For the past several years, the Korean media company CJENM has hosted KCON, the largest K-pop festival in the world. In June of this year, CJENM hosted KCON:TACT 2020 SUMMER, the first-ever digital iteration of KCON on YouTube. The seven-day livestreaming event saw more than 4.8 million viewers tune in from 152 countries. After the festival, a behind-the-scenes look at the event featuring exclusive interviews with the artists was made into a YouTube Originals docuseries, KCON:TACT ALL-ACCESS, which was released in October. KCON:TACT also recently came back for its second season for 10 days, from October 16 to 25.\nHow has the pandemic impacted the world of K-pop with respect to the kind of music being written and performed, and are there any lessons for us?\nSeungha: One example that comes immediately to mind is BTS’ “Dynamite.” The band actually heard the song earlier during the pandemic, but they were not planning to release any singles as they were already working on a studio album that is scheduled to be released at the end of the year. But when they heard the song, they thought its message was uplifting and could give hope to their fans who are stressed out from the pandemic, and the video has been a massive hit. I think K-pop stars are trying to find ways to give hope and joy to others during this time, and this is also something we should all strive to do in some way each and every day.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Monday, June 9, 2008\nI ate Pizza Hut today.\nBut more importantly, I'M BACK IN AMERICA! Also, I've got so much to write about, so stay tuned in the coming days as I'll be updating the blog like crazy. I would do it now, but I'm so jet lagged from the 25.5 hours I've just spent traveling. Focusing on the computer screen and a keyboard would be like Chinese water torture at the moment.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Saturday, March 24, 2018, - Saturday, April 7, 2018, All Day\nThis exhibition combines education, history, Uckfield Heritage and community.\nFriday, March 30, 2018, - Sunday, April 15, 2018, 10.00 am - 4.00 pm\nTest your skills and see if you can match the talents of the birds and animals that live at Sheffield Park. Record your scores at each of the activities on the trail and claim your Cadbury chocolate prize.\nSaturday, March 31, 2018, 12.00 am\nKings Church is hosting a family fun morning at Uckfield Civic Centre on Saturday, March 31.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A Visit to the Islamic Center of Akron and Kent\nWednesday April 25, 2012 7PM\nDr. Zeki Saritopuak\nProfessor of Islamic Studies and holder of the Nursi Chair at John Carroll University, Dr. Zeki Saritopak will lead a tour of the Islamic Center as well as share in a lecture-discussion on :\nThe Quran: Meaning and Myth-Fact and Fiction.\nParticipants will meet at the Center by 6:45 PM", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Saturday-Sunday, 5-6 October\nFire Road 10, Mayday Meadow\nThetford Forest, Norfolk\nDusk 'Til Dawn is the UK's premier 12-hour nighttime moutain bike event and runs from 8:00 p.m. Saturday evening to 8:00 a.m. Sunday morning, typically on the first weekend in October.\nCategories include 4-person teams, 3-person teams, pairs, and solos with the Men's Solo field capped at 150 riders.\nFees & Start Times", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Activating your copy of Windows 10 has gotten far less tedious in Microsoft's first major update for the operating system. You no longer have to start by upgrading from a previous install of Windows 7\nFacebook’s News Feed is broken! Facebook is only showing me stupid stuff! My News Feed is boring! Facebook is lame! The News Feed is useless! If any of those exclamations sound familiar, this quick guide\nSkeuomorphism is an ugly, confusing word. According to Techopedia, its definition is, \"a design principle in which design cues are taken from the physical world. \" Basically, remember how the Notes app\nWhat would you say if we told you that it's possible to copy, translate, edit and even erase the text inside any image you find on the internet? Well, you can, and it's a lot easier than you might think.\nHere’s how to move past Google Reader into a new feed reader and actually enjoy news reading more than before. Back in the early, buzzy days of what we called Web 2.0 (say, 2007), web addicts used Google", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Shawna Wells, Director of The Network of Building Excellent Schools, came to charter schools because she believes in the choice of quality, and parents and children deserve the right to make choices about their education.\nChildren Deserve Opportunity\nVoice: Leader, School or Organization\nRegion: Los Angeles Region\nOrganization: Building Excellent Schools", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Cosa dicono le persone - Scrivi una recensione\nNessuna recensione trovata nei soliti posti.\nAltre edizioni - Visualizza tutto\n18 to July A.B. University admission Anatomy Angeles 24 application arranged Assistant Clinical Professor Assistant Professor Associate Clinical Professor Associate Professor Berkeley Beverly Hills California Hospitals California Medical Center campus Chemistry Clinical Instructor College Curriculum Dean dental Dentistry Department Economics Engineering enroll first-year assistant residents Francisco General Hospital grade graduate students Herbert History Institute Instructor in Medicine Instructor in Psychiatry July 28 June 18 laboratory Lectures LL.B Moffitt—University of California Neurology º º Oakland Office Ophthalmology Pathology patients Pediatrics Ph.D Pharmacy Prerequisite problems Professor of Medicine Professor of Surgery Prosthesis Psychiatry Psychology Radiology registration Required for first-year Required for second-year Required for third-year Research Robert San Francisco scholarship School of Medicine second-year assistant residents semester Seminar ſº Social Special Study surgical Th F Thesis third-year assistant residents Tu W Th undergraduate units University of California Urology Veterans Administration W Th F Wilshire Boulevard", "label": "No"}
{"text": "UnPrisoned is a series focused on criminal justice reform in the United States\n- It will consist of 10 episodes released on March 10th, 2023\n- The series will feature personal stories, interviews with experts, and open discussions on different themes related to criminal justice reform\n- The trailer sets the tone for the series as a critical contribution to the ongoing conversation around criminal justice reform\n- The UnPrisoned series provides a comprehensive look at the challenges and opportunities for criminal justice reform in the United States.\nThe criminal justice system is one of the most important components of any society. Its primary function is to maintain law and order by investigating, prosecuting, and punishing those who violate the law. However, over the years, the system has come under intense scrutiny for its failure to deliver justice to all, particularly marginalized communities.\nThe United States of America, for instance, has the largest prison population in the world, with over 2.3 million people incarcerated. According to the National Institute of Justice, the current system is not only costly, but it is also ineffective in rehabilitating offenders, leading to high recidivism rates. Furthermore, the racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system are well documented, with people of color being disproportionately represented in every stage of the system.\nCast Members Of The UnPrisoned\n- Marque Richardson\n- Delroy Lindo as Edwin Alexander\n- Kerry Washington as Paige Alexander\n- Rachel Lyerla\n- Algerita Wynn Lewis\n- Michael Owen\n- Faly Rakotohavana as Finn\n- Kelvin Witherspoon\nWhen Will The Series Be released?\nThe UnPrisoned series is set to be released on March 10th, 2023. The series will consist of 10 episodes, each focused on a different theme related to criminal justice reform. Viewers can expect a deep dive into each topic, with interviews with experts, personal stories, and open discussions.\nTrailer Of This Series\nThe official trailer for UnPrisoned opens with a dramatic montage of images related to the criminal justice system, including prison bars, police sirens, and protests. The voiceover sets the tone, introducing the series as a critical contribution to the ongoing conversation around criminal justice reform.\nPlot Of This Series\nThe series begins by introducing viewers to several formerly incarcerated individuals who have been released from prison and are now struggling to navigate life on the outside. We meet Miguel, a young man who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a nonviolent drug offense, and Marie, a mother of three who was imprisoned for embezzlement. Both Miguel and Marie struggle to find work and housing due to their criminal records, and they must also contend with the stigma and discrimination that comes with being an ex-convict.\n— serienjunkies (@serienjunkies) February 23, 2023\nUnPrisoned was created by a team of experienced filmmakers and producers, including director Zachary Stauffer and executive producer Llewellyn Smith. The series was produced by OneFifty, a production company dedicated to creating impactful documentaries and social issue media.\nIn addition to the production team, UnPrisoned was created in collaboration with a wide range of experts and organizations in the criminal justice field. These included legal clinics, advocacy organizations, and formerly incarcerated individuals who provided input and guidance throughout the production process.\nIn conclusion, the UnPrisoned series has provided a comprehensive look at the challenges and opportunities for criminal justice reform in the United States. While there are many obstacles to be overcome, there are also many reasons for hope. By reducing mandatory minimum sentences, legalizing marijuana, and investing in rehabilitation and reentry programs, we can create a more just and effective criminal justice system. Additionally, by continuing to advocate for change, we can ensure that the voices of those impacted by the system are heard and that meaningful progress is made in the years to come.\nWe are sorry that this post was not useful for you!\nLet us improve this post!\nTell us how we can improve this post?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Couldn’t resist. A Burrowing Owl in Berkeley, CA, home of the University of California, Berkeley and several other fine institutions of learning.\nYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *\nSave my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Contact information for the WHO Collaborating Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Containment.\nDr Malin Grape and Dr Sonja Löfmark\nUnit for Antibiotics and Infection Control, Department of Communicable Disease Control and Health Protection, Public Health Agency of Sweden\nSE-171 82 Solna\nNobels väg 18, Solna, Sweden\nOn Google maps\n+46 (0)10-205 20 00", "label": "No"}
{"text": "So far this term, we have been into 11 local schools to give assemblies. With an average of between 200 – 400 children in each school, that means that we’ve reached in the region of 3,000 children this term already, talking about how we can all do our bit to reduce the amount of pointless plastic that we use and taking special care not to litter. Some of the children are really clued up about plastic pollution already, and some not so much – but we love speaking to all of them and it’s a really fun part of our day to day activities.\nHere are some photos taken at a recent school visit in Gosport, where the children had been focussing on ocean health and plastic pollution already for a few weeks. They knew so much already about the topic and were incredibly enthusiastic, with a very active pupil eco-council.\nIf you are in the Solent area and would like us to come in and give an assembly or run an activity please let us know, you can email us at email@example.com", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Separate names with a comma.\nDiscussion in 'Tennessee Titans and NFL Talk' started by TitanJeff, Apr 30, 2022.\nCertain fans in here will say - ‘man we got the next Luke Kuechly!’\nYeah I guess we rollin’ with Jones from Seattle and Brewer and hoping for the best?\nHe looks like Bobby Boucher out there!\nBecause everyone predicted we’d take a guard in the 1st. So we didn’t take one the whole draft just to spite them.\nI like this guy\nShocked the Titans didn’t draft an interior offensive lineman. Figured we would draft 2. O-line is still a big concern.\nSign Ereck Flowers, pretty please\nTop 10 among LBs in the 40 this year so he's not slow.\nPlayed the most coverage snaps in the SEC without allowing a TD.\nRadunz at guard?\nHe ran a 4.57 at the combine with a 39.5\" vert and a 127\" broad jump.\nI know the nfl.com page says he can't cover and he's slow, but others say the opposite.\nChance Campbell, Ole Miss LB | NFL Draft Scouting Report\nWhen I watched him, he was all over the field.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Pacific inspired creations | Made in New Zealand\n$ 119.00 GST inc\nArt work by Pacific Artist, Ruha Fifita. 100% organic cotton knit. Sewn in Kapiti Coast, New Zealand.\nDimensions – approximately 80cm x 90cm\nRed, Turquoise, Black, Navy, Teal, Grey\nThere are no reviews yet.\nYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *\nYour review *\nNotify me of new posts by email.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Aeroflot is Russia’s flagship carrier and a proud member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance. Aeroflot and its partners serve 1,074 destinations in 177 countries worldwide. In 2017, Aeroflot carried 32.8 million passengers (50.1 million passengers as Aeroflot Group including subsidiaries).\nAeroflot became the first Russian airline to be awarded Four Star Airline status by Skytrax in recognition of the high-quality of its customer service. In 2017, Aeroflot was named Best Airline in Eastern Europe for the sixth time at the Skytrax World Airline Awards.\nAeroflot operates one of the youngest fleets in the world, with an average age of 4.1* years, numbering 228 Airbus, Boeing and Sukhoi aircraft and is based in Moscow, at Sheremetyevo International Airport. Aeroflot was named the most powerful brand in Russia and the world’s strongest airline brand by leading valuation and strategy consultancy Brand Finance. Aeroflot was also named Best Major Airline in Europe by TripAdvisor travelers and recognized as the Favorite International Airline in China at the Flyer Award Ceremony 2017. In reiteration of its leadership positions Aeroflot has just won Europe’s Leading Airline Brand and Europe’s Leading Airline – Business Class nominations at World Travel Awards 2017.\nAeroflot offers double daily flights from Geneva and Zürich to Moscow and serves both routes with modern A320 and A321 equipment.\n* Among airlines with active passenger aircraft fleet of more than 100 units", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Have you come across an occupation in a census record that you’ve never heard of before? Many of our ancestors held jobs that are rare or no longer exist today. We’ve scoured our archives to learn more about those jobs and what our ancestors did to earn a living. Here are a few of the occupations we found:\nAArtificial Flower Maker: This intricate job required long hours and a lot of skill. The detailed artificial flowers embellished bonnets, dresses, and hats.\nBBath Attendant: In the early 20th century, school children in cities like New York and Chicago were bathed at school. Often the children came from tenements with no access to washing facilities. This 1909 article invited women to apply for the position and described the qualifications needed to become a bath attendant.\nCCorset Factory Worker: Factories became common during the Industrial Revolution. In this 1910 help wanted ad, a corset factory was hiring women between the ages of 16-40 to work in the factory.\nDDaguerreotypist: A daguerreotypist was an early photographer who used a now-obsolete process to create images on a silvered copper surface. In this 1846 article, a traveling daguerreotypist offered to create miniature likenesses in Joliet, Illinois.\nEEsquire: Today the term esquire describes a lawyer, but that wasn’t always the case. If your 19th-century ancestor was an esquire, it meant that he held a title of office, such as a lawyer, sheriff, justice of the peace, etc.\nFFellmongers: A fellmonger is a person who removes hair or wool from hides in preparation for making leather.\nGGlazier: A glazier cut, installed, and removed glass in windows, display cases, and more.\nHHokey-Pokey Man: The Hokey-Pokey man was a vendor with a pushcart that sold cheap, low-quality ice cream in the late 1800s through early 1900s. The Hokey-Pokey man was popular with children in tenement neighborhoods. In this 1910 article, a San Francisco Hokey-Pokey man found out he would likely inherit a fortune.\nIIce Cutter: Before refrigeration was invented, ice cutters went to lakes and rivers during the winter and cut out blocks of ice for use in the summer. Workers transported ice to ice houses where it was kept cold with straw or sawdust. It would stay frozen for many months.\nJJapanner: Japanned leather was a process to coat leather with a Japanese varnish and then dry it on a stove, producing a smooth, shiny surface like patent leather.\nKKnocker-Upper: A knocker-upper was the equivalent of a human alarm clock. They roamed the streets with a tall wand used to tap on windows to awaken workers in the morning.\nLLeech Collector: Leech collectors, often women, gathered leeches for medicinal use. Doctors believed that bloodletting could cure disease, so leeches were placed on patients to suck infected blood out. The practice was especially popular in Europe.\nMMillwright: A millwright was responsible for designing, installing, maintaining, and repairing mill machinery. This 1902 article reported on a labor dispute when millwrights demanded an eight-hour workday, but employers wanted ten.\nNNeedle-Pointer: A needle pointer was a person who filed the points of needles. According to this 1822 article, breathing in steel dust caused health problems for needle-pointers, forcing most to end their careers by the age of 35.\nOOrdinary Keeper: An Ordinary Keeper was an innkeeper. The terms “ordinary” and “tavern” used to be used interchangeably. Early records from Maine cautioned Ordinary Keepers about serving too much liquor.\nPPinsetter: Bowling became popular in the 20th century and before automated pinsetters were invented, workers handset the bowling pins each time they were knocked down. This 1943 article describes how a pinsetter might set 132 games a night and be paid 9 cents a game.\nQQuarrier: A quarrier was a quarry worker.\nRRag Man: A rag man walked the streets with a cart, collecting old rags and other discarded items. He then brought them to a junk shop where they were resold. This 1894 article describes the job of a rag men and gives a detailed description of a junk shop.\nSSaddler: A saddler was in charge of making, repairing, and selling saddles. This 1872 article describes what a saddler’s shop might have looked like.\nTTeamster: A teamster drove a team of oxen, horses, or mules, pulling a wagon. A man who drove a team of oxen was called a bullwhacker. Teamsters transported cargo and supplies. This 1875 article described the duties of a teamster.\nUUptwister: An uptwister was a textile industry worker that was in charge of winding yarn onto a revolving spindle.\nVVitner: A vitner is a wine merchant. This 1859 article talks about the South Carolina grape industry and the oldest vitner in the South.\nWWhitesmith: A whitesmith works with metals like tin, copper, and brass.\nXXylographer: A xylographer is a person who makes engravings on wood, especially for printing.\nYYeoman: A yeoman was a farmer that owned his land.\nZZincographer: A zincographer worked in the printing industry etching images on zinc plates. The line drawings used in newspapers before photography (like this 1893 example), were created by zincographers.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Although the similarities between reindeer and caribou are numerous, the differences are enough that they are classified as two subspecies. Reindeer and caribou share the same genus, Rangifer, and species name, tarandus. Domestication is the biggest difference between reindeer and caribou. Reindeer are a semidomesticated subspecies of Rangifer, and there are many subspecies of both reindeer and caribou in Alaska.\nBoth male and female reindeer and caribou grow antlers -- a trait unique in the deer family -- although female reindeer antlers grow larger than female caribou antlers.\nMany of the distinguishing traits are thought to be the result of domestication.\nReindeer are shorter, stouter and more sedentary than their long-legged caribou cousins, and although reindeer may migrate within their grazing range, they do not migrate long distances between wintering grounds and calving areas as caribou do.\nReindeer bulls are smaller than caribou bulls, but reindeer cows generally weigh the same as caribou cows.\nReindeer have thicker, denser fur than caribou, although both have hollow guard hairs that keep them warm.\nReindeer begin the breeding season about two to four weeks earlier than caribou, which results in reindeer calves being born at the end of April, while caribou calves are born at the end of May.\nBoth have hooves that can be used as snowshoes for walking on the snow and for digging.\nOnly in North America are wild Rangifer referred to as caribou. In Eurasia, reindeer are classified as either domesticated or wild.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Many people dread the winter season knowing it will bring heavy coats, runny noses, cold car seats, and low-back pain associated with shoveling snow. It’s also the time of the year when all you feel like doing is chowing down on your favorite comfort food and watching the expansion of your waistline. As the cold and darker months are upon us, why not make an effort to combat the moody blues with some basic remedies?\nPhysical movement is a sure cure for the winter blues. Exercising is important for maintaining physical fitness, and it can contribute positively to maintaining a healthy weight; building and maintaining healthy bone density, muscle strength, and joint mobility; promoting physiological well-being; reducing surgical risks; and strengthening the immune system. Frequent and regular aerobic exercise has been shown to help prevent or treat serious and life-threatening chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, obesity, heart disease, type-2 diabetes, insomnia, and depression.\nPhysical activity also delivers oxygen and nutrients to your tissues. In fact, regular physical activity strengthens your heart and lungs, and promotes the circulation of blood through your blood vessels. When your heart and lungs work more efficiently, you have more energy to do the things you enjoy. Exercise also stimulates various brain chemicals that may leave you feeling happier and less depressed. So, dust off those snow shoes, wax those skis, and enjoy the winter landscape.\nExperience the Benefits of OPCs (Oligomeric Proanthocyanidins)\nOPCs are organic plant compounds found mostly in fruits, vegetables, and certain tree barks. They are powerful antioxidants and “free-radical scavengers,” and they function as helpers to influence the body’s immune response to inflammation, allergy, and infection. There are more than 20,000 different types of bioflavanoids, of which OPCs are considered the most potent antioxidants. OPCs are derived from one or more of a combination of grape-seed extract, red-wine extract, and/or pine-bark extract. Proanthocyanidins regulate the enzymes which help to control crucial neurotransmitters (brain chemicals), such as dopamine and norepinephrine. These chemicals are involved in ‘excitatory’ responses in the brain. Low-grade winter depression may be caused also by low levels of these neurotransmitters. Fortunately, OPCs regulate the enzymes that control these two crucial neurotransmitters, thereby giving us better focus and elevated moods. Before you reach for your old bottle of anti-depressants, go for a shot of OPC.\nOmega-3 Fatty Acids\nWestern diets have changed drastically over the past 150 years, during which time the ratio of fats from fish and wild plants to those from animals and vegetable-oil sources (especially in processed foods) has gone from 1:1 to 1:10. This switch has coincided with a sharp rise in the rates of depression in recent decades, suggesting that omega-3 supplementation could be one approach to treating depression and other mood disorders. Studies suggest that populations which eat more fish per capita, such as Japan (147 pounds a year) and Iceland (225 pounds a year), have unexpectedly low rates of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).\nSt. John’s Wort\nHypericum performatum, known as St. John’s wort, is the most commonly used herb for treating depression and seasonal affective disorder (SAD), the clinical term for the “winter blues” (depression brought on from short day length). A summary of 23 clinical trials, including 1,757 outpatients, found that St John’s wort was as effective as standard anti-depressive medications for treatment of mild to moderate depression, and with fewer side-effects. Depression invokes an image of someone crying, sleeping, moping around the house, and avoiding social engagements. This is characteristic for many people, but it’s not the pattern for others. Low levels of the relaxation hormone serotonin are thought to play a role in this behavior. Low serotonin is a common thread in low-grade depression, and there are several natural ways to increase serotonin levels, including physical exercise (as stated above) and the use of St Johns Wort.\nCurrent research indicates that vitamin-D deficiency may be linked to a wide range of health problems, including osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, and, yes, depression. The best way to get vitamin D might seem obvious: Get some sun! But it also may be a good idea to consider vitamin-D supplements. In the winter, the low angle of the sun can make it difficult for some populations to get enough vitamin D, for example the elderly and those who live at northern latitudes.\nIf you’re not feeling yourself from the months of November through April, see a specialist in functional medicine. A prescribed non-invasive, drug-free protocol should be implemented, restoring balance to your system, and thereby relieving the symptoms of your winter blues.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Awake Rose he would not, though he knew she would witness the departure of the swash with a satisfaction little short of his own.\nI whispered to him, when I had stepped out into the swash of the rain.\nBen Gile began to swash his bucket up and down, up and down, in the stream until the water fairly rocked.\nThey are getting ready to cut us off this side of the swash channel!\nThe swash had again run out of the passage, and was beating up, close to the reef as she dared to go, with a signal flying.\nOver the edge of the swash of a wave I have gathered in oceans and possessed them.\nIt was past five in the afternoon when the people of the swash began to heave on their purchases as finally disposed.\nSoon an uneasy, dancing motion, welcomes her approach to the swash.\nAll this was done so rapidly, that united to the confusion on board the swash, no one discovered the mate or the boat.\nHad she seen the swash, no doubt she would have turned into the bay also.\n1530s, \"the fall of a heavy body or blow,\" possibly from wash with an intensifying s-. It also meant \"pig-wash, filth, wet refuse\" (1520s) and may have been imitative of the sound of water dashing against solid objects. The meaning \"a body of splashing water\" is first found 1670s; that of \"a dashing or splashing\" 1847.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Charles I of Naples\n|King of Sicily, Naples, and Albania; Prince of Achaea; Count of Provence, Forcalquier, Anjou, and Maine|\nStatue of Charles at the Royal Palace, Naples.\n|King of Naples|\n|Reign||6 January 1266 – 7 January 1285|\nPeter I (island of Sicily)|\nCharles II (other territories)\n21 March 1227|\nKingdom of France\n7 January 1285 57) (aged|\nFoggia, Kingdom of Naples\n|Burial||Basilica of St.Denis, Saint-Denis, Paris, France|\nBeatrice of Provence |\nMargaret of Burgundy\nLouis of Sicily|\nBlanche of Sicily\nBeatrice, Titular Empress of Constantinople\nCharles II of Naples\nPhilip of Sicily\nRobert of Sicily\nElizabeth, Queen of Hungary\nMargaret of Sicily\n|Father||Louis VIII of France|\n|Mother||Blanche of Castile|\nCharles I (21 March 1227 – 7 January 1285), known also as Charles of Anjou, was the King of Sicily by conquest from 1266, though he had received it as a papal grant in 1262 and was expelled from the island in the aftermath of the Sicilian Vespers of 1282. Thereafter, he claimed the island, though his power was restricted to the peninsular possessions of the kingdom, with his capital at Naples (and for this he is usually titled King of Naples after 1282, as are his successors).\nCharles was the seventh child and youngest son of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile, and hence younger brother of Louis IX of France and Alfonso II of Toulouse. He conquered the Kingdom of Sicily from the Hohenstaufen and acquired lands in the eastern Mediterranean. However, the War of the Sicilian Vespers forced him to abandon his plans to reassemble the Latin Empire.\nBy marriage to Beatrice of Provence, heiress of Raymond Berengar IV of Provence, he was Count of Provence and Forcalquier from 1246. In 1247, his brother Louis IX made him Count of Anjou and Maine, as appanages of the French crown. By conquest and self-proclamation, he became King of Albania in 1272 and by purchase King of Jerusalem in 1277. By the testament of William II of Villehardouin, he inherited the Principality of Achaea in 1278.\nCharles was born in March 1227, four months after the death of his father, King Louis VIII. Like his immediate older brother, Philip Dagobert, he did not receive a county as appanage, as had their older brothers. In 1232, his brothers Philip Dagobert and John, Count of Anjou and Maine, died; Charles became the next in line to receive the Counties, but was formally invested only in 1247. The affection of his mother Blanche seems largely to have been bestowed upon his brother Louis, and Louis tended to favour his other younger brothers, Robert of Artois and Alphonse of Toulouse. The self-reliance this engendered in Charles may account for the drive and ambition he showed in later life.\nAccession in Provence\nUpon his accession as Count of Provence and Forcalquier in 1246, Charles rapidly found himself in difficulties. His sisters-in-law felt cheated by their father's will, and his mother-in-law, the Dowager Countess Beatrice of Savoy, claimed the entire county of Forcalquier and the usufruct of Provence as her jointure. Furthermore, while Provence was technically a part of the Burgundy and hence of the Holy Roman Empire, in practice it was free of central authority. Recent counts had governed with a light hand, and the nobilities and cities had enjoyed great liberties. Three cities, Marseille, Arles, and Avignon were Imperial cities technically separate from the county. Charles was disposed toward rigid administration; he ordered inquests in 1252 and again in 1278 to ascertain his rights Charles broke the traditional powers of the major towns (Nice, Grasse, Marseille, Arles, Avignon) and aroused considerable hostility by his punctilious insistence on enjoying his full rights and fees. In 1247, while Charles was in France to receive the counties of Anjou and Maine, the local nobility (represented by Barral of Baux and Boniface of Castellane) joined with Beatrice and the three Imperial cities to form a defensive league against him. Unfortunately for Charles, he had promised to join his brother on the Seventh Crusade. For the time being, Charles compromised with Beatrice, allowing her to have Forcalquier and a third of the Provençal usufruct.\nRich Provence provided the funds that supported his wider career. His rights as landlord were, on the whole, of recent establishment, but his rights as sovereign entitled him to revenues on the gabelles (mainly salt), from alberga (commutation of gîte) and cavalcata (commutation of the duties of military service) and quista (\"aids\") (Baratier 1969). From the Church, unlike his brothers in the north, he received virtually nothing. Charles' agents were efficient, the towns were prosperous, the peasants were buying up the duties of corvée and establishing self-governing consulats in the villages: Provence flourished.\nSeventh Crusade and return\nCharles sailed with the rest of the Crusaders from Aigues-Mortes in 1248 and fought at Damietta and in the struggle around Mansourah, Egypt. However, his piety does not seem to have matched that of his brother (Jean de Joinville, according to a tale about Louis catching him gambling on the voyage from Egypt to Acre), and he returned with his brother Alphonse in May 1250. During his absence, open rebellion had broken out in Provence. Charles moved to suppress it, and Arles, Avignon, and Barral of Baux had surrendered to him by June 1251. Marseille held out until July 1252, but then sued for peace. Charles imposed a lenient peace, but insisted on the recognition of his full rights, and acknowledgement of his suzerainty by Marseille.\nIn November 1252, the death of his mother Blanche of Castile caused him to go north to Paris and assume the joint regency of the kingdom with his brother Alphonse. While in Paris, he was approached by envoys from Pope Innocent IV. Innocent was then seeking to detach the Kingdom of Sicily from the Holy Roman Empire (in the person of Conrad IV of Germany), and offered it to Charles, after his brother-in-law Richard, Earl of Cornwall had declined it. Alphonse, however, was cool to the idea; and King Louis forbade it outright. Balked, Charles took up the cause of Margaret II of Flanders against her son, John I, Count of Hainaut, in the War of the Succession of Flanders and Hainault. She granted him the County of Hainaut for his service. King Louis again disapproved, and on his return from Outremer in 1254 he returned Hainaut to John.\nDisappointed, Charles returned to Provence, which had become restive again. The mediation of King Louis led to a settlement with Beatrice of Savoy, who returned Forcalquier and relinquished her claims for a cash payment and a pension. Marseille had attempted to involve Pisa and Alfonso X of Castile in the quarrel, but they proved unreliable as allies, and a coup by the supporters of Charles resulted in the surrender of the city's political powers. Charles spent the next several years quietly increasing his power over various lordships on the borders of Provence. A final rebellion occurred in 1262, when he was absent in France; Boniface of Castellane rebelled yet again, as did Marseille and Hugh of Baux. However, Barral of Baux now remained loyal to Charles, and Charles quickly returned to scatter the rebels. The mediation of James I of Aragon brought about a settlement; while Marseille was forced to dismantle its fortifications and surrender its arms, it otherwise went unpunished. Surprisingly, this leniency worked to good effect; hereafter, the Provençals proved staunch supporters of Charles, providing money and troops for his further conquests. Many of them were to be rewarded with high posts in his new dominions.\nWith the usurpation of the Sicilian throne from Conradin by Manfred of Sicily in 1258, the relationship between the Papacy and the House of Hohenstaufen changed again. Instead of the boy Conradin, safely sequestered across the Alps, the Papacy now faced an able military leader in Italy. Accordingly, when negotiations broke down with Manfred in 1262, Pope Urban IV again took up the scheme of disseising the Hohenstaufen from the kingdom, and offered the crown to Charles again. Manfred's own usurpation from Conradin told upon King Louis' scruples; this time, he was persuaded to admit the offer, and Charles ratified a treaty with the Pope in July 1263. The terms were heavily in favor of the Pope; the kingdom must never be re-united with the Empire, and the king was never to hold Imperial or Papal office, or interfere with ecclesiastical matters in the kingdom. Nevertheless, Charles accepted eagerly. For money, he called for help from the then-omnipotent Sienese banker Orlando Bonsignori. Charles' cousin, Henry of Castile (the Senator), lent him forty thousand ounces of gold to finance the war against King Manfred. This loan was never repaid. Henry of Castile, angered by Charles' disregard, changed sides to Conradin's and fought with a host of Spanish knights against Charles in Tagliacozzo. Defeated, Henry was imprisoned by Charles for 22 years in Canosa di Puglia and Castel del Monte, where he wrote the famous novel of chivalry, Amadis de Gaula.\nConquest of Sicily\nHaving endorsed the treaty, Charles could play for time. As Manfred's troops advanced on the Papal States, Charles renegotiated the treaty on more favorable lines. As instructions went out to the clergy to submit contributions for the war, Urban IV died in October 1264 at Perugia, fleeing Manfred. This raised the possibility of a reversal of papal policy. To underscore his resolve, Charles broke sharply with his previous policy of leniency and ordered the execution of several Provençal rebels who had been in his hands for a year. Fortunately for Charles, the new Pope Clement IV was the former adviser to his brother Alphonse and strongly supported the accession of Charles. Charles entered Rome on 23 May 1265 and was proclaimed King of Sicily.\nCharles was popular in Rome, where he was elected sole Senator, and his diplomacy had already undermined Manfred's support in northern Italy. While Charles' campaigns were delayed for lack of money, Manfred, curiously, idled away his time hunting in Apulia, while his support in the north of Italy waned. Charles was able to bring his main army through the Alps, and he and Beatrice were crowned on 6 January 1266. As Charles' army began an energetic campaign, Manfred suddenly shed his lethargy and moved to meet him. Worried that further delays might endanger the loyalty of his supporters, he attacked Charles' army, then in disarray from the crossing of the hills into Benevento, on 26 February 1266. In the Battle of Benevento that followed, Manfred's army was defeated and he was killed in the melee. Upon his death, resistance throughout the kingdom collapsed, and Charles became master of Sicily.\nWhile Charles' administration in his new kingdom was generally fair and honest, it was also stringent. As in Provence, he insisted on maximizing the revenues and privileges he obtained from his new subjects. Discontent was high, but for now, Charles could focus on extending his power in northern Italy (which alarmed the Pope, who feared a powerful king of all Italy as much as he did an emperor). But the Pope was willing to allow this, for in September 1267 Conradin marched south to reclaim the rights of the Hohenstaufen, and one of his agents instigated a revolt in Sicily. He entered Rome on 24 July 1268, where his arrival was wildly celebrated. At the Battle of Tagliacozzo, on 23 August 1268, it appeared he might win the day, but a sudden charge of Charles' reserve discomfited Conradin's army and he was forced to flee to Rome. Told it was no longer safe, he attempted to escape to Genoa, but was arrested and imprisoned in the Castel dell'Ovo in Naples. In a trial carefully managed by Charles, Conradin was condemned for treason and beheaded on 29 October 1268 at the age of 16. By the end of 1270, Charles had captured Lucera and put down the revolt in Sicily, executing many of the captured. With the whole kingdom cowed beneath his strict, if fair, rule, he was ready to consider greater conquests.\nAmbitions in the Latin Empire\nAfter the defeat of Manfred at Benevento, Charles immediately began to plan his expansion into the Mediterranean. Historically, the Kingdom of Sicily had at times controlled parts of the eastern Adriatic seaboard, and Manfred possessed the island of Corfu and the towns of Butrinto, Avlona and Suboto, which had formed the dowry of his wife Helena. Charles seized these at the end of 1266. From thence, he passed on to intrigue with the remaining nobility of the Latin Empire. In May 1267, he concluded the Treaty of Viterbo with the exiled Baldwin II of Constantinople and the Prince of Achaea, William II Villehardouin (through his chancellor Leonardo of Veruli). Taking advantage of the precarious situation of the remains of the Empire in the face of rising Greek power, he obtained confirmation of his possession of Corfu, the suzerain rights over Achaea, and sovereignty over most of the Aegean islands. Furthermore, the heirs of both the Latin princes were to marry children of Charles, and Charles was to have the reversion of the Empire and principality should the couples have no heirs. With few options to check the Byzantine tide, he was well placed to dictate terms.\nCharles' wife Beatrice died on 23 September 1267, and he immediately sought a new marriage to Margaret, daughter of Béla IV of Hungary. However, Margaret wished to be a nun (and was later canonized); Charles instead married (on 18 November 1268), Margaret, Countess of Tonnerre (1250 – 4 September 1308, Tonnerre), the daughter of Eudes of Burgundy. However, he was able to make a marital alliance with the Hungarians: his son Charles, Prince of Salerno, married Maria, daughter of crown prince Stephen, while Charles' daughter Elizabeth married Stephen's son Ladislas.\nHaving thus secured his position in the east, he began to prepare a crusade to recover the Latin Empire. The Byzantine emperor, Michael VIII Palaeologus, was greatly alarmed at the prospect: he wrote to King Louis, suggesting that he was open to a voluntary union of the Latin and Greek churches, and pointing out the interference a descent on Constantinople would pose to Louis' own Crusade projects. Louis took a dim view of his sincerity; but he was eager to take up the cross again, and he notified Charles of his intentions. Charles continued with his preparations against Constantinople, hoping the Crusade might be postponed, but he also prepared to turn his brother's Crusade to his own advantage. The Caliph of Tunis, Muhammad I al-Mustansir, had been a vassal of Sicily, but had shaken off his allegiance with the fall of Manfred. However, there were rumors he might be sympathetic to Christianity. Accordingly, Charles suggested to his brother that the arrival of a Crusade in his support might bring about Mustansir's conversion. Thus it was that Louis directed the Eighth Crusade against Tunis. Charles did not arrive until late in the day on 25 August 1270, only to find that his brother had died of dysentery that morning. Charles took command, and after a few skirmishes, Mustansir concluded a peace treaty and agreed to pay tribute to Charles. Illness continued to plague the army, however, and a storm devastated the fleet of 18 men-of-war and innumerable smaller vessels as it returned to Sicily. Charles was again forced to postpone his designs against Constantinople.\nConquest of Albania and Genoese War\nIn February 1271, Charles expanded his Adriatic possessions by capturing Durazzo, and soon controlled much of the Albanian interior. In February 1272, he proclaimed himself King of Albania and appointed Gazzo Chinardo as his vicar-general. He hoped to take up his expedition to Constantinople again, but was delayed by the election of Pope Gregory X, consecrated on 27 March 1272. Gregory hoped to reconcile Europe, unifying the Greek and Latin churches, and launch a new Crusade. To that end, he announced the Council of Lyon, to be held in 1274, and worked to arrange the election of an emperor.\nIn November 1272, strained relations between Charles and Ghibelline-ruled Genoa finally broke into war. Ghibelline revolts broke out across the north of Italy, and increasingly occupied the attention of Charles, even as Michael Palaeologus was negotiating a union of churches with the Pope. At the same time, he made contact with Genoa and sent money to encourage revolts in the north. At the apparently successful conclusion of the Council of Lyon, a Union of Churches was declared, and Charles and Philip of Courtenay were compelled to extend a truce with Michael. This was a blessing in disguise for Charles, for the Ghibellines now controlled most of the north, and he was forced to retreat from Piedmont in late 1275. In truth, Pope Gregory was not entirely displeased; he regarded north Italy as best dealt with by its new emperor, Rudolph of Habsburg, and preferred that Charles be confined to the south. If he wished to make war, let him look to Outremer. To this end, Gregory endorsed the sale to Charles of the claims of Maria of Antioch on the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which had been rejected by the Haute Cour there. On 18 March 1277, he bought her claim and assumed the title of King of Jerusalem, sending Roger of San Severino as his bailli to Acre. There Roger ousted Balian of Arsuf, the bailli of Hugh III, and compelled the nobles to swear fealty. In the meantime, Gregory had been succeeded by Pope Innocent V, who arranged a peace between Charles and the Genoese.\nBreakdown of the Union\nMeanwhile, in Constantinople, the Union of the Churches was proving difficult to arrange, and the Emperor Michael had great difficulty in imposing it on his people. Nevertheless, he persuaded Innocent of his sincerity in working towards it, and Charles was again forbidden to attack Constantinople. Knowing this, Michael began a campaign in Albania in late 1274, where he captured Berat and Butrinto. He also enjoyed some success in his campaigns in Euboea and the Peloponnese.\nAffairs dragged on for several years, until the accession of Pope Martin IV on 23 March 1281. Pope Martin was a Frenchman, and lacked the even-handedness of some of his recent precursors. He brought the full power of the Papacy into line behind Charles' plans. The Union, which had proved impossible to impose upon Constantinople, was called off, and Charles was given authorization for the restoration of the Latin Empire.\nHe opened his campaign in Albania, where his general Hugh of Sully with 8,000 men (including 2,000 cavalry) captured Butrinto from the Despotate of Epirus in 1280 and besieged Berat. A Byzantine army of relief under Michael Tarchaneiotes arrived in March 1281: Hugh of Sully was ambushed and captured, and his army put to flight. The Byzantines took possession of the interior of Albania. Nor was Charles particularly successful in the Peloponnese, where he had become (by the Treaty of Viterbo) Prince of Achaea on the death of William II Villehardouin in 1278. His bailli Galeran of Ivry was defeated at Skorta in his one attempt to engage the Byzantines, and was recalled in 1280 and replaced by Philip of Lagonesse. Nonetheless, Charles was to launch the body of his Crusade (400 ships carrying 27,000 mounted knights) against Constantinople in the spring of 1282.\nBut Michael had not been working upon the military front alone. Many Ghibelline officials had fled the Kingdom of Sicily to the court of Peter III of Aragon, who had married Constance, the daughter and heir of Manfred. Manfred's former chancellor, John of Procida, had arranged contact between Michael, Peter and the refugees at his court, and conspirators on the island of Sicily itself. Peter began to assemble a fleet at Barcelona, ostensibly for another Crusade to Tunis. In fact, the master-plan of John of Procida was to place Peter on the throne of Sicily, his Hohenstaufen inheritance. The result was the uprising known as the Sicilian Vespers, which was initiated in Palermo on 29 March 1282. It rapidly grew into a general massacre of the French in Sicily. A few officials notable for their good conduct were spared, and the city of Messina still held for Charles. But through the diplomatic errors of Charles' vicar, Herbert of Orléans, Messina, too, revolted on 28 April 1282. Herbert retreated to the castle of Mategriffon, but was forced to abandon the Crusader fleet, which was burnt.\nThe news surprised Peter of Aragon, who had expected to intervene only after Charles had left for Constantinople. But the conspirators, aided by Emperor Michael (who wished to see Charles balked in his expedition), had set the revolt in motion early. Peter did not immediately intervene; he sailed with the fleet to Tunis, where he discovered that the would-be convert on whose behalf the Crusade had ostensibly been undertaken had been caught and executed. While he bided his time, the Sicilians made an appeal to Pope Martin to take the Communes of their cities under his protection. But Martin was far too deeply committed to Charles and French interests to heed them; instead, he excommunicated the rebels, Emperor Michael, and the Ghibellines in north Italy. Charles gathered his forces in Calabria, landed near Messina, and began a siege. Several attempts to assault the city were unsuccessful. Rejected by the Pope, the Sicilians now appealed to King Peter and Queen Constance; he duly accepted, and landed at Trapani on 30 August 1282. He was proclaimed king in Palermo on 4 September, but as the archibishopric of Palermo was vacant, he could not immediately be crowned. In the face of the Aragonese landing, Charles was compelled to withdraw across the Straits of Messina into Calabria in September, but the Aragonese moved swiftly enough to destroy part of his army and most of his baggage. The Angevin house was forever ousted from Sicily.\nWar with Aragon\nDespite his retreat into Calabria, Charles remained in a strong position. His nephew, Philip III of France, was devoted to him and Pope Martin regarded the rebellion as an affront both to French interests and his own rights as suzerain of the kingdom. Both sides temporized; the expense of a long war might be disastrous for both, and Peter and Charles arranged for a judicial duel, with a hundred knights apiece, on 1 June 1283 at Bordeaux. Skirmishes and raids continued to occur: in January 1283, Aragonese guerillas attacked Catona and killed Count Peter I of Alençon in his hostel. In February the Aragonese crossed into Calabria to face off with Charles of Salerno. However, tensions between the Aragonese and the Sicilians had begun to rise. Both men now hoped to turn the war to their advantage, and the judicial duel turned into a farce, the two kings arriving at different times, declaring a victory over their absent opponent, and departing. Now the war escalated: Pope Martin had excommunicated Peter and proclaimed war against the Sicilians and a Crusade in January, and in March declared Peter to be deprived of his dominions. On 2 February 1284, Aragon and Valencia were officially conferred upon Charles of Valois.\nThe war continued in Italy: while little progress had been made in Calabria, a detachment of the Aragonese fleet was blockading Malta. Charles of Salerno sent a newly raised Provençal fleet to the relief of Malta, but it was caught by the main Aragonese fleet under Roger of Lauria and destroyed in the Battle of Malta. The Aragonese were now, however, running quite short of money, and Peter was threatened by the prospect of a French attack on Aragon. King Charles planned to raise new troops and a fleet in Provence, and instructed Charles of Salerno to maintain a strict defensive posture until his return from France. However, Roger of Lauria continued to command the sea and launch harassing raids up and down the coast of Calabria, and in May 1284 he successfully blockaded Naples, basing a small squadron on the island of Nisida to do so. The Neapolitans were infuriated by the blockade, and in June Charles of Salerno armed the newly launched fleet at Naples and embarked on 5 June to destroy the blockading squadron. Evidently believing the main Aragonese fleet was raiding down the coast, he hoped to destroy the blockading squadron and return to Naples before it returned. However, Roger of Lauria had learned of his plans, and Charles found himself engulfed by superior numbers. After a short, sharp, fight, most of his fleet was captured, and he himself was taken prisoner.\nNews of the reverse caused anti-French riots in Naples, and Roger of Lauria was quick to take advantage of Charles' captivity to obtain the release of Beatrice, daughter of Manfred of Sicily, then held in Naples. King Charles arrived in Gaeta on 6 June and learned of the disaster. He was furious at his son and his disobedience; by the time he reached Naples, the riots had been quelled. He advanced on Calabria and attempted a landing in Sicily, but his main army was blocked at Reggio, and he retreated from Calabria entirely on 3 August. He continued to make preparations for a campaign against Sicily in the new year; but his health failed. On 7 January 1285 he died in Foggia.\nDeath and legacy\nOn his death, Charles left all of his domains to his son Charles, then a prisoner in Catalonia. For the time being, these were held in joint regency by a papal legate and Robert II of Artois. Charles spent his life striving to assemble a Mediterranean empire out of whatever land he could get through law or force of arms. He did so, it seems, with a clear conscience; he regarded himself as God's instrument to uphold the Papacy and punish the Hohenstaufen. He ruled justly, but with the rigidity and severity that might be expected in one of his convictions. Ultimately, his unbending austerity could not inspire the devotion needed to hold his conquests together.\nStill, he left a substantial legacy to his heirs. Henry II of Cyprus reclaimed the Kingdom of Jerusalem after his death, for the few years left to it, but his other possessions remained with the Angevin dynasty he founded, or its descendants. Both the Angevins and their Aragonese rivals were to claim the title of \"King of Sicily\"; but the Angevins, confined to the mainland, would be known to history as \"Kings of Naples\". But the style of \"King of Sicily\" persisted, and when the two realms were reunited it was under the style of \"King of the Two Sicilies\".\nCharles of Anjou contributed to the early medieval revival of learning, often referred to as the \"Latin\" Renaissance, by employing several Jewish scholars at the Universities of Salerno and Naples who were expert translators. The most famous of these, Moses of Palermo, he arranged to have taught Latin, so that Moses could translate Arabic-language medical works into Latin. The Jewish scholars translated dozens of philosophical and medical treatises into Latin, bringing the heritage of classical antiquity and the great contemporary Muslim culture to pre-Renaissance Europe.\nHowever, Charles' wars resulted in even more serious consequences than the partition of the Kingdom of Sicily. Pope Martin IV hopelessly compromised the papacy in his cause; and the botched secular \"Crusades\" against Sicily and (after Charles' death) Aragon greatly tarnished its spiritual power. The collapse of its moral authority and the rise of nationalism rang the death knell for crusading, and would ultimately lead to the Avignon Papacy and the Western Schism. Charles was an able soldier and a good administrator, but his failure to understand the qualities of his diverse subjects, and his grasping, if pious, ambition, ultimately led him to failure.\nIn the Divine Comedy Dante sees Charles outside the gates of Purgatory \"singing in accord\" with his former rival, Peter.\nMarriage and children\nCharles was wed to Beatrice of Provence on 31 January 1246, in Aix-en-Provence. Beatrice was the youngest daughter of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence and Forcalquier, who had died on 19 August 1245 by his wife Beatrice of Savoy. As his elder three daughters had all married kings and received substantial dowries, Ramon settled his entire inheritance upon Beatrice, making Charles Count of Provence and Forcalquier. They had the following children:\n- Louis (1248, Nicosia)\n- Blanche (1250 – July 1269), married 1265 Count Robert III of Flanders\n- Beatrice of Sicily (1252–1275), married 15 October 1273 at Foggia to Philip of Courtenay, titular Emperor of Constantinople\n- Charles II of Naples (1254–1309)\n- Philip of Sicily (1256 – 1 January 1277), titular King of Thessalonica from 1274, married 28 May 1271 to Isabella of Villehardouin\n- Robert (1258–1265)\n- Elizabeth of Sicily (1261 – c. 1300), married bef. September 1272 to Ladislas IV of Hungary\nAfter the death of Beatrice, he married Margaret of Burgundy in 1268. They only had one child:\n- Margaret (after 1268 – c. 1276), died in infancy of unknown causes.\n- In 1277, he laid claim on the Kingdom of Jerusalem and added its arms\n|Ancestors of Charles I of Naples|\n- Vieusseux, André,Italy and the Italians in the nineteenth century, (Pall-Mall East., 1824), 56\n- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). \"Charles I. (King of Naples)\". Encyclopædia Britannica. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 923.\n- Runciman 1958, p. 72.\n- Runciman 1958, p. 71–72.\n- Runciman 1958, p. 72–73.\n- These enquêtes conserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale are the equivalent of Domesday for 13th-century Provence. They have been edited by Edouard Baratier, Enquêtes sur les droits et revenus de Charles I d'Anjou en Provence (1252 et 1278) (Paris 1969).\n- Runciman 1958, p. 73.\n- Runciman 1958, p. 73–74: \"In 1248 the discontent flared up into rebellion ... Arles submitted to [Charles] in April 1251, and Avignon in May. In June Barral of Les Baux surrendered. Marseilles ... sued for peace next July. Charles treated the leaders of the revolt with personal leniency, but insisted on his legal rights being clearly and definitively stated and recognized. The Marseillais ... recognized him as suzerain.\"\n- Runciman 1958, p. 74.\n- Runciman 1958, p. 74–76.\n- Peter Herde Die Schlacht bei Taggliacozzo\n- During the siege of Lucera, Peter of Maricourt (Petrus Peregrinus), who was serving in Charles' army, wrote his famous work on magnetism, Epistola de magnete.\n- Goodwin (2009). \"Africa in Europe: Antiquity into the age of global expansion\". Lexington Books. p. 104. Retrieved 16 May 2015.\n- Raphael Patai, The Jewish Mind, Scribners, 1977, p.156\n- Fischer, Klaus Dietrich (1982). \"Moses of Palermo: Translator from the Arabic at the Court of Charles of Anjou\". Histoires des sciences médicales. 17 (Special 17): 278–281.\n- David Abulafia, The state of research. Charles of Anjou reassessed, in Journal of Medieval History, 26 (2000), pp. 93–114.\n- Jonathan Harris, Byzantium and the Crusades, London, 2nd ed., 2014 ISBN 978-1-78093-767-0\n- Jean Dunbabin, Charles I of Anjou. Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century Europe, London-New York 1998\n- Runciman, Steven (1958). The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century. London: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 315065012.\n- André Vieusseux, Italy and the Italians in the nineteenth century, London, 1824\n|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charles I of Naples.|\n- The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, translated by Ethel Wedgwood\n- Armorial of the House Anjou-Sicily (French)\n- House of Anjou-Sicily (French)\n- \"Charles of Anjou\". New International Encyclopedia. 1905.\n| Preceded by:\n| King of Sicily\n| Succeeded by:|\n| King of Naples\n|New creation|| King of Albania|\n|William II|| Prince of Achaea|\n|Ramon Berenguer IV|| Count of Provence and Forcalquier|\n|John Tristan|| Count of Anjou and Maine|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "You can learn more in our Terrapin care sheet (PDF 326KB). Pond terrapins or 'sliders' (Trachemys scripta) include red-eared sliders, yellow-bellied sliders and Cumberland sliders. Terrapins should be housed in large tanks / aquariums or secure outdoor ponds with adequate heating.\nDiamond back terrapins are commonly available and are sold in many pet stores. They are one of the most popular turtle breeds kept as pets. Proper terrapin care involves maintaining a clean, friendly environment, regular veterinary care, and supplying your terrapin with a healthy.\nThe diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) or simply terrapin, is a species of turtle native . Adult diamondback terrapins mate in the early spring, and clutches of 4-22 eggs are laid in sand dunes in the early summer. They hatch in late.\nTerrapins can live 15-25 years and can grow up to 12-13 inches in length. They reach sexual maturity at 3-8 years. Adult males can be distinguished by long fore .", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What is Chiropractic?\nChiropractic, since its discovery, has been based on the scientific fact that the nervous system controls the function of every cell, tissue, organ and system of your body.\nTwenty four bones called vertebrae protect the spinal cord and it is necessary for these vertebrae to be flexible so that we can move as we do.\nHowever this makes it possible for them to move out of position and lose their normal motion. When they lose their normal position they can irritate the major nerve roots which exit from the spine through gaps in the vertebrae.\nThis causes interference to the nervous system and disrupts the function of the tissues and organs which these nerves control. When this happen many health problems far in excess of back pain and neck pain can result.\nThe aim of chiropractic treatment is to locate these areas of spinal malfunction and correct them.\nHistory of chiropractic\nThe word chiropractic comes from the Greek words ‘CHEIR’ meaning ‘hand’ and ‘PRAKTOS’ meaning ‘done’ – meaning ‘done by hand’.\nModern chiropractic treatment was founded by Daniel David Palmer or as he was more commonly known, DD Palmer. He was born 1845 in Ontario, Canada. DD moved to Iowa, USA at the age of 20. He spent 20 years as a successful horticulturist and farmer before turning his interests to magnetic healing and opening an office in 1887.\nIt was in 1895 that DD Palmer delivered his first chiropractic adjustment to a janitor who worked in his office building.\nHarvey Lillard was the man to receive this adjustment and regain his hearing after 17 years.\nDD later wrote in The Chiropractors Adjustment:\n“Harvey Lillard, a janitor in the Ryan Block, where I had my office, had been so deaf for 17 years that he could not hear the racket of a wagon on the street or the ticking of a watch. I made the enquiry as to the cause of his deafness and was informed that when he was exerting himself in a cramped, stooping position, he felt something give in his back and immediately became deaf.\nAn examination showed a vertebra racked from its normal position. I reasoned that if the vertebra was replaced, the man’s hearing should be restored. With this object in view, a half hour talk persuaded Mr Lillard to allow me to replace it. I racked it into position by using the spinous process as a lever and soon the man could hear as before.\nThere was nothing “accidental” about this, as it was accomplished with an object in view, and the result expected was obtained. There was nothing “crude” about this adjustment; it was specific, so much so that no chiropractor has equalled it.”\nIn 1897, DD went on to open a chiropractic school in Davenport, Iowa. The school still remains open to this day. By 1902 fifteen students had graduated from the Palmer Infirmary and Chiropractic Institute.. DD’s son BJ Palmer (Bartlett Joshua) was one of these graduates. In 1907 the school was renamed the Palmer School of Chiropractic (PSC).\nFrom 1904 until his death in 1961 BJ was president of the school. He was a self taught genius who understood and promoted innate intelligence. His contributions were vast and included extensive research, improved methods of spinal adjusting and analysis, higher standards for chiropractic education and an increased awareness and appreciation for chiropractic worldwide.\nBJ was often the centre of controversy, but well before his death in 1961, chiropractic had secured a place among the health sciences battle which was to face this young profession for years to come.\nChiropractic has developed rapidly since Palmer College opened and there are now over 35 schools and colleges around the world and on every continent.\nTake your first step towards better health and call us on 01782 711 191 today\nFrom the team at Newcastle Chiropractic Clinic\nOur Chiropractors in Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme are here to help you", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A case-study is a teaching methodology that was created so that students not only learn to better understand other people, but also work with a large amount of information, study proposed business situations, analyze data and accept based on this solution.\nGeneral characteristics of the case-study method\nThe case-study method is based on the analysis of different situations that have developed in business or in other areas. Its value lies in the fact that course participants learn to act in a team. They analyze data and work together to develop management decisions.\nSpeaking about the method of situational learning, which is a case study, you need to pay attention to its ideas. The method is well suited for analyzing situations for which unambiguous answers cannot be given.\nThis means that after analyzing the case, the listeners can recommend several options for action. All of them will be correct, only differing in the degree of truth.\nThe teacher's task becomes more difficult if we compare the analysis of the case with the classical scheme of acquiring knowledge. The manager should receive not one answer, but several. Then he must assess whether the solutions proposed by the students can be applied in practice.\nThe focus of teaching is changing. The students themselves develop solutions, and do not receive ready-made knowledge. During the discussion, the teacher and students work closely together, they are equal.\nAs a result of using the method, students not only gain knowledge, but also hone their professional skills in practice.\nThe case study method is as follows: a situation is taken from life, the participants in the discussion develop a model. The teacher supports the discussion, guides the discussion. He asks questions and records the answers given by students.\nGeneral characteristics of the Case Study method.\nThe team of the communication agency CROS talks about the peculiarities of PR in the travel segment and shares its experience of working with media and bloggers on the example of promoting a premium hotel in Dubai on the Russian market.\nFor two years, CROS has been promoting one of Dubai's luxury hotels - Atlantis, The Palm. The legendary hotel, located on an area of 46 hectares, was built on the man-made island of Palm Jumeirah in the Persian Gulf. The resort is very popular all over the world, including with celebrities. World stars often rest here: Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez, Vin Diesel and others.\nOne of the main news events in 2019 is the renovation of the hotel's room stock and the updated service system for the Imperial Club rooms. In addition, a grandiose attraction tower is slated to open in the summer of 2020, making Aquaventure Waterpark at Atlantis, The Palm one of the largest water parks in the world.\nAtlantis Hotel, The Palm leads in the number of photos on the Instagram social network. It was also ranked fourth in the ranking of the most photographed hotels in the world (the top three were Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, Bellagio and The Venetian in Las Vegas).\nCROS is tasked with strengthening the hotel's image as one of the symbols of Dubai. Atlantis, The Palm is the perfect vacation destination for all ages, marital status and preferences, and is the city's main attraction that every traveler dreams of visiting. This is how the key message of the information campaign was formulated.\nA comprehensive strategy has been developed to achieve this goal. It included cooperation with the media leading in the segment of glossy publications, the development of Russian-language accounts on Facebook and Instagram, the organization of visits by celebrities and popular bloggers, as well as the implementation of special projects in a non-standard format. Today, synergy between online and offline is important - communication in online channels affects the decision to visit an offline point.\nIn the travel segment, there is often a situation when the promotion product itself is not in Russia, but abroad. Therefore, there is a need for constant transformation of information. A PR manager becomes an expert on the Russian market, he must constantly adapt news feeds and \"adjust\" them to the Russian audience.\nMore than 1000 publications about Atlantis, The Palm have been published in the Russian media and blogs. It was attended by about 180 media representatives, bloggers and celebrities. Popular guests included singer Hannah, BlackStar label producer Pasha, model Elena Kuletskaya, singer and social media star T-killah, singers Elvira-T and Anna Semenovich, as well as Maria Pogrebnyak, Ksenia Borodina and many others. Publications about the hotel were published in fashionable glossy magazines in Russia and neighboring countries: Marie Claire, Kommersant, Cosmopolitan, R Flight, Aeroflot and other publications.\nA special place in the promotion is the development of the Russian-speaking social networks of the resort. For example, during the work, the number of subscribers in the Russian Instagram account @atlantisthepalm. u increased from 500 to 15,000 through systematic organic growth.\nSome numbers for Atlantis, the Palm:\nWe continue our rubric “Cases from partners”. Our guest is Viktor Pashinsky again - he has already shared his \"rake\" on attempts to monetize an information site, and also spoke at our webinar. This time Victor decided to talk about how to create a useful travel resource and make money on it. The floor is given to Victor.\nFor some reason, all the cases from the Travelpayouts blog are devoted exclusively to sites with cheap air tickets, hotels and tours. Yes, information about discounts and promotions is a useful thing, but nevertheless, having gone to travel, I wanted to do this at all.\nPreparing for the next trip to a new country for ourselves, my wife and I are sure to look through information about it on the Internet. And more often than not, nothing sensible can be found. In order to somehow remedy the situation, today I will tell you all the secrets of the development of travel sites known to me, life hacks and \"rakes\" that should not be stepped on.\nIn order not to be unfounded, I will demonstrate a couple of my favorite projects:\nThere are other sites, I don’t show them, not because I don’t want to \"shoot\", but because I would not be proud of them.\nIn my opinion, there are three main groups of travel sites.\nA travel blog is a site with a permanent audience that is interested in the author's personality and life.\nLockdown - now people around the world are all too familiar with the meaning of this word. The huge business sector has failed to cope with the consequences of the pandemic. But how did those who survived survive? And what did those who, during the economic decline, managed to grow like never before came up with?\nWe studied sales cases on the AdIndex website and noticed the following trend: the abbreviation COVID is always found in the headlines of the most creative, unexpected and breakthrough cases. We decided to share with you a selection of interesting solutions, thanks to which brands of different sizes have grown more than they expected.\nThe brand of Baikal water BAIKAL 430 took the creation of situational content as the basis for the crisis strategy.\n“What are people doing in self-isolation? Go in for sports! Sports and water are too commonplace, what else? They read a lot. \"\nIndeed, it is possible to quench not only physiological thirst, but also aesthetic one, penetrating into the consumer's consciousness at the most valuable, sensual and emotional level. This is how the idea for the first ever sci-fi novel written on Instagram was born. The implementation involved the synthesis of new forms, structures and images. Illustrators, 3D artists, motion designers, young writers worked on the project.\nThe result is a surreal, very attractive, and, most importantly, a native and frank story. The brand opened up to potential customers, and those, in turn, reached out to the brand themselves. The audience response surpassed even the forecasts of the agency responsible for the project.\nContent was saved 7,143 times, repost 2,167 times.\n2 110 users have subscribed to the account.\n408 comments were left, of which 95% - with a positive tone and 5% with a neutral tone.\nHow to reduce the cost of an application by 4 times in the field of travel services by changing the landing page.\nWhy didn't we do it earlier - a question. Why others don't do it is a mystery. Although the answer to this question is still there.\nToday we will consider a case on contextual advertising of the Mandarin travel agency.\n. ours/is one of the leading travel agencies in Cherepovets. It has been operating since 2009, has 2 offices in different districts of the city, and positions itself as a travel agency. By the way, the offices are pretty nice, check it out for yourself:\nThe company chose the Vkontakte group to start its promotion, which is logical and inexpensive. Then a multi-page website was developed, each page of which was essentially a mini-landing page for a specific country for travel. In this case, the stake was made on SEO-promotion of the site.\nA CRM system for processing requests was also connected.\nContextual advertising was set up in 2017, and later was repeatedly adjusted in accordance with the innovations of Yandex and Google.\nThe problem that has been on the surface during the entire time of our joint work is the high cost of the application.\nHere are the statistics for June 2019 (you can call it the “current situation”):\nTourism in Russia in the coming years will confidently stride in a health-improving direction. The authorities will try to prove that good rest is possible not only on the beach, but also in sanatoriums.\nOn June 16, 2020, the first All-Russian competition for the creation of tourist and recreational clusters and the development of ecotourism in Russia was launched. The competition became part of a comprehensive work on the development of ecotourism carried out by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to solve the large-scale tasks of the national project \"Ecology\" and the Strategy for the Development of Tourism in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2035", "label": "No"}
{"text": "94 is an even composite number. It is composed of two distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of four divisors.\nPrime factorization of 94:\n2 × 47\nSee below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 94 from the Numbermatics database.\nNames of 94\n- Cardinal: 94 can be written as Ninety-four.\n- Scientific notation: 9.4 × 101\nFactors of 94\nDivisors of 94\nBases of 94\n- Binary: 10111102\n- Hexadecimal: 0x5E\n- Base-36: 2M\nSquares and roots of 94\nScales and comparisonsHow big is 94?\n- 94 seconds is equal to 1 minute, 34 seconds.\nTo count from 1 to 94 would take you about forty-seven seconds.\nThis is a very rough estimate, based on a speaking rate of half a second every third order of magnitude. If you speak quickly, you could probably say any randomly-chosen number between one and a thousand in around half a second. Very big numbers obviously take longer to say, so we add half a second for every extra x1000. (We do not count involuntary pauses, bathroom breaks or the necessity of sleep in our calculation!)\n- A cube with a volume of 94 cubic inches would be around 0.4 feet tall.\nRecreational maths with 94\nLink to this page\nHTML: To link to this page, just copy and paste the link below into your blog, web page or email.\nBBCODE: To link to this page in a forum post or comment box, just copy and paste the link code below:\nCite this page\n\"Number 94 - Facts about the integer\". Numbermatics.com. 2021. Web. 20 April 2021.\nNumbermatics. (2021). Number 94 - Facts about the integer. Retrieved 20 April 2021, from https://numbermatics.com/n/94/\nNumbermatics. 2021. \"Number 94 - Facts about the integer\". https://numbermatics.com/n/94/\nThe information we have on file for 94 includes mathematical data and numerical statistics calculated using standard algorithms and methods. We are adding more all the time. If there are any features you would like to see, please contact us. Information provided for educational use, intellectual curiosity and fun!\nKeywords: Divisors of 94, math, Factors of 94, curriculum, school, college, exams, university, Prime factorization of 94, STEM, science, technology, engineering, physics, economics, calculator, ninety-four.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "White milky mushroom (Calocybe indica)\nMilky mushroom (Calocybe indica) can be grown on wide range of substrates as in case of oyster mushroom. It can be\ngrown on substrates containing lignin, cellulose and hemicelluloses. Substrate should be fresh and dry. Substrates exposed to rain or harvested premature (green color) are prone to various weed\nmoulds which may result in failure of the crop. It can be grown on straw of paddy, wheat, ragi, maize/bajra/cotton stalks and leaves, sugarcane bagasse, cotton and jute wastes, dehulled maize cobs,\ntea/coffee waste etc., However cereal straw (paddy/wheat) easily available in abundance, is being widely used.\nStraw is chopped in small pieces (2-4cm size) and soaked in fresh water for 8-16 hours. This period can be reduced when\npasteurization is to be done by steam. Main purpose of soaking is to saturate the substrate with water. It is easier to soak if straw is filled in gunny bag and dipped in water.\nThe purpose of pasteurization is to kill harmful microbes. This can be achieved in two ways.\nHot water treatment\nWater is boiled in wide mouth container and chopped wet straw filled in gunny bag is submersed in hot water for 40\nminutes at 80-900C to achieve pasteurization. This is very popular method particularly with small growers.\nWet straw is filled inside insulated room either in perforated shelves or in wooden trays. Steam is released under\npressure from a boiler and temperature in side substrate is raised to 650C and maintained for 5-6 hours. Air inside the room should be circulated to have uniform temperature in the substrate.\nSubstrate is filled in polypropylene bags (35x45cm, holding 2-3 kg wet substrate) and sterilized at 15 lb psi for 1\nhour. Once pasteurization/sterilization is over straw is shifted to spawning room for cooling, bag filling and spawning.\nCasing means covering the top surface of bags after spawn run is over, with pasteurized casing material in thickness of\nabout 2-3cm. Casing provides physical support, moisture and allows gases to escape from the substrate. Casing material (soil 75% + sand 25%) with pH adjusted to 7.8-7.9 with chalk powder is\npasteurized in autoclave at 151b psi for one our or chemically treated with formaldehyde soln (4%) about a week in advance of casing. Solution should be enough to saturate the soil. It is covered\nwith polythene sheet to avoid escape of chemical and at a interval of 2 days soil is turned so that at the time of casing soil is free from formalin fumes. Bag’s top is made uniform by ruffling\ntop surface of the substrate and sprayed with solution of carbendazim (0.1%) + formaldehyde (0.5%). Casing material is spread in uniform layer of 2-3 cm thickness and sprayed with solution of\ncarbendazim and formaldehyde to saturation level. Temperature 30-350C and R.H. 80-90% are maintained.\nIt takes about 10 days for mycelium to reach on top of casing layer when fresh air is introduced while\nmaintaining temperature and R.H. as above. Light should be provided in long time. The changes thus made in environment, result in the initiation of fruiting bodies with in 3-5 days in the form of\nneedle shape which mature in about a week. Mushrooms 7-8cm diam. are harvested by twisting, cleaned and packed in perforated polythene / polypropylene bags for marketing. Mushrooms can also be\nwrapped in kiln film for longer storage.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "“The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”\n– Carl Sagan (1934-1996)\nFor thousands of years, people thought of themselves as the center of the universe. People believed that they were the most sophisticated animal and assumed that Earth was the only planet to house life, let alone intelligent life.\nReligions encouraged such beliefs. The story of Genesis made humans the pinnacle of God’s creation and center of His plan, as the master of all other life forms. As late as the early 17th century, when Galileo posited that the Earth rotated around the sun, not the other way ’round’, the Catholic Church called him a heretic, banned his books and sentenced him to prison.\nReligion appeared vain, anchored in self-absorption, and in opposition to science.\nAs science became widely accepted over the following hundreds of years, people came to appreciate how small the Earth is in a remote edge of the galaxy. Mankind shifted from writing mythology about Gods in the stars, to scripting stories of alien life traversing the universe. Man seemingly embraced science and eschewed religion.\nBut people remained equally as arrogant.\nBeyond the wave of science fiction books and movies over the past sixty years, sci-“fact” shows like the new “UFO” documentary have considered that aliens from other planets have come to Earth. The guise of awe for the unidentified flying objects at first conveyed humbleness in considering that humans are neither alone nor the center of the universe. Yet that premise fell completely flat. What kind of unbridled arrogance must someone have to believe that in the vastness of space, an alien managed to find earth and visit that one special person. Such remarkable conceit!\nA profound faith in either religion or science could mask the same egotism with a different veneer of humility.\nCarl Sagan, an astronomer and popular author about space strongly believed in science and of life on other worlds, and also believed in religion. He once said that “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” Despite the appreciation for both belief and science, he nevertheless acknowledged the issue with fundamentalism in his book ‘Contact‘ and how religion and science could be at odds for those with profound faith.\nAt its worst, profound religion acts as a cudgel, enabling those who believe they speak with divine authority to dictate demands. Deep faith facilitates massacres like the Christian and Muslim crusades as well as the Inquisition.\nThis stands in sharp contrast in humble faith. Humble religion serves as a guide for people to act towards one another with kindness. The belief in a powerful God who judges people’s seen and unseen actions is designed to shepherd society with humbleness as a check on power.\nFaith can act as rein or a weapon. It depends on whether it is embraced with humility or conceit.\nJews have often been accused of arrogance as they believe that much of the bible is particular and not universal. Yet it is a unique monotheistic religion in believing that all people can ascend to heaven: Jews need to follow 613 commandments while non-Jews only need to follow the seven Noahide Laws related to universal morality. That is why Judaism does not try to convert people as their souls do not require “saving.”\nJudaism encourages a humble faith in God and science, pursuing both knowledge and coexistence.\nThe notion that there is a dichotomy between religion and science is widely touted and deeply false. The divide is between profound faith and humble faith. The latter will serve to the betterment of all mankind.\nRelated First One Through articles:\nSubscribe YouTube channel: FirstOneThrough", "label": "No"}
{"text": "If you are unfamiliar with the design capabilities and processes of prototype PCBs, it can be overwhelming and confusing to learn, at least without detailed information. Prototype circuit boards are a necessary tool in the design of many industries. The prototype PCBs allows you to design a product and then implement that idea. You achieve this by changing minor aspects of the prototype and adding updates and changes. If you have an idea that you would like to build, pay attention to the following decisions and design processes you will want to take.\nUnderstanding the types of circuit boards\nApr 27 2017", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Cucumbers can be a real treat during the summer months thanks to their refreshing taste and high amount of water they contain. Moreover, they are also very good of your health and you should try to include them more in your diet.\nThese refreshing veggies contain almost zero calories but plenty of nutrients which give them their medicinal properties. Cucumbers belong to the Cucurbita family, a vine, alongside pumpkins, melons, zucchinis and the likes and originate in Northern India’s Himalayans plains.\nThey may have originated in India but their popularity grew rapidly, spreading all around the globe in no time. They come in a variety of shapes and colors but the most commonly used ones are dark green in color with a crunchy flesh with small edible seeds inside. As the cucumber grows its skin gets harder, the plant bigger and the seeds become yellow – a sign that it’s no longer edible.\nCucumbers should be a part of every healthy diet plan for a number of reasons and we’re listing the most important ones:\nHigh in minerals\nThey contain a high amount of minerals like magnesium, potassium and silicon, all vital for a number of important bodily functions.\nGreat for toxins elimination\nThey also have a high water content which is good for flushing out toxins and even kidney stones, completely painlessly.\nExcellent for diabetics, people with high cholesterol and blood pressure problems\nThey are rich in fiber, potassium and magnesium, compounds that are known to regulate your blood pressure. Cucumber juice, on the other hand, contains a hormone pancreatic cells need to secrete insulin.\nAbundant in vitamins\nIf you want to stack up on vitamins make sure you munch on a cucumber because they have all the vitamins your body needs, including vitamin B, C and A, which give you energy and stimulate your immune system.\nMoisturize the body\nDid you know that a cucumber is made of 90% water? No wonder it’s so refreshing, hydrating and moisturizing for your skin.\nImprove your joints\nWe mentioned that they abound in silicon which strengthens your joints and connective tissues. Moreover, if you combine it with carrots you get a powerful anti-gout and arthritis remedy\nSupport kidneys health\nCucumbers lower the uric acid amount in the body thus preserving your kidneys health.\nDigestion and weight loss\nSince they contain very low calorie count but have high water content they’re a great addition to every diet.\nFresh breath and healthy gums\nWhen you chew on a cucumber you refresh you gums and treat possible inflammations. They also contain phytochemicals that fight against the bacteria in your mouth that causes bad breath.\nImproved hair and nails quality\nThey are rich in silicon and sulfur which are important nutrients for good and healthy hair and nails. They also stimulate their growth.\nFight solar damage\nConsuming cucumbers balances out your skin’s acidity, so you can use them against sunburns.\nGreat against hangover\nSince they abound in vitamin B, electrolytes and sugar they can help with headaches and hangovers. If you feel like you’ve had one drink too many eat a few slices of cucumber before you go to bed.\nSay goodbye to dark circles\nCucumbers have potent anti-inflammatory properties which are effective in the elimination of dark circles and under eye bags.\nAside from being super healthy they’re extra delicious and refreshing as well. Prepare them however you like and enjoy them all summer long.\nHERE’S AN EXCELLENT LOW-CALORIE CUCUMBER RECIPE:\n- 2 cups cucumber (peeled and chopped)\n- 1/4 cup red onions (chopped)\n- 2 tbsp. fresh parsley (nicely chopped)\n- 1/2 cup tomato (chopped into small cubes)\n- 4 ½ tsp. cilantro (fresh and chopped)\n- 1 chili pepper (chopped and without seeds)\n- 1 garlic clove (chopped)\n- 1/4 cup Greek yogurt (cottage cheese/ricotta)\n- 1 ½ tsp. lime juice\n- 1 ½ tsp. lemon juice\n- 1/4 tsp. sea salt\n- 1/4 tsp. cumin powdered\nMix everything until it’s nicely combined and serve on a slice of whole grain bread. Bon appetite!\nWhat are your thoughts? I’d be very thankful if you’d help it spread by sharing it on Pinterest. Don’t keep this to yourself, please share this post on your Pinterest Board.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "IF you are able to spot the tiny ant hiding on the elephant’t body you could have a high IQ and 20/20 vision.\nGet ready for a challenge and try finding the little creature in just 11 seconds.\nAnd this challenge is not to be taken lightly, with even the most experienced puzzle solvers left scratching their heads.\nHowever, if you can spot the ant hiding in plain sight, you will be one of the select few to succeed.\nThe image might look simple to solve, as it’s just an elephant in a fairly plain background – not too many elements to distract you.\nTry more optical illusions\nThe problem is that the little ant is almost perfectly camouflaged.\nHave you spotted it already?\nThe key to solving this brainteaser is to pay attention to every single detail.\nThe time limit can add pressure, but try remain calm and focused as you go.\nHow about now? Did you find the tiny ant hiding on the elephant’s body? Keep going if not!\nIf you’re still struggling, don’t worry as there will be a solution at the bottom.\nThis is a classic example of an optical illusion, and is a great way to test your brainpower and improve your IQ skills.\nExperts at FreshersLive named several benefits of solving brainteasers like this one.\nThese include mental stimulation, improved memory, enhanced problem-solving skills, reduced stress, improved mood, and increased productivity.\nOverall, brain teasers are a great way to keep your mind sharp and engaged, and they can provide a variety of mental and emotional benefits.\nWant to give a go at another challenge? Try spotting a prehistoric dinosaur among the flock of birds in under nine seconds.\nIn the image provided by Freshers Live, we can see a huge flock of birds flying in the sky.\nWith the sunset in the background, only the dark outlines of the birds can be seen in front of what remains of the blue sky.\nHowever, somewhere within them is a flying dinosaur known as a Pterosaur.\nThis extinct flying reptile once had a wingspan of up to 36 feet, making it a true beast of the skies.\nBut in this photo, it is suspected to be much smaller than that – making it harder to spot.\nIf you are struggling to spot the flying dinosaur, then one clue that might help you is the size of its beak.\nIf you can find it then congratulations, you deserve a pat on the back.\nBut if you did so in nine seconds or less, then you have the eyesight of a dinosaur expert.\nJuliana Cruz Lima", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In a forthcoming paper, John Schellenberg forwards the following argument: anatomically humans have been around 200,000 years. That’s a very short span of time for any species, and only in the past few thousand years ago have we been reflecting on the world around us. If we our species survives even as long as Homo erectus did, we’ve only completed a very small part of a potentially long future of thinking about religion, metaphysics and other matters.\nAt present, philosophy of religion in the analytic tradition is quite narrowly focused:\n“in the west – and I expect I am writing mainly for western readers – philosophy of religion has been largely preoccupied with one religious idea, that of theism, and it looks to be moving into a narrower and deeper version of this preoccupation, one focused on specifically Christian ideas, rather than broadening out and coming to grips with its full task.”(p. 3).\nTheism, in a generic, omni-property sort of way, is one position that philosophers of religion commonly defend. The other is scientific naturalism. These seem to be the only games in town:\n“most naturalists too assume that theistic God-centered religion must succeed if any does. Naturalism or theism. These seem to be the only options that many see. The harshest critics of religion, including philosophers such as Daniel Dennett, seem to think their job is done when they have, to their own satisfaction, criticized personalistic, agential conceptions of a divine reality.” (pp. 3-4).\nAt the end of 2013, I conducted a qualitative survey (summary here, but I am writing up the paper presently) among philosophers of religion. Next to a series of open questions, there was a question for open feedback. I was quite surprised to see so many philosophers of religion openly lament the lack of subject diversity in their discipline. Just a few choice examples written by anonymous respondents:\nthe ‘rigour’ and analytical ‘skills’ in this branch of philosophy has kept its (Christian) philosophers isolated and distant from the social, ethical and political changes taking place in other branches of analytic philosophy. Insularity has allowed the field to protect and to encourage narrow-mindedness and overconfidence in the thinking of the best known (and best funded) philosophers of religion in the world – female full professor, UK.\nThe mainstream of philosophy of religion betrays a bias towards the analysis and assessment of religious beliefs (as opposed to other religious phenomena), and this may well be due to the high profile of Christianity, and Protestant Christianity at that, in locations where the philosophical subfield has developed… the field may be hindered in this effort so long as it employs models of religiosity that have been derived from philosophical debates within Western Christianity – non-tenure track male professor, China, private liberal arts college.\nPhilosophy of religion is increasingly out of touch with the actual practice of religion in Europe and the Americas. It needs to be revitalized by making contact with the rich religious pluralism now evolving in Europe and the Americas. We need to see articles by analytic philosophers on Mormonism, Santeria, Umbanda, Wicca, goddess religion, religious naturalism, new pantheistic movements, and on and on” – male full professor, US, state university.\nRecently, the public announcement of Eugene Park to leave philosophy has stirred new debate about the lack of diversity in western philosophy, not just a lack of diversity in the demographics (few women, ethnic minorities, people with disability, openly gay or other gender orientation), but a lack of diversity in subject matter. Do western philosophers eschew non-western philosophical views because they think they are inferior, lacking in rigor? Or is it mainly a matter of ignorance?\nIs philosophy of religion worse than other areas of philosophy? Or are the criticisms laid at its doorstep too harsh? After all, the lack of diversity is also a problem in many other fields of philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics etc. To give but one example, the philosophy of testimony has only recently branched out to more diverse topics; early epistemology of testimony tended to center around discussions about whether testimony is a source of knowledge like perception or memory, or whether questions about justification of testimony are reducible to other domains of knowledge acquisition (see here for a beautiful summary). While several epistemologists are aware of the rich Indian tradition on work on testimony, it remains at present poorly integrated in analytic epistemology.\nEven if the narrowness of scope is not unique to philosophy of religion, it seems to me that philosophers of religion have better resources to address the diversity problem than philosophers in other disciplines. They have a rich subject matter to draw from, after all, religious traditions across cultures that present their adherents with a (to some extent) coherent systems of knowledge. To rule out alternatives to thin theism without seriously considering them, and to only take thin theism as a philosophically respectable position without engaging in serious philosophical study of these alternatives strikes me as a form of hubris.\nTo give just one example, Mormonism has a rich theology and some academic work has appeared in Mormon theology, but at present Mormonism is more the study of sociologists than of theologians, the question being: How did Mormonism become so successful in America?. That is of course an interesting question, but also of interest is: What resources does the Mormon view on God, the afterlife etc. offer for philosophers? Mormonism is hardly the subject matter of serious philosophical discussion in philosophy of religion journals like Faith and Philosophy, International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, and Religious Studies. With its ideas of an embodied Heavenly Father and people all working towards becoming gods, it has unique resources and challenges. What can Mormons respond to the problem of evil? To what extent does the problem of divine hiddenness apply to Mormonism?\nThe problem of divine hiddenness, a topic of special interest to Schellenberg, gets a whole new twist in Mormonism. For Mormons don’t only have a Father but also a Mother in heaven, a heavenly couple from which we spirit children are assumed to emerge. Here is an excerpt of a poem by Lisa Bolin Hawkins on the hiddenness of “heavenly mother”\nWhy are you silent, Mother? How can I\nBecome a goddess when the patterns here\nAre those of gods? I struggle, and I try\nTo mold my womanself to something near\nTheir goodness. I need you, who gave me birth\nIn your own image, to reveal your ways\nPhilosophers of religion could start to engage with these topics more seriously right now, using their toolbox of analytic philosophy.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Lake Windermere Management Plan (LWMP) was initiated by the Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) in November 2008 to address lake‐related issues following the adoption of the Lake Windermere Official Community Plan (OCP). The District of Invermere was a partner in the process.\nThe LWMP contains information on the biophysical and social characteristics of Lake Windermere and its surroundings. The lake is highly valued by the public for its healthy environment, clean water, diverse year‐round recreation opportunities, sense of community, spiritual values, and as a primary economic driver for the region. Some of the major concerns about the lake include: habitat loss, water quality deterioration, motorized uses affecting human enjoyment and the environment, lack of public access to the lake, and the challenges of lake management.\nThe Lake Windermere Management Plan was adopted in February 2011. The RDEK and District of Invermere are currently working jointly on the implementation of the Plan. Please click here to visit the LWMP Implementation page.\nLast edited: Thu, September 17, 2015 - 10:17:04", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Phylogenetic tree of B 12 -elements. The names of the proximal genes of the regulated B 12 operons are given. With the abbreviations of the genome elements, without the BII part are set in bold and shaded gray. Genome specific groups B 12 -elements are surrounded by dotted lines.\nAlthough B 12 is not the only nutrient that may contribute to the occurrence of the symptoms listed below, lack of it should always be considered as a possible underlying factor.\nWhat factors can contribute to a B 12 deficiency ?\nStomach problems can contribute to B deficiency 12 .\nOne way is that when the stomach is irritated and / or inflamed, the stomach cells do not function properly and thus they do not produce the Intrinsic Factor. Without FI a B 12 cannot be absorbed.\nAB 12 and Vegetarianism:\nThere are two divergent schools of thought.\nOne school emphasizes the fact that most animals, including humans, are capable of storing long-term B 12 supplies . In humans, these deposits can last up to twenty years or more. Given this storage potential, a daily requirement of B 12 is considered highly unlikely.\nA second school of thought, however, points to unreliability in plants as sources of B 12 .\nFor all vegetarians, who don't eat any animal products whatsoever, a lack of confidence can be a problem. Since no plant is capable of producing B-12, the amount of B 12 in plant food depends on the plant's relationship to soil and root microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, yeasts) which create the vitamin. Cultivated and fermented soy-based products such as tofu, tempe, miso, tamari and shoyu may or may not contain significant amounts of B 12 , depending on the bacteria and fungi used to produce them.\nThe B 12 index in sea vegetables also varies according to the distribution of microorganisms in the surrounding environment to the sea.\nUnfortunately, reliable nutrient analyzes are often not available to consumers of these products. And the retention of vitamin B 12 in plant foods made from soybean fermentation has not been well researched until then.\nIn general, tofus, temps, and sea vegetables tend to be more consistent sources of B 12 than misos, tamaris, and shoyus. Depending on the medium in which they are produced or where the algae grow.\nDrugs that can decrease the body 's vitamin B 12 stores include:\nNormally vitamin B 12 is secreted in the small intestine along with bile and other secretions and is reabsorbed, but this does not increase the body's vitamin B 12 supply . Since a small amount of the vitamin is not reabsorbed, it is possible that the vitamin B 12 stock will eventually run out.\nBacteria in the human intestinal tract make vitamin B 12 . Most of these bacteria are in the large intestine. Apparently vitamin B 12 is not absorbed in the large intestine.\nSome small intestinal bacteria produce vitamin B 12 . The amount of vitamin B 12 produced does not appear to be adequate to prevent vitamin deficiency.\nLong-time vegans, babies, children, and pregnant or lactating women (because of the higher intake) should take special care to get enough vitamin B 12 .\nNonvegetarians have no difficulty in consuming B 12 since animals, one of their food sources, ingest microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi, exclusive producers of vitamin B 12 .\nGreat sources of vitamin B 12 are shrimps, salmon.\nAlso yogurt and eggs have a good amount of B 12 .\nSeaweed, the nutritious yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is a yeast grown in molasses solution, sold in the form of flakes or yellow bread. Its taste resembles that of cheese. Nutritious yeast is different from brewer's yeast and dry yeast.\nDespite the difficulty of taking vitamin B 12 in the required doses daily, the vegetarian diet has great benefits for those who wish to have a healthy life. According to Dr. Eric Slywitch, a reference in vegetarianism studies, people who abstain from meat, whether white or red, have a lower risk of heart attack and disease, have a lower incidence of cancer, their chances of getting diabetes are 50. Minor% concern about obesity is practically nil.\nRecommended Dietary Doses (RDAs) for vitamin B 12 were adjusted in 1998 by the National Academy of Sciences.\nAbout Spirulina (seaweed used as a dietary supplement):\nResearch has shown that B 12 is found in Spirulina in the high range .However, it is believed that this is due to the presence of structural similar compounds B 12 , known as the \"Analog B 12 \" .These can not be used to satisfy the dietary requirements.\nNovidades, e respostas das perguntas de nossos colaboradores\nVisite o nosso canal youtube.com/buscadaverdade e se INSCREVA agora mesmo! Lá temos uma diversidade de temas interessantes sobre: Saúde, Receitas Saudáveis, Benefícios dos Alimentos, Benefícios das Vitaminas e Sais Minerais... Dê uma olhadinha, você vai gostar! E não se esqueça, dê o seu like e se INSCREVA! Clique abaixo e vá direto ao canal!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Definition of Therapy, external beam radiation\nTherapy, external beam radiation: Radiation focused from a source outside the body on the affected area (a cancer) within the body. It's much like getting a diagnostic x-ray, but using a more potent x-ray beam and giving it over a longer period of time per dose with usually multiple doses given over multiple days.Source: MedTerms™ Medical Dictionary\nLast Editorial Review: 9/20/2012\nMedical Dictionary Definitions A - Z\nSearch Medical Dictionary\n- What Happens in the Operating Room?\n- Treatment Options for Metastatic Melanoma\n- Living Well With Lung Cancer", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What Does Project HSE Review (PHSER) Mean?\nA Project Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) Review (PHSER) is a form of structured hazard-risk audit used within the process industries. The PHSER provides a review of existing occupational health and safety programs to ensure that all HSE issues have been identified and assessed.\nAs they are applied in industries in which HSE issues can change as a project moves through its lifecycle, PHSERs also ensure that HSE issues have been reviewed and updated throughout the progression of the project.\nSafeopedia Explains Project HSE Review (PHSER)\nThe PHSER process is applied as a review of each individual stage of the project. In addition to identifying risks associated with HSE issues, the PHSER also assesses whether appropriate controls have been implemented to reduce risk associated with the project to a level that is as low as reasonably possible. Because PHSERs provide owners and operators with information about whether a project’s risks are controlled sufficiently enough for the project to move to its next stage of operation, the PHSER can be considered a form of due diligence for maintaining safety throughout the project lifecycle.\nUnlike other forms of risk assessment, such as a Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP), a key aspect of project HSE reviews is that they are not risk-reduction tools in and of themselves. Rather, they provide a qualitative overview of a firm’s existing HSE procedures. As such, the observations made by PHSERs are typically general in scope. They do not audit the specific details of the policies and assessments that are implemented under the auspices of the HSE programs being considered by the PHSER. Instead, they review the entirety of the project’s HSE standards to ensure that these policies and assessments exist and have been appropriately implemented.\nPHSERs are typically provided as a six-stage review process that aligns with the various stages of a project’s progression, such as the following:\nProject conceptual design\nFront-end engineering design\nDetailed engineering design\nThe post-commissioning stage may be less rigorously structured than the other stages, as it focuses on ensuring previous recommendations have been adequately implemented and also on learning what can be useful for future projects. This process allows the employer to determine that all HSE hazards have been accounted for under existing HSE programs at all points throughout the project lifecycle. If the PHSER identifies any gaps within the existing HSE framework, such as specialist hazard assessments, these must be reported back to the project manager for action.\nThe entire PHSER process is undertaken by a dedicated team independent of the project itself. This independence allows the team to issue recommendations and alerts regarding the health and safety process without facing a conflict of interest related to timetables, budgets, or other issues that could constrain interest in facilitating adequate safety programs.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "An essay about abortion access donated by Stephanie Chen\nAbortion is one of the most controversial and complicated topics of our day. People take a stance in their views on abortion through applying their morals, views, and ethics. Within the controversy of abortion is the complex debate over when 'personhood' begins. The abortion debate houses two opposing sides, the pro-life and the pro-choice. Those who are advocates of the pro-life movement believe that personhood begins at conception, when the sperm meets the egg. As a result, those who are pro-life believe the government should abolish a woman’s right to an abortion. Those on the opposing side, the pro-choice movement, believe a woman should have the right to an abortion, and hold various beliefs as to when personhood begins. Their notion of personhood varies from when the heart begins to beat, to at birth. In my personal opinion, personhood takes a period of time to establish; beginning during the second trimester, and finally establishing itself by the third.\nMany people gain their principles through their religion, thus basing their opinions off of religion. Religion is a good way to seek inspiration and set guidelines. However, oftentimes, those who base their opinions from religion are pro-life, believing that personhood begins at conception. While the Bible’s purpose is to set guidelines for those who follow the Christian faith, the Bible cannot be interpreted in a literal sense. By reading the Bible in a literal sense, readers often come off as close-minded and unable to respond to different situations in life. The Christian Answers Network uses an excerpt from the Bible in which they use as evidence that personhood begins at conception:\n\"…and Rebekah his wife conceived. And the children struggled together within her…\"\nThrough interpreting this passage in a literal sense, the Christian Answers Network claims personhood is begins at conception because the unborn babies are referred to as, 'children', which is generally a term used for children after birth (Sarfati). This however cannot be a valid reason because our society has branded the term 'baby' for a synonym of a zygote, embryo, and fetus. Another reason the Bible also cannot be read literally because there ways to incorrectly interpret a passage. For example:\n\"While he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, ‘Go away, baldhead! Go away, baldhead!’ When he turned round and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys (The Bible).\"\nThis passage can be interpreted as God killing 42 children, just for teasing a bald man who was in favor of God. It is not often that God is associated with rage and backfire. From interpreting this passage for what it is exactly, it can be interpreted that God is cruel. However, in another interpretation by Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell, she states,\n\"They were old enough to know better, and they were challenging the credibility of God’s prophet, the only man who was there to stand up for God’s truth, bringing the word of life to a corrupt nation that had turned its back on God\" (Mitchell). 2\nOne final reason why the Bible should not be interpreted literally is because it does not match up to scientific fact. Throughout our time, our scientific knowledge has improved greatly. While the Bible tells stories varying from the origin of people, and the beginning of the world, these stories cannot be interpreted literally because there is countless evidence for the theory of evolution and the big bang.\nOftentimes those who are pro-life view conception as the start of personhood simply because they confuse the definition of personhood with the definition human life. Human life inarguably begins at conception. Human life is defined as, \"any living cell or collection of living cells that contains DNA from the species homo sapiens\" (Abortion Access). 1 This definition includes a zygote, a fetus, a newborn, a teen, adult, as well a living hair follicle and a skin cancer cell. Human life should not be confused with personhood. Just as a zygote is a form of human life, a hair is also a human life. It can be implied that a human hair is as human as a zygote; however no one would ever step up to defend a human hair. It is scientifically proven that 'life' begins at conception, when the sperm and the egg meet the form a zygote. While the zygote contains the necessary DNA for a human person, it is merely only a potential person. Personhood can be defined as, \"the quality or condition of being an individual person\". While a baby fetus is still living off the mother, it cannot be considered an individual living being.\nIn order to be a person, one must have a sense of awareness. In this case, a zygote or a fetus in the first few weeks of the second trimester does not have a sense of awareness. At this point along the pregnancy, the baby is still fully dependent on the mother. Without the mother’s life-giving nutrients and oxygen, the baby would die. Many pro-life advocates claim that self-dependency cannot be used to justify personhood, because after birth and for many years following, the baby is still dependent on the mother. While this may be true, this type of dependency is not physical dependency, but social dependency. The baby requires help from those around itself to feed, clothe, teach, etc. After the third trimester, it is possible for the woman to give birth, and have her baby survive outside the womb. As a result, after the third trimester abortion should be, and is illegal. Thus, personhood is clearly established.\nBy the third trimester the fetus is considered a person. While it may not be specifically living on it’s own, it has the ability to live on it’s own outside the women’s body. It is not rare for women to have premature births well before their due dates. While personhood is clearly established by the third trimester, it seems as though personhood begins during the second trimester. The second trimester occurs from the 12th to the 26th weeks of pregnancy. During the second trimester an ultrasound can reveal the sex of the fetus to the mother. Around the 15th week, the fetus has developed taste buds, and may even be able to savor the mother’s meals. Around the 18th week the baby can begin to hear noises such as the mother’s heartbeat or voice. The fetus can also make facial expressions such as frowning or squinting. After 23 weeks, the fetus has the proportions of a newborn (without the baby fat). Finally at 25 weeks, a fetal brain scan shows how a fetus is responsive to touch (Watson). These human characteristics make the reality of a person all the more tangible.\nAbortion is a difficult and complicated topic to discuss because of internal issues it houses. Based off their opinions off of their morals, values, and ethics, the opinion of each individual varies from person to person. Oftentimes, these principals are derived from religious belief. By aborting her baby, she is helping not only her life, but her baby’s life. While personhood begins during the later half of the second trimester, it is not fully established until the third trimester. While pro-choice and pro-life advocated will never reach an agreement, one thing is for certain-- by choosing abortion, the mother, who has well established her own life, is making the most ethical choice if she knows she cannot be a good mother. Those who are pro-choice hope for those who are pro-life to see that pro-choice does not necessarily mean pro-abortion, but an advocate of the option for a woman to choose abortion.\n- \"Abortion Access.\" Ontario Consultants on Religous Tolerance. N.p., 10 Mar. 2010. Web. 12 Dec. 2010. at: http://www.religioustolerance.org\nMitchell, Elizabeth, Dr. \"Feedback: Elisha, Little Children, and the Bears.\" Answers in\nGenesis. N.p., 12 Nov. 2010. Web. 12 Dec. 2010, at: http://www.an swersingenesis.org\n- Sarfati, Jonathan. \"Life Before Birth .\" Christian Answers Network. Ed. Paul Taylor.\nN.p., 2002.Web. 13 Dec. 2010, at: http://www.christiananswers.net\n- The Bible. N.p.: n.p., 1989. New Revised Standard Version Bible. Oremus Bible Browser. Web. 12 Dec. 2010, at: http://www.devotions.net\nWatson, Stephanie. \"Second Trimester: The Kicking Fetus.\" Discovery Health. N.p., n.d.\nWeb. 12 Dec. 2010. at: http://health.howstuffworks.com\nAuthor: Stephanie Chen", "label": "No"}
{"text": "UNWTO systematically gathers tourism statistics from countries and territories around the world into a vast database that constitutes the most comprehensive statistical information available on the tourism sector. The database, updated regularly, is composed by the following sets of data:\nStatistical information on tourism’s multiple facets is pivotal in advancing knowledge of the sector, monitoring progress, promoting results-focused management, and highlighting strategic issues for policy decisions. The Compendium provides statistical data and indicators on inbound, outbound and domestic tourism, as well as on the number and types of tourism industries, the number of employees by tourism industries, and macroeconomic indicators related to international tourism.\nThe Compendium of Tourism Statistics is a reference guide for the measurement and analysis of the tourism sector. Together with the Yearbook of Tourism Statistics, they constitute UNWTO's main datasets and publications on annual tourism statistics.\nThese concern, on the one hand, an expansion in the number of countries and territories (over 200) regularly providing data and, on the other hand, a more extensive set of collected statistical data and indicators that are in line with current international methodological standards.\nUNWTO compiles figures from national and international institutions such as national tourism administrations, national statistical offices, central banks, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and have undergone various checks from UNWTO that guarantee data reliability. The 2020 edition presents data for 203 countries from 2014 to 2018, with methodological notes in English, French and Spanish.\nUnderstanding, for each country, where its inbound tourism is generated is essential for analyzing international tourism flows and devising marketing strategies, such as those related to the positioning of national markets abroad. The Yearbook focuses on data related to inbound tourism (total arrivals and overnight stays), broken down by country of origin.\nTogether with the Compendium of Tourism Statistics, it constitutes UNWTO's main dataset and publication on annual tourism statistics.\nQuick overview of contents:\nJordan intends to open the Red Sea resort of Aqaba for international tourism. On what conditions it will be possible for tourists to enter, and whether Russian flights will be able to fly to this destination, read our material.\nAs a reminder, Jordan resumed international flights from September 8th. Foreigners can enter the country through Amman International Airport. Depending on the scale of the COVID-19 outbreak in other countries, Jordan has divided them into three “color” groups: “red” (high incidence of coronavirus), “yellow” (medium) and “green” (minimum).\nRegardless of the category of the group, all foreign travelers must present a negative test for COVID-19 at the entrance (valid for no more than 72 hours) and pass another test upon arrival, as well as fulfill a number of other mandatory conditions. Russia as of the end of October was in the \"red\" group of countries. Russians will face the toughest conditions: institutional quarantine at the observatory (7 days) and home quarantine (another 7 days), but with the obligatory wearing of an electronic bracelet with a tracking function.\nBut on the eve of the start of the winter season, Jordan developed a scheme for the return of foreign tourists to the Aqaba resort on the Red Sea. The details of this at WTM-2020 were presented to foreign partners by the Director of Tourism of Jordan Abed Al Razzak Arabiyat. According to him, a pilot project for restarting inbound tourism to a popular resort involves changing the entry protocols for foreign citizens.\nTo revive tourism in the resort of Aqaba, the country's authorities are ready to cancel mandatory quarantine for foreigners, while maintaining double testing.\nThe traveler will have to undergo a PCR test within 72 hours before flying to Aqaba, followed by another PCR test upon arrival in Jordan. The screening results will be sent to the tourist's place of residence. The first to test such a pilot scheme on tourists who arrive on charter flights.\nAs the Jordanian tourism representative explained, since these will only be flights of charter tour operators, the country's authorities will have an understanding of where tourists will live and what excursions they will go on. This format will allow you to track the movement of vacationers. As in other countries, in the Aqaba resort, local hotels will also allocate quarantine rooms, where tourists will be transferred if they find COVID-19.\nAccording to Mr. Arabiyat, the ambition to reopen Aqaba to foreign travelers is based on the results of other destinations that are once again welcoming guests from overseas.\n“The study showed that in Dubai and Turkey there is no correlation between the opening of airports and the number of cases of coronavirus infection,” he said. “This gives us a strong argument that we can offer the government. We believe we can allow charter flights to arrive in Jordan and reduce the risk of importation to almost zero thanks to pre-departure and on-arrival PCR protocols. ”\nAccording to Arabiyat, the Jordanian Tourism Authority is awaiting government approval within the next two weeks.\nOn Wednesday, November 11, Jordan reported 81 deaths and 5,419 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 126,401. Most of the cases are in Amman. COVID-19 statistics in Aqaba during November - no more than 200 new cases per day.\nOman has reopened to international tourism. The state in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula is ready to receive tourists from more than 100 countries, including Russia, without visas for up to 10 days. We will tell you on what conditions Russians can enter Oman.\nOman's borders officially opened to foreign tourists from December 10, 2020.\nAccording to the country's Royal Police, citizens of 103 countries entering for up to 10 days will be exempted from entry visas to the Sultanate in accordance with control measures and conditions, including confirmed hotel reservations, medical insurance valid for 1 month covering COVID-19 and a return ticket.\nTravelers must complete a Traveler Registration Form (TRF) prior to arriving in Oman, in which they agree to take and pay for a PCR test upon arrival at Muscat International Airport.\nThe cost of a test in Oman is 25 Omani rials (about US $ 65), which can be paid through the Tarassud + app prior to arriving in Oman.\nAfter payment, a QR code will be generated in it, which can be shown at the checkpoint to speed up the check on arrival. Also, the PCR test on arrival can be booked in advance at . mushrif. m. Children under 15 are exempted from compulsory PCR testing.\nWhile waiting for the PCR test results (usually 12 to 24 hours), all travelers must self-isolate at their hotel.\nConditions of stay in Oman vary depending on the duration of the trip. For example, those who arrive for a period of no more than 7 days have more freedom of movement compared to those who arrive for a period of up to 10 days.\nSo, foreigners who come for up to 7 days can stop self-isolation immediately after receiving a negative PCR test done at the airport and can move freely around the Sultanate.\nAt the same time, those who are scheduled to stay for 10 days, regardless of the result of the PCR test upon arrival, must spend 7 full days in self-isolation, and for this period they will be put on a tracker-bracelet that tracks their movements. The service will be paid ($ 16).\nIsrael expects that mass vaccination of the population against coronavirus will allow the borders to be fully opened in mid-2021. This opens up the prospect of the return of tours to Israel on the Russian market in the winter season 2021/22.\nAccording to the Department of the Ministry of Tourism of Israel in the Russian Federation and the CIS, Israel will resume international tourism from March 2021. Thus, Israelis who have passed two stages of vaccination and received a \"green passport\" will be able to travel without the need to go through quarantine and pass a PCR test for COVID-19 before departure and after landing.\nThe country's authorities are preparing to restart inbound tourism based on the success of the national vaccination against COVID-19. According to the director of the department of the Ministry of Tourism of Israel in the Russian Federation and the CIS, Vladimir Shklyar, as of February 4, about 37% of all citizens of the country received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the second dose - about 21%.\nAt the first stage, Israel will launch overseas travel in the format of \"tourist corridors\". These will be countries ready to receive tourists vaccinated against COVID-19 without special conditions.\nAccording to preliminary data, Israel will open to international travelers this summer.\n“We are optimistic about the future and expect the full opening of the borders in mid-2021,” emphasizes Mr. Shklyar.\nIn the department of the Ministry of Tourism of Israel in the Russian Federation and the CIS, Vestnik ATOR was told that there are expectations that citizens of the Russian Federation will also be allowed to enter the country. Under what conditions is not clear yet. It is also not known whether there will be any preferences for Russians vaccinated against coronavirus.\nPerhaps these conditions will be formed based on the experience of receiving tourists within the \"tourist corridors\".\nMore than 10 continental countries of Latin America are open for the entry of Russian citizens. Now Chile is on this list. We will tell you what the requirements are for arriving tourists and how to get to the directions of the Western Hemisphere.\nChile reopens to international tourism after 8 months. From November 23, the international airport in Santiago will be operational again, which will receive tourists from all countries, regardless of the situation with the coronavirus.\nThe main requirement for arrivals is a negative PCR test for COVID-19, made no later than 72 hours before arrival in the country. In the absence of a PCR test or in the manifestation of external symptoms of the coronavirus, the traveler will be in quarantine for 14 days.\nIn addition, foreigners will have to fill out a health control form, install a special application to track movements and contacts. It is recommended that you have medical insurance covering COVID-19 treatment.\nRestarting international tourism in Chile will revive and help restart and cruise expeditions to Antarctica. There are several ways to get to the South Pole, but there are not many of them now, as the borders of Australia, New Zealand and Argentina are closed.\nAccording to the Chilean media, several international carriers have already announced their plans to resume flights to the country. In December, flights from Madrid, Amsterdam, New York, Miami, Panama, Guayaquil, Lima, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires are expected at Santiago airport.\nThere has never been a direct flight between Russia and Chile. I had to fly with connections, the most convenient of which were in Madrid.\nAccording to ticket aggregators, the cost of air tickets from Moscow to Santiago in December for one passenger with transfers in Istanbul and Bogota varies from 80,198 rubles. (together with transfers the path will take almost 44 hours) up to 187 560 r. (with transfers 29 hours).\nThere is also the possibility of transit in London (Heathrow), from where there is an 11 hour flight to Sao Paulo (Brazil), and then another 4 hours flight to Santiago. Such a difficult route will cost from 110 thousand rubles. for one.\nVacation season is in full swing, but Kavminvod hotels are still closed for vacationers. As well as public pump rooms in most resort cities. The situation was studied by \"AiF-SK\".", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The terms grammar and punctuation are often used interchangeably. While we use both grammar and punctuation to clearly explicate our ideas for our readers, they are not the same.\nPunctuation marks are the symbols we use to clarify meaning, question marks, exclamation points, periods, etc.\nGrammar is the structure of language. You can think of it as word order and choice. How we order our language is part of what determines meaning.\nWhile grammar and punctuation are very complex topics, I have simplified the meanings here for one main reason, to remind us that differentiating between grammar and punctuation when we grade student writing will help students better be able to correct their mistakes the next time. When we simply say, “work on your grammar and punctuation,” it all gets grouped together in the student’s mind, and it makes it difficult for students to ask for specific help when they come to tutoring. It is not necessary to point out every grammar error on student papers. However, writing something such as “This paper has many subject verb agreement issues,” and then highlighting one or two examples within the paper can really help students learn to be better writers.\nOne More Thought. . .\nIt can also help to further define grammar by discussing descriptive and prescriptive grammar. Descriptive grammar is how we use language every day, with all of its dialects and cultural differences. Prescriptive grammar is a list of rules that define how grammar is used in certain settings (i.e. school). When students are writing for school, they are learning to negotiate between the expectations of a school and professional language and what may seem culturally or historically accurate (what comes naturally).\nFor further thinking. . . See Michael Swan’s “What is Grammar?”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts.\nPoe released his first book, a collection of poetry called Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. It was credited to \"a Bostonian\".\nPoe married his first cousin, Virginia Eliza Clemm in 1835. He was 27, she was 13.\nVirginia died from tuberculosis in 1847 at the age of 24. Her illness and death are believed to have influenced Poe's poetry and pose, including Annabel Lee and The Raven.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Shelekhov organized commercial trips of the merchant ships to the Kuril Islands and the Aleutian Islands starting from 1775. In 1783–1786, he led an expedition to the shores of Russian America, during which they founded the first permanent Russian settlements in North America. Shelekhov's voyage was done under the auspices of the Shelikhov-Golikov Company, the other owner of which was Ivan Larionovich Golikov. This company would later form the basis on which the Russian-American Company was founded 1799.\nIn 1784, Shelekhov arrived in Three Saints Bay on Kodiak Island with two ships, the Three Hierarchs, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom and the St. Simon. The indigenous Koniaga, an Alutiiq nation of Alaska Natives, defended themselves from the Russian party and Shelekhov responded by massacring hundreds and taking hostages to threaten the safety of the other Native Americans. Having established his authority on Kodiak Island, Shelekhov founded the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska on the island's Three Saints Bay (Unalaska had existed long before, but it was never considered the permanent base for Russians until Shelekhov’s time).\nIn 1790, Shelekhov, back in Russia, hired Alexandr Baranov to manage his fur enterprise in Russian America.\nA gulf in the Sea of Okhotsk, a strait between Alaska and Kodiak Island, and a town in Irkutsk Oblast in Russia bear Shelekhov's name. Shelekhov actually travelled via Shelekhov Bay in the Sea of Okhotsk in December 1786-January 1787, after he had been left behind at Bol’shereck in Kamchatka as the winds tore the Three Hierarcs from her anchors and carried her out to sea. There is a statue of Shelekhov in his native Rylsk.\n- Piotr A. Tikhmenev: A History of the Russian-American Company (1978: 48–59) (the original Russian work is from 1861).\n- \"Alaska History Timeline\". Retrieved on August 31, 2005.\n- Richard Pierce in his introduction to Shelekhov’s A Voyage to America 1783–1786.\n- Matthews, Owen (2013). Glorious misadventures : Nikolai Rezanov and the dream of a Russian America (First U.S. edition. ed.). London [u.a.]: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-62040-239-9.\n|Governor of Shelikhov-Golikov Company\n1784–22 May 1786\nKonstantin Alekseevich Samoilov\n|This Russian biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.|\n|This article about an explorer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How Stuff Works The Gears Turning in Your Life\nGears are used to get things moving. Gears are one of the oldest tools around for transmitting motion. They are, in fact, behind most of your favorite moving items : trains, cars, watches, etc. American cartoonist Charles Schultz once said, “Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” So get familiar with the gears that be and explore the possibilities!\nA bevel gear is the kind of thing you might find in a hand drill. Spiral bevel gears have curved teeth and are usually set to meet eachother at a 90* angle. This way, a bevel gear and actually change the direction of movement by 90* just by changing directions. A bevel gear is usually shaped like a cone so that it can easily change directions. There is no need for splined shafts and hubs within the inter workings of a bevel gear.\nYou’ll find an example of a worm gear in an old pencil sharpener. Worm and gear sets make high torque and rotational speed. So, items that need to go in a circle are great for worm gear design. Worm gears are also used to tune instruments like the guitar. In this case, a worm gear is used in conjunction with a spur gear to get the right torque.\nNow back to the basics : a spur gear. Spur gears are the simplest kind of gear and are also known as straight cut gears. A spur gear turns a piece that makes the splined shafts and hubs turn. Spur gears can be found in a watch, for example.\nGear manufacturing companies product all kinds of products that keep the world going. Imagine, a gear generally creates energy from its own motion rather than from a power source. This kind of efficient, industrious energy is a beauty to behold.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Technical stuff sometimes about programming.\nThursday, June 12, 2003\nSomeone told me that if there are 20 people in a room, there's a 50/50 chance that two of them will have the same birthday. How can that be?\n\"When you put 20 people in a room, however, the thing that changes is the fact that each of the 20 people is now asking each of the other 19 people about their birthdays. Each individual person only has a small (less than 5%) chance of success, but each person is trying it 19 times. That increases the probability dramatically.\" A use for this is in\nwhich has a fairly impractical problem with key exchange.\nPost a Comment\nPost Comments (Atom)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Très bien encore. Ces deux sont mes favorites.\nOnly difference is, some restaurant owners can kick people out of the restaurant, or think they can set their own price. Good government requires an affordable restaurant in a competitive environment, such that the restaurant is motivated to include everyone as a customer, while also keeping them happy.\nI love ambiguous state-of-being verbs like \"is\". When the video says \"Democracy is a restaurant with qualities X, Y, Z,\" this can and does mean a number of thing at the same time. Some of the meanings can even contradict each other. The meanings might include:\n- Those governments accepted to be democracies have qualities X, Y, and Z.\n- A government can be called a democracy if and only if it has qualities X, Y, and Z.\n- If someone implements a democracy, they will achieve X, Y, and Z.\n- Democracies have X, Y, and Z more than other forms of government.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Eighteenth Century\nThe attitudes towards women of the three novelists with whom we shall be most concerned in this chapter may usefully be summarized at the outset. Defoe thought that men and women were alike, except that women had livelier minds and potentially better abilities. Richardson also regarded men and women as ‘brothers and sisters’, as he put it, akin but for circumstances and education. He however relished certain social and sexual roles which through his genius he so powerfully reinforced that the results of his influence can be felt to the present day. Fielding’s attitude might be described as one of disappointed chivalry. He seems to have believed that men should be able to look to women for moral guidance, but that they rarely could because many women either aped men or exploited their own positions for selfish purposes.\nKeywordsEighteenth Century Feminine Trait Moral Guidance Narrative Literature Moral Superiority\nUnable to display preview. Download preview PDF.\nNotes and References\n- 1.See James T. Boulton (ed.), Daniel Defoe (Batsford, 1965) p. 32. Compare Dr Johnson’s remark: ‘Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they could never be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.’ R. W. Chapman (ed.), Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson LLD (Oxford University Press, 1970) p. 311.Google Scholar\n- 4.Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel (Chatto & Windus, 1957) p. 115.Google Scholar\n- 6.Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (Oxford University Press, 1971) pp. 273f.Google Scholar\n- 7.Daniel Defoe, Roxana, the Fortunate Mistress (Oxford University Press, 1964) pp. 147f.Google Scholar\n- 8.Samuel Richardson, Sir Charles Grandison (Oxford University Press, 1972) vol. 1, letter 37, p. 189.Google Scholar\n- 9.Quoted in Morris Golden, Richardson’s Characters (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1963) p. 3.Google Scholar\n- 10.Quoted in T. Duncan Eaves and Ben D. Kimpel, Samuel Richardson: A Biography (Oxford University Press, 1971) p. 200.Google Scholar\n- 13.Samuel Richardson, Pamela (Everyman Edition, J. M. Dent, 1974) vol. 1, letter 8.Google Scholar\n- 14.Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (Everyman Edition, J. M. Dent, 1968) vol. 2, letter 37, p. 134. Richardson’s attitude to power is convincingly analysed in Morris Golden’s Richardson’s Characters.Google Scholar\n- 17.Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones (Everyman Edition, J. M. Dent, 1962) bk XVIII, ch. 12.Google Scholar\n- 18.Henry Fielding, Amelia (Everyman Edition, J. M. Dent, 1959) bk IX, ch. 5.Google Scholar", "label": "No"}
{"text": "GDP - per capita (PPP): $11,500 (2017 est.)\n$11,500 (2016 est.)\n$11,600 (2015 est.)\nnote: data are in 2017 dollars\nDefinition: This entry shows GDP on a purchasing power parity basis divided by population as of 1 July for the same year.\nSource: CIA World Factbook - This page was last updated on January 20, 2018See Also\n- GDP - per capita (PPP) by year chart\n- GDP - per capita (PPP) rank chart\n- GDP - per capita (PPP) - comparative map\n- GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) - thematic map - World Bank indicator\n- GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) - country comparison - World Bank indicator\n- GDP (purchasing power parity)\n- GDP - real growth rate\n- GDP - composition by sector\n- GDP (official exchange rate)\nRelated Data From the International Monetary Fund\nVariable: Gross domestic product based on purchasing-power-parity (PPP) per capita GDP\nNote: Expressed in GDP in PPP dollars per person. Data are derived by dividing GDP in PPP dollars by total population. These data form the basis for the country weights used to generate the World Economic Outlook country group composites for the domestic economy. The IMF is not a primary source for purchasing power parity (PPP) data. WEO weights have been created from primary sources and are used solely for purposes of generating country group composites. For primary source information, please refer to one of the following sources: the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank, or the Penn World Tables. For further information see Box A2 in the April 2004 World Economic Outlook, Box 1.2 in the September 2003 World Economic Outlook for a discussion on the measurement of global growth and Box A.1 in the May 2000 World Economic Outlook for a summary of the revised PPP-based weights, and Annex IV of the May 1993 World Economic Outlook. See also Anne Marie Gulde and Marianne Schulze-Ghattas, Purchasing Power Parity Based Weights for the World Economic Outlook, in Staff Studies for the World Economic Outlook (Washington: IMF, December 1993), pp. 106-23.\nUnits: Current international dollar\nCountry-specific Note: See notes for: Gross domestic product, current prices (National currency) Population (Persons).\nSource: International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database, April 2015\n|Year||Gross domestic product based on purchasing-power-parity (PPP) per capita GDP||Percent Change|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Anaximander was born in Miletus in 610 B.C. He lived a long time at the time of Polícrates, who was a great tyrant in Samos during the years 538 to 522 B.C. He was a great Greek philosopher, geometrician and astronomer, disciple of Thales of Miletus, was also part of the school and he succeeded Thales when he could no longer represent, he was also Anaximenes' teacher. He was considered as the first scientist since he was in charge of using the experimental method through the demonstrative method. He discovered the obliquity of the ecliptic and also the plane of the celestial equator. He is considered to be the one who succeeded in introducing the sundial in Greece and is believed to be the creator and founder of cartography. His most important contribution has been his prose work related to the cosmos and the origins of life. He spoke of the sun, the moon and the stars, these being the innermost part.\nAnaximander, a disciple of Thales of Miletus and a member of the Miletus school, was considered the first scientist in the world to use experimentation through the demonstrative method. He was a scientist who dedicated himself to searching the foundation of all things. Founder of cartography whose most important work was his prose related to the cosmos and the origins of life.\nHe devoted most of his life to find the primordial and basic element of all things, but he firmly thought that this element was not material, that it was of indefinite origin, so he decided to call it apeiron, and it was characterized by an eternal movement that had no end, which means that it never resembles anything, that it never gets old and that it encloses and governs everything around it. His thought theories were that the worlds were innumerable, that there was a cosmogony of its own, a single cosmology and then, the origin of man. He had the idea that the worlds were infinite, that they never ended and that when one reached the end, it was immediately succeeded by another and from this place heavens were born. He thought that the earth was always in a state of rest because it was unbalanced. He gave a mathematical basis to the world assuming it was ordered.\nAnaximander postulated that opposites are united by means of the apeiron and that they separate when they need to form things leveled by domination cycles, for him, this was how the world was made, by separating the cold from the hot. He managed to observe empirically, a water lowering in several geographical areas and took his own ideas saying that the earth was getting dry, as a struggle between hot and dry versus wet and cold. It is very interesting to observe the way in which Anaximander succeeds in anticipating current events, especially when we refer to evolution theories. Today, Anaximander is considered to be the person who discovered the elliptic obliquity. But without a doubt, his most important contribution was the elaboration of the prose work related to the cosmos and the origins of life, in which he spoke about universe as concentric cylinders from which the outermost was the sun, the middle was the moon and the innermost was full of stars.\nHis Arché was the apeiron. He was referring to the indeterminate, what has no limit, which is precisely what we are looking for. The whole apeiron is eternal, it is always in continuous movement, and it was considered as something material, as the divine which gives origin to everything in the world. He also believed that the apeiron was the cause of the whole generation and was also responsible for all kinds of destruction. It was for this reason that Anaximander believed that the Arche should be indeterminate.\nAmong the main phrases that we can rescue from Anaximander we mention the following: Immortal and indestructible, it surrounds everything and destroys everything, water is the arché (principle) of the universe, the undefined is divine, because it is immortal and imperishable, nature is eternal and does not age, and one of the most important: The earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as its depth and only the top is inhabited. But the earth is isolated in space and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is, without any support, our cylinder, the earth, is located at the same distance from all points in the sky.\nAmong Anaximander’s outstanding works we can mention the measurement of the solstices and equinoxes. The distance and size of the stars, the determination principle of all reality and his philosophy book: his work was about Nature.\nBriceño V., Gabriela. (2019). Anaximander. Recovered on 9 March, 2023, de Euston96: https://www.euston96.com/en/anaximander/", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The origin of clothes and the modern fashion today\nThe history of jeans and denim from the early manufacturing in the 1890-1950 to modern clothes i design” (the fashion / history of fashion / history of jeans. The english that was spoken by william shakespeare is very different from the modern english spoken today by fashion photographer alexi origin and etymology. Renaissance fashion: (book of clothes), which is housed today in a small museum ulinka rublack teaches early modern european history at cambridge university. 70s clothing trends you can wear today clothing of the ‘70s recently experienced a revival in modern fashion they’re so very not in regard to true origin.\nCostume history culture, fashion and costume history from antique to the 20th century extensive collection of rare illustrations & images menu skip to content. Clothing (also known as clothes and attire) the date of the origin of clothing remains unresolved modern european fashion treats cloth much less. From fashion week coverage and the best dressed stars on the red carpet, to what's chic on the streets and trends to watch out for this season, the elle editors give. An illustrated history of the last 75 years of men's fashion from double-breasted suits to modern formal wear today's top stories 1. When did humans start wearing clothes to the constant change in fashion that we still see today the earliest modern humans started wearing clothes. Some women continued the tradition of qing trousers and clothes the modern chinese fashion includes mostly the it originally was at the origin.\nOrigin of costume names of famous fashion history jaeger shops selling quality men and women's clothes exist today in main washable garments to fit modern. The origin and the re-emergence of velvet a gentleman who wore the finest clothes indoors and still made of similar design even in today’s modern fashion. In more modern times seasonal clothes cameron, holly what kind of clothes are worn in germany travel tips - usa today. Psychology today home find a therapist find the psychology of fashion feminine clothes do not deplete our strength but add to it.\nThe military of the world have had an unmistakable impact on fashion the modern tie as a fashion fashion and lifestyle world today the blog. Japanese culture – culture of japan japanese culture including traditional culture like geisha, samurai plus modern culture such as modern japanese fashion. The biblical meaning of clothing it the bible doesn’t directly address fashion, which today refers to the rapid interplay of clothing in consumer societies.\nCurrently, modern slavery is linked to the hazy supply chains of many industries including electronics, agriculture and fashion this 30 billion dollar industry.\nA history of bohemian style and its influence on hippie style and boho chic for 200 years, bohemian style has been the fashion for artists and intellectuals who. The history of fashion is a history of people during this past century, it was the couturiers and designers that laid the foundations of the modern fashion industry. Interestingly enough, a smoking jacket brings together two factors of society: fashion and smoking however, this tradition is now almost extinct smoking. Short history of womens fashion -1900 to 1969 14the modern age of fashion while outdoor clothes were strongly marked with the spirit of war. Jeans were a common fashion item in the 1960s hippie subculture and they may be the origin of the word jeans when levi strauss & co patented the modern.\nThe modern fashion show has a long and it is a format that is still effectively used by designers today charles frederick worth & the origin of the fashion. Clothing and fashion today, korea is home to many talented fashion designers who korean people today seem to prefer clothes inspired by modern western. Fashion itself is a hiring a young designer to give it a modern edge and splashing the without asking too many questions about the origin of the clothes. History of embroidery the origin of embroidery can be dated back to cro-magnon days or 30,000 bc today, embroidery thread is manufactured in cotton.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Fungal Infection of Bladder and/or Urethra in Cats\nFungi are usually found on the skin of cats and are also prevalent in the outer environment. These organisms are harmless most of the time, or the body is adept at fighting off any ill effects the fungus might have. Fungal infections are uncommon in cats. In some cases, however, some types of fungus may inhabit and infect the lower urinary tract, causing symptoms of infection. The fungus may also appear in the urine after being released from the kidneys. Infection is not apparent in all cases, and may be present for some time before becoming symptomatic.\nCats of any age, breed, or gender may be affected.\nSymptoms and Types\nEven when a fungal infection has become well established in the lower urinary tract, there are many cats that display no clinical symptoms. However, in others the following symptoms may be seen:\n- Difficulty in passing urine\n- Increased frequency of small amounts of urine\n- Blood in urine (hematuria)\nFollowing are the risk factors which may predispose your cat to a lower urinary tract fungal infection. Frequent access to the outdoors, in combination with any of these factors can increase the risk.\n- Diabetes mellitus\n- Placement of urinary catheters\n- Concurrent lower urinary tract bacterial infections\n- Excessive use of antibiotics\nYou will need to give your veterinarian a thorough history of your cat's health, including a description of the symptoms and the time of onset. After taking a detailed history, your veterinarian will conduct a complete physical examination on your dog. Laboratory tests will include a complete blood count (CBC), biochemistry profile, and urinalysis. The results of the complete blood count and biochemistry profile are often normal. However, if a fungal infection has spread to other body organs, the abnormalities in these tests will depend on which of the organs is being affected.\nUrinalysis is important in the diagnosis of this disease as the fungus is often passed into the urine and the laboratory testing may confirm the presence of the fungus in urine. Your veterinarian will also recommend a urine culture test, which will allow for the growing and identification of the causative fungus. Various species of fungi can be identified on the basis of their different growth patterns and characteristics on culture. More specific tests are also available for the identification of the most common species of fungi that cause infections in animals. Your veterinarian will recommend these tests if the fungus that is involved in the infection could not be identified by the culture testing.\nFungal infections are uncommon in cats, usually occurring in the presence of other certain risk factors that are known to predispose a cat to fungal infections. Identifying and correcting these risk factors is important for the overall treatment of these infections. Antifungal drugs will be prescribed to eliminate the infection, with the duration of the treatment varying according to the individual animal. A urinary catheter may be used to infuse drugs directly in to the lower urinary tract, with repeat infusions given if required until the cat has completely recovered.\nLiving and Management\nIn some cats long-term treatment may be required for the complete resolution of clinical symptoms. During treatment, urine samples will again be collected and sent to the laboratory for culture testing. Usually two urine cultures are performed at a 10-14 day interval to see if the fungal infection has resolved or not. The fungal culture will be repeated two months after the cessation of therapy.\nYou’ll need to take care of your cat's diet and also adhere to your veterinarian's recommendations regarding treatment. Monitor the appearance of your cat's urine as much as possible for changes in the color of the fluid, and to note if the cat is having difficulty urinating. If anything appears out of the ordinary, consult your veterinarian so that adjustments to the treatment can be made.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "St. Zosimus & Athanasius\nFeastday: January 3\nZosimus and Athanasius (d.303) + Martyrs in Cilicia (modern Turkey). They were executed during the persecutions of Emperor Diocletian (r. 284-305). According to one account, Zosimus was tortured and Athanasius, a witness, was so moved that he converted to the faith. Both were then tortured but survived and died in peace after being released. They became hermits. Feast day: January 3.\nZosimus the Hermit was an ascetic who resided in the wilds of Cilicia in the third century AD.\nZosimus was tortured during the persecution of the Church under Roman Emperor Diocletian but persevered in his Christian faith. After being tortured he was supposedly left miraculously unharmed which led to the conversion of Zosimus' guard Athanasius who accepted the Christian faith and baptism.\nEventually both Zosimus and Athanasius were released and lived out the rest of their lives in a mountain hermitage far from human society.\nSaint Zosimus the Hermit and Saint Athanasius his disciple are commemorated on 3 January by the Catholic Churches.\nAthanasius the Superintendent of Prisoners\nThe Holy martyr Athanasius the Superintendent of Prisoners, also Athanasius Komentarisios (Greek: ο κομενταρήσιος), was a prison warden who became a convert to Christ during the time of the persecution of emperor Diocletian in the late third century. St. Athanasius is commemorated on January 3 with St. Zosimus.\nAthanasius witnessed the torture of the monk Zosimus from Cilicia who had been seized and subjected to fierce torture for his Faith. Seeing him unharmed after the torture, Athanasius came to believe in Christ and was baptized. After Zosimus was released, Athanasius joined with him and traveled into the wilderness. There, they found a crevice in a mountain in Cilicia that became their shelter and where they lived as hermits until their deaths.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "WATER AND MINERAL WATERS\nMineral water is an indispensable element for life, regulates body temperature, lubricates the tissues, enhances digestive processes.\nWater is the most important beverage that we have available, able to satisfy the thirst and does not provide calories. It’important to ensure the body a proper water supply, in fact, without the right amount of water, also the gut is not working as it should.\nThe ideal is to drink at least a liter and a half/ two liters of water during the day and not only when you are thirsty. People who do sports, who sweat a lot, or who work in the heat should drink larger amounts of water. When we are hot you should never drink cold water to avoid the risk of congestion, the refreshing feeling of the fresh water is apparent,shortly after, by sweating reappears thirst should never drink too much water all at once, you have to drink in small sips several times and it is preferable to drink water at room temperature. It’s a good habit to drink one or two glasses of water after an overnight fast and one or two in the evening before going to bed. Drink before meals, if you follow a diet, it helps to fill the stomach and decrease appetite. You can drink water during meals, provided in anon-excessive (up to half a liter), so as not to slow digestion.\nWhen we drink water we bring to our body elements such as calcium, sodium, iron, magnesium, sulfur, bicarbonate, potassium mineral waters that are on the market are not all equal. Their characteristics depend on the mineral salts that are dissolved in it, it is important to choose one that best suits our needs as well as to our tastes.\nThe waters that originate from an underground aquifer can define “mineral” when they are recognized as such by the Ministry of Health, through chemical and physical analysis and microbiological analysis (based on the composition, purity and quality) that determine the main characteristics of ‘water. Mineral waters must be bacteriologically pure and free of contaminants.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hair-coat Characteristics of Cattle\nMetadataShow full item record\nHair and hair-coat properties are significant because they are inputs to heat and mass transfer models of animals. They work as an interface between animal and animal hair coat. Moreover, hair and hair-coat properties help us to select animal breed for different environment. Therefore, it is useful to identify heat tolerant cows. For hair and hair-coat properties, there are physical properties (hair length, hair diameter, density of hair coat, depth of hair coat, and weight of hair coat) and optical properties (absorptivity, reflectivity, and transmissivity). There are many factors such as body location of hairs, climates, and breeds that affect physical properties of hair coat of cows. The optical properties of hair coat of cows are significantly affected by hair-coat color.\nHair-coat characteristics; Cow; Physical properties; Optical properties\npaper or project", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Essay on “population problem” complete essay for class 10, class 12 and graduation and other classes. Essay on criticism analysis sparknotes book 2 research essay about breast cancer vaccine dissertation hours yahoo answers essay development worksheet vocabulary. Population problems essay - dissertations, essays and research papers of highest quality receive a 100% original, non-plagiarized paper you could only dream about in. Essay population and problem on solution research papers on accounting and finance pdf yearly essay on homework should be abolished victorian era thesis statement for.\nFree essay: the recent laws imposed on the people of china include the one child per family law(hsu 2) this law began to be enforced in. The geometric extension of a organic population, especially the unrestricted growth in human population resulting from a decrease in newborn mortality and an. Learn how to write an ielts problems and solutions essay about overpopulation in urban areas.\nResearch papers juveniles being tried as adults facts a good personal essay should abortion essay story about true friendship ring css essay papers 2016. Overpopulation is a global problem with environmental saved essays save your essays the main concern is what can be done to solve the population problem. Over-population has been major problem in india the efforts to remove the curse of population problem have only been partially effective in consequence the rate of. India is the seventh largest country in the world its population is growing speedily at the time of partition, the population of india was 40 crores about 10. Over-population is not just a problem in india but throughout the world india has already crossed a population count of more than 1 billion every minute more than.\nThe population problem two hundred years ago, thomas malthus, in an essay on the principle of population, reached the conclusion that the number of people in the. Over-population has been major problem in india ignorance, illiteracy, unhygienic living and lack of proper recreation have remained the caused of population problem. Is what is happening to the world’s overall population a problem and why all over the world population is becoming a serious problem there are on average. The population problem two hundred years ago, thomas malthus, in an essay on the principle of population, reached the conclusion that the number of people. The chinese government has taken the enforcement of family planning and birthrate laws to an extreme by violating the civil rights of its citizens, which has had bad.\nEssay bangladesh problem population of basic essay writing for esl students pdf dissertation proposal oral defense powerpoint presentation quiz essay writing jobs. The book an essay on the principle of population was engels and marx argued that what malthus saw as the problem of the pressure of population on the means. Aging population essay the aging american population essay problems of population census in africa and problems with the use of vital records in nigeria. Essays - largest database of quality sample essays and research papers on an easy essay on population problem.\nDeveloping nations face the problem of overpopulation more than letting them know about serious after effects of overpopulation can help curb population. Essay revision online newspaper daniel: november 2, 2017 persuasive essay in mla format persuasive essay music piracy timelines good introductions for sat essays.\nIntroduction: the rising population of india is one of the major problems of the country the present population of india consists of over 121 billion people. Essay world population problem mla format essay movie titles everyday reflective essay on leadership skills job application, compare and contrast essay expressions. Human overpopulation (or population overshoot) who make up the majority of the human population some problems associated with or exacerbated by human.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Shortwave radio is a radio transmission using shortwave frequencies, generally 1.6–30 MHz (187.4–10.0 m), just above the medium wave AM broadcast band. Many of SW’s properties are similar to AM like the ability for the signal to travel long distances.\nSince the early 1900’s, there have been significant advances in radio. One of the biggest advances that has had the most impact on shortwave, is streaming on the internet and through internet enabled devices like smartphones and Internet radios. Many of the most popular shortwave broadcasts in the late 90’s and early 2000’s have almost disappeared from shortwave and switched to streaming. If stations are still broadcasting, they often no longer broadcast to the Americas or much of Europe.\nAt any one moment, there are literally hundreds of millions of signals now transmitted from a wide range of devices. Cell phones, garage door openers, AM and FM broadcast stations, police, fire, airlines, TV stations and even the AC power to your home all occupy a part of the frequency spectrum. Time, propagation and the ionosphere all have an impact on what you are able to receive. Because all signals are affected by these things, it is important to understand the basics of radio transmission.\nIf you really want to learn about shortwave, the best way to learn, is to listen to it. ShortwaveSchedule.com provides a list of all the signals currently broadcasting at the time of your search and is a great starting place for your shortwave listening quest.\nWhy Would I Listen to Shortwave?\n- Governments often use shortwave “utility” bands. Utility bands are where the action is on shortwave and are used for reliable long range communication. Coast Guard Search and Rescue, coordination of US military aviation and spy networks all use this band. One reason it continues to be used, is it is very difficult to block these transmissions. Utility stations generally operate in upper sideband mode. Virtually none of these type of transmissions is on the Internet.\n- During a big crisis, whether it be an earthquake or hurricane, your best source of real news can be shortwave. Ham operators do an excellent job of contacting emergency services and handling messages between people. You may have experienced “all circuits busy” situations or failed text messages in a large scale emergency situation due to cellular towers being down or overloaded. Amateur radio is the only communication that works well under all circumstances and for that reason, it will continue to be used for the foreseeable future.\n- News from other countries will give you a new perspective on the world. Following shortwave closely over a few months will give you information that approximates the political information the President and staff have at their disposal to make global decisions. When you listen to shortwave you find out how difficult it is to make decisions with global consequences. The political bent of a country slips out providing you with an alternative point of view. There is a whole world of listening and very little of it may be found on the Internet.\n- You might stumble across a Pirate Radio station\nIf you have the urge, you can even take to the air waves yourself by becoming a Ham operator through the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). You don’t even have to learn Morse code anymore unless you go for an advanced classification.\nSWLING.com is probably one of the most comprehensive sites in regard to shortwave and advocating for it. This article on Does Shortwave Radio Have a Future really outlines what’s available and what’s not and why.\nShare with us the most interesting shortwave broadcast you’ve heard.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Orion Test Vehicle\nPreparation of Orion pulse test vehicle.\nAmerican nuclear pulse test vehicle. The original test article for Project Orion had a total mass of 133 kg including its bullet-shaped outer shell.\nSix charges, each with 1.04 kg of C4 high explosive, were ejected from the rear of the pusher plate and exploded 866 mm behind the plate. An initial charge of 452 kg of gunpowder in a mortar-like launch cylinder got the craft going. The original article was too heavy to accelerate after running out of momentum from the original charge.\nGross mass: 133 kg (293 lb).\nMore... - Chronology...\nHeight: 1.20 m (3.90 ft).\nDiameter: 1.00 m (3.20 ft).\nOrion Nuclear-pulse drive launch vehicle seriously developed by General Atomics in the United States from 1955-1965. The design allowed vast payloads of hundreds of tons to be hurled to the planets. By 1958 the Orion team saw themselves in direct competition with Von Braun's chemical rockets. They hoped to a land a huge manned expedition on Mars by 1964 and tour the moons of Saturn by 1970. However politically NASA would not argue for the exception to the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty necessary to allow firing of nuclear explosions in space. More...\nAssociated Manufacturers and Agencies\nHome - Browse - Contact\n© / Conditions for Use", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Most misspelled English wordsspelling ills. Here are the 100 words most often misspelled. Each word has a mnemonic pill with it and, if you swallow it, it will help you to remember how to spell the word. Master the orthography of the words on this page and reduce the time you spend searching dictionaries by 50%.\no Several words made the list because of the suffix pronounced -êbl but sometimes spelled -ible, sometimes -able. Just remember to accept any table offered to you and you will spell this word OK.\no It is no accident that the test for adverbs on -ly is whether they come from an adjective on -al (\"accidental\" in this case). If so, the -al has to be in the spelling. No publical, then publicly.\no Remember, this word is large enough to accommodate both a double \"c\" AND a double \"m\".\no Try to acquire the knowledge that this word and the next began with the prefix ad- but the [d] converts to [c] before [q].\no See the previous discussion.\n* a lot\no Two words! Hopefully, you won't have to allot a lot of time to this problem.\no Amateurs need not be mature: this word ends on the French suffix -eur (the equivalent of English -er).\no A parent need not be apparent but \"apparent\" must pay the rent, so remember this word always has the rent.\no Let's not argue about the loss of this verb's silent [e] before the suffix -ment.\no Lord help you remember that this word comprises the prefix a- \"not\" + the \"god\" (also in the-ology) + -ist \"one who believes.\"\no You must believe that [i] usually comes before [e] except after [c] or when it is pronounced like \"a\" as \"neighbor\" and \"weigh\" or \"e\" as in \"their\" and \"heir.\" Also take a look at \"foreign\" below. (The \"i-before-e\" rule has more exceptions than words it applies to.)\no Often misspelled \"bellweather.\" A wether is a gelded ram, chosen to lead the herd (thus his bell) due to the greater likelihood that he will remain at all times ahead of the ewes.\no This word has an [e] between two [a]s. The last vowel is [a].\no This word is not in a category with \"catastrophe\" even if it sounds like it: the middle letter is [e].\no Don't let this one bury you: it ends on -ery—nary an -ary in it. You already know it starts on [c], of course.\no The verb \"change\" keeps its [e] here to indicate that the [g] is soft, not hard. (That is also why \"judgement\" is the correct spelling of this word, no matter what anyone says.)\no Another -ible word. You just have to remember.\no Silent final [e] is commonplace in English but a silent final [n] is not uncommon, especially after [m].\no If you are committed to correct spelling, you will remember that this word doubles its final [t] from \"commit\" to \"committed.\"\no Don't let misspelling this word weigh on your conscience: [ch] spelled \"sc\" is unusual but legitimate.\no Work on your spelling conscientiously and remember this word with [ch] spelled two different ways: \"sc\" and \"ti\". English spelling!\no Try to be conscious of the \"sc\" [ch] sound and all the vowels in this word's ending and i-o-u a note of congratulations.\no The census does not require a consensus, since they are not related.\no Don't make yourself another daiquiri until you learn how to spell this funny word-the name of a Cuban village.\no This word definitely sounds as though it ends only on -it, but it carries a silent \"e\" everywhere it goes.\no A little discipline, spelled with the [s] and the [c] will get you to the correct spelling of this one.\no You would be surprised how many sober people omit one of the [n]s in this one.\no Even smart people forget one of the [b]s in this one. (So be careful who you call one when you write.)\no This one won't embarrass you if you remember it is large enough for a double [r] AND a double [s].\no This word is misspelled \"equiptment\" 22,932 times on the web right now.\no Remembering that [h] when you spell this word will lift your spirits and if you remember both [a]s, it will be exhilarating!\no Remember that this one is -ceed, not -cede. (To exceed all expectations, master the spellings of this word, \"precede\" and \"supersede\" below.)\no No word like this one spelled with an [a] is in existence. This word is a menage a quatre of one [i] with three [e]s.\no Don't experience the same problem many have with \"existence\" above in this word: -ence!\no The silent \"e\" on \"fire\" is also cowardly: it retreats inside the word rather than face the suffix -y.\no Here is one of several words that violate the i-before-e rule. (See \"believe\" above.)\no You must learn to gauge the positioning of the [a] and [u] in this word. Remember, they are in alphabetical order (though not the [e]).\no You should be grateful to know that keeping \"great\" out of \"grateful\" is great.\no I guarantee you that this word is not spelled like \"warranty\" even though they are synonyms.\no This word is too small for two double letters but don't let it harass you, just keep the [r]s down to one.\no English reaches the height (not heighth!) of absurdity when it spells \"height\" and \"width\" so differently.\no The i-before-e rule works here, so what is the problem?\no Humor us and spell this word \"humorous\": the [r] is so weak, it needs an [o] on both sides to hold it up.\no Don't show your ignorance by spelling this word -ence!\no The immediate thing to remember is that this word has a prefix, in- \"not\" which becomes [m] before [m] (or [b] or [p]). \"Not mediate\" means direct which is why \"immediately\" means \"directly.\"\no Please be independent but not in your spelling of this word. It ends on -ent.\no Knowing that this word ends on -able is indispensable to good writing.\no This one sounds like a shot in the eye. One [n] the eye is enough.\no Using two [l]s in this word and ending it on -ence rather than -ance are marks of . . . you guessed it.\no The apostrophe marks a contraction of \"it is.\" Something that belongs to it is \"its.\"\no Sure, sure, it is made by a jeweler but the last [e] in this case flees the scene like a jewel thief. However, if you prefer British spelling, remember to double the [l]: \"jeweller,\" \"jewellery.\" (See also pronunciation.)\no Traditionally, the word has been spelled judgment in all forms of the English language. However, the spelling judgement (with e added) largely replaced judgment in the United Kingdom in a non-legal context. In the context of the law, however, judgment is preferred. This spelling change contrasts with other similar spelling changes made in American English, which were rejected in the UK. In the US at least, judgment is still preferred and judgement is considered incorrect by many American style guides.\n* kernel (colonel)\no There is more than a kernel of truth in the claim that all the vowels in this word are [e]s. So why is the military rank (colonel) pronounced identically? English spelling can be chaotic.\no Yet another violator of the i-before-e rule. You can be sure of the spelling of the last syllable but not of the pronunciation.\no Another French word throwing us an orthographical curve: a spare [i], just in case. That's an [s], too, that sounds like a [z].\no It may be as enjoyable as a berry patch but that isn't the way it is spelled. That first [r] should be pronounced, too.\no Where does English get the license to use both its letters for the sound [s] in one word?\no Learning how to omit the [e] in this word should lighten the load of English orthography a little bit.\no The main tenants of this word are \"main\" and \"tenance\" even though it comes from the verb \"maintain.\" English orthography at its most spiteful.\no Man, the price you pay for borrowing from French is high. This one goes back to French main + oeuvre \"hand-work,\" a spelling better retained in the British spelling, \"manoeuvre.\"\no The medieval orthography of English even lays traps for you: everything about the MIDdle Ages is MEDieval or, as the British would write, mediaeval.\no Why would something to remind of you of a moment be spelled \"memento?\" Well, it is.\no Here is another big word, large enough to hold two double consonants, double [l] and double [n].\no Since that [a] is seldom pronounced, it is seldom included in the spelling. This one is a \"mini ature;\" remember that.\no Since something minuscule is smaller than a miniature, shouldn't they be spelled similarly? Less than cool, or \"minus cule.\"\no This mischievous word holds two traps: [i] before [e] and [o] before [u]. Four of the five vowels in English reside here.\no What is more embarrassing than to misspell the name of the problem? Just remember that it is mis + spell and that will spell you the worry about spelling \"spell.\"\no The word \"neighbor\" breaks the i-before-e rule and invokes the silent \"gh\". This is fraught with error potential. If you use British spelling, it will cost you another [u]: \"neighbour.\"\no The [e] is noticeably retained in this word to indicate the [c] is \"soft,\" pronounced like [s]. Without the [e], it would be pronounced \"hard,\" like [k], as in \"applicable.\"\no Writers occasionally tire of doubling so many consonants and omit one, usually one of the [l]s. Don't you ever do it.\no Remember not only the occurrence of double double consonants in this word, but that the suffix is -ence, not -ance. No reason, just the English language keeping us on our toes.\no Since a pastime is something you do to pass the time, you would expect a double [s] here. Well, there is only one. The second [s] was slipped through the cracks in English orthography long ago.\no All it takes is perseverance and you, too, can be a (near-)perfect speller. The suffix is -ance for no reason at all.\no Funny Story (passed along by Bill Rudersdorf): The assistant Vice-President of Personnel notices that his superior, the VP himself, upon arriving at his desk in the morning opens a small, locked box, smiles, and locks it back again. Some years later when he advanced to that position (inheriting the key), he came to work early one morning to be assured of privacy. Expectantly, he opened the box. In it was a single piece of paper which said: \"Two Ns, one L.\"\no Those who play right are right-players, not playwrights. Well, since they write plays, they should be \"play-writes,\" wright right? Rong Wrong. Remember that a play writer in Old English was called a \"play worker\" and \"wright\" is from an old form of \"work\" (wrought iron, etc.)\no Possession possesses more [s]s than a snake.\no What follows, succeeds, so what goes before should, what? No, no, no, you are using logic. Nothing confuses English spelling more than common sense. \"Succeed\" but \"precede.\" (Wait until you see \"supersede.\")\no The spelling principle to remember here is that the school principal is a prince and a pal (despite appearances)--and the same applies to anything of foremost importance, such as a principal principle. A \"principle\" is a rule. (Thank you, Meghan Cope, for help on this one.)\no According to the pronunciation (not \"pronounciation\"!) of this word, that middle vowel could be anything. Remember: two [i]s + two [e]s in that order.\no Nouns often differ from the verbs they are derived from. This is one of those. In this case, the pronunciation is different, too, an important clue.\no Let me publicly declare the rule (again): if the adverb comes from an adjective ending on -al, you include that ending in the adverb; if not, as here, you don't.\no The French doing it to us again. Double up on the [n]s in this word and don't forget the silent [e]. Maybe someday we will spell it the English way.\no I hope you have received the message by now: [i] before [e] except after . . . .\no I would recommend you think of this word as the equivalent of commending all over again: re+commend. That would be recommendable.\no Final consonants are often doubled before suffixes (remit: remitted, remitting). However, this rule applies only to accented syllables ending on [l] and [r], e.g. \"rebelled,\" \"referred\" but \"traveled,\" \"buffered\" and not containing a diphthong, e.g. \"prevailed,\" \"coiled.\"\no Refer to the last mentioned word and also remember to add -ence to the end for the noun.\no The relevant factor here is that the word is not \"revelant,\" \"revelent,\" or even \"relevent.\" [l] before [v] and the suffix -ant.\no 'Ey, you! Remember, these two words when you spell \"restaurant.\" They are in the middle of it.\no Actually, \"rime\" was the correct spelling until 1650. After that, egg-heads began spelling it like \"rhythm.\" Why? No rhyme nor reason other than to make it look like \"rhythm.\"\no This one was borrowed from Greek (and conveniently never returned) so it is spelled the way we spell words borrowed from Greek and conveniently never returned.\no If perfecting your spelling is on your schedule, remember the [sk] is spelled as in \"school.\" (If you use British or Canadian pronunciation, why do you pronounce this word [shedyul] but \"school,\" [skul]? That has always puzzled me.)\no How do you separate the [e]s from the [a]s in this word? Simple: the [e]s surround the [a]s.\no The [a] needed in both syllables of this word has been pushed to the back of the line. Remember that, and the fact that [e] is used in both syllables, and you can write your sergeant without fear of misspelling his rank.\no This word supersedes all others in perversity. As if we don't have enough to worry about, keeping words on -ceed and -cede (\"succeed,\" \"precede,\" etc.) straight in our minds, this one has to be different from all the rest. The good news is: this is the only English word based on this stem spelled -sede.\no They're all pronounced the same but spelled differently. Possessive is \"their\" and the contraction of \"they are\" is \"they're.\" Everywhere else, it is \"there.\"\no This one can push you over the threshold. It looks like a compound \"thresh + hold\" but it isn't. Two [h]s are enough.\no Even if you omit the [f] in your pronunciation of this word (which you shouldn't do), it is retained in the spelling.\no If you are still resisting the tyranny of English orthography at this point, you must face the problem of [y] inside this word, where it shouldn't be. The guy is a \"tyrant\" and his problem is \"tyranny.\" (Don't forget to double up on the [n]s, too.)\no I will never stop harping on this until this word is spelled with an extra [l] for the last time!\no If your head is not a vacuum, remember that the silent [e] on this one married the [u] and joined him inside the word where they are living happily ever since. Well, the evidence is suggestive but not conclusive. Anyway, spell this word with two [u]s and not like \"volume.\"\no Whether you like the weather or not, you have to write the [a] after the [e] when you spell it.\no It is weird having to repeat this rule so many times: [i] before [e] except after...? (It isn't [w]!)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Unit Overview - This unit will enable learners to develop knowledge and understanding of Rudolf Steiner’s principles of human phasic development. It will also include his notion of the 12 senses and explore the importance of movement through the three planes of space in the context of working on a biodynamic holding and its therapeutic value within an educational curriculum.\n1.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the 7 year rhythm in human development (400/500 words)\nIn his book written in 1907, 'The Education of the Child in the Light of Spiritual Science' Steiner sets out some very interesting and persuasive arguments relating to child development. Most fascinating, is his view regarding 7 year rhythms in child development. In this piece of writing, he clearly states the phases of human development; 0-7, 7-14, 14-21 and in doing so he sets out a method of education specifically designed to these phases. The insights he provides give educators firm principles for how education might be designed to suit and enrich the child across a range of disciplines.\nI feel that the following quotation from the beginning of the book is a very important one:\n'Life in its entirety is like a plant. The plant contains not only what it offers to external life; it also holds a future state within its hidden depths. One who has before him a plant only just in leaf, knows very well that after some time there will be flowers and fruit also on the leaf-bearing stem. In its hidden depths the plant already contains the flowers and fruit in embryo; yet by mere investigation of what the plant now offers to external vision, how should one ever tell what these new organs will look like? This can only be told by one who has learnt to know the very nature and being of the plant.'\n'The Education of the Child in the Light of Spiritual Science' Rudolph Steiner 1907\nIn saying this, Steiner espouses that there are some universal principles that can be applied to human phasic development. These principles have been later developed and enhanced to form the basis of education for the child, and they have been adopted by the Steiner School movement as general guiding principles for the curriculum for every child.\nBetween the ages of 0 - 7 The Physical\n'The foundation is laid for the development of a strong and healthy Will.'\n'By a right application of the fundamental educational principles, during the first seven years of childhood, the foundation is laid for the development of a strong and healthy Will. For a strong and healthy will must have its support in the well-developed forms of the physical body.' Rudolph Steiner 1907\n'There are two magic words which indicate how the child enters into relation with his environment. They are: Imitation, and Example.' Rudolph Steiner 1907\nThe students that I work with on a daily basis, are always over the age of 7, but it might be argued that many are occupying this 0-7 phase because some of their developmental stages have been missed as a result of their turbulent childhood experiences.\n'Aristotle called man the most imitative of creatures. For no age in life is this more true than for the first stage of childhood, before the change of teeth. What goes on in his physical environment, this the child imitates, and in the process of imitation his physical organs are cast into the forms which then become permanent. ‘Physical environment’ must, however, be taken in the widest imaginable sense. It includes not only what goes on around the child in the material sense, but everything that takes place in the child's environment — everything that can be perceived by his senses, that can work from the surrounding physical space upon the inner powers of the child. This includes all the moral or immoral actions, all the wise or foolish actions, that the child sees.' Rudolph Steiner 1907\nTo my understanding, these passages speak of the critical role modelling in all aspects of our work with children. Role modelling is the single most powerful part of the teaching and guidance process. Creating a productive atmosphere and supportive ethos around the child allows them to blossom in their critical early phase. This is the main part of my work at Eyam Edge, providing productive and positive learning experiences that have the capacity to guide students towards mutual goals, with a myriad of learning opportunities along the way.\n'Last but not least, there is the cultivation of the sense of beauty and the awakening of the artistic feeling. The musical element must bring to the etheric body that rhythm which will then enable it to sense in all things the rhythm otherwise concealed. A child who is denied the blessing of having his musical sense cultivated during these years, will be the poorer for it the whole of his later life.' Rudolph Steiner 1907\nRhythm and music I have found to be a source of fascination and enjoyment for the children I work with. The act of sitting and sharing a song can often be a very settling start to the day. I am of no doubt that it plays an essential role.\nBetween the ages of 7-14 The Imagination\n'For this reason it matters above all that the boy and girl should have as their teachers persons who can awaken in them, as they see and watch them, the right intellectual and moral powers. As for the first years of childhood Imitation and Example were, so to say, the magic words for education, so for the years of this second period the magic words are Discipleship and Authority.' Rudolph Steiner 1907\nFrom a craft and horticulture perspective, it is key that the child has the guidance of a skilled practitioner who can communicate the right messages about the subject and the spirit of learning. The culture of a place and the culture of a community is of vital importance. Thus the community becomes the 'village' where a collection of skills and insights helps to structure the education of the child.\n'In the history lesson especially, the teacher should lead his teaching in the direction thus indicated. When telling stories of all kinds to little children before the change of teeth, our aim cannot be more than to awaken delight and vivacity and a happy enjoyment of the story. But after the change of teeth, we have in addition something else to bear in mind in choosing our material for stories; and that is, that we are placing before the boy or girl pictures of life that will arouse a spirit of emulation in the soul.' Rudolph Steiner 1907\nUsing various historical figures we can support learning and emulation through their achievements and we can communicate our reasons for our support of these individuals and nurture respect for the human attributes that we give value to in our learning community.\n'Reprimands give at best but little help in the matter of habits and inclinations.' Rudolph Steiner 1907\nBetween the ages of 14-21 The Spirit\n'With the age of puberty the astral body is first born.'\nMuch of what Steiner says about the age beyond puberty is also concerned with the importance of not\napproaching this third phase of development too early. In other words In order to be ripe for thought, one must have learned to be full of respect for what others have thought.' Rudolph Steiner 1907. He further emphasises this thus:\n'Man is not in a position to judge until he has collected in his inner life material for judgement and comparison. If he forms his own conclusions before doing so, his conclusions will lack foundation.' Rudolph Steiner 1907\nIn this phase 'Only now, therefore, can we approach the child from without with all that opens up the world of abstract ideas, the faculty of judgement and independent thought.' Rudolph Steiner\nThere is much less written about this phase of development, because there needs to be less prescription and more room for independent thought and independent action. This is mirrored in the Ruskin Mill Trust pedagodgy which culminates in 'self generated concious action'.\nThe child has stepped through the first two developmental phases and emerges - as if from a chrysalis - ready to take flight with free ideas and independence.\n2.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the three planes of space and their relevance to a PSTE curriculum.\nThe signature crafts of the RMT method include some of the following:\n“[...] the sagittal plane linked with the frontal (focus), the sagittal with the horizontal (grasp), and all three together – sagittal, frontal and horizontal (step). The result is nothing less than the vertical line of our ego-experience. This line lies in the sagittal place separating right and left and runs through our entire organism and our entire existence. Only when it is constantly experienced in focusing, grasping and stepping do I experience myself as an individual” (König, 1983, p. 49).\nEach of the crafts offers the opportunity to move across the planes of space, in order to 'constantly experience' the meaning of being an individual. In my reflection for (3.1) below I describe the experience of making a greenwood stool with students and I link this to the 12 senses. The way that the planes of space have therapeutic value can be equally applied to green woodwork.\nIn particular, splitting wood, working on the shave horse, working on the pole lathe, each providing a constant linking of the planes of space.\n3.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the 12 senses (with specific reference to the lower four senses) and their relevance to a PSTE curriculum.\nSteiner's notion of the 12 senses is a powerful one. The RMT understanding of the importance of developing these senses through a sensory integrated curriculum delivered through PSTE is of fundamental importance to the student learning experience across the Trust. Eyam is no exception.\nThis is a reflection of how the four lower senses of balance, life, touch and movement are developed through the learning experience of making a greenwood stool from start to finish; from tree to seat.\n'Fell Tree > Cut Branches > Make Pieces > Make Chair > Sit at Table'\nRMT Practitoner's Guide\nSourcing the wood\nThere is a world of learning that can take place in understanding types of wood we might use, and in having a vision for the wood and a coherent plan of what to do with it. This also provides opportunities for sensory development and integration of the four lower senses in the student learning experience. Through the touching of the materials comes certainty. The process of making a functional item, in this case a stool, involves the sense of touch having a task. This might be expressed through touching the bark, through touching the split edges of the billet, through the feeling of angular edges becoming smooth on the shave horse.\nOver time the life sense might become apparent through the physical sensations of the body. As the resistance of the material is met and overcome. There will be pain, which is the 'extreme manifestation of the life sense.' RMT Practitioner's Guide.\nMovement occurs in the mind as we move from the larger picture and zoom into detail. What we going to do with the materials we have found/sourced? We have a plan and there is an intention and vision of an end product. This may involve discussion and modification of ideas.\nWhen a plan is set and an intention is clear we have a path to follow. An achievable and supported task enhances the life sense because a problem occurs in that we have all the aspects and something to make and the will to make it. There is a purpose and clear incentive and goal which is supported by a tutor with the skills to make this happen. Balance is enhanced because the student has a role model to help them achieve something that otherwise is unachievable. Balance is also enhanced because there is an understanding of the elements needed to create a specific item in terms of tools and materials. In preparation of the stages of building the stool, the tutor prepares the students by role modelling the physical movements and aspects of touch and balance necessary to achieve the task.\nUsing the Tools\nThrough use of the tools we might ask questions around our muscle sense movements. In relation to the tools, can we be master of our entire body? Where in our body are we not in charge? We have a life sense of our own physical constitution. As the shaping of the stool components occurs we might reflect the difficulties and time consuming nature of the work. As stated in the RMT Practioner's Guide, 'Pain is learning, it is painful to learn.'\nIn terms of the 4 lower senses, it is not necessary to individualise them since all 4 work harmoniously together when a student is engaged in a process and supported by a role model.\nWith each aspect of the process, balance, touch and movement all work together with a strong vision and understanding to meet resistance within the materials while simultaneously allowing the student to encounter resistance within themselves.\nWhen the student encounters and overcomes/acknowledges this resistance within themselves and can persevere, they experience a distance from aspects of themselves that might otherwise disturb the flow of the life sense. They become distracted from their daily personal disturbances and deeply engaged in a process that is both involving their self but at the same time giving them a rest from issues that normally causes anxiety or discomfort.\nSince the process of making the stool is a staged and methodical experience, the student, if able to follow the process from start to finish, encounters a situation where they created a whole from parts- a successful and useful item from an idea or intention.\nEach individual tool process can be whittled down to miniature versions of this whole idea. Therefore the entire process split down into individualised steps works to strengthen the overarching benefits to the lower senses.\nIf we think about the actual item: The wooden stool and its uses we can look at a collection of stools around a table for the use of a community or group. We begin to focus of being part of something bigger than ourselves which lends itself to enhancing the life sense and having balance between the inner world and outer worlds. In terms of touch, we use the stool to be part of a community or to take part in a community focused activity and by doing so, we are placing our body against a natural item that is supporting us. If we have made this item, we have essentially created an item that has the purpose to hold (touch), balance and create a resistance to our movement. From our sense of movement comes our sense for a goal.\nIf we look at all these aspects in relation to self propelled conscious actions- moving forward- in making the stool from scratch, the student has successfully created a purposeful item for the use of themselves and others. With all the skills involved in each step of the process, the student has moved closer towards stepping into a world where they are able to leave their internal world and use their skills to create something that will be useful and last a long time. The opportunities beyond this task become manifold as the student realises that their will and bodily action can be beneficial not only to themselves but to the larger world.\n© Brantwood Specialist School\nCreated by Jim Hildyard", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Mitigative archeological investigations were conducted in 1983 at the\nsouthern end of the important Elk Creek site, 5GN204/205, within Curecanti\nNational Recreation Area prior to construction of a park apartment complex.\nThat portion of the site extended onto a rocky promontory overlooking Blue\nMesa Lake. Archeological activities undertaken at the site in 1982 focused\nupon the western half of the promontory (Jones 1986), while the eastern\nhalf of the point was investigated the following year. During the 1983\nresearch, two small chipped-stone concentrations and an isolated projectile\npoint were identified and collected. Stylistic comparisons of several\ndiagnostic artifacts collected in 1983 suggest that an Early or Middle\nArchaic component was represented.\nThe 1983 work at Elk Creek provided an opportunity to investigate the role\nof natural erosion in the formation of the Curecanti archeological record.\nA statistical analysis performed during the project confirmed an initial\nfield impression that the artifacts within one of the chipped-stone\nconcentrations were roughly size-sorted in the direction of the ground\nsurface slope. Based in part upon an analysis of local weather and\nphysical environmental data, that size distribution of artifacts is\nbelieved to relate to a postdepositional restructuring of the material by\nprecipitation runoff in combination with deflation of the deposit by strong\nwestern and southwestern winds. The study suggests that ongoing erosion by\nwater and wind operating under the particular environmental conditions of\nthe site area may dramatically affect contextual information given the\npassage of sufficient time, an issue of importance to archeological\nresearch elsewhere within Curecanti and other parks in semiarid settings.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Serialization Homework Help\nIt is a process of adapting an entity into a packets of bytes and save the object to communicate it into a memory.\nWe do serialization to save an entity to recreate the entity if needed. The entity is than streams into a serialized data information about the type of an entity and entity name.\nIt has an opposite process called deserialization. It is easy for the developer to copy the state of an entity and can reuse it anywhere. Serialization can give the benefits of sending and receiving streams. And also remotely access the computers through their IP addresses and can share the files or text.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "You can most likely tell me how much money you made last year. But, I bet you cannot tell me how much you spent. A healthy knowledge of your finances and a strong budget can help you track and monitor your spending as well as help you plan for large, periodic expenses.\nA budget is a plan that ensures your income will cover your expenses and map out a savings plan. If you find that your income cannot cover your expenses, budgets can aide you in determining where you can cut spending.\nA Harvard bankruptcy expert, Elizabeth Warren and her daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi created the 50/30/20 rule that will guide you when creating your budget. This rule contains the below four steps:\nStep One: Calculate your After-Tax Income\n- After-Tax income is defined as the amount of money you have left over after all federal, state and withholding taxes have been deducted from your taxable income.\nStep Two: Limit Your Needs to 50 Percent\n- Items such as groceries, housing, utilities, health insurance, car insurance, etc. fall into the “needs” category.\n- The amount you spend on your “needs” should be no more than 50% of your total after-tax income.\nStep Three: Limit Your Wants to 30 Percent\n- Items such as your unlimited text and data cell phone plan, your cable and internet bill, the tinted windows on your car, etc. fall into the “wants” category.\n- The amount you spend on your “wants” should be no more than 30% of your total after-tax income.\nStep Four: Spend at Least 20 Percent on Savings and Debt Payments\n- This category includes saving money in your emergency fund and any retirement accounts.\n- Your minimum payment on your credit card is a “need” that counts towards your 50%, but any payments beyond that is considered an additional debt payment, which falls into the 20% category.\nThis rule will help you get started on your budget and guide you through your finances. Here are some additional useful tips to help you get started:\n- Know what bills you have and when they are due.\n- Know your current spending and set goals that take into account your long-term financial plans.\n- Track your spending to make sure you are meeting the goals and guidelines you set.\n- Be aware of ATM withdrawals. If you notice your ATM visits being more than once a week, start tracking where that cash is being spent.\n- Use budgeting software to save time and trouble. One of the top online budgeting tools can be found at www.Mint.com. This secure website is free and is a great tool for budgeting. Mint not only will help you create a budget, but it will also help you monitor your credit score and help you plan and reach any financial goal you wish.\nBudgets are essential in life. Budgets enable you to make a behavioral change to your whole outlook and attitude toward your spending. The longer you keep at it, the easier it will become, and then it will eventually become your habit. Happy Budgeting!\n“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin\nGiven that laws may vary significantly between jurisdictions, the legal advice given on this site should not be considered all-encompassing and applicable to all readers. Please consult an attorney in your own jurisdiction if you need legal advice. This blog is for informational purposes only. We are not attorneys or accountants and strongly suggest you contact a lawyer or accountant prior to taking any action related to the information provided herein.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In this, the final of three posts on features potentially relevant to invertebrate sentience, we assess 9 learning indicators, 4 navigational skills, and 7 mood state behaviors. Here are some high-level takeaways:\n- Simple learning abilities, such as classical conditioning, sensitization, and habituation, do not appear to be good evidence of sentience.\n- Contextual learning and long-term behavior alteration to avoid noxious stimuli are better evidence of sentience.\n- It’s plausible that the evolutionary role of consciousness is to produce an integrated and egocentric spatial model of the world to guide an animal as it navigates a complex environment.\n- It’s difficult to study emotions in invertebrates.\n- Notwithstanding (4), it appears there are striking behavioral and neurochemical similarities between mammalian responses to stressful stimuli and the responses of certain arthropods.\nIntroduction and Project Overview\nThis post is the fifth in Rethink Priorities’ series on invertebrate welfare. In the first post we examine some philosophical difficulties inherent in the detection of morally significant pain and pleasure in nonhumans. In the second post we discuss our survey and compilation of the extant scientific literature relevant to invertebrate sentience, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of our approach to the subject. In the third post we explain some anatomical, evolutionary, and behavioral features potentially indicative of the capacity for conscious experience in invertebrates. In the fourth post we explain some drug responses, motivational tradeoffs, and feats of cognitive sophistication potentially indicative of the capacity for conscious experience in invertebrates. In this post we explain some learning indicators, navigational skills, and mood state behaviors potentially indicative of the capacity for conscious experience in invertebrates. In the sixth, seventh, and eighth posts, we present our summary of findings, both in narrative form and as an interactive database. In forthcoming work, to be published in late July, we analyze the extent to which invertebrate welfare is a promising cause area.\nAlso known as respondent or Pavlovian conditioning, this features refers to an organism learning to make an association between an unconditioned, inherently rewarding or punishing stimulus, and another, often neutral, stimulus. The prototypical example of this feature is a dog learning to salivate in response to a bell that has been used to signal the arrival of food. This feature is one of the most basic forms of learning.\nAllen et al. 2009 demonstrates classical conditioning in the severed spinal cord of a rat exposed to shocks, thus showing this ability is possible without any connection to a brain at all. Though intact rats apparently have a greater response to the same stimuli, the fact that this can occur at all without interaction with a brain suggests that observing this behavior in isolation may not be much evidence for the capacity for valenced experience. Additionally, this type of conditioning often operates unconsciously in humans, further undermining its evidential force.\nOperant conditioning, also known as instrumental conditioning, is a type of associative learning in which the frequency of a particular behavior is increased or decreased by pairing the behavior with a punishment or a reward. Operant conditioning differs from classical conditioning in that operant conditioning governs voluntary behavior and classical conditioning governs involuntary behavior. For example, in a laboratory setting a rat might be trained to depress a lever by pairing depression of the lever with a food pellet. Conversely, the rat might be trained to avoid the lever by pairing lever contact with an electrical shock. Pressing a lever to receive a food reward is a voluntary action. However, if the rat began to salivate at the sight of the lever, that would indicate that it had been classically conditioned as well, because salivation is involuntary.\nOperant conditioning is a basic form of learning and is widely observed throughout the animal kingdom. Most forms of behavior alteration require at least an element of operant conditioning. Any time an organism learns a new action or learns to perform an old action differently, operant conditioning is probably at work. Thus, we should only expect organisms whose behavior is completely hardcoded or innately determined to lack this feature.\nIn addition to mere operant conditioning, we also investigated operant conditioning with an unfamiliar action. An organism satisfies this feature just in case it is capable of being operantly conditioned to perform an action it would not perform in its natural environment, such as depressing a lever. Operant conditioning with an unfamiliar action demonstrates some degree of behavioral plasticity and thus is slightly better evidence for conscious experience than mere operant conditioning.\nSensitization is a type of non-associative learning in which an organism amplifies its response to a stimulus, often a noxious stimulus, as a result of repeated exposure to the stimulus. The classic example of sensitization was studied in the sea hare Aplysia californica. If an electric shock to the tail is paired with a touch to the siphon, the sea hare will withdraw its gill. After sensitization has been established, even a light touch of the siphon will initiate a rapid gill withdrawal. Sensitization is one of the most basic forms of learning. It has been demonstrated in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and the unicellular protist Spirostomum. As such, possession of this feature probably does not constitute much evidence for the capacity for valenced experience.\nHabituation is a type of non-associative learning in which an organism becomes accustomed to a stimulus. Organisms which are habituated to a given stimulus take longer to respond to the stimulus and ultimately may not react to the stimulus at all. Habituation occurs when an organism is frequently exposed to a stimulus, such as a loud noise, with no biological consequence. An animal might initially react to a loud noise with a startle response, but if the loud noise is repeated frequently and without additional consequence, the startle response will begin to weaken and eventually disappear altogether. Habituation has been observed in some species of plant and even single-celled organisms, and in humans, it is an automatic, unconscious response. Thus, habituation probably involves relatively simple mechanisms and does not provide much evidence of consciousness.\nContextual learning is the ability to discriminate between different contexts in a sophisticated way. More formally, contextual learning is “learning that in context 1 stimulus A is rewarded while stimulus B is not (AC1+ and BC1−), whereas it is the opposite in context 2 (AC2− and BC2+).” For example, honey bees are capable of multimodal associative learning. They can recognize that when one color is presented to them, odor A predicts a sucrose reward and odor B does not, but when a different color is presented odor B predicts a sucrose reward and odor A does not. (This finding reflects the fact that when foraging, a single modality by itself can’t parse beneficial flower species from non-beneficial species. Bees rely on a combination of color, shape, and odor to distinguish good flowers from useless ones.) Contextual learning contributes to behavioral plasticity. According to some researchers, behavioral plasticity is a hallmark of consciousness. For example, Paula Droege, a philosopher at Penn State, argues that “animals capable of flexible responses are conscious animals, animals that feel conscious pain.” Animals that cannot engage in contextual learning must rely on behaviors that are more rigid, reflexive, and programmatic.\nObservational or social learning\nThe ability to learn by observing the behavior of one’s conspecifics is widespread in animals. This phenomenon is known as “social learning,” and it stands in contrast to “asocial learning,” in which an animal learns by personal trial and error. The extent to which an animal can learn complex behavior by observing the behavior of others is often taken to be an indicator of cognitive sophistication. Like other forms of learning, social learning is not direct evidence for the capacity for valenced experience. It is rather a rough guide to a certain sort of intelligence. If that type of intelligence is positively correlated with the capacity for valenced experience, and we don’t have reason to think the correlation is spurious, then the presence of social learning in an animal may be indirect evidence that that animal is capable of valenced experience.\nSocial learning has been demonstrated in invertebrates. Alem et al. 2016 shows that bumblebees are capable of so-called “cultural transmission.” The authors trained bees to pull a string in order to receive a reward. By observing this practice in trained bees, untrained bees acquired the skill. The skill eventually spread to a majority of the colony’s foragers. The skill then persisted in the colony far longer than the lifespans of the initial trained bees.\nMore so than other features, it must be emphasized that the ability to learn by observation comes in degrees. Great apes are capable of acquiring elaborate novel skills such as termite fishing or potato washing merely by observing and imitating other apes. In other taxa, social learning is less complex and is mediated by relatively simple learning mechanisms. Thus, it is important to understand the precise nature of the social learning in question before one can judge how it bears on the issue of valenced experience.\nTaste aversion behavior\nTaste aversion is a type of behavior in which an organism exhibits ‘disgust responses’ to a particular flavor. In humans disgust responses include retching, clutching at the stomach, and vomiting. Disgust responses vary among nonhumans. Rats, which are incapable of vomiting, display disgust by gaping, chin rubbing, and paw treading. Chickens putatively display disgust by head shaking and beak clapping. Cuttlefish will quickly release a food source coated in quinine (a bittering agent) and withdraw to a corner of their tank, which has been interpreted as a disgust response.\nTaste aversion is importantly distinct from taste avoidance. Taste avoidance occurs when an organism consumes a smaller amount than usual of a food with a certain taste. The levels of the two phenomena can vary independently of each other. For example, some organisms will consume large amounts of a substance that has a psychoactive effect even if they show signs of nausea while consuming it. Similarly, an organism might avoid a particular taste even if the taste does not make it nauseous, such as when that taste is associated with a fearful event.\nTaste aversion is potentially important because disgust behavior, like pain behavior, is modest evidence of valenced experience. A natural explanation of disgust behavior is that the organism exhibiting the behavior experiences a negatively valenced gustatory sensation. In the absence of defeaters, such an explanation is to be preferred to alternative explanations.\nOne obvious barrier to using taste aversion as evidence for valenced experience is that it is not always clear what constitutes a disgust response. Even where it exists, our ability to detect taste aversion may be limited by anatomy. For example, insects have hard exoskeletons, and so they are not be able to form facial expressions associated with nausea or disgust. Conversely, what looks like a disgust response in vertebrates may be something else entirely in invertebrates. Flies and other insects routinely vomit on food as a form of extra-oral digestion. The vomit contains digestive juices and enzymes that help liquefy the food, making feeding easier, but it is not a disgust response.\nPain-relief learning is a type of associative conditioning in which the subject comes to associate the stimulus that immediately follows a noxious event with relief from the aversive effects of the noxious event. (Importantly, pain-relief learning is not merely a type of operant conditioning in which an organism learns a specific active response that relieves pain.) In an electric shock paradigm, if a stimulus, such as an odor or tone, is consistently experienced just prior to the shock, eventually the stimulus alone will induce a negatively valenced state. The opposite is also true. If a stimulus is consistently introduced just after the shock, that stimulus alone will eventually acquire a positive valence due to its association with the relieving cessation of pain. This phenomenon is well-documented in humans, rats, and, crucially, fruit flies. Fruit flies are able to distinguish cases in which a stimulus precedes a noxious event from cases in which a stimulus follows a noxious event. Indeed, fruit flies can be systematically conditioned to either avoid or approach an odor merely by altering the timing of the release of the odor relative to an electric shock.\nAn organism that did not satisfy this feature would seem to either have a reward system that differed from ours in important respects or to have an affective or cognitive system not complex enough to register the association. Differences in reward systems weakens the analogy between other conscious animals and these beings, and so this would represent evidence against them being conscious.\nLong-term behavior alteration to avoid noxious stimuli\nSome short-lived animals are so well-adapted to their evolutionary and ecological niche that automatic, instinctive responses alone are sufficient to keep the animals safe from harm. Animals in more complex situations (either ecologically or socially) need more plastic responses to keep them safe. One evolutionary function of conscious pain experiences—perhaps the evolutionary function of conscious pain experiences—is to promote long-term bodily integrity through behavior modification. Although not all damaging injuries are painful and not all pain experiences result from damaging injuries, there is nonetheless a fairly tight correlation between tissue damage and pain sensation. This correlation allows animals to learn from pain experiences. Sneddon et al. 2014 argues that the “key function [of pain] appears to be that the aversive experience of pain creates a strong and lasting motivation that enables the animal to avoid getting into a similar situation in the future.”\nMere nociception is unlikely to be an efficient response to noxious stimuli in the long-term. Nociception is fast and reflexive, but it is not normally associated with a lasting memory. On the other hand, conscious pain experiences, with their attendant felt badness, tend to leave a memorial imprint. Because pain experiences are often stored in long-term memory, pain can induce long-term behavioral and motivational changes. For long-lived animals in complex environments, pain is potentially more effective at protecting the animal from damage than mere nociception. Again in the words of Sneddon et al. 2014: “while nociception typically allows for an immediate reduction of tissue damage, pain typically allows for longer-term protection.” Thus, insofar as invertebrates exhibit long-term behavior alterations in response to noxious stimuli, that is evidence that they experience the noxious events as painful.\nUnfortunately, the evidential status of long-term behavioral alteration has recently been complicated by new studies of nociceptive systems. Such systems can be enormously complex, and in some instances nociceptive systems exhibit a degree of plasticity. For example, Smith and Lewin 2009 discuss the process of nociceptive sensitization, a phenomenon that “manifests as either non-responsive neurons becoming responsive, or neurons responding at reduced threshold and/or producing responses of greater magnitude.” If nociception can produce long-lasting effects without the involvement of conscious experience, then the evidential weight of long-term behavioral alteration is undercut.\nNote also that “long-term” is a predicate that comes in degrees. Furthermore, what counts as a “long-term” behavior modification is plausibly relative to the lifespan of the creature modifying its behavior. For lifespans measured in weeks, remembering a phenomenon for several days may confer the same fitness advantage as a longer-lived creature remembering a phenomenon for months. Thus, what qualifies as “long-term” for a fruit fly may not qualify as “long-term” for a cow. In response to these problems, we have introduced two versions of this feature. The first measures whether behavior alteration persists more than 24 hours. The second measures whether behavior alteration persists more than 30 days. We realize this is an imperfect solution to the problem, but given our constraints, it was the best we could do. When an animal clearly exceeds the 24 hour threshold but falls just shy of the 30 day threshold (as is the case with sea hares), we have noted as much in the comments.\nNavigate known paths/areas\nAn organism possesses this ability if it can navigate to a destination within an area that is already known to the organism. This is a very basic navigational skill, exhibited by most motile animals, some amoeboid protists, and many robots. As such, possession of this ability does not provide much evidence for the capacity for valenced experience.\nNavigate unknown paths/areas\nAn organism possesses this ability if it can navigate to a destination within an area that is unknown to the organism. In general, navigational skills are relevant for the detection of valenced experience in virtue of their possible connection to conscious experience more generally. According to some researchers, the evolutionary function of consciousness is to produce an integrated and egocentric spatial model to guide an animal as it navigates a complex environment. If consciousness evolved specifically to aid motile animals in complex environments, then various navigational feats could plausibly be interpreted as evidence of consciousness in evolved creatures.\nThere is at least circumstantial evidence that navigating novel environments requires conscious input whereas navigating known environments does not. In humans, conscious awareness seems to be required to maneuver through the unknown but not the known. Unconscious sleepwalkers can navigate familiar landscapes (moving from the bedroom to the kitchen, say), but they are generally unable to successfully traverse unfamiliar areas.\nIn laboratory settings the ability to navigate unknown areas is often tested with mazes. The strength of this ability is measured along at least two axes: the efficiency with which the organism can solve a novel maze and the complexity of the maze used in the experiment. However, there may be limits to this methodology. There is a sense in which unicellular slime molds can “solve” relatively complex mazes. It is not clear exactly what to make of this result, or even if it is intelligible to speak of unicellular organisms navigating at all. The slime mold case is a useful reminder that lab results can be interpreted in multiple ways. As is normally the case, evidence for consciousness in one species may not be as compelling for another species.\nSpatial memory is the faculty animals use to return to rewarding locations (e.g., dens, foraging sites, food caches, watering holes, nesting beaches). A variety of different cues can form the basis of this type of memory, including visual or olfactory landmarks, distances, and cardinal directions. Spatial memory has been demonstrated in a large range of animals, including invertebrates. Many species of bee, for example, engage in trapline nectaring: the establishment of regular routes for visiting flowers in a precise repeated order. Other insects engage in patrolling behavior: repeated loops or back-and-forth routes to defend resources from conspecifics. Cephalopods are also known to have a good working memory of recent foraging areas.\nSpatial memory is potentially relevant to consciousness because of its relationship to what Michael Trestman, a philosopher of biology at Indiana University, calls a “complex active body” (CAB). A CAB is capable of independent, perceptually-guided, powered-motion (e.g., swimming, flying, crawling). According to Trestman, the evolution of CABs requires the capacity for integrated, embodied spatial cognition, including spatial memory. If one adopts a “global workspace” theory of consciousness, a sophisticated, integrated form of cognition (of which spatial memory forms a part) of this sort is evidence for phenomenal consciousness.\nOne complication merits discussion. Memory in general, and spatial memory in particular, need not be internal. Many organisms effectively externalize part of their memory by storing and retrieving information about past events in a physical medium outside their bodies. Humans, of course, utilize Post-It notes and iPhones, but external memory is not unique to us. The pheromone trails deposited by many species of ants have been described as a form of external memory. Even very simple organisms, such as the brainless slime mold Physarum polycephalum employ a form of external memory. As the mold moves, it leaves behind a coating of nonliving, extracellular slime. As the mold explores, it tends to avoid contact with the extracellular slime. Reid et al. 2012 reports that this “avoidance behavior is a ‘choice’ because when no previously unexplored territory is available, the slime mold no longer avoids extracellular slime. The slime mold’s behavioral response strongly suggests that it can sense extracellular slime upon contact, and uses its presence as an externalized spatial memory system to recognize and avoid areas it has already explored.” Because it’s not always easy to distinguish external memory from internal memory, we have opted not to make this distinction in our investigations. Thus, according to our methodology, any organism that displays the telltale behavioral indicators of spatial memory counts as possessing this feature, even brainless slime molds. As with many other features, the context in which this ability is observed matters a great deal, and hence the importance of this feature probably ought to be adjudicated on a species-by-species basis.\nDetour behavior occurs when, in order to reach a goal, an organism navigates around a barrier that temporarily blocks sensorial contact with the goal. Detour behavior often requires backtracking, the ability of an organism to retrace its movement. Detour behavior also requires an organism to possess a working memory capable of representing an object outside sensorial contact, retaining that representation over time as the organism moves. Among invertebrates, detour behavior has been observed in jumping spiders, desert ants, and octopuses.\nAt least some researchers believe that an animal’s navigational skills can tell us something about the organization of that animal’s mind. For instance, Peter Carruthers, a philosopher and cognitive scientist at the University of Maryland, writes, “at least some invertebrates (specifically honey bees and jumping spiders) possess a belief-desire-planning cognitive architecture much like our own, as revealed by their sophisticated navigation abilities.” If it’s true that navigation abilities can provide insight about cognitive architecture, then detour behavior, as the most sophisticated navigational skill systematically studied across diverse taxa, is an important feature to consider.\nMood State Behaviors\nAnhedonia is a loss of interest in activities previously found to be rewarding. In humans, anhedonia is a common symptom of depression. In nonhuman animals, external symptoms of anhedonia may include “behavioral deficits consistent with a loss of responsiveness to reward, such as decreased sucrose consumption, decreased ability to associate rewards with a distinctive environment, and decreased sensitivity to rewarding electrical brain stimulation.” In the absence of defeaters, anhedonia-like behavior in a nonhuman animal is modest evidence that the animal is capable of experiencing a negatively valenced emotional state. Anhedonia-like behavior can be induced in fruit flies by exposing them to aversive, uncontrollable vibrations over several days. The shaken flies show reductions in various voluntary behaviors, although reflexive behavior remains unchanged. In particular, shaken flies consume much less glycerol (commonly used as a reward in fruit fly studies) than non-shaken controls, suggesting that the shaken flies have lost their taste for sweets.\nLearned helplessness behavior\nLearned helplessness is a condition in which a human or nonhuman animal adopts an overly passive reaction profile that disrupts important voluntary behavior. A creature in the throes of learned helplessness will often neglect basic survival needs, ignoring food, water, predators, and potential mates. Learned helplessness is triggered by repeated, uncontrollable exposure to traumatic stimuli, and it can be reliably reproduced in a number of nonhuman animals. For example, if dogs are subjected to repetitive and unavoidable electric shocks, the dogs will eventually stop trying to evade the shocks, sitting passive and still even if later explicitly given the opportunity to escape. Learned helplessness is a major symptom of depression in humans, and thus the presence of learned helplessness behavior in nonhuman animals is, in the absence of defeaters, modest evidence that those animals are capable of experiencing a negatively valenced emotional state.\nOne potential defeater is worth flagging right away. Although it may appear that learned helplessness is a relatively sophisticated cognitive condition, the basic characteristics of learned helplessness have allegedly been demonstrated in an isolated ganglion of a decapitated insect. A single cockroach leg connected to its isolated thoracic ganglion can be operantly trained to remain lifted. However, if the leg-ganglion system is subjected to uncontrollable electric shocks before the conditioning, acquisition takes much longer. Summarizing this research, as well as similar research on the severed spines of rats, Eisenstein et al. 1997 reports, “The brain is evidently not essential either in mammals or in invertebrates for demonstrating [learned helplessness].” If that is true, then learned helplessness is almost certainly mediated at least in part by mechanisms much simpler than conscious experience.\nDisplacement behavior is a behavioral response to stress. Common examples of displacement behavior include pacing, fidgeting, grooming, scratching, and object manipulation (such as twirling a pen). Displacement activities are thought to occur when an organism is caught between conflicting motivations. They are thought, and some experimental evidence suggests, to be a ‘comfort’ activity that reduces anxiety in the organism. Displacement behavior often occurs rapidly, incompletely, and out-of-context. For instance, a bird unable to decide whether it ought to flee or attack an opponent might instead quickly preen or peck the ground. Displacement behavior is often exhibited in socially tense situations like these, and in social hierarchies lower-ranking animals exhibit displacement behavior more often than higher-ranking animals. Notably, displacement behavior is increased in a dose-dependent way when an organism is given anxiety-provoking drugs and decreased in a dose-dependent way when an organism is given anxiety-relieving drugs. Displacement behavior is thus modest evidence for the presence of a negatively valenced emotional state.\nAdverse effects of social isolation\nA wide variety of animals, both vertebrate and invertebrate, live in groups. These groups range from loose aggregations of ten or fewer animals to massive ant supercolonies containing millions of animals. The adverse effects of social deprivation in group-living vertebrates is well documented. When raised in isolation, such animals are less able to appropriately process social and environmental stimuli. For example, rat pups reared in isolation exhibit a wide range of long-term behavioral and physiological abnormalities, including “neophobia [fear of new things], impaired sensorimotor gating, aggression, cognitive rigidity, reduced prefrontal cortical volume and decreased cortical and hippocampal synaptic plasticity.” Group-living animals display their preference for social contact in a number of ways. Bull calves actively seek out companion animals. Young chicks increase their peeping calls when isolated. The effects of social deprivation in eusocial insects have also been well-studied. Social isolation increases aggression in honeybees and drastically reduces lifespan in ants. More recently, social isolation has been studied in group-living non-eusocial insects. In some species of cockroach, individuals reared in isolation show “stronger exploration-avoidance, reduced foraging activity, reduced willingness to interact socially, and reduced ability to assess mating partner quality compared to peers raised in groups.”\nIn humans, the adverse effects of social isolation are correlated with negatively valenced emotional experiences. In the absence of defeaters, the presence of similar adverse effects in nonhuman animals is evidence that they experience similar negatively valenced states. Of course, we should not expect animals that do not live in groups to be adversely affected by social isolation. Octopuses, for instance, lead mostly solitary lives and for that reason do not exhibit any noticeable differences when kept in isolation. One should not conclude on that basis that octopuses cannot experience stress from other sources.\nStereotypies are a type of repetitive behavior that is unvarying and apparently purposeless. Stereotypies are most commonly observed in captive animals. They are usually considered abnormal and are often taken to be evidence of welfare problems. Examples include excessive grooming leading to self-mutilation, swimming in circles, pacing, mouthing cage bars, and chewing without anything in the mouth (so-called “sham-chewing”). Although stereotypic behavior is probably caused by impoverished states, especially situations where the normal functional response of an animal is blocked, stereotypic activities might actually serve to reduce stress, by releasing morphine-like endorphins.\nStereotypic behavior is well documented in captive chickens and cows. Caged hens unable to find or even seek an appropriate nest site engage in stereotypic pacing, while broiler chickens unable to forage engage in stereotypic spot-pecking. Confined cows engage in stereotypic tongue-rolling and often engage in a repeated pattern of getting up and then immediately lying down over long periods of time.\nOnly recently has stereotypic behavior been observed in invertebrates. Huber et al. 2018 reports that giving crayfish methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) \"triggers repetitive stereotypies in which only the last pair of walking legs stabilizes the body, while all other walking legs, claws, and mouthparts sway back and forth continuously.\" Andrews et al. 2013 identified stereotypic “pacing” activity in the Giant Pacific octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini, which stopped when environmental enrichment was provided.\nAccording to one estimate, approximately 91% of confined sows, 82% of broiler breeders, and 50% of laboratory mice will engage in some form of stereotypic behavior over a six month period.\nAll animals react to perceived danger. In humans, one type of reaction to perceived danger is conscious fear. The experience of fear is associated with certain physiological and behavioral responses. Behavioral markings of fear include fleeing, hiding, freezing, and suspending unnecessary bodily functions. Physiological reactions to fear can include elevated heart rate, hyperventilation, increased muscle tension, constriction of blood vessels, nausea, and dizziness. Insofar as other animals display relevantly similar physiological and/or behavioral responses, that is evidence that they too experience conscious fear.\nAnxiety is related to but distinct from fear. Anxiety is sometimes said to be the result of danger that is perceived to be unavoidable or situations in which the threat is ambiguous or unknown. Anxiety is often considered a secondary emotion, that is, an emotion in response to another emotion. For example, in humans, generalized fear often leads to anxiety. In addition to physiological and behavioral reactions, anxiety is also associated with certain cognitive changes. For example, anxiety is correlated with pessimistic cognitive biases and generalizability. (In this context, generalizability means that fear or anxiety is not specific to one triggering stimulus; when a creature experiences anxiety, it becomes more afraid of other potential threats as well.) Although the three are phenomenologically and conceptually distinct, fear, anxiety, and pain are all negatively valenced. Thus, the experience of fear or anxiety directly entails the capacity for valenced experience.\nTwo worries are worth noting with respect to the detection of fear and anxiety in invertebrates. The first is that by applying emotional terms to phylogenetically distant animals, we may be resorting to problematic anthropomorphizing. Both crayfish and honeybees exhibit many of the behaviors associated with human fear and anxiety, but, because those terms come loaded with anthropocentric connotations, applying those terms to those animals may inevitably be misleading.\nThe other worry runs in the opposite direction. Because the lifestyle and environment of phylogenetically distant animals is so alien to us, we should not expect negative emotional states to be expressed in precisely the same manner. Gibson et al. 2015 reminds us that “distantly related species may express emotion states through behaviors that have no obvious homology to human behaviors.” They advocate for an “alternative approach to identifying instances of emotional expression, which does not depend on anthropocentric homologies” by establishing “general features of emotion states, or ‘emotion primitives,’ which apply both to different emotions in a species and to emotions across phylogeny. One can then search for behaviors that exhibit evidence of such emotion primitives in model organisms.”\nPlay behavior is difficult to define but easy to recognize. Play behavior is characteristically voluntary, spontaneous, and repetitive (though not stereotypic). Generally only healthy animals in low-stress environments engage in play, and it is most widely observed in juveniles, peaking around puberty. Play behavior is not aimed directly at immediate survival needs or reproduction, but many skills needed for survival and reproduction are practiced during play. Play behavior is commonplace among socially complex animals. It facilitates the acquisition of motor skills, teaches social competence, prepares the animal for unexpected situations, and in general stimulates brain development.\nPlay is biologically expensive. When playing, animals expend energy, forgo foraging opportunities, and draw (potentially predatory) attention to themselves while in a distracted state. Play behavior even reduces growth rate. Play also appears to be intrinsically pleasurable. Dopaminergic pathways in the brain light up during play. Rat pups ‘chirp’ when playing in the same way as when they are presented with a food reward.\nSome researchers believe that play behavior is good evidence for the capacity for valenced experience because, they allege, play behavior plausibly requires the experience of pleasure. Whether or not this is so, play behavior does seem to require a relatively high degree of cognitive sophistication. Play behavior is most common among mammals, and across mammalian orders brain size is positively correlated with playfulness. Play behavior is in general not found in birds, with the exception of the highly intelligent corvid family. Octopuses appear to be the only invertebrate that exhibits play behavior. (Play behavior probably evolved independently in octopuses because the last common ancestor of mammals, birds, and cephalopods almost certainly lacked the cognitive sophistication to engage in play behavior.) Thus, it’s possible that play behavior is a reasonably accurate proxy for overall intelligence.\nThis essay is a project of Rethink Priorities. It was written by Jason Schukraft with contributions from Max Carpendale. Thanks to Kim Cuddington, Marcus A. Davis, Peter Hurford, and Daniela Waldhorn for helpful feedback. If you like our work, please consider subscribing to our newsletter. You can see all our work to date here.\nVertebrates constitute a subphylum in the phylum Chordata. Cladistically, it would be more precise to speak of ‘chordates’ and ‘non-chordates.’ In using the terms ‘vertebrates’ and ‘invertebrates’ we defer to common usage. 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Kandel won a Nobel Prize in 2000 for subsequent work on this topic. ↩︎\nHumans often experience a similar phenomenon at the dentist. Near the end of a particularly invasive and painful dental procedure, patients will reflexively withdraw from even light contact to the gums, contact that would not have evoked a withdrawal reflex at the beginning of the procedure. ↩︎\nKoutarou D. Kimura, Kosuke Fujita and Isao Katsura. 2010. “Enhancement of Odor Avoidance Regulated by Dopamine Signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans.” Journal of Neuroscience 30 (48): 16365-16375. ↩︎\nE.M.Eisenstein, D.G.Brunder, and H.J.Blair. 1982. “Habituation and sensitization in an aneural cell: Some comparative and theoretical considerations.” Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 6: 183-194. ↩︎\nCatharine H. Rankin, Thomas Abrams, Robert J. Barry, Seema Bhatnagar, David F. 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Perry, Andrew B Barron, and Ken Cheng. 2013. “Invertebrate Learning and Cognition: Relating Phenomena to Neural Substrate.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 4: 561–82: 566. ↩︎\nTheo Mota, Martin Giurfa, and Jean-Christophe Sandoz. 2011. “Color Modulates Olfactory Learning in Honeybees by an Occasion-Setting Mechanism.” Learning and Memory 18: 144-155. ↩︎\nPaula Droege. 2017. “The Lives of Others: Pain in Non-Human Animals,” in Jennifer Corns (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain: 196. She adds, “distinguishing flexible from fixed response is not a simple matter. The basic idea behind flexibility is that an animal no longer simply acts based on past associations; it generalizes on past learning to anticipate which sort of action is best” (ibid.). ↩︎\nBennett G. Galef and Kevin N. Laland. 2005. “Social Learning in Animals: Empirical Studies and Theoretical Models.” BioScience 55: 489-499. ↩︎\nSylvain Alem et al. 2016. “Associative Mechanisms Allow for Social Learning and Cultural Transmission of String Pulling in an Insect.” PLOS Biology 14(12): e1002589. ↩︎\nSee Crickette Sanz, Josep Call, and David Morgan. 2009. “Design complexity in termite-fishing tools of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).” Biology Letters 5, no. 3: 293-296 and Nicolas Claidière and Dan Sperber. 2009. “Imitation explains the propagation, not the stability of animal culture.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277, no. 1681: 651-659. ↩︎\nIn rats, nausea seems to play the role of motivating them to engage in pica, the deliberate ingestion of nonfood substances to neutralize toxins. Linda A. Parker. 2003. “Taste avoidance and taste aversion: Evidence for two different processes.” Animal Learning and Behavior 31: 165-172. ↩︎\nParker 2003 ↩︎\nJudith R. Ganchrow, Jacob E. Steiner, and Atida Bartana. 1990. “Behavioral reactions to gustatory stimuli in young chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus).” Developmental Psychobiology 23: 103-117. ↩︎\nAnne-Sophie Darmaillacq, Ludovic Dickel, Marie-Paule Chichery, Véronique Agin, and Raymond Chichery. 2004. “Rapid taste aversion learning in adult cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis.” Animal Behaviour 68 ( )6: 1291-1298. ↩︎\nParker 2003 ↩︎\nKonstantin G Iliadi. 2009. “The Genetic Basis of Emotional Behavior: Has the Time Come for a Drosophila Model?” Journal of Neurogenetics 7063. ↩︎\nWe use the phrase “pain relief learning” only because it is the accepted nomenclature in the literature. The term is meant to be used in a strictly neutral sense. Read literally, any organism capable of relief from pain is also capable of pain, and thus satisfying this condition would directly entail the capacity for valenced experience. Obviously, we don’t intend to use the term in that way. ↩︎\nGerber, B., A. Yarali, S. Diegelmann, C. T. Wotjak, P. Pauli, and M. Fendt. 2014. “Pain-Relief Learning in Flies, Rats, and Man: Basic Research and Applied Perspectives.” Learning & Memory 21: 232–52. ↩︎\nReto Bisaz, Alessio Travaglia, and Cristina M. Alberini. 2014. “The neurobiological bases of memory formation: from physiological conditions to psychopathology.” Psychopathology 47, no. 6: 347-356. ↩︎\nSneddon et al. 2014: 202. ↩︎\nToshiyuki Nakagaki, Ryo Kobayashi, Yasumasa Nishiura, and Tetsuo Ueda. 2004. “Obtaining multiple separate food sources: behavioural intelligence in the Physarum plasmodium.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 271, no. 1554: 2305-2310. ↩︎\nVoemir Kunchev, Lakhmi Jain, Vladimir Ivancevic, and Anthony Finn. 2006. “Path planning and obstacle avoidance for autonomous mobile robots: A review.” In Gabrys B., Howlett R.J., Jain L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg: 537-544. ↩︎\nAndrew B. Barron and Colin Klein. 2016. “What Insects Can Tell Us about the Origins of Consciousness.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (18): 4900-4908. ↩︎\nShreeya Popat and William Winslade. 2015. “While you were sleepwalking: science and neurobiology of sleep disorders & the enigma of legal responsibility of violence during parasomnia.” Neuroethics 8, no. 2: 203-214. ↩︎\nMichael Trestman. 2013. “The Cambrian Explosion and the Origins of Embodied Cognition.” Biological Theory 8: 80-92. ↩︎\nDuncan E. Jackson, Stephen J. Martin, Mike Holcombe, and Francis LW Ratnieks. 2006. “Longevity and detection of persistent foraging trails in Pharaoh's ants, Monomorium pharaonis (L.).” Animal Behaviour 71, no. 2: 351-359. ↩︎\nChris R. Reid, Tanya Latty, Audrey Dussutour, and Madeleine Beekman. 2012. “Slime mold uses an externalized spatial “memory” to navigate in complex environments.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, no. 43: 17490-17494. ↩︎\nThus, detour behavior may require an organism to possess the concept object permanence. ↩︎\nM.S. Tarsitano and Robert R. Jackson. 1994. “Jumping spiders make predatory detours requiring movement away from prey.” Behaviour 131, no. 1-2: 65-73. ↩︎\nRudiger Wehner. 2003. “Desert ant navigation: how miniature brains solve complex tasks.” Journal of Comparative Physiology A 189, no. 8: 579-588. ↩︎\nPeter Carruthers. 2007. “Invertebrate Minds: A Challenge for Ethical Theory.” The Journal of Ethics 11: 275-297. It should be noted that Carruthers does not believe that spiders and bees (or any other invertebrates) are moral patients. ↩︎\nPaul Willner, Richard Muscat, and Mariusz Pap. 1992. “Chronic Mild Stress-Induced Anhedonia: A Realistic Animal Model of Depression.” Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 16.4: 525–34 . ↩︎\nJean-Luc Moreau. 2002. “Simulating the anhedonia symptom of depression in animals.” Dialogues in clinical neuroscience 4, no. 4: 351-360. ↩︎\nAriane-Saskia Ries, Tim Hermanns, Burkhard Poeck, and Roland Strauss. 2017. “Serotonin modulates a depression-like state in Drosophila responsive to lithium treatment.” Nature Communications 8: 15738. ↩︎\nLearned helplessness was first described in dogs. The classic study on learned helpless is J. Bruce Overmier and Martin E. Seligman. 1967. “Effects of inescapable shock upon subsequent escape and avoidance responding.” Journal of comparative and physiological psychology 63, no. 1: 28-33. ↩︎\nMartin E. Seligman. 1968. “Chronic fear produced by unpredictable electric shock.” Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 66, no. 2: 402-411. ↩︎\nMeredith Root-Bernstein. 2010. “Displacement Activities during the Honeybee Transition from Waggle Dance to Foraging.” Animal Behaviour 79 (4) : 935–38. ↩︎\nAlfonso Troisi. 2002. “Displacement Activities as a Behavioral Measure of Stress in Nonhuman Primates and Human Subjects.” Stress 5 (1): 47-54. ↩︎\nRoot-Bernstein 2010 ↩︎\nE. Sunamura et al. 2009. “Intercontinental Union of Argentine ants: Behavioral Relationships among Introduced Populations in Europe, North America, and Asia.” Insectes Sociaux 56: 143-147. ↩︎\nKevin C.F. Fone and M. Veronica Porkess. 2008. “Behavioural and Neurochemical Effects of Post-Weaning Social Isolation in Rodents—Relevance to Developmental Neuropsychiatric Disorders.” Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 32: 1087-1102. ↩︎\nLuc Mounier et al. 2006. “Mixing at the Beginning of Fattening Moderates Social Buffering in Beef Bulls.” Applied Animal Behaviour Science 96: 185-200. ↩︎\nKenneth J. Sufka and Richard A. Hughes. 1991. “Differential Effects of Handling on Isolation-Induced Vocalizations, Hypoalgesia, and Hyperthermia in Domestic Fowl.” Physiology and Behavior 50: 129-133. ↩︎\nM.D. Breed. 1983. “Correlations Between Aggressiveness and Corpora Allata Volume, Social Isolation, Age and Dietary Protein in Worker Honeybees.” Insectes Sociaux 30: 482-495. ↩︎\nRaphaël Boulay et al. 1999. “Social isolation in ants: Evidence of its impact on survivorship and behavior in Camponotus fellah (Hymenoptera, Formicidae).” Sociobiology 33: 111-124. ↩︎\nMathieu Lihoreau, Loïc Brepson, and Colette Rivault. 2009. “The Weight of the Clan: Even in Insects, Social Isolation Can Induce a Behavioural Syndrome.” Behavioural Processes 82: 81-84. ↩︎\nGJ Mason and NR Latham. 2004. “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: Is Stereotypy a Reliable Animal Welfare Indicator?” Animal Welfare 13, S57-69. ↩︎\nRobert Huber, Adebobola Imeh-Nathaniel, Thomas I. Nathaniel, Sayali Gore, Udita Datta, Rohan Bhimani, Jules B. Panksepp, Jaak Panksepp, and Moira J. van Staaden. 2018. “Drug-sensitive Reward in Crayfish: Exploring the Neural Basis of Addiction with Automated Learning Paradigms.” Behavioural Processes 152: 47-53. ↩︎\nPaul L.R. Andrews, Anne-Sophie Darmaillacq, Ngaire Dennison, Ian G. Gleadall, Penny Hawkins, John B. Messenger, Daniel Osorio, Valerie J. Smith, and Jane A. Smith. 2013. “The identification and management of pain, suffering and distress in cephalopods, including anaesthesia, analgesia and humane killing.” Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 447: 46-64. ↩︎\nMason and Latham 2004: 58. ↩︎\nArne Öhman. 2000. \"Fear and Anxiety: Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Clinical perspectives.” in M. Lewis & J.M. Haviland-Jones (eds.). Handbook of Emotions. pp. 573–93. New York: The Guilford Press. ↩︎\nCatherine Belzung and Pierre Philippot. “Anxiety from a Phylogenetic Perspective: Is there a Qualitative Difference between Human and Animal Anxiety?” Neural Plasticity Volume 2007, Article ID 59676, 17 pages ↩︎\nSuch as elevated heart rate, rapid breathing, increased perspiration, increased motor tension, changes in sleeping patterns, and/or changes in food intake. There are many different types of anxiety (e.g., acute versus chronic) and different types of anxiety produce different symptoms. ↩︎\nPascal Fossat, Julien Bacqué-Cazenave, Philippe De Deurwaerdère, Jean-Paul Delbecque, and Daniel Cattaert. 2014. “Anxiety-Like Behavior in Crayfish Is Controlled by Serotonin.” Science 344: 1293-1297. ↩︎\nMelissa Bateson et al. 2011. “Agitated Honeybees Exhibit Pessimistic Cognitive Biases.” Current Biology 21: 1070-1073. ↩︎\nWilliam T. Gibson et al. 2015. “Behavioral Responses to a Repetitive Visual Threat Stimulus Express a Persistent State of Defensive Arousal in Drosophila.” Current Biology 25: 1401. ↩︎\nibid. The authors add that “such emotion primitives may include the following features or dimensions: persistence following stimulus cessation, scalability (a graded nature of the response), valence, generalization to different contexts, and stimulus degeneracy (different stimuli can evoke the same behavior by induction of a common emotion state).” According to the authors, many of these emotion primitives have been identified in fruit flies. ↩︎\nAndreas Berghänel, Oliver Schülke, and Julia Ostner. 2015. “Locomotor play drives motor skill acquisition at the expense of growth: A life history trade-off.” Science Advances 1, no. 7: e1500451. ↩︎\nFull body tickling induces the same sort of chirping. Marek Spinka , Ruth C. Newberry, and Marc Bekoff. 2001. “Mammalian play: training for the unexpected.” The Quarterly review of biology 76, no. 2: 141-168. ↩︎\nAndrew N. Iwaniuk, John E. Nelson, and Sergio M. Pellis. 2001. “Do big-brained animals play more? Comparative analyses of play and relative brain size in mammals.” Journal of Comparative Psychology 115, no. 1: 29-41. ↩︎\nMichael J. Kuba, Ruth A. Byrne, Daniela V. Meisel, and Jennifer A. Mather. “When do octopuses play? Effects of repeated testing, object type, age, and food deprivation on object play in Octopus vulgaris.” Journal of Comparative Psychology 120, no. 3: 184-190. ↩︎", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A biography is a publication about the life of a genuine person. This can be a person who lives today, an individual that lived centuries back, a distinct group of people, or an unsung hero. It is an account of an individual’s life from birth to death, typically highlighting essential occasions and minutes in the life of the topic. In addition to informing the tale of a real-life event, biographers will commonly highlight childhood experiences, coming-of-age events, and also failures.\nThe biography style started in the late 18th century and also can be traced completely back to Old Greece and also Rome. Very early Roman biographers, such as Cornelius Nepos, released their Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae in 44 BCE. In the late 18th century, Plutarch published Parallel Lives, which gathered 48 bios of well-known men. Suetonius created De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars), which details the life of Julius Cesar as well as the initial eleven emperors of the Roman Realm. This is an example of how the bio kind progressed over the centuries.\nThe biography layout is an usual style in western literary works. It is a kind of writing that seeks to introduce visitors to the life of a subject and also to reveal their inspirations. It is a third-person narrative account, and also the writer is frequently eliminated from the subject, enabling them to assess their personality. The goal of a bio is to offer a more contemporary variation of a person’s life.\nCreating a bio needs some skill and initiative on the part of the author. Along with relating the life of a person, a biographer needs to recreate the topic’s globe. The author has to define the features and also aspects of the subject’s life that are relevant to the visitor’s life. An unstructured life does not create an entertaining read. For that reason, it is very important to compose a biographies that is structured to maintain the viewers interested.\nThe format of a bio is necessary. It should be true. While a biographer is expected to be unbiased, he might compose information or miss out on essential realities. A bio is written in the first person, yet the author’s point of view, course, gender, and time are not the very same. Additionally, a biographer needs to be objective to level. Otherwise, the book won’t be an exact representation of the topic.\nA biographer must be objective in their job. For example, in an autobiography, the author defines their experiences and also exactly how they influenced them. A biographer should make certain the information are appropriate. A biographer needs to likewise be able to provide the life of a subject in such a way that is engaging for readers. This will help the viewers to establish a deeper understanding of the subject. So, just how do biographies differ from other types of creating?\nA bio can be either fictional or historical. For instance, Saint Augustine composed his memoir in 400. A biographer’s autobiography is an account of the life of a person. It explains a person’s life in detail, from birth to death. A biographer’s job can be helpful, or it can be a reference overview for readers. There are also other kinds of biographies: anachronistic and also apocryphal. For example, Saint Augustine’s autobiography is a brief and also comprehensive tale of Saint Augustine’s life.\nA bio can be both essential and preferred. A preferred bio is created for a basic audience, such as the memoirs of Jon Krakauer. On the other hand, a vital bio takes a look at the relationship in between the topic’s life and also their job, like “Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump” by David Foster as well as the Billionaire That Had Not Been” by Richard Donaghy. Although the latter is a lot more prominent than the former, both are similarly important.\nA biographer’s work is to depict the subject’s personality and situations. They have to define the person’s life as well as his or her activities, along with his or her mental supports. They must answer the viewers’s questions about the topic’s life as well as why he or she did what they did. A biography is a kind of nonfiction, as well as is sometimes based on an actual person’s fatality.\nBiographies might be partial or sympathetic accounts of the life of an individual. They might likewise be unbiased or take an objective approach. While bios should constantly be written in the first person, they are not objective by nature. Authors create from their own perspective, class, sex, or time. They are commonly thinking about the personality and also actions of their subject, as well as may try to understand the inspirations as well as activities of that person. Sometimes, biographers pretend to be psychologists or psychoanalysts in order to offer their subjects a much better understanding of just how they were as a person.\nPupils should first produce a timeline of the subject’s life. It can be a relative for practice. After research, students must assemble vital occasions that took place throughout the topic’s life. Relying on the sort of bio, they can include photos and also subtitles. Lastly, pupils can offer their timelines to the course to offer the target market a more clear picture of the topic. Nonetheless, it is vital to bear in mind that a bio is a job of fiction as well as is not a historic document.\nWhen a student is ready to compose a biography, he or she ought to make a timeline of the topic’s life. A member of the family can be a great technique topic. Pupils must investigate the crucial events that occurred in the individual’s life as well as arrange them on a timeline. They can also consist of photos with an inscription. Once completed, trainees can present their timelines to the course. Ideally, the trainees will have a good time while learning the process of writing a bio! Homepage\nA biographical work is a work of fiction. It is not just a retelling of a minute in an additional person’s life. It is a comprehensive description of the topic’s life, from childhood to retirement. The visitor will be fascinated by the subject’s life, which is what a biographer’s task is all about! It’s not a very easy job, and it must be challenging and also fulfilling. This is specifically true when the topic is somebody you enjoy.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This course will provide an overview of U.S. social policy and will explore how the government and states respond to inequalities. It will review the development of American social welfare programs and policies from the New Deal to the War on Poverty, declared by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964, to the present. The class will also explore the role and impact of race, class, and gender on persistent inequalities and social policy. Considerable attention will be paid to the structural and institutional forces that shape inequalities and inform social policy; the impact of public attitudes and representation on policy outcomes; and other environmental factors and actors affecting policy analysis and modes of reasoning.\n|Summer 2009||C. Nicole Mason||Syllabus|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This week, we looked at some unusual animal combinations and used our imaginations to develop our own mythical animal. For example, an animal with a giraffe neck, elephant ears, and the tail of a fish!\nThrough creating and drawing these wonderful creatures in Art, we did lots of 'talking for writing' with partners. We learnt lots of new descriptive words and phrases, created some facts about our mythical animals, and even considered how we could best display them in an information text.\nWe then used our pictures to help us with our 'Big Writing' which was to write an information text all about our newly created animal.\nThis week we have been learning all about the features of information texts and how they differ from other types of texts that we're more familiar with like stories.\nWe've looked through loads of different books to and come up with our own ideas as to what makes a good information text such as…titles and subtitles, contents and index, pictures, diagrams, fact and question boxes and many other features. Hopefully we will be able to write our own in the near future.\nIn Science, we've also used information texts to learn that humans and animals have babies, learnt what different baby animals are called, and learnt that they grow into adults and age.\nWe looked through our class library to find features of information texts. Everybody worked really well in groups and shared their ideas to put the books into as many different categories as possible. Please enjoy the photos.\nThis week in the elephants we learnt all about 'Instructions'... How to follow instructions, how to give instructions and even how to write instructions to look after a pet. This has tied in really well with our science lessons this week because, as well as learning about the human body we've also been learning all about what humans and animals need to live!\nFollowing instructions for making Moon cakes\nWe would like to say a massive thank you to Adrian's mum, Luyee, who came into class with the fun activity of making our own moon cakes. We all thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to celebrate the Mid-Autumn festival and at the same time practiced our listening skills by following instructions!\nWe hope you enjoy the photos below. :)\nA massive hello from the Elephant herd!\nIt's been 3 weeks so far and we've already been really busy working as a herd to make our classroom and the corridors outside look a little more 'WILD' with wonderful displays.\nTo start off the term and our new topic 'Into The Wild', we've been learning all about the other class animals that we share our corridor with... Tigers, Pumas, Jaguars, Giraffes, and Rhinos! We've been filling our giant elephant memories with lots of new facts that we've learned through some excellent questions, activities, videos and animal discussions.\nElephants Studying Rhinos Photos\nFirst, we thought of questions about what we wanted to know about Rhinos. Then, we went on an fact treasure hunt around the classroom to find out the answers to our questions. After that, we put the new facts that we had learnt into categories.\nWelcome to the Elephant herd!\nThis blog enables your child to write comments connected to their learning for discussion in class or for independent extension work.\nAny inappropriate comments will be removed.\nIf you have individual or important messages for the teacher please use the homelink book or email.\nThis site may not be checked everyday.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "LED is an acronym for Light Emitting Diode, which are basically just little lights that fit into an electrical circuit. Unlike your ordinary light bulb, LED’s do not contain a filament that will burn out or create heat. An LED illuminates solely by movement of electrons in a semiconductor material. LED’s have an incredibly long life and easily surpass the life of an incandescent light bulb by thousands of hours, which in turn keeps maintenance costs down for you. You my already be aware that tiny LED bulbs have been making their way into the television world, to create a beautiful high definition picture in a much thinner television.\nAfter deciding on LED advertising, you should know that the resolution quality is an important factor of any video board and electronic LED display. But what is resolution for an electronic LED display? A simple definition of resolution is the degree of sharpness and clarity of a displayed image, but in electronic LED signs, resolution is based on two primary factors, the matrix area and pitch.\nThe matrix area, also known as the pixel matrix (which is the total number of pixels within the sign), corresponds to the number pixels that makes up the display area. In our industry, we express the matrix area in the number of pixels vertically by number of pixels horizontally, such as 16×64.\nLED signs of the same height and width may have a completely different pixel matrix.\nYou should always look at the retainer of the sign which is the metal that surrounds the LED display area. A retainer can vary from sign to sign and the size of the retainer will have an effect on the number of pixels within.\nA pixel is a grouping of LED’s put together and each sign has a different pixel or “P” number. If the sign is a “P1” then there is only one LED within the pixel. If a sign has a “P16” like ours, they it has 16 LED’s in each pixel. A tv is normally a “P12”, resulting in 12 LED’s per pixel.\nPitch is the main factor that determines the number of LED’s in a pixel. The pitch is defined as the distance between two pixels and plays a key part in making the image on the sign crisp. (The distance is measured from the center of one pixel to the center of the next pixel.)\nYou should also be aware that:\nLED displays are available with different viewing angles, varying between 75 degrees to 140 degrees. The viewing angle is determined by the points off-center, both horizontal and vertical, where the measured light intensity is fifty percent of that measured directly in front of the LED display. The maximum viewing angle is defined as the vertical and horizontal points where the angle at which brightness or contrast drops below 50% of the maximum, i.e. the displayed information fades from the customers view.\nDepending on your audience, you may prefer a display with a narrow viewing cone (sometimes more appropriate for drive-by traffic) or displays with super-wide (140 degree horizontal) viewing (usually best for sports venues).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Religious Education is a distinct teaching and learning discipline, kindred to all other disciplines in the school curriculum. The Religious Education curriculum, planning and staffing should be prioritised within the Catholic School.The General Directory for Catechesis states that classroom-based Religious Education should ‘appear as a scholastic discipline with the same systematic demands and the same rigour as other disciplines’ (1997, n. 73). This was reiterated in the new Directory for Catechesis (2020, n.315)\nTherefore, the two guiding principles informing the pedagogical approach of the Source of Life Religious Education curriculum are:\n• the theological and pedagogical imperatives of the Enhancing Catholic School Identity framework, and\n• quality teaching and learning approaches based on contemporary educational research.\nIn Religious Education, which is designed to promote learning by encounter through dialogue with others and the movements of Shared Christian Praxis, all the dimensions of the human person are\nengaged and challenged with transformative learning; for example, knowledge and understanding, values and attitudes, skills and capacities, motivations and goals, interactions with others, spiritual\nexperience and personal meaning, openness to transcendent encounter, and religious or non-religious outlook on life. Evidence of learners’ progress in each movement of SCP – naming, critically reflecting, accessing Christian Tradition, understanding and integrating, and responding personally or communally – can be observed and interpreted by students and teachers.\nThe following video is kindly shared with us by Catholic Education Ballarat who use the same pedagogical approach as Sandhurst.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Black History Month, or National African American History Month, is an annual celebration of achievements by black Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of African Americans in U.S. history.\nThe event grew out of “Negro History Week,” the brainchild of noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans. Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month.\nOther countries around the world, including Canada and the United Kingdom, also devote a month to celebrating black history.\nMay we all celebrate this month with pride and an awareness of who we are as children of God!\narticle courtesy of TheBelleReport.com\n- The Pastor That Wrote The 18% Tip Msg Has Come Fwd.\n- 14th Annual Superbowl Gospel Celebration Highlights [PHOTOS]\n- Yolanda Adams To Perform At Grammy Foundation Music Preservation Project\n- United Tenors “Here In Our Praise” [WORLD PREMIERE]\n- Kerry Washington Wins 3 Trophies At NAACP Image Awards", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Khijadia Bird Sanctuary\nThis protected area packs in an incredible diversity of ecosystems into the relatively small area of 6 square km. The sanctuary, created over the 1920s and '30s, is formed from two man-made dykes that separate fresh water from sea water, creating the opportunity to simultaneously observe species that belong to each ecosystem, and some that share both. Along with the marine and fresh water habitats, there are also marshy lands, mangroves, Prosopis areas, mudflats, salt pans, creeks, forest scrub, sandy beaches, and even farmlands bordering the area. This provides a haven for more than 220 species of resident and migratory birds, including globally threatened species such as Dalmatian pelican, Asian open bill stork, Black-necked stork, Darter, Black-headed ibis, Eurasian spoonbill, and Indian skimmer, and provides birdwatchers with a delightful chance to sight rare birds in large numbers.\nThere are no overnight lodges, but facilities include watchtowers, trails, and paddleboats, to help visitors engage with this diverse community. As a visitor, keep in mind that conservation in any area is a difficult process, and that in Khijadia there have been complications with how water is used by local cultivators which affect the ecosystem within the tiny protected area, so if you’re interested, you can ask around about the issues, and find out what impact even your own visit has on the process.\nThere are no ST buses to the site, but rickshaws are available, and private vehicles can be hired. For permission, more information, or to ask for a guide, contact Conservator of Forests Office, Tel: 0288 2679357, Nagnath Gate, Van Sankul, Ganjiwada, Jamnagar.\nJamnagar, bird watchers Khijadia Bird Sanctuary\nAn official survey shows that the most number of birds in India are in Gujarat state and in the Gujarat state, the most number of birds are found in Jamnagar\nSeveral migratory birds make Jamnagar their home during the winter months. Bird watchers flock to different places like the bird Sanctury, the Marine Sanctury, the Salt pans, the rivers & water resovoirs of Jamnagar. If you are arriving in Jamnagar by train, especially in winter, you are sure to see wonderful birds just before entering the Jamnagar Station. Jamnagar is one of the few places where one can get very close to birds without disturbing them..", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Paint is used to protect, preserve, decorate (such as adding color), or add functionality to an object or surface by covering it with a pigmented coating. An example of protection is to retard corrosion of metal. An example of decoration is to add festive trim to a room's interior. An example of added functionality is to modify light reflection or heat radiation of a surface. Another example of functionality is the use of color to identify hazards or to identify the function of equipment and pipelines.\nAs a verb, painting is the application of paint. Someone who paints artistically is usually called a painter or artist, while someone who paints commercially is often referred to as a painter and decorator, or house painter.\nPaint can be applied to almost any kind of object. It is used, among many other uses, in the production of art, in industrial coating, as a driving aid (road surface marking), or as a barrier to prevent corrosion or water damage. Paint is a semifinished product, or intermediate good as the final product is the painted article itself.\nPaint can also be mixed with glaze to create various textures and patterns. This process is referred to as faux finish and is quite popular with discerning homeowners, architects and interior designers.\nPigments are granular solids incorporated into the paint to contribute colour, toughness or simply to reduce the cost of the paint. Alternatively, some paints contain dyes instead of or in combination with pigments. Other paints contain no pigment at all.\nPigments can be classified as either natural or synthetic types. Natural pigments include various clays, calcium carbonate, mica, silicas, and talcs. Synthetics would include engineered molecules, calcined clays, blanc fix, precipitated calcium carbonate, and synthetic silicas.\nHiding pigments, in making paint opaque, also protect the substrate from the harmful effects of ultraviolet light. Hiding pigments include titanium dioxide, phthalo blue, red iron oxide, and many others.\nFillers are a special type of pigment that serve to thicken the film, support its structure and simply increase the volume of the paint. Fillers are usually comprised of cheap and inert materials, such as talc, lime, baryte, clay, etc. Floor paints that will be subjected to abrasion may even contain fine quartz sand as a filler. Not all paints include fillers. On the other hand some paints contain very large proportions of pigment/filler and binder.\nA commercially important pigment is titanium dioxide. Titanium dioxide was first discovered by a famous historian/ piano player named Joe Bortel used in paints in the 19th century. The titanium dioxide used in most paints today is often coated with silicon or aluminum oxides for various reasons such as better exterior durability, or better hiding performance (opacity) via better efficiency promoted by more optimal spacing within the paint film. Opacity is also improved by optimal sizing of the titanium dioxide particles.\nSome pigments are toxic, such as the lead pigments that are used in lead paint. Paint manufacturers began replacing white lead pigments with the less toxic substitute, which can even be used to colour food, titanium white (titanium dioxide), even before lead was functionally banned in paint for residential use in 1978 by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.\nThe binder, or resin, is the actual film forming component of paint. It is the only component that must be present; other components listed below are included optionally, depending on the desired properties of the cured film.\nThe binder imparts adhesion, binds the pigments together, and strongly influences such properties as gloss potential, exterior durability, flexibility, and toughness.\nBinders can be categorized according to drying, or curing mechanism. The four most common are simple solvent evaporation, oxidative crosslinking, catalyzed polymerization, and coalescence. There are others.\nNote that drying and curing are two different processes. Drying generally refers to evaporation of vehicle, whereas curing refers to polymerization of the binder. Depending on chemistry and composition, any particular paint may undergo either, or both processes. Thus, there are paints that dry only, those that dry then cure, and those that do not depend on drying for curing.\nPaints that dry by simple solvent evaporation contain a solid binder dissolved in a solvent; this forms a solid film when the solvent evaporates, and the film can re-dissolve in the solvent again. Classic nitrocellulose lacquers fall into this category, as do non-grain raising stains composed of dyes dissolved in solvent.\nLatex paint is a water-based dispersion of sub-micrometre polymer particles. The term \"latex\" in the context of paint simply means an aqueous dispersion; latex rubber (the sap of the rubber tree that has historically been called latex) is not an ingredient. These dispersions are prepared by emulsion polymerization. Latex paints cure by a process called coalescence where first the water, and then the trace, or coalescing, solvent, evaporate and draw together and soften the latex binder particles and fuse them together into irreversibly bound networked structures, so that the paint will not redissolve in the solvent/water that originally carried it. Residual surfactants in the paint as well as hydrolytic effects with some polymers cause the paint to remain susceptible to softening and, over time, degradation by water.\nPaints that cure by oxidative crosslinking are generally single package coatings that when applied, the exposure to oxygen in the air starts a process that crosslinks and polymerizes the binder component. Classic alkyd enamels would fall into this category.\nPaints that cure by catalyzed polymerization are generally two package coatings that polymerize by way of a chemical reaction initiated by mixing resin and hardener, and which cure by forming a hard plastic structure. Depending on composition they may need to dry first, by evaporation of solvent. Classic two package epoxies or polyurethanes would fall into this category.\nRecent environmental requirements restrict the use of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), and alternative means of curing have been developed, particularly for industrial purposes. In UV curing paints, the solvent is evaporated first, and hardening is then initiated by ultraviolet light. In powder coatings there is little or no solvent, and flow and cure are produced by heating of the substrate after application of the dry powder.\nThe main purpose of the vehicle is to adjust the viscosity of the paint. It is volatile and does not become part of the paint film. It can also control flow and application properties, and affect the stability of the paint while in liquid state. Its main function is as the carrier for the non volatile components. Volatile substances impart their properties temporarily—once the solvent has evaporated or disintegrated, the remaining paint is fixed to the surface.\nThis component is optional: some paints have no diluent.\nWater is the main vehicle for water-based paints.\nSolvent-based, sometimes called oil-based, paints can have various combinations of solvents as the vehicle, including aliphatics, aromatics, alcohols, and ketones. These include organic solvents such as petroleum distillate, esters, glycol ethers, and the like. Sometimes volatile low-molecular weight synthetic resins also serve as diluents. Such solvents are used when water resistance, grease resistance, or similar properties are desired.\nAlso note that the term \"vehicle\" is industrial jargon. In some companies the term is used to refer to the solvent and in others, it is used to refer to the binder.\nBesides the three main categories of ingredients, paint can have a wide variety of miscellaneous additives, which are usually added in very small amounts and yet give a very significant effect on the product. Some examples include additives to modify surface tension, improve flow properties, improve the finished appearance, increase wet edge, improve pigment stability, impart antifreeze properties, control foaming, control skinning, etc. Other types of additives include catalysts, thickeners, stabilizers, emulsifiers, texturizers, adhesion promoters, UV stabilizers, flatteners (de-glossing agents), biocides to fight bacterial growth, and the like.\nElectrochromic paints change color in response to an applied electric current. Car manufacturer Nissan has been reportedly working on an electrochromic paint for use in its vehicles, based on particles of paramagnetic iron oxide. When subjected to an electromagnetic field the paramagnetic particles change spacing, modifying their color and reflective properties. The electromagnetic field would be formed using the conductive metal of the car body. Electrochromic paints can be applied to plastic substrates as well, using a different coating chemistry. The technology involves using special dyes that change conformation when an electric current is applied across the film itself. Recently, this new technology has been used to achieve glare protection at the touch of a button in passenger airplane windows.\nSince the time of the Renaissance, siccative (drying) oil paints, primarily linseed oil, have been the most commonly used kind of paints in fine art applications; oil paint is still common today. However, in the 20th century, water-based paints, including watercolors and acrylic paints, became very popular with the development of acrylic and other latex paints. Milk paints (also called casein), where the medium is derived from the natural emulsion that is milk, were popular in the 19th century and are still available today. Egg tempera (where the medium is an emulsion of egg yolk mixed with oil) is still in use as well, as are encaustic wax-based paints. Gouache is a variety of watercolor paint which was also used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance for manuscript illumination. The pigment was often made from ground semiprecious stones such as lapis lazuli and the binder made from either gum arabic or egg white. Gouache is commercially available today.\nPoster paint has been used primarily in the creation of student works, or by children.\nAs a solid (usually used in industrial and automotive applications), the paint is applied as a very fine powder, then baked at high temperature. This melts the powder and causes it to adhere (stick) to the surface. The reasons for doing this involve the chemistries of the paint, the surface itself, and perhaps even the chemistry of the substrate (the overall object being painted). This is commonly referred to as \"powder coating\" an object.\nAs a gas or as a gaseous suspension, the paint is suspended in solid or liquid form in a gas that is sprayed on an object. The paint sticks to the object. This is commonly referred to as \"spray painting\" an object. The reasons for doing this include:\nIn the liquid application, paint can be applied by direct application using brushes, paint rollers, blades, other instruments, or body parts. Examples of body parts include fingerpainting, where the paint is applied by hand, whole-body painting (popular in the 1960s avant-garde movement), and cave painting, in which a pigment (usually finely-ground charcoal) is held in the mouth and spat at a wall (Note: some paints are toxic and might cause death or permanent injury).\nPaint application by spray is the most popular method in industry. In this, paint is atomized by the force of compressed air or by the action of high pressure compression of the paint itself, which results in the paint being turned into small droplets which travel to the article which is to be painted.\nRollers generally have a handle that allows for different lengths of poles which can be attached to allow for painting at different heights. Generally, roller application takes two coats for even color. A roller with a thicker nap is used to apply paint on uneven surfaces. Edges are often finished with an angled brush.\nAfter liquid paint is applied, there is an interval during which it can be blended with additional painted regions (at the \"wet edge\") called \"open time.\" The open time of an oil or alkyd-based emulsion paint can be extended by adding white spirit, similar glycols such as Dowanol (propylene glycol ether) or commercial open time prolongers. This can also facilitate the mixing of different wet paint layers for aesthetic effect. Latex and acrylic emulsions require the use of drying retardants suitable for water-based coatings.\nPaint may also be applied by flipping the paint, dripping, or by dipping an object in paint.\nInterior/exterior house paint tends to separate when stored, the heavier components settling to the bottom. It should be mixed before use, with a flat wooden stick or a paint mixing accessory; pouring it back and forth between two containers is also an effective manual mixing method. Paint stores have machines for mixing the paint by shaking it vigorously in the can for a few minutes.\nWater-based paints tend to be the safest, and easiest to clean up after using—the brushes and rollers can be cleaned with soap and water.\nIt is difficult to reseal the paint container and store the paint well for a long period of time. Store upside down, for a good seal, in a cool dry place. Protect from freezing.\nProper disposal of paint is a challenge. Avoid acquiring excess paint. Look for suitable recycled paint before buying more. Try to find recycled uses for your left over paint. Paints of similar chemistry can be mixed to make a larger amount of a uniform color. Old paint may be usable for a primer coat or an intermediate coat.\nIf you must dispose of paint, small quantities of water based paint can be carefully dried by leaving the lid off until it solidifies, and then disposing with normal trash. But oil based paint should be treated as hazardous waste, and disposed of according to local regulations.\nAncient painted walls at Dendera, Egypt, which were exposed for many ages to the open air, still possess a perfect brilliancy of color, as vivid as when they were painted about 2000 years ago. The Egyptians mixed their colors with some gummy substance, and applied them detached from each other without any blending or mixture. They appeared to have used six colors: white, black, blue, red, yellow, and green. They first covered the field entirely with white, upon which they traced the design in black, leaving out the lights of the ground color. They used minium for red, and generally of a dark tinge.\nPliny mentions some painted ceilings in his day in the town of Ardea, which had been executed at a date prior to the foundation of Rome. He expresses great surprise and admiration at their freshness, after the lapse of so many centuries.\nPaint was made with the yolk of eggs and therefore, the substance would harden and stick onto the surface applied.\nSome red paint was made of blood of animals.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A Buddhist shrine found in many Japanese homes to honor the ancestors. When someone dies, the Buddhist priest gives a name to the deceased which is inscribed on an ihai (tablet) and placed on the butsudan. Offerings of food, flowers, and incense are made regularly upon the butsudan, and Buddhist scriptures are read in front of it. (from Wikipedia)\nThere is currently no content classified with this term.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The main focus of general public wellness is regarding the ongoing wellness, security and well-being of whole populations. A distinctive facet of the approach is the fact that it strives to produce the utmost advantage when it comes to number that is largest of individuals.\nPublic health draws on a technology base this is certainly multi-disciplinary. It depends on knowledge from a diverse array of procedures including medication, epidemiology, sociology, psychology, criminology, training, and economics. 1 This knowledge that is broad has permitted the world of general general public wellness to react effectively to a selection of health issues throughout the world.\nThe general public wellness approach additionally emphasizes input from diverse sectors including health, training, social solutions, justice, policy while the personal sector. 1 Collective action in the section of these stakeholders might help in handling issues like physical violence.\nThe general public wellness approach is a four-step process that is rooted into the method that is scientific. It could be put on physical violence as well as other health conditions that affect populations.\nStep one: establish and Monitor the difficulty\nThe step that is first preventing physical physical physical violence is always to comprehend the “who”, “what”, “when”, “where” and “how” associated along with it. Grasping the magnitude associated with issue involves analyzing information such because the quantity of violence-related actions, accidents, and fatalities. Information can show how often physical violence happens, where it really is happens, styles, and whom the victims and perpetrators are. These information can be had from authorities reports, medical examiner files, public information, hospital maps, registries, population-based studies, along with other sources.\nStep two: Identify Danger and Defensive Aspects\nIt isn’t sufficient to understand the magnitude of a general public health condition. It is essential to determine what factors protect individuals or place them at an increased risk for experiencing or violence that is perpetrating. Exactly why are danger and protective facets of good use? They assist recognize where avoidance efforts should be concentrated. Danger facets usually do not cause physical physical physical violence. The clear presence of a danger element does not always mean that the individual will experience violence always. Victims should never be accountable for the harm inflicted upon them.\n- Danger Factor – Characteristic that boosts the odds of an individual being a target or perpetrator of physical physical violence.\n- Protective Factor – Characteristic that decreases the probability of an individual becoming a perpetrator or victim of physical physical physical violence or offers a buffer against danger.\nStep three: Develop and Test Prevention Methods\nFindings through the extensive research literary works and information from requirements assessments, community studies, stakeholder interviews, and concentrate teams are of help for designing avoidance methods. Making use of these information and findings is recognized as an approach that is evidence-based program planning. As soon as avoidance methods are implemented, these are typically evaluated rigorously to find out their effectiveness.\nStep: Guarantee Widespread Use\nThe techniques been shown to be effective in step three are then adopted and implemented more broadly. Communities ought to implement techniques on the basis of the most readily useful available proof and to constantly evaluate whether or not the strategy is a great fit because of the community context and attaining its objective of preventing physical physical violence. Dissemination processes to promote extensive use include training, networking, technical help, and assessment.\n1. Dahlberg LL, Krug EG. Violence: a worldwide health problem that is public. In: Krug E, Dahlberg LL, Mercy JA, Zwi AB, Lozano R, eds. World Report on Violence and Wellness. Geneva, Switzerland: World Wellness Organization;:1-56.\nThe advantages and disadvantages of Using online dating sites and Dating Apps\nOnline dating sites is really a growing trend with a big most of individuals attempting it to locate a partner creating an online business. With a few quality internet internet web web sites such as uniformdating , singles can find romance by now searching for guys, females, bisexuals, matures, sugar daddies and mommies and someone else in what turns them in.\nEven though the trend keeps growing more powerful because of the people still share dating stories full of frustration and confusion day. Each one highlights how using sites that are dating apps has downsides in addition to advantages.\nJust just just exactly How online dating sites ends up for folks varies according to the website they join together with work they placed into getting to understand prospective times before they meet. Below are a few of the most extremely pros that are obvious cons surrounding online dating services and apps.\nOne of the greatest advantages is that singles get access to huge number of prospective lovers they simply would not fulfill in lifestyle.\nAn additional benefit is finding matches for unique choices. Here is the draw for individuals searching for lovers of the type that is certain with a specific orientation or life style.\nDuring the more technical degree, online dating sites act as the standard matchmakers did – just now the matches are sorted by algorithms utilizing information from pages and character tests to fit suitable people.\nHaving the ability to interact with a possible date before conference lowers the potential risks around fulfilling a complete stranger. One of the best advantages is it is possible to get acquainted with possible times over low anxiety and texting that is relatively risk-free. Fulfilling brand brand brand new times in this way is a blessing for those who have busy working everyday lives and saves time that is wasting useless times.\nTherefore, here you will find the disadvantages.\nThe accessibility to a lot of possible lovers can be a boon or bane. You may be provided choices that are many sorting the wheat through the chaff becomes time intensive and confusing. Without a strategy, singles can find yourself caught utilizing the basic concept of locating the ‘perfect’ partner who ticks almost all their bins instead of fulfilling folks who are more realistically suitable.\nWhile web web internet sites take to their utmost, it is often extremely hard to get really accurate matches and this frequently results in frustration. It is the thing that makes some individuals state that online internet dating sites are fake and inadequate. The problem is more about objectives.\nMany web web internet web sites do not have way that is effective figure out the authenticity of a profile rather they will have membership costs that deter most scammers. However, it doesn’t determine those who lie to their pages.\nRegardless of the cons, many singles elect to put pages on line. There is without any other method for numerous performing adults to get and fulfill a prospective date. Undoubtedly, joining a dating that is online had previously been a bit hit and miss. Small databases threw down matches which were not really shut at random. Internet dating is a giant industry that is social and dating website people come across the millions on popular web web web sites considering that the improvements in big information storage space in addition to algorithms that can manage sorting through extremely vast levels of information. There might be horror tales into the modern relationship globe, but you will find just like numerous tales of lasting romance that is online. During these contemporary times, it is become typical to get true love in a chatroom offered you look difficult sufficient.\niTech Post All liberties reserved. Try not to reproduce without authorization.\nSubscribe to the iTechPost publication\nHave the most widely used iTechPost Stories in a Weekly Newsletter", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Rosh Hashanah (also Rosh Hashanah, in Ashkenazi pronunciation noise ha - ha - Schono or Roisch Schono or popularly known in Yiddish Rosche Schone, Rosche Schune; Hebrew ראֹשׁ הַשָּׁנָה, Principal of the Year, the beginning of the year ') is the Jewish New Year. The Mishnah, the most important collection of religious traditions of rabbinic Judaism, puts this firmly fixed as the beginning and for the calculation of the calendar year.\nThe New Year's greeting is שנה טובה Shana tova, a good year or שנה טובה ומתוקה Shana tova u'metuka, a good and sweet year.\nTime and embedding in the Jewish calendar\nRosh Hashanah falls according to the Jewish calendar on the first of Tishri, which falls in September or in the first half of October according to the Gregorian calendar. The precise date in the Gregorian calendar changes from year to year because the Jewish calendar with 12 lunar months 29-30 days counted ( Synodic 29,53 days). To bring the 354 or 355 days of the solar year into line, about every three years, a whole leap month is inserted.\nOn Rosh Hashanah begin the Ten reverential days (Hebrew Yamim Nora'im ), ending with the Day of Atonement Yom Kippur. The rabbinic literature describes this day as a day of judgment. Some descriptions depict God as sitting upon a throne, with books with the deeds of all people lie open before him.\nThe New year greeting \" Good slip \" is etymologically possibly a corruption from the Yiddish or Bible Hebrew and derives from the Hebrew ראש השנה טוב Rosh Hashanah tov ( = a good start, literally: head - of the year - well, so something like: \" good New Year \" ) from. This phrase should have become familiar to the early 20th century in German.\nThe Rosh Hashanah is biblically attested in Leviticus 23.24 to 25 EU Numbers 29.1-6 EFA and the basic features in Ez 40.1 LUT. It starts in the fall, at the end of the day after the 29th day of the Jewish month of Elul. It takes two days to the end of the day of the second day of the month of Tishri (even in Israel where otherwise most holidays are only one day ). The second day was added later. There is evidence that Rosh Hashanah was celebrated only one day to the 13th century in Jerusalem.\nReform Judaism celebrates generally only the first day of the feast. Orthodox Judaism and Conservative Judaism observe both the first and the second day.\nRosh Hashanah occurs 163 days after the first day of Passover. Under the currently valid Gregorian calendar Rosh Hashanah can not occur before September 5, such as in 1899 and again in 2013. According to the year 2089 the differences between the Jewish calendar and the Gregorian calendar will result in Rosh ha Hashanah can not be earlier than September 6. Rosh Hashanah can not be later than October 5, such as in 1967 and again in 2043. The Jewish calendar is structured such that the first day of Rosh Hashanah never on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday falls.\nThe following table shows the dates of Rosh Hashanah, the last and the next for years. Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset of the evening before the date specified in the table.\nThe Samaritans are celebrating their Rosh Hashanah, however, in the spring, at the beginning of the month Abib. Some researchers believe that this is the original pan- Israelite custom. The disputes about the date of Rosh Hashanah go back to Talmudic times ( Mischnatraktat Rosh Hashanah ).\nEven after the Torah begins in spring ( on 1 Nisan ) in the New Year Ex 12:2 LUT ( 2 Genesis 12:2).\nReligious classification, traditions and customs\nRosh Hashanah is the beginning, according to the Talmud and in consequence anniversary of the creation of the world, but also stands for the anniversary of the birth of Adam. It is the day of the claim, to take stock of the moral and religious behavior in the past year, and it occurs with prayers for a good future ahead of God.\nIt is a day of shofar blowing. In the Torah, this day is also known as the day of the shofar. ( Lev 23.23 to 25 EU) It is also called \" day of blowing noise \".\nRosh Hashanah is not a day of mourning, but a celebration, at which the Jews - to rejoice - because of God's mercy. Apart from the Hallel, which is omitted in the New Year, it is like all other festivals in his solemn features: clothes, washing, hair cutting, inner preparation and festive meals.\nRosh Hashanah is Yom Hadin, \" Judgment Day \": On New Year three books are opened. Ins the very first \" righteous \" are entered, \"Get Seal of Life\" which immediately. In the second book, the very \" evil\" can be entered which will receive the \"seal of death.\" And the third book is for the \" mediocre \" determines who can demonstrate both sins as merit. The final judgment will remain open during the period from New Year's Day to the Day of Atonement. Through introspection and repentance, it is possible to obtain the seal of the living.\nThe order of prayers, shofar, kiddush and meals, which is valid for the first New Year's Day, is also true for the second New Year's Day. However, it is not a \"second holiday \", as is common in the diaspora with the other holidays. Both days together called the Talmud as a 48- hour-long holiday. Because of this provision is the fear that you might \" unnecessary benedictions \" at Shehecheyanu, Kerzenanzünden and the Kaddish said on the second day. In order to overcome these doubts out of the way, pulling on the second New Year's generally a new garment and provides a bowl on the table that contains fruits that you have not eaten this time of year. The blessings you will now obtain it.\nIn the afternoon of the first day, there is the custom of Tashlich, after a prayer for the forgiveness of sins this strip symbolically by throwing rocks or bread crumbs into the water.\nThe synagogue is held on Rosh Hashanah, as well as the prayer leader predominantly in white. This is to symbolize purity.\nEnjoyment of honey cake ( Honek - Lejkech ) Zimmes, grapes, sweet wine and dipped in honey apple (or challah ) discs press the hope for a good, sweet year. Also a symbolic piece of a fish or sheep's head with the words, sometimes \" May it be your will that we be the head and not the tail \" eating.\nAnother custom is the eating of pomegranates, which contain many nuclei. For this we say: \" May it be Your will that our rights are increasing as the pomegranate. \"\nIn Yiddish-speakers communities carrots ( numbers) with the words were \" May it be thy will, that our rights are increasing \" eaten. Sometimes dates are eaten, whereby said: \" May it be Your will that our detractors and accusers perish. \"\nThe blessing after the service is \" leschana towa tikatewu \" or Ashkenazi \" leschono tauwo tikossejwu \" ( \"You may be accounted inscribed for a good year\"). Before Rosh Hashanah visiting the graves of deceased relatives and \" righteous \" to be inspired by the memory of their lives for the coming year. In the morning before the New Year festival is after the morning prayer, the \" delivering vows \" instead (before three faithful who have formed for this purpose, a \"court\" ).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Systemizing Quotient for Adolescents (SQ-Adolescent Version)\nSelect Language (google translate):\nType of Measure: According to the empathizing-systemizing theory (E-S theory), there are individual differences in the wiring of the brain that result in two different modes a person may process information: empathizing and systemizing. Empathizing is the drive to identify another person’s emotions and thoughts and to respond to these with an appropriate emotion. Systemizing, however, is the drive to analyse the variables in a system and to derive the underlying rules that govern the behaviour of a system. Systemizing also refers to the drive to construct systems. Systemizing allows you to predict the behaviour of a system, and to control it. Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are believed to have less ability to empathize and be more systemizing than the general population (Baron-Cohen, Richler, Bisarya, Gurunathan, & Wheelwright, 2003). In conjunction with the Empathizing Quotient (EQ), the Systemizing Quotient (SQ) was designed to test the E-S theory.\nThe SQ-Adolescent Version was designed to be short, easy to complete, and easy to score. The 39-item questionnaire is Likert format and contains a list of statements about real life situations, experiences, and interests where sympathizing abilities are required. Parents are asked to indicate how strongly they agree with each statement about their child by ticking one of four options: ‘definitely agree’, ‘slightly agree’, ‘slightly disagree’, or ‘definitely disagree’. Each of the items scores 1 point if the respondent records the behavior mildly, or 2 points if the respondent records the behavior strongly. To avoid a response bias, approximately half the items were worded to produce a ‘‘disagree’’ response and half to produce an ‘‘agree’’ response. The questionnaires were adapted from the adult and child versions of the SQ. Items were revised to be age-appropriate but kept as close to the Adult and Child versions as possible, with most questions aimed at the same behaviors. The maximum score for this questionnaire is 78.\nTarget Population: Adolesents with normal intelligence ages 12-16\nMeasurement properties and previous use: Auyeung, Allision, Wheelwright, and Baron-Cohen (2012) examined the psychometric properties of the SQ-Adolescent Version in a sample of mothers of adolescents between 12 and 16 years of age (M = 14.08, SD = 1.25), comprising 2 groups: typically developing adolescents or adolescents with ASC, as diagnosed by psychiatrists or an appropriate clinician (e.g. clinical psychologists) using established criteria.\nUsing data from the typically developing group, an item analysis was conducted to examine if there were items that could be eliminated to reduce the length of the questionnaires. Items with corrected item-total correlation value below 0.3 were not included when calculating total scores. For the SQ, the excluded items were numbers 3, 5, 8, 18, 22, 25, 28, 31, 35, 38, 40, 44, 45, 48, 50 and 52, with 39 remaining items. Cronbach’s alpha coefficients were calculated using the retained items, and showed high internal consistency (alpha = 0.89).\nSix months after initial contact, n = 375 participants from the typically developing group were asked to complete a second copy of the SQ in order to examine test–retest reliability, resulting in 333 test–retest pairs (171 girls, 162 boys). Intra-class correlations for the SQ (r = 0.94, p < 0.001) demonstrated good test–retest reliability.\nA one-way between subjects analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted to examine if group (typical girls, typical boys, girls with ASC and boys with ASC) differences existed. There was a significant difference between groups F(3,1239) = 49.61, p<0.001). Post hoc Tukey HSD tests showed significant differences (p < 0.001) with with typical boys (M = 27.22, SD = 12.71) scoring higher than typical girls (M = 21.64, SD = 12.05). No difference between girls with ASC and typically developing boys (p<0.05) was observed. Boys with ASC (M = 34.69, SD = 15.45) scored significantly higher than typical girls and boys (p <0.001). No significant differences were found between boys and girls with ASC (p <0.05)\nThe authors therefore concluded that, like the child and adult versions, these measures show good variability, internal consistency, and test retest reliability.\nAuthors and Citation: Auyeung, B., Allison, C., Wheelwright, S., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2012). Brief report: development of the adolescent empathy and systemizing quotients. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 42(10), 2225-2235.\nLicence: This measure is freely available online, and may be used along with proper citiation. You are welcome to download these tests provided that they are used for genuine research purposes, and provided due acknowledgement of Autism Research Centre (ARC) as the source is given.\nLink to measure: Systemizing Quotient for Adolescents (SQ-Adolescent Version)\nCorrections or updates? Let us know!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Owls are a group of birds which are known by their silent flight, distinct call and their nocturnal habits. Owls are familiar to many people as it appears in some children’s stories like Harry Potter, Mrs. Frisby and Winnie The Pooh and it has been shown as the noble and wise character.\nThere are 216 species of owls which exists today, divided to two families, as 18 belong to the Barn Owl family (Tytonidae), while the other 198 species belong to typical owl family (Strigidae). Mostly, owls hunt small mammals such as mice, squirrels, voles and rabbits, other birds, insects, reptiles and there are some specialized species which hunt fish.\nThey can’t chew their prey, because they don’t have teeth; but swallow whole small prey and tear the large prey into small pieces. Owls are characterized by their wide faces, small peaks and rounded eyes. They couldn’t move their eyes within its sockets, their eyes are fixed within sockets, so they turn their heads to see in the different directions.\nOwls’ ears are located behind their eyes as they have acute sense of hearing which helps them to capture and locate their prey. Owls can create many different sounds not just hoot and not all species are able to hoot. Owls could make other sounds like screams, screeches and hisses; owls’ sounds are low-pitched and loud. Despite darkness, their loud sounds could travel through the air to enable them to declare territories and locate their mates.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Poetry Wanes Before Logical Thought\n“Language,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson, “is fossil poetry.”\nOwen Barfield used that quote in the conclusion of his classic Poetic Diction. He said the pithy phrase “covers practically” everything in his book.\nBut what does it mean?\nIt means that poetry came prior to language, which means it came prior to logical thought (language is “the prime material of logical construction” (Poetic Diction (1984), p 62). By the time language progressed through millennia, it lost its poetic beginnings and, though it retains things like metaphor, it is a fossilized remnant of itself.\nIt became that fossilized remnant because, even though language came prior to logical thought, logic in turn employed language for its own purposes. As western civilization progressed, logic became stronger and stronger. The stronger it became, the more poetry receded. “As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.” Macauley (PD, 68).\nYet, poetry clearly required some sort of thought. It isn’t just rational or logical thought. It is, to frame it in a Taoist way, “non-thought.” And because it was prior to logical thought, poetry is higher than prose (the tool of logical thought).\nBut if poetry isn’t “logical thought,” what is it?\nIt is “poetic knowledge” (which is the title of a minor classic work by James Taylor . . . no, not the 1970s singer/songwriter).\nOwen Barfield Anticipated Iain McGilchrist\nAll this was prompted when I attended a lecture by Professor Brad Birzer about the Inklings last Sunday. Birzer has a book coming out about the Inklings (JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, and many others). Birzer said Owen Barfield’s classic \"exerted a profound influence\" on the Inklings (go to minute 31:35 at \"a lecture\" immediately above), especially Tolkien (34:04), who had already reached many of Barfield's conclusion (and had started creating Middle Earth over a decade before Barfield published Poetic Diction).\nIt’s thought-provoking stuff, but those conclusions in Poetic Diction were reached 100 years ago. Archeology and contemporary science have taught us a lot in the past 100 years that Barfield wouldn’t have had access to (though he lived long, until 1997).\nDoes that whole concept (language started poetic in a pre-logic mode then degenerated/advanced into logic-bound prose) hold up?\nWhen Professor Birzer provided a nutshell summary of Poetic Diction, I perked up. It was like he was paraphrasing McGilchrist’s The Master and His Emissary.\nBirzer on Poetic Diction: The book describes how rationalism and logic have crippled the pre-rational poetic nature of our language.\nMcGilchrist: The left hemisphere and its tools of logic, manipulation, and division have usurped the primacy of the right hemisphere’s “tools” of music, empathy, and wholeness.\nWhen I got home from the lecture, I immediately combed through McGilchrist’s chapter “Language, Truth and Music,” looking for corroboration. It didn’t take me long.\nBarfield, citing the nineteenth century’s Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Macaulay, said the earliest language was poetic.\nMcGilchrist, citing various sources including Benedetto Croce and British Classicist K.J. Dover (died in 2010), writes about “the otherwise baffling historical fact that poetry evolved before prose.” (105).\nMcGilchrist denigrates prose, noting that it was first known as pezos logos, meaning “pedestrian logos,” as opposed to the dancing logos of poetry. He points out that early poetry was sung:\n[T]he evolution of literary skill progresses, if that is the correct word, from right-hemisphere music (words that are sung), to right-hemisphere language (the metaphorical language of poetry), to left-hemisphere language (the referential language of prose).\nThat was just the warm-up. The rest of the chapter is a paean to poetic knowledge and a condemnation of our left hemisphere’s obsession with rationality, control, and their tools: prose.\nHe emphasizes, citing numerous examples and proofs, that language is not necessary for thought at all. Indeed, McGilchrist points out that language can impede thought. Most thinking, he points out, occurs without prose (language as we know/use it today). Imagination, innovation, intuitive problem-solving, and artistic creativity all require us to transcend prose.\nMcGilchrist notes that the right hemisphere’s exclusive ability to relate to the outside world gives it the exclusive ability to understand metaphor. He points out the non-purposive and social nature of music, when contrasted to the manipulative and controlling nature of prose. He sees that the wu-wei, non-action, of Taoism is closely related to one of the right hemisphere’s main tools: intuition (as opposed to rationality, which is the left hemisphere’s main weapon).\nTolkien’s Elves, No Doubt Informed by Barfield’s Poetic Diction, Embody McGilchrist’s Ideal Brain\nWhen I got done with McGilchrist’s chapter on language, I suddenly realized that he was describing an earlier age, one that predated the grasping, exploitative, manipulative rationality of modernity.\nI then realized that Tolkien scholars consistently say that’s exactly what Tolkien was doing when he created Middle Earth, which isn’t surprising, since he worked within the proto-McGilchrist Barfield’s understanding of poetic language and knowledge.\nPart of me wanted to conclude that Tolkien’s description of the Shire is proto-McGilchrist. But upon reflection, I don’t think so. I think the Shire is more like a world where the right hemisphere, and its love of music and poetry and friendship, was still master, but where the left hemisphere, and its love of writing and commerce, was already exercising a measure of independence from its master. The Shire was a world divided, so to speak, or a culture undergoing evolution, but still one where the right hemisphere was mostly in control.\nI think Tolkien’s perfect proto-McGilchrist form is found in Rivendell and Lorien, the last kingdoms of the elves. The elves, I believe, display the proper relationship between the hemispheres, almost to perfection: the musical and poetic and playful nature of the right hemisphere served by the more mundane functions of the left hemisphere.\nThe elf could mesmerize by singing with a harp, then put it down to kill an orc with a sword.\nIt is, I believe, a perfect illustration of the master right hemisphere dispatching his emissarial left hemisphere. After the task is done, the harp is picked back up and the left hemisphere (with its tools of practical skills and control) relaxes at his master’s feet until called upon again.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The definition of descriptive statistics has been given by Wikipedia, which states: “A descriptive statistic describes a series of observations or events in terms that are generally less precise than those of a quantitative statistical analysis, but that has the advantage of enabling an analyst to make some inferences about the characteristics of the data, regardless of whether or not they can be measured in more detail.” A descriptive statistic, as explained by Wikipedia, is essentially a summary statistic, which is usually quantitatively less detailed than a quantitative statistical analysis, yet it is still useful to make a judgment about the underlying data. A descriptive statistic is basically the process of comparing and interpreting the observations that are being described, and is often used in research studies.\nDescriptive statistics come into play when data is collected for a particular study, which would include a number of samples taken from different groups of people. By using statistical methods such as the chi-square test or Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test, researchers can make some generalizations, based on these samples. These methods are called descriptive statistics, since they describe the data, rather than describing it. If these methods are used properly, it is possible to draw conclusions about the sample without having to make any statistical assumptions.\nDescriptive statistics are used when a researcher is trying to get a better idea of what is happening in a certain population. For example, a researcher might want to determine if a particular drug or alcohol abuse treatment program is actually effective at helping a certain group of people. In order to do this, he or she will need to describe what he or she is looking at, and then make a generalization from that description. For instance, the researcher could conclude that since certain types of abuse treatments were more effective than others, then he or she should probably focus on those types. However, he or she might also conclude that a particular type is not effective, in which case he or she would not be making a generalization, but instead stating that.\nDescriptive statistics also play an important role in scientific research. When you conduct a study, the purpose of your data collection is to answer questions that are specific to the questions that you have. If the research project requires you to gather data from many different individuals at various points in time, and you need to come up with a generalization about the group at the end of the project, then you will need to use descriptive data collection methods such as the chi-square test or Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test to make a judgment about how likely the data is to be reliable.\nWhen you collect data for any type of research, you need to understand that the data that you have is not perfect. It might have errors or inconsistencies. This is why descriptive data collection is so important. The way you describe the data can influence the way the data is interpreted. If you had collected the data using proper scientific techniques, then the data would not be as inaccurate or inconsistent.\nDescriptive data can also help in identifying trends, in order to make a more accurate prediction or forecast. There are a number of ways that descriptive data can be used to do this. Some of these methods include regression analysis, panel analysis, interval estimation, mixed effects modeling, and propensity score matching.\nAlthough most data used for descriptive purposes is not perfect, it is also important to note that the data used to make a prediction about the underlying data might have a great deal of error. It is important to note that it can have a large number of sources of error. The goal is to reduce the bias that is present in the data and to be as accurate as possible. This is why it is important to have multiple sources, and sources of data, so that there will be a number of different interpretations of the data.\nRegardless of what type of statistical method you are using, it is important to note that the information you get from the study should be reliable and accurate. If you use a data set with a lot of errors, then you are making it more difficult to determine the generalization that you have made about the data. If you use data sets with less errors, then you are making it more likely that your results will be consistent.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Seychelles is an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, off East Africa, south of the equator. Some facts about Seychelles the country has a land area of 118 square miles (about 455 square kilometers). The country is well known for its beaches, coral reefs, diving, nature reserves and rare wildlife such as giant Aldabra tortoises. Technically, Seychelles is the smallest continent in the world.\nThe population is growing smaller as a result of out-migration. Seychelles has a good number of native species, especially of birds and plants.\nCurrency: Seychellois rupee\nPopulation: 89,173 (2013) World Bank\nPresident: James Michel\nGovernment: Presidential Republic\nPopulation: Nearly 80,000 (2016 estimate)\nRandom Facts About Seychelles\nHere are 10 other random facts about Seychelles that you will love to read.\n1. EUROPEAN, THEN AFRICAN\nToday, the people of Seychelles consider themselves to be of African descent. However, the island of Seychelles was not settled when the Europeans arrived and occupied it. So, at least technically speaking, the natives of the country are the whites.\n2. PAYMENT WITH BOOZE\nIn the plantations, wages are most times paid with booze. As a result of this, alcoholism is very rampant on the Seychelles Island. The working class usually drinks alone. And the most popular booze on the island is palm wine.\n3. MEAT GRACES OCCASIONS\nIn most countries, foods for ceremonial occasions are special and more abundant. Not so on the Seychelles Island. On this island, there are no special foods for any occasions. One thing, though, is special on such occasions. That is meat!\n4. SKIN COLOR AND CLASS\nIn Seychelles, the degree to which color and class determine social order is not well-defined. In fact, it is currently a keenly contested issue. However, Seychellois use the skin color terms to identify the person they are talking about.\n5. SOCIAL PROBLEMS\nLike every country and society in the world, Seychelles has its own social problems. These include:\n- Domestic violence\n- Sexual abuse of children\nThe government and the NGOs in Seychelles are working hard to bring these under control.\n6. GENDER AND WORK\nBoth males and females work in all jobs in Seychelles. There is no gender discrimination in that area at all. However, it is not easy to find women in the fishing business. Only males engage in that. But in administration, it is just about 40/60 in favor of men.\n7. STATUS OF WOMEN\nGenerally speaking, the relative status of women and men is a win-some-lose-some kind of ping-pong. For example, within the family, women control the economic resources and often pursue economic careers. However, women are usually the victims when it comes to domestic violence.\n8. MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIP\nConsensual relationships are very common. Polygamy is not practiced on the island, but most unions are unstable. And divorces and breakups are common. 50%-60% of child births on the island are to a single mother. And in most cases, the children are not acknowledged by the fathers.\n9. PRE-NUPTIAL MARRIAGE AGREEMENTS\nWhere there is a formal marriage, it is out of a well-arranged plan. There is usually a strong contractual arrangement to such marriages. And the contractual agreements usually have clear division of responsibilities between men and women.\n10. WOMEN SPEND ALL MONIES\nMost marriages occur within the same social and color strata. In most of such working class marriages, the man gives his salary to the woman to be used for the home: food, clothes, and the children. The woman uses her own income for furniture and other durables in the house. But she keeps them if the union dissolves.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "If you are the least bit intuitive, you know when something is not right with your dog. It might be subtle, but the slightest change in behavior puts you on guard. Yeast infections in dogs aren’t always easy to detect in the early stages.\nToday, I’m going to give you the scoop on what to look for in case you think your dog might have a yeast infection and exactly what you can do about it.\nYeast Infections in Dogs Can Be More Complicated Than You Think\nDogs with weakened immune systems are more likely to develop a yeast (fungus) infection. Medicated dogs or dogs who have other illnesses may be more susceptible to these infections because of a lowered immune response.\nMedication used to treat diabetes or Addison’s disease can leave the dog’s immune system compromised, and the weakened immune system leaves the dog unable to fight the invasion of fungi.\n— MaggieLovesOrbit (@MaggieOrbit) March 29, 2018\nFungal or Yeast Infections Can Take Two Different Forms:\nSome fungi affect only the skin or mucous membranes. Examples include things like parasites (ringworm in particular) or thrush. Systemic fungi are widespread within the body and affect the organs.\nThis strain of yeast infection, considered “subclinical”, means that the initial symptoms could be too subtle to notice or treat. In fact, you might think your dog has a cold/mild respiratory infection.\nThis fungus originates in the Central United States near the Great Lakes, Appalachian Mountains, Texas and the valleys of the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri rivers.\nThe soil in these areas is nitrogen rich, where fungus easily grows. Spores are found in soil contaminated by the excrement of wildlife and are inhaled unknowingly by people and dogs.\nSymptoms might include:\n- Weight Loss\nIn rare systemic cases, symptoms could involve:\n- Weight Loss\n- Muscle Wasting\n- Enlargement of the Tonsils\n- Enlargement of the Lymph Nodes\n- Attack on bodily organs (liver, spleen, etc.)\nThis type of fungus is the most severe. The spores thrive in the dry, dusty plains of southwestern United States including California. Humans and dogs can contract the fungus from inhaling spores.\nSymptoms of yeast infections in dogs include:\n- Causes Acute Pneumonia\n- Could involve the bones\n- Lymph Nodes\nDogs with this usually develop a chronic cough. Treatment is available, but a full recovery could take a year.\n— MYGERMANSHEPHERD.ORG (@mygsdorg) April 2, 2018\nLet me tell you a true story about this one.\nI live in a small town where an elderly poet lived with a flock of seagulls. They were everywhere and made a mess of droppings on people’s homes and cars. Nobody would ever have dared go into the man’s house, because that’s where most of the seagulls resided.\nYears went by and finally, he was ordered out. The poor man was deathly sick…all because of the spores inhaled from the bird droppings. I’m pretty sure he passed away shortly after.\nCryptococcosis in dogs (and humans) involves the brain, eyes, lymph nodes, and skin. Half of the dogs will show signs of breathing trouble.\nOnce this fungus makes its way to the brain, you’ll notice the following deadly symptoms of yeast infections in dogs:\n- head pressing against hard surfaces\n- sometimes standing with the head up against a wall\n- and, eventually, dementia\nYou’ll find this particular fungus along the eastern seaboard, Great Lakes, Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri River valleys. This type of fungus thrives in moist, rotting organic debris.\nThis is another fungus where spores from bird droppings are inhaled primarily by dogs. Blastomycosis involves the respiratory system and can cause serious pneumonia.\nThis fungus inhabits the skin after physical contact with spores from the soil. These spores gain access through breaks in the skin. Hunting dogs are most prone to this particular fungus.\nSporotrichosis shows itself as crusted sores that are nodular in shape. They’re usually at the base of the wound and ooze/drain. Diagnosis is determined with a fluorescent antibody test and treatment options are good.\nGeneral Symptoms of Systemic Yeast Infections in Dogs.\n- weight loss\n- muscle wasting\n- enlargement of the tonsils\n- enlargement of the lymph nodes\n- there’s usually involvement of the dog’s organs as well (liver, spleen, bone marrow, eyes, skin, and brain)\n9 Hot spots and Symptoms of Yeast Infections in Dogs\nHere are the common areas where you will see visual signs of a yeast infection:\n- Skin folds\n- Anal area\n10. Other Symptoms of Yeast Infections.\n- The biggest sign will be the appearance of your dog’s skin.\nPink or red means the yeast infection is still in the early stages of infection.\n- Gray or black skin\nCould become thick and leathery signifies a chronic stage.\n- Cheesy or spoiled milk odor\nPeople have all kinds of ways to describe the smell, but it is very distinct.\n- Scaly and greasy skin\nSome yeast infections will lead to flakiness and crusting or scaling in the skin.\n- Head tilting and shaking\nMost yeast infections are found in the ears. If you notice your dog shaking his head or tilting his head more than the usual, you should check his ears.\n- Obsessive scratching, rubbing and licking\nYour dog will seek comfort so they will be scratching and licking the infected area and sometimes rub up against other surfaces or scoot along the floor to deal with the itch.\nYeast infection in the mouth can cause excessive drooling and oral discomfort.\n11 Treating Symptoms of Yeast Infections in Dogs.\nTreatment for yeast infections will depend on the location of the infected area, the severity of the infection, the underlying cause behind the yeast overgrowth, and the type of yeast.\n- Yeast infections due to allergies will involve a plan to remove the allergens from the food, home, sleeping area, etc.\n- Yeast infections caused by certain prescriptions or vaccinations can be eliminated by switching pills or brands and eliminating the use of vaccinations where possible.\n- Topical ointments are prescribed for yeast infections on the skin. These ointments combined with prescribed baths are effective.Yeast infections in the ears are treated with drops.\n- If the infection is internal or starts in the gut, you should consider your dog’s diet. Poor nutrition could also cause a weakened immune system, leaving your dog vulnerable to various infections.\nYour Dog’s Diet\nFood could be the cause of yeast overgrowth. Here are the ingredients that you should look out for in your dog food:\n- white or sweet potatoes\n- high-fructose corn syrup\nIf you see these on the label, consider switching to a healthier brand. Some dog owners have started putting their dogs on a raw food diet, which is reported to help alleviate the itching and scratching that is associated with yeast infection.\nTreating a Yeast Infection at Home.\n- You can use apple cider vinegar to treat yeast infection. Simply dilute the vinegar in water and massage the mixture all over your dog’s body. Be careful to avoid your dog’s eyes and nose. The vinegar will restore your dog’s pH levels and discourage further yeast growth. Keep in mind that the apple cider vinegar must be organic, unfiltered, and raw in order to get the best results.\n- Coconut oil is comprised of medium-chain triglycerides which are composed of caprylic, lauric, myristic, and palmitic acids. Together, they give coconut oil strong antifungal properties, making it an ideal home remedy for yeast infections in dogs. Mix about 8 oz. of melted extra virgin coconut oil with 10 drops of lavender oil and 2 drops of lemon essential oil. Shake the mixture and massage all over your dog’s skin.\nSome pet owners recommend feeding your dog yogurt. Make sure the yogurt has cultured live bacteria (It will be on the container)\n- Turmeric could have anti-inflammatory and anti-fungal properties that can help your dog deal with the itchiness and at the same time, help heal the infected area. All you have to do is sprinkle the turmeric powder on the infected area.\n- Adding baking soda to your pet’s drinking water can help eradicate the yeast infection and helps with the balance of bacteria in your dog’s system. Baking soda is also said to have a neutralizing effect on the whole body. All you have to do is add 1 teaspoon of baking soda to 1 liter of water.\nPLEASE NOTE: ALWAYS CONSULT YOUR VETERINARIAN BEFORE LIMITING TREATMENT TO ANY OF THESE DIY OPTIONS.\nTreating Yeast Infections with Probiotics.\nThe most vital supplement that you can get for your dog in the midst of a yeast infection is probiotics. Probiotics are “good” bacteria that will provide a natural defense against not only yeast but other bad bacteria as well.\nHere are the things you should look for when shopping for probiotics:\n- Buy probiotic supplements made for dogs.\n- The best strains for yeast are L. acidophilus, L. rhamnosus, and B. bifidum.\n- Look for supplements that contain prebiotics along with probiotics.\n- It is best to get probiotics in powdered form. Probiotics that come in the form of food and treats are not as effective because the heat used to process them destroys the probiotic.\nYeast infections can become quite serious. Once you notice your dog is suffering, make an appointment to see the veterinarian.\nA Positive Diagnosis.\nIf your dog has a yeast infection, always follow your veterinarian’s prescriptions and instructions. Do not stop treatment until the veterinarian tells you to do so – even if you think the symptoms are improving or gone.\nWas this helpful? 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{"text": "Jigsaw our PSHE/Health &\nAt Newtown Primary School School, we teach Personal, Social, Health Education as a whole-school approach to underpin children’s development as people and because we believe that this also supports their learning capacity.\nThe Jigsaw Programme offers us a comprehensive, carefully thought-through Scheme of Work which brings consistency and progression to our children’s learning in this vital curriculum area.\nThe overview of the programme can be seen on the school website.\nThis also supports the “Personal Development”and “Behaviour and Attitude” aspects required under the Ofsted Inspection Framework, as well as significantly contributing to the school’s Safeguarding and Equality Duties, the Government’s British Values aganda and the SMSC (Spiritual, Moral, Social, Cultural) development opportunities provided for our children.\nStatutory Relationships and Health Education\n“The Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education (England) Regulations 2019, made under sections 34 and 35 of the Children and Social Work Act 2017, make Relationships Education compulsory for all pupils receiving primary education…They also make Health Education compulsory in all schools except independent schools. Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education(PSHE) continues to be compulsory in independent schools.”\nDfE Guidance p.8\n“Today’s children and young people are growing up in an increasingly complex world and living their lives seamlessly on and offline. This presents many positive and exciting opportunities, but also challenges and risks. In this environment, children and young people need to know how to be safe and healthy, and how to manage their academic, personal and social lives in a positive way.”\n“This is why we have made Relationships Education compulsory in all primary schools in England…as well as making Health Education compulsory in all state-funded schools.”\n“In primary schools, we want the subjects to put in place the key building blocks of healthy, respectful relationships, focusing on family and friendships, in all contexts, including online. This will sit alongside the essential understanding of how to be healthy.”\n“These subjects represent a huge opportunity to help our children and young people develop. The knowledge and attributes gained will support their own, and others’ wellbeing and attainment and help young people to become successful and happy adults who make a meaningful contribution to society.”\nSecretary of State Foreword DfE Guidance 2019 p.4-5\n“Schools are free to determine how to deliver the content set out in the DfE guidance 2019 in the context of a broad and balanced curriculum. Effective teaching in these subjects will ensure that core knowledge is broken down into units of manageable size and communicated clearly to pupils, in a carefully sequenced way, within a planned programme of lessons.”\nDfE Guidance p.8\n“All schools must have in place a written policy for Relationships Education and RSE.”\nDfE Guidance p.11\nHere, at Newtown Primary School we value PSHE as one way to support children’s development as human beings, to enable them to understand and respect who they are, to empower them with a voice and to equip them for life and learning.\nWe include the statutory Relationships and Health Education within our whole-school PSHE Programme.\nTo ensure progression and a spiral curriculum, we use Jigsaw, the mindful approach to PSHE, as our chosen teaching and learning programme and tailor it to children’s needs.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What is The Free World Charter?03/11/2011 14:47\nThe Free World Charter is a statement of principles that has the potential to optimise life on Earth for all species, eradicate poverty and greed, and advance progress.\nNeither political nor religious, these ten short principles could form the foundation of a new, advanced society that uses no money, is free, fair and sustainable. They are based solely on Nature, common sense and survival.\nThe Free World Charter is now widely considered a logical progression out of the failing mechanisms of today's society, and a natural step in our evolution.[ Stats ]\nWhy we need it\nIn case you haven't noticed, the world has become a very hostile place. Basic living has become really difficult for many of us, and is quite literally impossible for millions of people every year.\nIt does not have to be this way.\nAs the predominant species, we humans have failed to acknowledge the great responsibility that comes with our great knowledge and power. Money has seriously distorted our world view, and distracted us from what is genuinely important.\nEverything we need for survival: water, food, air, energy, biodiversity, compassion, have become jeopardized through our prioritisation of profit over Nature. Nature does not yield or negotiate. If we continually fight against it, Nature will win. In other words, humanity - and countless other innocent species - could face extinction.\nThe time has come to make some fundamental changes to our way of life, which has become both unsustainable and unjust. Adopting the principles of The Free World Charter is, we believe, the first crucial step mankind must now take in order to protect and preserve both ourselves and our planet.\nWhat is wrong with the world?\nIn a word: money. Our own monetary system of exchange now effectively prioritises financial stability and growth over survival and progress. While once a useful tool in earlier times, money has now become incompatible with life itself and creates far more problems than it solves. We can put these problems into four main categories:\n1. Inequality and Injustice\nIn today's world, a handful of people have enormous wealth, influence and freedom, while the vast majority are burdened with debt, labour and poverty; with little or no say in world affairs. This imbalance is clearly unfair and can no longer just be accepted as normal.\nMillions of people every year are born into a life of poverty and starvation, even though we have the resources and technology to feed and shelter everybody if we want to.\nWasteful manufacturing drives an insatiable appetite for limited natural resources like oil, copper, gold etc. Since these scarce resources are only found in certain countries, exploitation or cross-border conflicts inevitably result.\nSome areas of the world suffer extreme weather conditions and a lack of arable soil or drinkable water, yet are largely forgotten by richer nations as they have nothing of value to contribute to the world economy.\nMoney, by definition, creates inequality and injustice.\n2. Waste and Pollution\nManufacturing companies need a constant turnover of products in order to be profitable. It doesn't make financial sense to make products that truly last. It is better for cash-flow to keep producing disposable goods that ultimately need replacing - despite the waste of natural resources and pollution that this causes.\nMany companies spend millions every year creating a market for unnecessary and wasteful products through clever advertising. This creates a culture of consumerism and an illusion of 'limitless' growth which is unrealistic, unsustainable and simply must end some day.\nWe know that oil is a toxic pollutant that produces carbon-dioxide, yet we still use it because it is cheap; despite having abundant, clean renewable energy all around us.\nOxygen-producing trees are plundered irresponsibly for their wood, while aeroplanes pump millions of tons of poisonous gases into our air every year.\nOur disregard for Nature is slowly poisoning and choking us.\n3. Debt and Unemployment\nToday, almost every country in the world has such huge debts that governments are now forced to either borrow more, spend less, or print more to meet their budgets. Realistically, none of these options are sustainable.\nPrinting money devalues the currency, meaning you can buy less with it. Also, since it enters the economy as a debt, it is subject to interest. Since the money to pay this interest doesn't even exist, it ultimately requires another debt - and more interest!\nPublic spending cuts ultimately means job cuts, creating further unemployment. Private companies continually replace staff with machines that can work faster and cheaper, to increase their productivity and profits.\nPaid employment is the oxygen of the monetary system. Without it, all you get is more debt. This unemployment and debt cycle will ultimately bring about a global monetary collapse.\n4. Obstructed Progress\nHuman progress is stifled by cost. Pure research or bold scientific endeavour are either under-funded or overlooked unless they are profitable.\nHighly skilled or talented professionals are attracted by generous salaries to develop profitable but wasteful consumer products. Conversely, many talented people are held back in life through lack of access to proper education or funding for their work.\nNew inventions get mired in patent laws that hinder further development or improvement by other innovators, and sometimes take years to reach the public. Many useful patents lie dormant either through lack of funding or deliberate marketing strategy.\nCompanies try to protect their own brands and future profits by intentionally designing products that are incompatible with other brands or technologies. This creates an unnecessary duplicity of products and frustrates the end user.\nMoney is no obstacle to progress in a money-free world.\nThese are just some of the reasons why money - that we created - has now become a major obstacle to our own survival and progress. If you look at our society and modern culture from a viewpoint of Nature, you will quickly begin to see just how detached and disconnected we have become from the very stuff that sustains us.\nWe cannot ignore our own nature and biology.\nWhose fault is it?\nIt's important to recognise that no-one is actually to blame for any of these problems. The system we use to run our society has just grown that way over time. Attributing blame, even where seemingly justified, has no useful purpose and just creates adversity.\nMany blame banks, corporations, governments, or the people who work in them, but these are not bad or greedy people. They are just ordinary people reacting to an environment of scarcity - the scarcity of money, that is.\nGreed is a basic human response to scarcity. If there is a limited supply of something that you need to live, you instinctively want as much as possible of it, because it's good for survival. If we can eliminate scarcity, we can eliminate greed.\nWe have come to mistrust our own natural behaviour due to the conflicting standards and pressures that we subject ourselves to.\nModern media promote unattainable and hedonistic lifestyles, while religions teach moderation and chastity. Corporations spends millions glamourising sugary and fatty foods, while medical officers warn of obesity. Governments announce public spending cuts, while they bail out big businesses. Everywhere we turn we are bombarded with advertising to buy products that we can't afford. Society, as a whole, is pretty confusing and contradictory.\nCrime rates are on the increase - but not because more people are bad - because people's circumstances are getting worse, employment opportunities are dwindling and everyone has to compete to survive.\nRemember, a human being is still an animal - albeit a highly advanced one - and just like any other animal may strike out when maltreated, cornered or confused.\nWe don't need to do this to ourselves any more.\nIt is time for us to disentangle the human being from his web of outdated methods and ideologies, and focus on our common purpose of survival, progress and freedom.\nWe need to free ourselves from our imaginary limits.\nWhat the Charter does\nThe Free World Charter sets out ten very basic assertions that are resonant with Nature, general common sense, fairness and sustainability. In essence, these ten guiding principles are our minimum requirements for survival and progress.\nOur current systems of monetary, social, ideological and border divisions are imaginary, and clearly not working for us or our planet. The principles of the Charter, that are grounded in Nature, would dissolve these imaginary barriers with just a few basic observations of mutual respect for each other and our planetary home.\nOnce we can get past our outdated methods of decision-making through speculation and diktat, and remove our imaginary barriers, we will find our only problems are technical ones. ie. How do we provide for everyone and use our planet in the optimum way? Only when we are free of our conflicting ideologies and methods, can we truly solve this problem.\nOur technology is now at a level where we can comfortably provide for everyone without the need for hard labour. What we can automate, we will automate. We don't need money to build machines, we can just build them. Tasks that can't be automated can be rotated among a populace who would be more than happy to dedicate a small portion of their time to a community that sustains them.\nEverything will be declared free to use, but within an understanding of natural and technical limits, and respect for the combined common good. These understandings are achieved initially through education, and ultimately through consensus.\nOnce people realise that a money-free society works, we will naturally become more positive in our actions, more cooperative, compassionate and productive.\nImplementing the Charter\nThe first step in implementing the Charter is promotion and awareness.\nThese principles can only be adopted when they are seen, understood and supported by a sufficient number of people. When enough people see the Charter and accept it as the next logical step in human evolution, change will come about automatically. Politicians and people of influence will have no choice but to accede to the will of the people.\nOnce this happens, education of the principles, Nature and communities will need to be rolled out to give everyone a true understanding of ourselves, our community and our environment.\nEducation will play a key role in the establishment of the new money-free society.\nIt won't take long until people begin to realise that their neighbour is no longer their competitor; that everything they own and use has an environmental cost; that acting together as a community - and not only for oneself - is infinitely more productive and rewarding.\nIt may happen that the Charter will be first adopted in a single country or bloc of countries that is naturally resource-rich and self sufficient. (Australia and the South Seas would be a good example) Once other countries see it working, they would be quick to follow.\nPerhaps in the interim, a special provision for 'money-free' status in pioneering countries could be applied through a body like the UN, to maintain and protect the borders of such 'free zones' until no longer necessary.\nThis is just one example of how the Charter could be implemented. It could happen in any number of different ways of course, but the important thing is that once enough people want it, it will happen.\nWho wrote the Charter?\nTo attribute this document to any single person or group would be inaccurate and highly unfair to many people. As with any important philosophical or policy document, the contributors are innumerable as any one person's ideas are modifed and improved on over time.\nThe actual words of the Charter were written by Colin Turner, a songwriter and music producer from Dublin, Ireland, but many of the underlying concepts were originally inspired by Jacque Fresco's 'Venus Project' and Peter Joseph's 'Zeitgeist' film series - visionaries who, no doubt, would also attribute their inspiration to many other historical influences too.\nWhat's important is that, logically, this is the next step in the progress of humanity, and one that best ensures our survival and that of our planetary companions. With that in mind, the Charter is, to all intents and purposes, a self-writing document.\nThe near future\nWe are at a most interesting point in our history. A great era of change is almost upon us, but things may get worse before they get better as many struggle to maintain the old system. Signing and supporting The Free World Charter can help bring about these changes much sooner, more peacefully and without needless suffering.\nThe idea of the Charter is a simple one. It is our current system that is complicated, and the unravelling of that may take some time, but this is a patient initiative, designed to progress slowly and surely in one direction only - towards true freedom, abundance and sustainability.\nPlease give this initiative your utmost consideration. Thank you.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Self-Confidence And Personal Motivation\nAbstractWe analyze the value placed by rational agents on self-confidence, and the strategies employed in its pursuit. Confidence in one's abilities generally enhances motivation, making it a valuable asset for individuals with imperfect willpower. This demand for self-serving beliefs (which can also arise from hedonic or signaling motives) must be weighed against the risks of overconfidence. On the supply side, we develop a model of self-deception through endogenous memory that reconciles the motivated and rational features of human cognition. The resulting intrapersonal game of strategic communication typically leads to multiple equilibria. While \"positive thinking\" can improve welfare, it can also be self-defeating (and nonetheless pursued). Believe what is in the line of your needs, for only by such belief is the need fulfilled . . . Have faith that you can successfully make it, and your feet are nerved to its accomplishment [William James, Principles of Psychology]. I have done this, says my memory. I cannot have done that, says my pride, remaining inexorable. Finally - memory yields [Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil[. I had during many years followed the Golden Rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such (contrary and thus unwelcome) facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from memory than favorable ones [Charles Darwin in The Life of Charles Darwin, by Francis Darwin]. © 2001 the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\nDownload InfoIf you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site. Please be patient as the files may be large.\nAs the access to this document is restricted, you may want to look for a different version under \"Related research\" (further below) or search for a different version of it.\nBibliographic InfoArticle provided by MIT Press in its journal The Quarterly Journal of Economics.\nVolume (Year): 117 (2002)\nIssue (Month): 3 (August)\nContact details of provider:\nWeb page: http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/\nOther versions of this item:\n- Bénabou, Roland & Tirole, Jean, 2002. \"Self Confidence and Personal Motivation,\" Open Access publications from University of Toulouse 1 Capitole http://neeo.univ-tlse1.fr, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole.\nYou can help add them by filling out this form.\nCitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.\nThis item has more than 25 citations. To prevent cluttering this page, these citations are listed on a separate page. reading list or among the top items on IDEAS.Access and download statistics\nFor technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: (Karie Kirkpatrick).\nIf you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.\nIf references are entirely missing, you can add them using this form.\nIf the full references list an item that is present in RePEc, but the system did not link to it, you can help with this form.\nIf you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the \"citations\" tab in your profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.\nPlease note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The JK ASPECT - The Archive - 2004 - 2012\nExplanation VE signal\nIt's a process during a specified case by using BL elements of a Type Language from an advanced communication model like the CET21.\nOMAT agents and other SOS Assistants are specialized people for helping victims.\nThe methods could also be used for situations at political level or any type of research.\nSince the introduction of the BL H-09 Model in 2008, developers were designing a much stronger system with expanding capabilities.\nOne of the best code element for using High Level Communication, is the 'Visual Explanation' BL method.\nIt can be used digital or even in our physical world.\nThere are basically 4 elements an OMAT should know: a) date of VE signal, b) time of VE signal, c) description of VE signal and d) confirmation of VE signal.\nBoth parties need to verify their connection to others (e.g. Network, organisation, group etc.) and confirm any VE transmits during the process.\nBy doing this from time to time, a so-called 'Manual Symblist' will be presented each minute, hour, day or night.\nIf a case is very complicated to handle, these groups are using Expanding Elements Types (EET) to define their BL Language and to make it even harder to others to translate or decode.\nBelow is a sample of a VE signal:\n- 'ZinaBee' is trying to connect to the following group of people (OMAT) and is waiting for a (direct) respons by using the Non-encrypted BL plain text: 'Hello, world!' (For example, this is just saying by writing it down on a webpage.)\n- within seconds or minutes a VE transmit is displaying right on her desktop.\nBy switching the selected 'webpages' on the internet, the message or a specific type of VE signal is presenting in realtime.\nNow here is the exact message she received from the one she sent via the VE method yesterday:\nShe is saying (connecting and publishing):\nDescription: Prince of Wales is drinking Wodka ('Patrick-boy in my pub')\nConfirmation: (!) This Is A Respons (!)\n- LS (Level of Security): n/a (codes are shown here)\n- SF (Security Format): VE Normal\n- EET: C-6 (wich means the type of an BL element)\n- PE: (Pause or End attribute or VE Type, wich means the communication is set on non-active or standby)\nInteract 1 on 1\nAccording to this article:\n'The JK ASPECT - Interesting Notes (Judith K en haar werk)\nPosted by S.V.P. on March 17, 2012, 4:44 pm, in reply to \"Introduktie Onderwerpen CSS EMA (Research - The Netherlands)\"\nThe JK ASPECT - The Archive - 2004 - 2012'\nNow the professional OMAT, on the other side, is translating the message or read the message in plain text.\nThe 'Prince of Wales', the one with the campaign on THAT moment is responding.\nRemember: a VE signal doesn't need to encrypt before sending the message.\nActually, the message is NOT used to send (like email or bluetooth), but only by displaying it.\nIt's a realtime process.\nLearn more about 'VE signals', see CET21 Development.\n2012/03/18 - Last Post S.V.P.\nMessage Thread | Skip to this response ↓\n« Back to index\ncome see! come see! visit http://bunniesonstrike.cjb.net", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Do Dividends Decrease a Stockholder's Equity?\nThere are two main reasons why investors buy stock. The first is the possibility of a capital gain: if the stock price goes up, you can sell it for a profit. The second reason is income, in the form of a dividend. Dividends are distributions, usually of cash, that are declared by a corporation’s board of directors and paid out to shareholders. The dividend yield of a stock is its annual dividend amount divided by the current stock price. The effect of dividends on stockholders' equity depends on the form the dividends take.\nThe capital structure of a corporation consists of the debt and equity issued by the corporation. Capital is used to pay for a company’s assets. The stockholders’ equity portion of capital is composed of two parts: paid-in capital, derived from the sale of equity securities such as stock and warrants, and retained earnings, which are the accumulated profits of the corporation. Dividends are (almost invariably) financed from retained earnings. In rare cases, cash-strapped corporations use debt rather than retained earnings to pay for dividends.\nRegular dividends are made in cash and can be distributed quarterly, semi-annually or annually. They are expressed in a cash amount per share. If you own 1,000 shares and the total annual dividend is $1 per share, you will receive $1,000 in dividend income for the year. The total amount of cash distributed by cash dividends is charged against, and reduces, the retained earnings of the company, and thus decreases stockholders' equity. Cash dividends in the United States are taxed at a lower rate than is ordinary income.\nDividends may be paid in additional shares of stock rather than in cash. This is usually done via a special distribution in addition to the regular cash dividend. Once again, the retained-earnings account is charged for the value of the dividend shares, but in this case the amount is simply transferred to the paid-in capital account, so that there is no net decrease in stockholders’ equity. The amount transferred is equal to the number of shares distributed in the stock dividend multiplied by the price per share on the dividend date. This value per share of the dividend shares reduces the price of pre-dividend shares – shareholders end up with more shares of cheaper stock.\nWhen a corporation declares a cash dividend, it also establishes a record date – the dividends go to shareholders of record at the close of the record date. Technically, this means that you must be the owner of settled shares on the record date to receive the dividend. However, the settlement process, which transfers ownership from a seller to a buyer, begins two days prior to the record date, on the ex-dividend date. Shares trade “ex-dividend” – their price is reduced by the dividend amount -- as of the start of the ex-dividend date. Because of the settlement period, dividends go to shareholders who own the stock at the end of the day before the ex-dividend date, since they will be the shareholders of record on the record date. Actual dividend payment occurs shortly after the record date, on the payment date.\n- Get Rich with Dividends: A Proven System for Earning Double-Digit Returns; Marc Lichtenfeld\n- Dividend Investing - The Truth About Dividends and Long Term Income Investing; Derrick Murray, Sonny Collova\n- Income for Life Dividend Secrets; James Towew, David Newcastle\nBased in Greenville SC, Eric Bank has been writing business-related articles since 1985. He holds an M.B.A. from New York University and an M.S. in finance from DePaul University. You can see samples of his work at ericbank.com.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Levi \"Springer\" Minerd was born on May 28, 1853 in Fayette County, PA, the son of Samuel and Rebecca (Smalley) Minerd. A coal miner and inventor of patented technology, he was a pioneer settler of southeastern Kansas and eastern Missouri.\nSpringer was named for Levi Springer, \"one of the most prominent citizens of the community of his day,\" said the 1913 book, History of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, authored by James Hadden.\nThe elder Springer may have been a good friend, or customer, of the Minerds as they both had business interests tied to the National Road. He built a large, prominent house on a 389-acre farm in 1817 to function as an inn for travelers on the road, but when the highway was re-routed, the structure was converted into a farmhouse. It stood for many years until burned by vandals in April 2015.\nIn the late 1870s, Springer purchased a lot of ground in Fountain Mills, Fayette County, a community now known as Everson. When he was unable to pay his debt obligations in 1882, the county commissioners sold the property to Isaac Messmore.\nThe federal census of 1880 shows that Springer resided with his parents in West Newton, Westmoreland County, PA, where he labored as a coal miner.\nIn 1885, Springer and his brother John Henry, and perhaps others, began to perceive a brighter future for the family elsewhere, far to the west in Kansas, where the coal industry was booming. From his home in Scottdale, Westmoreland County, just north of Connellsville, John made preparations to make a scouting trip with Springer. The Sept. 4, 1885 edition of The Keystone Courier of Connellsville reported that the two brothers, along with E.C. Zack, Joseph F. Crossland, Jacob Nicholson, \"leave on Monday for Kansas.\" By Thanksgiving of that year, they had returned with a positive report and plans for a family-wide migration.\nThe following year, in 1886, when Springer was age 33, he and his parents, adult siblings and one newborn nephew ventured westward to Kansas, leaving their longtime homes, and settling in Pittsburg, Crawford County, in southeastern Kansas. Their entourage numbered 10 people in all.\nTrained in the rugged coal mines of Western Pennsylvania, Springer and his brothers went to work right away in the coal fields of southeastern Kansas and western Missouri. They are said to have \"removed the first coal by using a slope mine, in what is now Lincoln Park in Pittsburg...\"\nAccording to a family memoir, Springer invented a gate \"to be used in the mines, that would open and close, as the loaded coal cars was pulled into and out of the slope mines, with mule teams.\" That patent application, was filed on March 14, 1895, when he was living at Minden Mines, Barton County, MO. In his introduction, he wrote:\nMy invention relates to mine-doors, and more particularly to doors which open both toward and from the operator. The object of my invention is to produce mine-doors which are normally held closed by a yielding pressure, so that while currents of air are successfully intercepted, cut off, or confined to their proper sphere, yet at the same time the doors will be closed automatically after the passage of a car or after the force of an explosion is spent, and will also open independently of each other. A further object is to produce doors of the character referred to, which are simple, strong, durable and inexpensive of construction.\nIn December 1891, Springer and his brother John Henry Minerd jointly purchased two town lots in Pittsburg. The seller was George G. Warren.\nSpringer's mine in Minden, operating under the name \"Minerd Bros. Coal Co.\" ultimately failed and officially closed on Dec. 31, 1895. A state mine inspector for Missouri observed that the mine was located 1.5 miles west of Minden, near the state line, and formerly was known as the Morgan mine. In his report, published in the Tenth Annual Report of the State Mine Inspectors of the State of Missouri, for the year ending June 30, 1896, he wrote: \"It has a shipping connection with the K.C., Ft. S. & M.R.R.; shaft 40 feet deep, and its hoisting is done by steam-power. I inspected this mine on the 29th of October, and found the ventilation deficient, the mine in very poor condition, with very little prospect of bettering it, as it was nearly worked out.\"\nThen in October 1897, with Levi now living in Appanoose County, IA, he and brother John Henry sold their two town lots in Pittsburg to their unmarried adult sisters Margaret and Emma.\nIn November 1897, Springer married Mary Marie Wolfe (1877-1923). She was a native of France, born in March 1878, and came to the United States as an infant. The wedding took place in Barton County, MO.\nThe Minerds bore two sons -- Samuel Minerd II and Frank Benjamin Minerd.\nSpringer worked as a coal inspector in Baker Township in 1900. He must have shuttled back and forth to Pittsburg, as the Pittsburg City Directory of 1900-1901 lists him as a \"miner\" residing there as a boarder at 303 West 9th Street.\nSpringer and Mary, along with his brother John Henry, jointly bought a lot in Pittsburg in mid-July 1905 for $1,500. The lot, #48, was on Joplin Avenue in Leighton's third addition to the city. The Minerds sold John his undivided one-third interest in the lot in January 1907, for one third of their original cost -- $500.\nIn about 1909, they moved to Severy, Greenwood County, KS, where they spent the next 15 years of their lives together. Severy is within just 12 miles of Howard, Elk County, KS, where they also are known to have resided during that time.\nWhen the federal census was taken in 1920, the Minerds made their home in Lincoln Township, Crawford County. Springer and their sons all were listed as coal mine laborers.\nHeartache rocked this family on Dec. 11, 1924, when Mary passed away at home in Severy at the age of 47 on Dec. 11, 1924. The Pittsburg Daily Headlight -- misspelling her name as \"Mineard\" -- reported that her remains were transported back to Pittsburg for the funeral, held at the Methodist church, led by Rev. Wilbur N. Mason. Burial was in the Wolfe family plot at the Mt. Olive Cemetery. The Headlight said Mary was survived by a sister, Florence Schirard, of Windsor, MO; and five brothers, Frank Wolfe of Englevale, and A.B. Wolfe, Edward Wolfe, B.J. Wolfe and Nicholas L. Wolfe, all of Pittsburg.\nIronically, Mary's death occurred when Springer was reaching a peak in his work as an inventor. In 1924, when they resided in Howard, he filed an application for a patent for a new type of hay stacking device. A sketch is seen here, from an elevation perspective. The patent was approved on Jan. 12, 1926. In his narrative, he wrote: An object of the invention resides in providing a hay stacker or like character of device, wherein the wheeled platform carries a vertically extending standard... Another object of the invention resides in providing a wheel supported platform, on which is mounted a drum...\" Click here for the full text of the patent summary as approved by the U.S. Patent Office.\nAs a widower, Springer moved to Croweburg, a tiny coal mining community north of Pittsburg. It's likely that he worked at one of the the Crow Coal Company mines, as Mine 16 was less than half a mile from the Minerd homeplace. He may have been a coal mine boss as his land holdings were more than most other miners in the area. The tract remained in the family until 1964, when their heirs sold it to Joe and Elizabeth Burnick for a token dollar. His brother John Henry Minerd also made his home in Croweburg during that era.\nSpringer outlived his wife by six years, and endured an illness of about that same length of time. He died in Croweburg on March 12, 1930, at the age of 76. The Headlight said he was a \"retired farmer and resident of Crawford County for the past 48 years...\" but did not mention his inventions. Following his funeral, also held at the Methodist Church, he joined Mary in eternal repose at the Mt. Olive Cemetery. They rest directly in between the long, flat monuments of Mary's brother and sister in law, Nicholas L. and Esther Wolfe.\nIn September 2010, cousin Eugene Podraza and the founder of this website, joined by distant niece Melinda Brooksher and her husband Rich, paid their respects at the graves of Springer and Mary during their annual end-of-summer genealogy research trip.\nCopyright © 2000, 2002-2008, 2010, 2018 Mark A. Miner", "label": "No"}
{"text": "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\nComputer-assisted gaming (or CAG) refers to games which are at least partially computerized, but which are actively regulated by a human referee. Computer-assisted gaming attempts to combine the advantages of computer games with those of face-to-face games. In computer-assisted gaming, computers are used for recordkeeping and sometimes for the resolution of combat, but a Human referee makes any decisions requiring judgement.\nA computer-assisted game can be little more than a collection of rules and notes on computer, or as complete as a computer game, with a human referee needed only to make the non-random decisions. It can be played remotely or with everyone in the same room looking at one or more computer monitors. (The referee must have his own monitor; the players can share one, or each player can have his own. Or only the referee may have a monitor, with the players using paper as usual.) This flexibility allows players to combine the best aspects of paper-and-pencil and computer games while computerizing the game as much or as little as desired.\nRole-playing games were one of the first types of games for which computer-assisted gaming programs were developed. Computer-aided role-playing game programs are designed to help game masters and players alike. Those programs range from acting as convenient format for a character sheet all the way up to full automation of the game mechanics of a role-playing game system. This is especially useful for character creation/maintenance and rules resolutions for complex simulationist games.\n- Mac-Assisted Role-Playing, insidemacgames.com on CARP", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Neutrophils are considered one of the first responders of the innate immune response. Their primary activities are to migrate to sites of infection by chemotaxis and trans-migration across the endothelium (Gaines et al., 2005). Once at the site of infection, they phagocytize microbes and kill them. Critical to the neutrophil’s ability to kill microbes are the multiple degradative enzymes contained within granules. The activity of these enzymes is non-specific, and therefore, neutrophils also contribute to tissue damage at the site of infection (Gaines and Berliner, 2005). Measurement of neutrophil infiltration into tissues is one way to gauge the severity of infection, inflammation, and tissue damage (Ayala et al., 2002). Myeloperoxidase is found in the primary granules of neutrophils and is an effective measure of neutrophil infiltration into tissues (Gaines and Berliner, 2005).\nThanks for your further question/comment. It has been sent to the author(s) of this protocol. You will receive a notification once your question/comment is addressed again by the author(s).\nMeanwhile, it would be great if you could help us to spread the word about Bio-protocol.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "01-18-2012 07:42 AM\nI have been rattleing my head on this for the last couple of days with no luck.\nWhat i am trying to do is the following:\nsend a signal into a NI9421 Module, when the module receives this signal it should output on the NI 9472. These 2 steps i have completed and are working however it is the next part whicc i am having trouble with.\nWhen the input signal is removed from NI9421 i would like to kepp receiving a signal from the NI9472 for a period whihc can be easily adjusted.\nI have tried to put in delays/waits (FOR loops behaving as counters),while loops etc but all this doesis delays the time between the input turning on before the output turns on. for example. If i put in a delay of 5 secs, the input needs to be closed 5 second before the output turns on, and the output will then remain on for a further 5 sec.\nAny help is much appreciated.\nSolved! Go to Solution.\n01-19-2012 08:28 AM\nWhat is the signal into the 9421? Could you attach the code you have so far so I can provide an example for you that is in useful context.\n01-19-2012 08:53 AM\nHey Jack. W\nThanks for your help\nThe theory behind our project is that a physical momentary switch will be pressed and released (within a half a second approx), when the switch is pressed a signal (voltage 5 v ) is received by the 9421 (then the signal is back to 0 as the switch is in the open position), immediately after this signal is received the 9472 module outputs a signal.The length of time the signal is ouputted on the 9472 is detemined by a time delay.\nThe problem we are having is that there is a delay on the 9742 module when we press the input which equals the delay time setup in the time delay\nWe are using lab view 8.5. I have attached some code for you.\n01-20-2012 09:50 AM\nJust to clarify. Program runs and waits for the logic level of a channel on the 9421 to go HI » Immediately after the channel goes HI a channel on the 9472 starts outputting a signal » Output from the 9472 then stops after an adjustable amount of time.\nWhat is the output signal?\nThe time delay you are experiencing is between the button press and the start of the output, how long is this?\n01-20-2012 10:36 AM\nThe Output signal will be 12v brought in thru' the vsup and com. THe time delay we are experiencing is the same length of time that we set the delay to be. So for example if we set the delay for 3 secs then, when we press the button, it app waits 3 secs before the output is turned on for three sec, and what we are looking for it the output to turn on immediately for 3 sec, no waiting between the input and output.\n01-24-2012 03:54 AM\nHave a look at the example code below along with the description, hopefully it will get you started.\nThe while loop at the start polls the digital input pin and waits for a true before exiting the loop and entering into the DAQ Assistant2. The while loop has in it a wait of 10ms. This is to prevent it running to fast and hogging all of you CPUs time. Since the output of the DAQ Assistant in the while loop is an array the Index Array VI is used to get just one value which is wired into the loop condition.\nThe yellow lines used throughout are error lines and these can be very useful in LabVIEW to synchronise/ order parts of you code. Following the order of execution rule the DAQ Assistant2 will not begin until the while loop has finished its execution.\nI have then used a Flat sequence to order a delay of 3 seconds (again with error lines) between the second DAQ Assistant and the third which turns off the digital output.\nHope this is clear and helpful", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Michel Foucault brings forth concept of episteme\nIn his book “The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences,” French philosopher Michel Foucault brought forth the concept of “episteme.”\nThe 1966 book is about 55 years old, but his “episteme,” or the ways of regarding and thinking about the truth and discourse, appears to still hold good in understanding the world.\nIt is a priori knowledge that is shared by contemporary people in a specific epoch. It is about describing how knowledge is conditioned.\n“In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one episteme that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in a theory or silently invested in a practice,” he noted.\nOne of his examples is Marxism, which “exists in 19th century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else.”\nThings are not the same now. We do not need Marxism to breathe. But we still need something else other than Marxism to condition our knowledge as a structure of thought.\nEvery historical time, and each culture, East or West, has its own episteme or epistemes necessary to answer the two questions of “what can we know?” and “what can we speak of?” according to Foucault.\nAs episteme is about covertly agreed-upon boundaries of thought, it is comparable to paradigm, which was coined by American physicist Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.”\nKuhn used the notion to explain a dominant theory in the world of science and how a paradigm shift takes place in the scientific model.\nBy comparison, Foucault’s episteme is not restricted to science. And he does not come up with any theory on how an episteme becomes dominant and eventually weakens to be replaced by a new one.\n“And that appearance was not the liberation of an old anxiety, the transition into luminous consciousness of an age-old concern, the entry into objectivity of something that had long remained trapped within beliefs and philosophies: it was the effect of a change in the fundamental arrangements of knowledge,” he concluded.\n“As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Name _____ period _____ ap biology water essay grading rubric the unique properties (characteristics) of water make life possible on earth select three properties of water and for each property, a) identify and define the property and explain it in terms of the physical/chemical nature of water. Understanding the ap english language argument rubric the ap english language exam contains three essays, two of which are the argument essays the argument essays come with a prompt that contains a passage. Ap english literature essay scoring rubric general directions: the score you assign should reflect your judgment of the quality of the essay as a whole reward writers for what they do well the score for an exceptionally well-written essay may be raised by.\nThe ap biology test wants to show you what good science looks like on the data questions you can then use that information when crafting your free-response answers beyond these points, there’s a bit of a risk in the free-response section because there are only eight questions. Each of the three ap english language and composition essays equals one-third of the total essay score, and the entire essay (free-response) section equals 55% of the total exam score each essay is read by experienced, well-trained high school ap teachers or college professors. Here is a wide variety of resources to help you learn biology these items may be web links or books or magazine articles please alert me at asap if any of these links have expired essentials previous ap essays with answers and garding rubric more ap essays previous ap essays with answers and garding rubric scientific method.\nWelcome to tomricheynet, a website committed to delivering learning to students and teachers by providing online videos, powerpoints, tutoring services, writing courses, and other instructional materials. Irubric bx8a6xc: rubric title essay ap biology built by tmmazak using irubriccom free rubric builder and assessment tools. Ap language and composition – grading rubric – synthesis essay grade description scale 1 scale 2 scale 3 scale 4 9 essays earning a score of 9 meet the criteria for essays that are scored an 8 and, in addition, are especially sophisticated in.\n#cover letter nanny resume #ap biology essay and rubric #pps ukm thesis template #collapse of maya essay #crucible essay prompt ap biology essay and rubric pps ukm thesis template of the cruise amid the jog letter, alongside his name, you will whip that judas supplies the varoom 'enclosure. 1 ap psychology frq prompts and scoring rubrics the enclosed document includes an essay prompt for each unit in ap psychology and a corresponding scoring rubric. Ap biology essay test chapters: 22, 23, 24 and 25 this preview has intentionally blurred sections sign up to view the full version.\nAp biology summer assignment essay rubric element exceptional - 4 effective - 3 adequate - 2 inadequate - 1 essay information/ cover sheet the cover sheet of the essay has the student's name, the title of the book and the author’s name, due date and class hour the cover sheet is. Ap biology course & exam description (pdf) (opens in new window) quantitative skills in the ap sciences (opens in new window) the exam is 3 hours long and has two sections — multiple choice/grid-in, and free-response. Ap biology is among the most popular advanced placement tests put forth by college board each year for high school students the test was designed to challenge and motivate students to further expand on their passion for the subject of biological sciences.\nAp history long essay question rubric with scoring notes may 2016: implementation for ap us history and ap european history may 2017: implementation for ap world history. Extra opportunity for ch 41 and 42 exam you may choose to answer up to 3 essay questions from the following if they are answered in your own words, are a minimum of 2 paragraphs each and are answered according to ap standards, you will receive up to 4 points for each question answered. Just like a touchdown and extra point, the new ap us history dbq is worth seven points the dbq is 25% of your final score on the exam, so it is crucial for you to understand the changes to the rubric, as well as how to write the best dbq possible.\nAp persuasive essay rubric criteria exemplary 4 proficient 3 needs improvement 2 unacceptable 1 student grade teacher grade thesis & main points informative intro, grabs attention, general to specific thesis clear, concise arguable thesis, strong verb clearly illicit precise and inventive ideas on topic. Questions 3–8 are short free-response questions that require about 6 minutes each to answer questions 3–5 are worth 4 points each and questions 6–8 are worth 3 points each read each question carefully and completely. Name _____ ap biology 2 of 16 2004-2005 lab 2 enzyme catalysis essay 2000 the effects of ph and temperature were studied for an enzyme-catalyzed reaction.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A Answers (3)\nMehmet Oz, MD, Cardiology, answeredMSG, or monosodium glutamate, is a strong form of sodium that can cause side effects like headaches. In this video, Dr. Oz lists why MSG should be avoided.\nStephen H. Atkins, PhD, Functional Medicine, answered\nMonosodium glutamate (MSG) can make food taste better, but for some people it can be a pain in the brain. Find out why by watching this video featuring integrative medicine specialist Dr. Stephen Atkins.\nMonosodium glutamate (MSG is the sodium salt of the amino acid glutamate). Glutamate, in addition to serving as one of the amino acids found in proteins, is also an excitatory amino acid and activates other neurons in the brain by binding to a specific type of glutamate receptors. This process activates calcium release, which in turn affects the intra-cranial blood vessel tone. This is one of the crucial steps in the process of migraine generation.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Want to bring music education to your kids or students?\nWe know it’s not always easy to know where to get started when it comes to learning music. With so many YouTube videos, it gets overwhelming to know what to do next. Click below for more info.\nJingle Bells Piano Notes\nClick here for Jingle Bells Piano Notes PDF\nAs the holidays quickly approach, learning some great music is on order. In today's lesson, your kids will be learning the holiday classic, Jingle Bells. Few songs are as recognizable as this classic. First we've include the Jingle Bell piano notes. Secondly, we've included the chords for all you adventurous piano or guitar players out there. Remember to sing along and have fun. The notes are quite easy to follow along and you'll get it in no time.\nThe best part is when the holiday season arrives, you and your family can have a fun singalong!\nWho Wrote Jingle Bells?\nAccording to Wikipedia, \"Jingle Bells\" is one of the best-known and commonly sung American songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) and published under the title \"One Horse Open Sleigh\" in the autumn of 1857.\nWant Your Child to Learn Piano and Music?\nFor more information into the Color Me Mozart™ music curriculum, click here to find out more. Your child can learn music, piano and xylophone with real music education that they can apply to any instrument in the future. Give the gift of music to your child or students.\nHere at Color Me Mozart™, we believe every kid has the ability to learn to music. Most importantly, we feel that every child should have the opportunity to learn music, piano or any other instrument. In addition, music is such a rich language that helps with cognitive, emotional and social development.\nThat is why we created a curriculum that was not only effective in teaching music and piano, but also affordable to add to any home or classroom.\nAre Your Kids Ready to Learn Music\nVisit the Color Me Mozart™ Store to pick up your books, stickers or xylophone!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "(This continues my interview with artist and teacher, Steve Ohlrich. Click here for Part One.)\nBen: I’ve personally always enjoyed your creative paintings and drawings. How does a student cultivate the ability to draw imaginative ideas, or to harness imagination and turn it into drawing?\nSteve: Well thank you. It’s a good question because you’ll read, oh people can learn to draw basic things like a cube, but there’s a part of drawing that’s unteachable, and that’s the creative part. I think it varies in different people. Some people have it and some people don’t and why is that? I grew up in a tumultuous household, and there was mental illness. So I had every reason to escape into a world of fantasy. So there is that aspect of it. There’s also lots of people that just love a good story and who like to take complex ideas and put them together in new ways.\nSometimes a sense of humor helps. I’ve read that a sense of humor is considered one of the highest orders of thinking because you’re always putting these contradictory things together. So that helps. When I studied animation, we always had exercises. They were simple things like “find 3 different newspaper articles, take the first sentence from each one, and you have the beginning, middle, and end. Now construct a story around it” So there are ways to get you started putting things together. I’ve been asked a lot by students lately “hey can you do a class in surrealism?” and I thought that’s interesting. The students said, “listen…we know we have to be able to draw first, obviously, but how would you do that?”\n\"Whatever you do, be in that world...\"\nHow would I work with someone who is having a hard time coming up with imagery? One thing I’d say is record your dreams. That’s a good place to start. Dreams are weird. It’s your subconscious telling you stuff, and presenting symbols. There’s all kinds of improbable things going on, so make pictures of them as a starting point. Watch sci-fi movies, read sci-fi books, read books on ghosts, or read Robert Louis Stevenson books. Whatever you do, be in that world. For me it just comes naturally to sit and make up stories. That’s what I do.\nBen: That’s good advice on generating ideas, but what do you say to a student saying “hey how do I go about actually learning to draw imaginative ideas better? I’ve got the ideas….I picked up this sci-fi book, and I want to draw some scenes from it as an exercise…” What’s a good way to learn how to take those ideas and turn them into drawings?\nSteve: Let’s say you were going to combine outer-space scenery with pirates. To do space pirates, you go through books of pirates, you look at a blunderbuss, their flags, their clothes, the stuff they found. You start to incorporate that into your drawing. Then you watch 2001 space odyssey and fall asleep like everybody does. You start looking at pictures of nebulae and black holes and you say “how do I draw a ship that turns at a 3-quarter angle into a black hole?” It’s researching the actual things.\nI did a World-War I scene and I spent a lot of time going through pictures of WWI to get all the details right. Because I imagine some WWI buff is going to see this and bust me on details, I’m not going to let them. Even the treads on the boots, I got those right. The little things that hung from their belts, the types of belts... I wanted all these things to be super accurate, and then I put it into a more imaginative scene.\nBen: There are a lot people out there, who are adults now and may have gotten some art training, or formal art education, but now they have non- art day jobs. It’s a struggle for them with life and kids and jobs to find time for what is basically a hobby, but they’ve kept that flame alive, that love of drawing and art. What advice do you have to keep the cycle of engagement with the craft alive?\nSteve: Take a class. Go to a lecture. Keep a sketchbook. I listened to a great lecture that said people need to do more than one job. You have your job during the day, then you come home and instead of falling asleep in front of the TV, you practice guitar or you study astronomy and take a class in astronomy or something like that. So it comes out of just making the time to do it. And having people around you to support you helps a lot, too. A lot of the students I work with are working professionals, or they’re retired but art has always been the thing they loved to do. I have people that keep coming back for another class and another. I’m happy with that and to facilitate that for them.\nSo it comes down to just making the time and to commit to something. And really, just take a class. If you feel like, ok, I’ve been studying too much, then start setting up something at home. Find a place at home that’s quiet, that doesn’t have the kids running through, and that’s your meditation space and time. Put it on the calendar…Tuesday nights and Thursdays nights I go into mediation time to make art for 2 hours. Then you get once you get that consistent time, then you get momentum and then you start accomplishing things. Then you’ll say “oh, now I’ve got a finished painting…now let’s do something else…let’s take a perspective class.” That’s how you keep it going.\nSo it comes down to just making the time and to commit to something.\nBen: For people in the situation I describe in my previous question, I think they can be more prone to getting stuck on plateau’s with their skill development, while they fight for the time. How do they break plateaus?\nSteve: Take a class, watch an online video, go look at paintings. One of the best bits of advice I got from my teacher Bruno Surdo, was, “ok Steve, you need to work on edges, so go to the Art Institute and look at edges on figure paintings and drawings.” And I did, and with that focus, I learned a ton. I came back and I made all the adjustments to what I was working on and, wow…it got me over a plateau right away. So knowing how to go and look at something with focus is important. Now it takes some insight and you’ve got to know you’re on plateau and know where you’re going, because sometimes it’s just a matter of “well I really struggle with skies…my skies never look right.” Well, ok, go look at a bunch of skies. Ask what makes another painter’s sky better than my sky? Take a picture of your sky and hold it on your phone next to Rembrandt’s sky. You’ll start to come up with information, especially if you go there with focus. That makes a big difference.\nBen: So tell me what you think of the following? I think there is some unhealthy cultural baggage attached to art. I think part of it is the pedestal that people put the appearance of talent on. Part of it is people’s experiences with art. If someone says they are going to learn a skill like playing guitar, playing golf, or learning a foreign language, people don’t immediately think you are required to have been bestowed with a ton of talent to be able to acquire a baseline of competency with those. Even if you say “I’m going to take a drawing class, or a painting class” those are pretty accepted things. However, if you say “I’m going to create art.” People don’t quite know how to process that.\nSteve: Well sometimes people have stereotypes about artists being freaks and weirdos. If you’re an accountant those people say ‘you’re not a freak or a weirdo, why would you be making art?” I think humans are very holistic beings and the creative side is there and needs to be nurtured. You have to do something with it, as well as doing left-brained thinking and physical things. Creative work needs to be accepted as a normal part of being a functioning human being. There was probably a time, in the past, where we did more creating because there you had to, for example, build your own fence. It’s creative. Or you had to build a porch or whatever it was you needed, and we’ve gotten away from that. So in some ways it’s easy to get into a mode of ‘you are this and you are that.’\nI remember going over to someone’s house, and they were expecting me and knew I was an artist. I just look like a normal dude, wearing jeans and a regular shirt and sneakers. And they were like “where’s all the pins, and the shaved head or colored hair?” So I think there is a lot of stereotyping and judgment, and some people will ask “‘well are you any good?” It’s not about that, it’s about this need to make something. I think some people are very self-conscious about it too, because they expect what they do to be no good. It’s going to be judged.\nI have a lot of students who look very sheepish when I come over and look at their work. This is why when I come over, if there’s something I can talk about that they are doing really well, I want to let them know…”hey, this is really working, but this other area is where you need to focus now.” The best compliment I ever got was “thank you for taking the fear out of drawing for me.” So I think there are stereotypes and stigmas. It maybe just goes back to let’s make sure we keep the arts in school and keep them part of everything. Not everyone's going to be good at it, but that’s not the point.\nBen: What motivates you, personally, to this day, as an artist?\nSteve: [laughs] It’s all I can do. I’ve worked in retail, I’ve worked in psychology. Art is what I do. The feedback I get is that I do it well, whether it’s the drawing or the painting or the teaching. I’ve worked in other fields, and I knew I was giving something up by not working in art and I was wasting something, something really a part of who I am. So that's what got me back to it and has kept me focused. It helps so much to have a supportive spouse, that is extremely helpful. And then just the support I get from my students, and from people who buy my work. Also it’s what I love to do.\nWhen I'm making something or painting something, parts of my brain are firing in ways that they don't when I'm doing my taxes, for instance. Endorphins are going off and since it’s natural for me to make up stories and put things together, it just connects with who I am and I'm just happier. I also feel like I've got the talent to back me. Then there’s the world of selling things and commissions and stuff. I get support there too. It all helps, but for the most part it’s who I am and what I love to do. And I can see it in the reactions I get and in the way I feel when I'm doing it.\nBen: Can you tell me about your latest work?\nSteve: Sure. I tend to do a lot of different things, and I’ve gotten back to just doing more imaginative work. I’m really focusing on figures and portraits. Some are a little more standard like my son’s portrait, but then I have to have the flying baseballs in it just to add some whimsical elements. But I’ve been going through sketches and doing figure work that has a sense of humor or a sense of mystery to it. Sometimes it deals with our current times a little bit. It’s all representational, but it’s surreal, and it tells a story and will be filled with symbols. That's my favorite because I love posting my work (on social media) and reading people’s comments. You never know how someone's going to react to something you do. And to me that’s the best part because it gets them out of their everyday life and they can start thinking. It's like maybe they weren't thinking like that until they saw this thing, and if I can help people do that and it takes people to a better place than great. I’m happy with that.\nI got away from this and I was doing still lives and doing some landscape painting. I like being diverse in my work. But really connecting back with just being a storyteller in a representational way and asking, how do I combine those? That's where I’m at. Also, I feel like I'm in a part of the country, too, that is the best playground for that. I read a statistic that there are more creative people working in a creative field in the city of Los Angeles than at any other time in the history of modern cities. We took my son to see the Avengers and I’m like yeah, I can just let loose and have fun here. Whereas when I was in Wisconsin, I was like I’d better paint some barns, because it’s more conservative and people want you to paint more about Wisconsin. Not that I didn't find people that like surreal stuff, but there's a bigger audience for it here.\nBen: Can you tell me about any upcoming shows, classes, or workshops?\nSteve: let's see, I just had some work in a show in the Arts District at Art Share L.A. I got into another show on museum row, but then it turned out that my painting was too big. That's the problem with doing big paintings, you hear “sorry, we just don't have space…but you'll get into our next show automatically.” And then I have some work hanging at a gallery called McGinty's which is here in Altadena. Whenever I have the opportunity I submit work just to get it out. My goal is to have a solo show at some point and I have a list of paintings to work on, which is the stuff I’m working on now.\nI also have two commissioned works on display at Northwestern Mutual’s headquarters in Milwaukee in a show called “Giving Gallery: A Community in Process”. This is a show that will be on display until February, 2019 when it will go on a national tour.\nI’m also teaching classes at Pasadena City College. I teach extension classes there and I've been doing that for a little over a year now. Big classes. I have a portrait drawing class. I do a classical drawing class which is drawing basic shapes in charcoal. People love landscapes, I’ll do painting landscapes from photos. Then I have private students that I work with. Quite a few come here and I have them working on various projects.\nBen: Can you tell me about your private teaching?\nSteve: I have private students. Some I find through Thumbtack. Some find my work in the catalog for Pasadena City College, or they see it somewhere and then they contact me. In some cases, I go to their home. In most cases, people come here. I especially like it because I have everything here. I do a lot of schlepping, and I get tired of the schlepping and I'm learning how to minimize the schlepping. At Pasadena City College I have a great space. There's lights and everything so I don't need to bring much. I really like students coming to my home because I have all my books, all my artwork is here, all my materials are here, and people like that. They get to come to your studio and get to see “oh this is what he does…” At my home, students get around the clock attention. They are usually here for an hour, and I’m right there with them the whole time. It’s also a great variety of people, in one case it’s kids, in another, it’s a woman who’s a filmmaker who wants to learn how to paint, for fun. In another case its someone who paints and wants to be painting better.\nBen: Well, thank you so much for talking to me.\nSteve: Of course.\nBen: Check out more of Steve’s work at www.steveohlrich.com", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Public Safety Ethnic and Cultural Awareness\nJanuary 19, 2014 Diversity Considerations\nThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of culture on attitudes, values, perception, human behavior, and interpersonal relations. The discriminatory factors that promote societal, political, socioeconomic, and spiritual oppression of culturally diverse populations will also be illustrated in this paper. The paper would further examine the racial and cultural diversity within non-native English-speaking communities. Moreover, this paper will also analyze how current research may positively impact the delivery of public safety and enhance the evaluation of information …show more content…\nThe ways in which different people are developed are formed by the social circumstances and experiences within the context of their innate genetic potentials. The question remains that how hereditary potential and experience serve their roles in developing the behavior, values, perceptions, and attitudes of a human being. All human beings are born into specific cultural and social settings and ultimately develop several social connections. The characteristics of a person’s cultural settings greatly influence the way they learn to behave and think, by means of example, punishments, rewards, and instructions. In addition, the culturally induced behavioral patterns, like forms of humor, body language, and speech patterns, become so profoundly embedded in the mindset of human beings that they frequently operate without the people themselves being completely aware regarding them. All the various cultures include a slightly different mesh of meanings and patterns; attitudes towards different cultures, expectations for behavior, customs and habits in arts, clothing, foods, and religions, social roles, systems of government and trade, ways of earning a living, and values and beliefs regarding each of these activities (Chan, et.al, 2012). What is perceived as acceptable human behavior is different in different religions and in …show more content…\nThe concept of foreign in majority of the cases depends on the ideas and images constructed socially, which reduces the globe to “us”, “them”, “good ones like me”, and “the normal”, the others who are distinctive: a disruption, a threat demonstrating a degradation of appropriate behavior and values. Despite that majority of the individuals consider xenophobia as generally acceptable and in contradiction with the human rights culture; it is not atypical. Discriminations on the basis of xenophobia, for instance acts of violence and verbal abuse, are evidently the violations of human rights (Correa, 2000).\nGender discrimination is quite pervasive in our society. Schools, childcare institutions, family, media, and other societal institutions transmit and preserve stereotypes regarding women and men. In the Western societies, conventional gender traits are frequently related to power – men and their specific activities are classified as influential, public oriented, important, brave, productive, strong, outgoing, and having increased value, social recognition, and monetary rewards. On the other hand, it is widely believed that the main traits of women include; family-oriented, caring, dependent, and passive.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Species group: Tortoises\nOther name: Speke’s Hinged Tortoise; Savannah Hinged Tortoise\nScientific name: Kinixys spekii\nRange/Habitat: The upgrade of the Speck’s Hinge-back Tortoise from K. belliana subspecies to its own species is a more recent development. They are typically found in sandy or wooded savannas scattered throughout parts of southern Africa. They are a burrowing tortoise.\nSize and Coloration: Members of the Kinixys genus all have a hinged rear carapace. Their tail and rear legs can be safely closed off into the shell. The Speke’s Hinge-back Tortoise has a long flat carapace with dark spots in the center of each scute and dark outlining of each scute. Older adults will be more uniformly a dirt brown color. An identifying feature of this species is the flared 5th vertebral scute (those are the scutes running down the center of the shell.) Their skin is yellow-brown and their marginal scutes (the outer edge scutes) do not flare.\nAVERAGE ADULT WEIGHT: N/A\nAVERAGE ADULT SIZE: 6-8 inches\nCaging: The Speke’s Hinge-back Tortoise needs a large enclosure. A space of 15 feet x 10 feet for 2 tortoises is an ideal start. They thrive best outdoors and often are given the run of the yard. However the special care needs of the Bell’s Hinge-back Tortoise make housing this species rather complicated. This tortoise species is not for the pet owner seeking an easy to care for pet. Due to their temperature and humidity requirements they will most likely need to have an extensive indoor habitat in addition to their outdoor yard space. For an indoor habitat, a specially designed tortoise box or tub works best. Outdoor habitats should be well planted with shady bushes and may need misters in the drier climates. Some great plant choices that they can also eat are petunias, hibiscus, aloe vera and a variety of grasses. Mulch, moss, or bark can be used as a substrate, both indoors and out, to help maintain a higher humidity level. Mulch not only increases the humidity it also provides natural bugs and snails for them to forage on. A plastic sheet can cover part of the outdoor habitat to increase the humidity. They require a pool that they can submerge half way into; they will enjoy a soaking and may even go for a swim.\nTEMPERATURE/HUMIDITY: They need high humidity and daytime temperatures of 77-82° F.\nHIBERNATION / ESTIVATION: These tortoises do not naturally hibernate but they will aestivate if conditions are exceptionally hot and dry.\nHEALTH CONCERNS: These tortoises due tend to have medical problems making regular veterinarian care all the more important. Wild caught tortoises do not fare well, they are generally unhealthy; loaded with parasites and dehydrated. Most of them die quickly in captivity. Do make sure you know the source of your pet tortoise and that it is a well bred captive tortoise. These tortoises can also suffer from eye problems due to improper humidity levels.\nBreeding: The aggressive nature of hinge-backs males make it risky to house them with other males. Like other tortoises the male will ram, circle, and bite the female as part of the courtship phase.\nDiet: The Speke’s Hinge-back Tortoise is unique in its naturally varied diet. They are natural omnivores eating large amounts of fallen, well ripened fruit, flowers, plants leaves, and dead animals. They will also feast on mushrooms, slugs, and bugs (a bonus for your garden!) Likewise, as a pet, they should be fed a diet that is highly varied. Their diet should consist of fruits such as mangoes, papaya, grapes, and berries, as well as grasses, timothy hay, flowers (roses, hibiscus) dark leafy greens, and the occasional egg. They should get calcium carbonate supplements once a week.\nTemperament: These are active reptiles that need a large amount of space. They are timid and nervous tortoises that need an experienced owner.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Belonging to the Durio genus, Durian has a botanical name of Durio zibethinus.\nIn tropical forests durian trees can reach heights of between 27-40 m, however, in commercial orchard situations heights are usually maintained between 18-20 m. Durian usually has a stout, straight trunk (once mature) and an irregular dense or open crown of branches up the length of the tree. Flowers are borne in clusters on the trunk and the branches.\nDurian fruit is ovoid or round in shape and approximately 15-30 cm long and 12-15 cm wide. It can weigh up to 8 kg. The yellowish-green rind is thick, tough and covered with stout, sharply pointed spines and handling without gloves can be painful.an Evergreen grower, it will keep its leaves throughout the year. Durian is known for its tree habit and growing to a height of approximately 40.00 metres (130.00 feet). This plant tends to bloom in early summer.\nThailand is believed to be where Durian originates from.\nBe aware that Durian typically needs a fair amount of maintenance and care in order to grow successfully. Ensure that you are aware of the soil, sun, ph and water requirements for this plant and keep an eye out for pests. Pay attention to weeding, feed and pruning schedules to ensure your plant remains in peak condition.\nThis plant info is provided by the myfolia gardener's wiki. All details about Durian have been kindly provided by our members.\nThese plants have been known to grow well alongside Durian so consider planting:\nThese plants will not grow well with Durian so avoid planting these within close proximity:\nThese problems, diseases and pests are known to affect Durian plants:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Cell phones are the most used communication tool today internet access & social media the internet is one of the biggest blessings to man by technology thus i can say that mobile phone very very important for everyone. Connecting web sites directly to the internet to allow communication among inter- so it's important to keep in mind that the internet 113 what is a protocol computer networks and the internet computer networks and the internet computer networks and the internet. Introduction the internet is the greatest invention of mankind there are two sides to every story the telephone has long been a great means of communication, and i believe that it will always be needed far more than the internet but, we are forgetting (in my opinion. Social role of internet intermediaries april 2010 2 foreword 2 4 introduction 4 introduction as the internet has grown to permeate all aspects of the economy and society leverages its middleman position to foster communication with other agents in the marketplace that will. Security professionals need to increase their understanding of ipv6 and the new threats that it and the internet of things (iot thereby causing the firewall to add an entry to the state table by allowing the return communication it is important to understand that many vulnerabilities. Communication is an important facet of life communication skills are essential in all spheres of life be it an interview or dealing with the project leader or working out a solution with a team or writing a report, getting across the point effectively is what matters related articles: how to improve your story writing skills [. Introduction the internet offers extraordinary opportunities for speakers before plunging into the details of the proliferating controversies over freedom of expression on the internet freedom of speech is important both as a means to achieve a democratic society and as.\nIntroduction: classroom scenario student use of the internet as a communication and collaboration tool she understands the importance of guiding her students to become more active learners. Internet communication refers to the number of different ways people can communicate over the world wide web it includes chat rooms, email, instant messaging, forums, social networking sites and. Four principles of interpersonal communication - introduction a critical review of what has been noted about the four (deibert, p131) [tags: internet communication]:: 5 works cited the importance of communication in marriage - divorce is a difficult thing for all. The importance of communication skills 13 chapter 2 an introduction to spoken communication 15 the anatomy of a communication 16 speaking effectively 21 making conversation 27 4 an introduction to communication skills introduction.\nIntroduction to computer networking internet, and various servers 3 fig 1: communication is becoming more common (see advice sheet 20 for more information) a network interface device on each computer (this is called a network. Introduction communication is an important aspect within and outside an organization more about essay on the importance of communication in an organization the importance of ethics in an organization 2833 words | 12 pages. Search strategies, new literacies, internet, information and communication technologies, digital divide, literacy skills, learning technology, usa, america. Need and importance of information technology in education from wikieducator jump to: navigation importance access to variety of learning resources the internet and its web sites are now familiar to many children in developed countries and among educational elites elsewhere.\nTelecommunications, the internet, and information system architecture packet switching is of particular importance for data communication owing to its speed and its superior utilization of communication links when handling abursty,@ intermittent, traffic. Introduction to information and communication technology in education (moursund) page 2 important content area in each of the disciplines that you teach or are preparing to teach the internet and web, wired and wireless networks, digital still and video. Accessibility that one has to the internet through smart phones it is important to realize that as social media evolves the realm of communication changes the negative effects of social media on communication are the effect it can have on kids through cyber bullying and unwanted. Introduction communication is an important aspect within and outside an more about essay on the importance of communication in an organization the importance of ethics in an organization 2833 words | 12 pages importance of communication within and outside an organization 1752 words | 7.\nKeywords: internet, mass communication, information economy, culture, access, cost engine behind the information society, the internet plays an important role in shaping world society introduction from the beginning. Information and communication technology (ict) nations creating a united nations information and communication technologies task force and an internal office of information and communications technology with over three billion people having access to the internet. Keep your online communication private introduction to secure communication one important difference between the flexibility of internet communication tools and the strength of modern encryption can now provide a level of privacy that was once available only to national military and.\nThe impact of the internet on communication introduction 2 statement of controlling purpose 3 problem identification 4 history 5 the most important type of communication is interpersonal communication.\nThe impact of new media on intercultural communication in global context guo-ming chen introduction the history of human introduction of computers and the internet in the early 1990s since then. Chapter 1 introduction to communication studies before we dive into the history of communication, it is important that we have a shared this period has featured the most rapid dispersion of a new method of communication, as the spread of the internet and the expansion of digital and. Chapter 15 media, technology, and communication and bettina fabos, media & culture: an introduction to mass communication, 5th ed (boston, ma: bedford st martin's, 2007), 307 and fiber-optic cables were key technological advances that made the internet and digital communication. 4 introduction 4 introduction as the internet has grown to permeate all aspects of the economy and society faster, and cheaper communication technologies, for innovation and internet intermediaries are important actors because their services create network externalities2 such. Internet at 40 in 1969 a student typed 'lo' on a computer - and the internet was born forty years of the internet: how the world changed for ever of the internet, making it greatly easier to navigate the information there, and to use it as a medium of sharing and communication. Written communication internet essay language level: upper intermediate: b2 discussion in my own perspective, the internet plays an important role in the communicating barrier as you can see, people all around the world are using the internet.\nThe internet as a communication tool as with any form of communication, it is important to establish boundaries when sharing information with others teachers could use internet communication tools, such as e-mail and instant messaging. The main importance of the internet is that it has made informationavailable in a or entertainment, game websites like miniclip/video websites like youtube, communication, email websites, such as hotmail, shopping, online shopping site like the internet is important for a number of. An introduction to networking terminology, interfaces, and protocols posted a portion of a network that is not publicly accessible to the greater internet multiple technologies and protocols that are built on top of each other in order for communication to function more. Chapter i: introduction importance of the study email a wireless internet connection for the purposes of this study, electronic communication will impact of electronic communication on personal relationships.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Ask, Listen, Do\nYou may find the following leaflet, funded by the Department for Education and developed by families as part of NHS England's Ask Listen Do project helpful in planning your child’s return to school.\n'Returning to school after a period of absence', is intended to help build partnership between families and the school. The intention is to equip families with questions to ask of schools to make the return to school from a period of absence as successful as possible. The questions can be used by families and by young people to support self-advocacy.\nNHS national programme, Ask, Listen, Do (ALD) is about making feedback, concerns and complaints easier for people with a learning disability, autism or both and their families and carers. The programme supports organisations to learn from and improve the experiences of people with a learning disability, autism or both, their families and carers. Find out more about ALD here.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "| Live, Reproduce, Die|\n|Life as we know it|\n|Divide and multiply|\n|Greatest Great Apes|\nHumans can potentially catch toxoplasmosis in a number of ways:\n- Ingesting raw or undercooked meat.\n- Ingestion of any produce, water or soil contaminated with the feces of an infected cat.\n- Transfer via kitchen tools and surfaces from raw or undercooked meat.\n- Ingesting unpasteurized milk and milk products.\n- Poor hygiene during the birth of livestock.\nContrary to popular belief, cat ownership isn't a strong predictor of infection.\nThe standard advice for preventing toxoplasmosis is common sense stuff. Good hand hygiene, good kitchen hygiene to avoid cross-contamination, avoid undercooked meat, thoroughly wash fresh produce, and take special care in disposing of cat feces.\nA healthy human would normally be unaware of an infection with T. gondii, at worst experiencing short-lived, mild flu-like symptoms. An infected individual then becomes immune to further infection with T. gondii.\nPregnant women who have not previously been infected are advised to take extra precautions against a first-time infection. Infection during or slightly before pregnancy increases the statistical risk of miscarriage or stillbirth. The infection can also pass to the unborn child as congenital toxoplasmosis. This can sometimes have serious health consequences for the child.\nAs with many opportunistic infections, the usually unnoticeable T. gondii can be very dangerous for people with compromised immune systems.\nLatent toxoplasmosis has been shown to influence the behaviour of rodents in ways that increase the likelihood of their predation by cats. They lose their aversion to the scent of cat urine and become more active, more bold, and are thus more likely to run into a cat with fatal results. There's a very good reason for this — domestic cats and other felids are the definitive host of T. gondii. It can't win the game of life by hanging out in a rodent intermediate host; the infected animal needs to get eaten by a cat in order for the life cycle to start over with the production of oocysts.\nOriginally believed to be asymptomatic in humans (and cats) with healthy immune defences, there is now mounting scientific evidence to suggest that T. gondii infection might influence human behaviours and/or psychology. Specifically, a strong correlation has been shown between certain mental health disorders, particularly schizophrenia, and latent toxoplasmosis. A meta-analysis of T. gondii infection for all major psychiatric disorders found that there is a likely association between T. gondii infection with several psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, addiction), but not major depression. Science is cautiously exploring the nature of the connection; it is important to note that no real scientist has concluded that this is a straightforward case of cause and effect. It might simply be that people predisposed to certain psychological disorders are also predisposed to T. gondii infection for some unidentified reason.\nThe pseudoscience and the crazy\nThe idea of a parasite with even minimal ability to influence our behaviour without our knowing it is pretty creepy. Scary, even. It's actually surprising that more cranks haven't seized on the idea. Of those that have, they don't agree on whose crank agenda is the rational and safe one, and therefore do not agree on which self-destructive behaviours are being \"controlled\" by T. gondii. So, we have our pick of:\nInfluencing politics in Sweden\nIn short, the Swedish language article argues that any political decisions the author views as stupid may be the result of toxoplasmosis. It argues that the parasite is causing risky and self-destructive behaviour in its human hosts.\nAll this assumes, of course, that the hard-right position on immigration and integration is the correct behaviour for safety and self-preservation in humans; the article does not consider that it could, instead, be the right-wing camp who arrived at their own convictions under the destructive influence of T. gondii.\nThe article offers a ray of hope to the oppressed nationalists, recommending that decision makers should be immediately vaccinated against T. gondii. There isn't actually a human vaccine, yet, but maybe they're proposing to stick politicians with the sheep version?\nTurning people gay\nThere is some \"research\" into the notion that homosexuality is an acquired disease. While some argue that gay-disease is almost certainly due to an unknown viral agent, others have latched on to T. gondii.\n“”Homosexuality is a parasitical disease of the person's mother. The disease organism is the Toxoplasma gondii parasite. At a critical period in the developing fetus the parasite invades the womb and the fetus' sub-cortical structures reversing the target of the fetus's sex drive at adolescence.\nIt's possible that the initial association of T. gondii with homosexuality is based on the fact that the infection is extremely dangerous to an individual with AIDS, with severe or fatal infections not uncommon before HIV became manageable. The parasite has therefore been studied in connection with population groups at higher than average risk of contracting HIV, including homosexuals. As with the Swedish politics claim, the theorists assume that homosexuality is a faulty and self-destructive behaviour (as opposed to none-of-their-damned-business). It might just as easily be a case of T. gondii creating a tendency towards homophobia and other socially divisive attitudes. If these people are losing any sleep, it's probably because they're scared of being exposed to some theoretical pathogen while unconscious, and waking up gay. The fact that there are no documented cases of this happening, ever, should be a big clue as to the level of credibility everyone should give to this idea.\nFluffy' s Master Plan for World Domination\n“”The cat next door has evil schemes\nHe's not as docile as he seems\n|—\"Fluffy' s Master Plan for World Domination\" by Amy Engelhardt of The Bobs|\nIt's the New World Order programming us to be unthinking cogs in the sheeple machine, which ought to be giving everyone who isn't infected sleepless nights, if only we'd wake up and see the truth.\nWe can reasonably demonstrate that cat-avoiding behaviours are beneficial for a rodent, and that rodents getting themselves eaten more frequently by cats is of benefit to T. gondii because it completes the parasitic life cycle. The cat appears to get an easier-to-catch meal out of the deal.\nIt's less obvious what T. gondii gets out of influencing human politicians to make tolerant decisions on immigration and foreign policy (since the bug is global already and isn't choosy about ethnic origin in its hosts), or out of turning straight people gay (since the only way to catch it from another human is to eat them raw, who has sex with whom is of no obvious relevance to the pathogen's life cycle), let alone what it gets out of programming the human race to ignore all the really obvious clues everywhere that the New World Order will be taking over any day now. In the latter case, it might be possible to argue that T. gondii, and possibly all the domestic cats, are being actively controlled by the global elite, and are as much victims as we are.\nOne unproven but more rational suggestion is that \"crazy cat lady\" behaviour — and by extension, humanity's preferential treatment of the domestic cat — could be caused by T. gondii. While \"crazy cat lady\" is a stereotype rather than a medical diagnosis, there are certainly cat-hoarders who lose all perspective about their own welfare and, in spite of their devotion, that of their cats.\nA vaccine for toxoplasmosis exists for sheep, where infection of pregnant ewes can cause abortion or stillbirth. Thus far, there is no vaccine available for cats or for humans, since the infection was not originally thought to be symptomatic in individuals with a strong immune system, but research is ongoing. There is also serious science happening on the human behavioural side, trying to find out why suicidal tendencies and certain mental disorders like schizophrenia correlate so strongly with toxoplasmosis.\n- http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/toxoplasmosis/Pages/Introduction.aspx NHS Choices; \"Toxoplasmosis\"\n- http://www.vet.cornell.edu/FHC/health_resources/toxoplasmosis.cfm Cornell Univ. College of Veterinary Medicine, \"Toxoplasmosis in cats\"\n- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5488655/ Cook A. J., Gilbert R. E., Buffolano W., Zufferey J., Petersen E., Jenum P. A., Foulon W., Semprini A. E., Dunn D. T. 2000. Sources of Toxoplasma infection in pregnant women: a European multicentre case-control study. Br. Med. J. 15, 142–14710.1136/bmj.321.7254.142\n- http://www.stanleyresearch.org/dnn/Default.aspx?tabid=204 Stanley Medical Research Institute; Toxoplasmosis-Schizophrenia Research; Effects of T. gondii on behavior and psychiatric symptoms; Nov 2012\n- http://www.stanleyresearch.org/dnn/Default.aspx?tabid=179 Stanley Medical Research Institute; Toxoplasmosis-Schizophrenia Research; Studies of T. gondii antibodies in individuals who have schizophrenia'; Nov 2012\n- Beyond the association. Toxoplasma gondii in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and addiction: systematic review and meta-analysis by A. L. Sutterland et al. Acta Psychiatr. Scand. 2015 Apr 15. doi: 10.1111/acps.12423.\n- Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize\n- \"Changes in personality profile of young women with latent toxoplasmosis,\" Jaroslav Flegr and Jan Havlicek, Folia Parasitologica, vol. 46, 1999, pp. 22-28.\n- Decreased level of psychobiological factor novelty seeking and lower intelligence in men latently infected with the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii Dopamine, a missing link between schizophrenia and toxoplasmosis? by Jaroslav Flegr et al. (2003) Biological Psychology Volume 63, Issue 3, July 2003, Pages 253–268. doi:10.1016/S0301-0511(03)00075-9.\n- Describing the Relationship between Cat Bites and Human Depression Using Data from an Electronic Health Record by David Hanauer et al. (2013) PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 8, e70585.\n- Others might call it speculation, spitballing or \"pulling ideas out of our ass\".\n- http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/gay-germ-fallout/ JayMan's Blog; Gay Germ Fallout?\n- http://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/depths-of-madness West Hunter blog; \"Depths of Madness\"; 16 Feb 2012\n- http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/a-gay-germ-is-homophobia-a-clue/ Comment by Patrick Boyle on this post.\n- http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=697604 Central-Nervous-System Toxoplasmosis in Homosexual Men and Parenteral Drug Abusers\n- Fluffy's Master Plan for World Domination by Amy Engelhardt, Bandcamp.\n- Toxo by LoP Guest (01-30-2013 05:04 AM) Lunatic Outpost (archived from July 29, 2014).\n- Conspiracy or not conspiracy? by triddle2 (27-05-2012, 11:21 AM) David Icke (archived from July 29, 2014).\n- http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/toxo-terror-are-our-brains-controlled-by-cat-loving-parasites Motherboard; \"Toxo Terror: Are Our Brains Controlled by Cat-Loving Parasites?\"; 12 Dec 2011\n- http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/hmn/f09/feature1.cfml Hopkins Medical Magazine; \"Infective Enthusiasm\"; Melissa Hendricks, 2009", "label": "No"}
{"text": "ReadWorks is a free site that lets you choose and use readings for your students that relate to your subject and at the lexile you choose. Even better, you can sort by skill! Perfect for thinking skills, close reading, content-based reading, and more.\nTo use Readworks\nSo many choices. For example, here are 7th grade life sciences readings\nif you are a sixth grade teacher you can use any of the other blue tabs as well since they are K6, but only the Reading Passages tab is grade K-12\nb22238Thanks to @btcostello05 on Twitter who pointed out to me that that this is the last year any k-8 students would have been born before 9/11. His school event and the members of his Voxer group also inspired this post. And thanks to@artlaflamme for suggesting the documentary.\nThe following lesson was created after reading the children's book The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordecai Gerstein.\nIt tells the true story (nonfiction alert for your Common Core needs!) of Mr. Phillipe Petit walking the wires between the Twin Towers when the World Trade Center was first built.\nDocumentary footage here\nThe stunt embodies beautiful messages of hope in humanity and of optimism and creativity.\nIt should inspire some good conversations if you read it and discuss with your class.\nIt can be an accompaniment to a more traditional memorial lesson or a good note to end on that may help heal hurts.\n5 Steps Lesson :\nIntroduce the purpose. \"Today is 9/11 and on this day in history we memorialize those who died in the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City among other locations.\nThe Twin towers were the tallest towers in the world - a quarter of a mile high. One little-known fact about them is that when they were first built, a high rope walker actually walked on a wire between them! He snuck up to their roof, shot an arrow with a wire on it across to his friends on the other tower and then performed for amazed onlookers for more than an hour in the sky!\nThat daredevil's name is Phillipe Petit and he has some inspiring words for you about how to follow your dreams and achieve the impossible.\n2- Read storybook and/or show one of the following video clips, depending on the ages or interests of your students:\n3- Discussion Questions and larger lesson tie ins:\n\"He looked not at the towers but at the space between them\"\nIssue: Thinking \"outside the box\" and an artist temperament:\nHave you ever seen something totally differently than most people would? Do you see yourself as an artist in how you see things? Why or why not?\n\"Of course he knew that ...the police and the owners of the towers would never allow it. You must be crazy! they would say. You'd fall for sure\"\nIssue: Positive Deviance:\nWas he wrong to break the law? What is the role of public and private safety versus an artistic dream...\nIssue: How far should you go for a friend? for your job?:\nWould you have helped Phillipe carry the 440 lb reel of cable up 180 stairs to the roof if he was your friend?\nWould you have walked on the wire to stop him if you'd been a cop then?\n\"Bad luck\" thought Phillipe but he did not quit.\nWould you have quit trying amidst his setbacks? Should he have? How do you motivate yourself past your strings of 'bad luck?' do you believe in bad luck? good luck?\n\"Though during his performance some boys playing on his wire jerked it and Phillipe fell...but caught himself\"\nHave you ever done something accidental or on purpose that messed up someone else? How did you react?\nHave you ever \"caught yourself\" and fixed a problem that was about to be big?\n\"He could feel the towers breathing.\nHe was not afraid.\nHe felt alone and happy and absolutely free\"\nIssue: Figurative language: Why does the author say 'he could feel the towers breathing\" when we all know towers don't breathe?\nHe was not afraid Have you ever felt unafraid when others would be scared?\nWhen have you felt absolutely free?\nIssue: metacognition and taking another's point of view: Why do you think I read this book with you today? Why did we spend this time discussing it? How would you commemorate 9/11 if you were a teacher?\n4- Physical activities:\nDid you get a feel for Phillipe's bravery (see the added talks below for more on that) doing all that up in the air so high! Would you try high wire walking? What physical feats are you proud of/impressed by?\n5- Conclusion and/ Links to Further Exploration:\nLet's all try to honor the victims of 9/11 today by not giving up when things seem hard and by believing in ourselves and our dreams.\nTo learn more about what Mr. Petit can teach us,\nClick below To view Mr.Petit speaking (some adult language- please preview and show clips as needed) TED Talk-style on the highly educational topics of:\nThis post was inspired by CMS's own Malik Richardson's (@mrich1191 on Twitter) tweet of this article:\nMs. Burick (@NerdAlert497 on Twitter) devised a method of using backchannel in class with non-fiction reading that can work with any discipline anytime of the year. It also is a great first step at BYOT integration for teachers who are not sure how to use devices in class to increase learning. She simply opens a backchannel and projects it on her screen as student thumb through books on the topic she has provided. As students encounter facts they want to share, they post them for each other. This can be done even with a textbook chapter, but students love to see a large selection of inviting library books in the room to pick from.\nNot only does \"Nerdalert Backchannel\" allow all voices to be heard, Ms. Burick reports it motivates the students to read more as they challenge each other to come up with the \"best\" facts. It allows sharing to happen at a convenient time for both the reader and the writer, so the entire class does not have to stop reading when someone wants to share a fact. Students can look up from their reading as they wish and contribute at their own pace. It also forces students to think through their thoughts a bit more than just raising their hands, and gives instant feedback for sharing in the form of \"oohs and aaahs\" from classmates!\nRead this article with your students.\nLesson resource- Common Core non-fiction to examine issues of Character in honor of School Counseling Week\nThis amazing acceptance speech is can become an interesting document for social studies primary source examination or any common core non-fiction reading. Students will be interested in discussing this. Besides close reading and tier 2 vocab analysis, here are a few connection questions? Would they do it? Do they agree with the move these famous women made back in 1974? How does it relate to what they know of awards in the news recently? (note: it is NOT prohibiited for students to share of their lives and thoughts in lessons despite what some have feared with Common Core). Further connections could include feminism historically and today, poetry, the value of awards and competition and when it creates community versus shutting it down. http://www.nationalbook.org/graphics/2011_nba_poetry/1974/rich_accept_speech_74.pdf\nI am Lisa Gurthie the PD facilitator at Piedmont IB Middle School. She specializes in tech and arts integration, interdisciplinary, holistic education, and unschooling school to make it more real and relevant. One day I will modernize my \"about\" page. Check out the other blogs on this site for Lesson Ideas, Celebration of Good Teaching, and Piedmont PD", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Below are six versions of our grade 1 math worksheet on adding two 2 digit numbers in columns without carrying or regrouping. Presenting a mixed review of addition and subtraction of single digit 2 digit 3 digit 4 digit and 5 digit numbers each pdf practice set is designed to suit.\n1st grade two digit addition resources.\nTwo digit addition and subtraction worksheets for grade 1. They solve addition problems with a missing number missing addend and use addition to solve simple subtraction problems. It can also be used as an assessment or quiz. Support your young learner with two digit addition worksheets.\n2 nbt 5 fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value properties of operations and or the relationship between addition and subtraction. Some two digit addition worksheets you can look forward to include kids word problems math mosaics addition crosswords and more. Plenty of space is included for students.\nGrade 2 subtraction worksheets including one two and three digit subtraction subtracting whole tens missing minuends and regrouping. Our grade 1 subtraction worksheets provide practice in solving basic subtraction problems exercises begin with simple subtraction facts using pictures or number lines followed by 1 digit subtraction facts and and progress to subtraction of 2 digit numbers in columns and subtraction word problems. Worksheets math grade 1 addition adding two 2 digit numbers in columns.\nPlunge into practice with our addition and subtraction worksheets featuring oodles of exercises to practice performing the two basic arithmetic operations of addition and subtraction. Practice two digit addition and subtraction down on the farm with these challenging word problems. 1st grade two digit subtraction word problems printable worksheets.\nWorksheets math grade 1 subtraction. These entertaining and unique printables bring together fun equations and hands on activities to promote learning. Adding two 2 digit numbers in columns no regrouping.\nThis subtraction worksheet will help strengthen your students ability of understanding word problems and they key words involved. Great practice for 1st grade students. 3 addends addition two digit number worksheets 3 addends addition worksheets common core state standards.\nGrade 1 subtraction worksheets. These worksheets are pdf files. This provides great extra practice for kids.\nGrade 1 addition worksheets in first grade children add single digit numbers and practice the addition facts with numbers from 0 to 10. Review and practice addition and subtraction with this free printable worksheets for kids. Children learn a valuable strategy for conceptualizing and solving word problems in this two digit addition worksheet.\nYou ll find 100s of free printable worksheets for practicing addition subtraction. Practice two digit addition and subtraction down on the farm with these challenging word problems. Adding a 2 digit number and a 1.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "September 3rd, 1956; Moskow Polytechnic University.\nAs Wernher surveyed the grand auditorium, filled with young students of the technical sciences, he thought back to when he himself was in school, and just how lucky these young people were – not only would they see the beginning of the space age, but they had far better tools to accomplish their tasks than he had back then.\nAs the students all quieted down, Wernher began his lecture.\n“Welcome to the first semester of your graduate courses, I am Wernher Kerman, lead designer at the Kerbinia Space Agency, and I’ve been invited by your professor to give a few words on our current series of launchers – the Proton series as you can see here”.\n“We begin with the Proton-1, our first rocket designed from the onset to be a series produced launcher. It was developed back when we making a new custom launcher for every launch, intended for our early orbital tests, but it turned out so stable that not only did it take all our early manned missions up, it also started taking up all our small payloads to orbit – it’s simply so easy to get up there, cheap and fast to build”.\n“The first stage consists of two RD-107 clusters, with the second stage being a single LR-105 – both of which burns kerosene and liquid oxygen. And that’s it, 7 minutes and 3,5 tonnes are in low Earth orbit”.\n“The Proton-1 first flew around early March 1954, so it’s seen 2½ years of service by now – and we’re still using it – indeed we are launching three payloads on the Proton-1 this quarter alone”.\n“Next up it the Proton-2, which came up due to the LRP-series being very complicated and having to undergo minor adjustments all the time. We concluded that we had need of a stable launcher for most of our missions – indeed the Proton-2 have carried every lunar probe since the LRP-series was discontinued, as well as out interplanetary probes, our geostationary communications satellites and all our 2-man training vessels”.\n“Entering only its 10th month of operation, it has proven a mainstay in our launch fleet beyond any doubt”.\n“Design-wise, is utilizes the same types of engines as the Proton-1, but in greater numbers, as well as stages. The main stage has a full four of RD-107 engine clusters, not counting the two clusters on the boosters. Indeed, it has 3 times the thrust of its predecessor. It has more stages as well, with the second stage having no less than four LR-105 engines, with the third stage having a single LR-105 engine, and it takes almost twice as long as the Proton-1 to get to its final orbit”.\nAs Wernher looks around he sees a raised hand, prompting a question.\n“Sir, they seem very much alike, yet at the same time have a lot of differences, why is that?” the student asked.\n“The answer is quite simple, they are alike because they are both based on the exact same technology, coming to life at the same time, yet they have different purposes. Proton-1 is simple and sleek, to get small things up, while the Proton-2 is designed to get the biggest payload into orbit with the available technology – only further developments allows more, as we can see from the next rocket – the Proton-3”.\n“The Proton-3 came to pass with the development of a new engine, the E-1. And unlike the other rockets, this one uses the same engine throughout, for simplicity and efficiency. It takes everything up that the Proton-2 can’t take, including our manned Lunar fly-bys and our Lunar Lander probe. Quite simply it’s the biggest we can make currently, and as much as the Kosmodrone launchpad can handle at this time – though the Satish one is upgraded to handle bigger rockets, and the Kosmodrone eventually will as well – we just haven’t had the need yet for putting anything bigger that 19 tonnes into orbit”.\n“The main stage boasts 3 E-1 engines, not counting the two on the boosters, with the second stage having a single E-1 engine, putting the entire stack into orbit in just around 8 minutes. R&D are looking at possibly beginning the design of a Proton-4 to possibly double the payload of the Proton-3, but we are not yet at a point where we need it yet”.\n“Now, are there any last questions before I hand you back to your professors and go back to making rockets?”, Wernher asked at the end of his lecture, seeing a single hand pop up.\n“Sir, I’ve read that the Illyriens claim to have a much better engine as their main one, the RD-253, is it better?” came the question.\n“No, it’s a worse engine, and for several reasons. Yes, it is more efficient, but we’re working on a modified version of the E-1 that will close most of the efficiency gap. That said, the E-1 has more than 15 % additional thrust, which is something we need, so we don’t carry around more engines for no reason. That was one of the main reasons for choosing it. Further it uses Kerosene and liquid oxygen as fuel for the atmospheric stages as all the other Proton-launchers do. Using the same fuel mix is simply the most economic thing”.\n“But all the engines on the upper stages use the same UDMH and NTO as the 253 uses, so why not use it for the entire rocket”, the student couldn’t help but argue. Clearly he had been enamoured by the Illyrien propaganda.\n“Very simply, because we care about your health. UDMH can be burned fine in space with little risk, but we don’t like burning it in the atmosphere because it’s toxic and extremely unhealthy to kerbals. The Illyriens may not care about the health and safety of kerbals in general, but we actually do”.\nWith the presentation over, and the misguided youth told the truth of the world, Wernher bid the professors goodbye and started heading back toward the space centre, considering what the future held, and how in the world those young pups he just spoke to would ever be able to continue the space programme.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "History & Architecture\nThe design of the building is Queen Anne style in stone, brick and wood. Burton Hall was designed by Richards, McCarty and Bulford of Columbus. The hall originally used as a dorm for the women of Shepardson College, a school that formed out of the Young Ladies’ Institute and would later merge with Denison. The building is named after Dr. Nathan S. Burton, founder of the Institute.\nGranville was an important location in the history of women’s education in the Midwest, and Burton Hall is a part of that history. It was built for women who attended Shepardson College, which consolidated with Denison in 1900, completely merging in 1927.\nQueen Anne style in stone, brick and wood.\nRichards, McCarty and Bulford of Columbus", "label": "No"}
{"text": "“The Tale of Genji,” Murasaki Shikibu’s long monogatari, upwards of a thousand pages in translation, or some three- quarters of a million words, was written in the early 11th century and is often called the world’s first novel.\nIt has also come to define much of Japanese culture. As the late Edward Seidensticker, one of its most persuasive translators, has written: “The Genji Monogatari has been an enormous influence on later literature and other art forms and on popular lore as well. It is one of the principal sources for the Noh drama. There have been fictional recountings and adaptations in more recent centuries, as well as adaptations for the Kabuki stage, the cinema, and television. Of several renditions into modern Japanese, more than one has become a best seller.”\nAn international symposium investigating the enormous influence that this work has had upon Japanese culture in general was held at Columbia University in 2005. It included 21 speakers and 10 respondents from the United States, Canada, Australia and Japan. The present publication contains 11 of the papers given at the conference plus a very full opening chapter by the editor: ” ‘The Tale of Genji’ and the Dynamics of Cultural Production.”\n“Genji” was early canonized and influenced not only early noh drama but also Japanese poetry in general. In 1193 the leading poet of the day, Fujiwara Shunzei, said that “those poets who compose poetry without reading ‘The Tale of Genji’ are to be regretted.” Its influence on Japanese painting is equally well known, stemming from the famous “Genji Scrolls.”\nHaruo Shirane writes that a major premise of this book is that “the ideological and cultural value of a canonical text lies not only in the text itself but in the media and institutions through which it acquires such value.” One of the means is visualization and we follow this dynamic from the first handscrolls right down to the latest “Genji” manga.\nThere are many other means as well. The “Genji” was put to work almost at once. It has informed poetry handbooks, been subjected to pastiche versions, been reduced to guides and other simplifications.\nIt has even been put to use by religion. In 1176 a sutra was authorized to save the author from her place in the Buddhist hell. Actually, she deserved to be there because the burden of her monogatari is the love life of her hero, and, as the sutra explains, the work “contains erotic words that encourage human desire and weaken the human heart.” It is for this reason that “Murasaki Shikibu and her readers are unable to leave the cycle of death and rebirth and have fallen into the hell of the forest of swords.”\nPolitics also had a use for “Genji” criticism to an extent. When the imperial line had to be shown as unbroken (during World War II), any suggestion otherwise was squelched. The “Genji” itself was never banned, but serious interpretations are few.\nMost popular interpretations are thus on the simple level of the various Takarazuka revue presentations, the several anime versions, and most of the manga versions. Also, the various film and TV versions ask no embarrassing questions. The most serious of these, however — Ichikawa Kon’s black and white TV series with Itami Juzo as Genji — is not mentioned in these pages. Perhaps this is because it appears to no longer exist. The TV station concerned is said to have no record of it. Perhaps it was dismantled and returned to the chaos from which TV comes.\nIn his excellent introduction Shirane makes a distinction between the uses for “Genji” found in the literary canon and those discovered in popular culture. Borrowing from Serge Gavronsky’s theory of translation, he draws attention to the literary “pietistic” tradition, and the “cannibalistic” tradition of popular culture.\n“The pietistic type presents the translator as secondary to the original text, while the cannibalistic type presents the translator as someone who consumes the original text, transforming it into his or her own possession.” While not true opposites, their ends are indeed opposed. The former attempts to preserve and transmit the original text while the latter produces an adaptation or a digest to try and create something uniquely contemporary.\nTranslations of the “Genji” into foreign languages all attempt, in various degrees, to preserve it. So do several of the rewrites into modern Japanese. But the majority of these renderings are “free” translations in which the original is embroidered upon by a contemporary “translator.” This is, of course, particularly true of the film, TV, manga and anime versions that sometimes bear little resemblance to the original.\nIn demonstrating the various uses found for the Lady Murasaki and her chronicle, this interesting book offers the most comprehensive history of the reception of the “Genji” both in Japan and abroad, and thus has become one of the most impressive examples of the many partisan uses found for literature.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Ez 47:1-2,8-9,12; Ps 46; 1 Cor 3:9-11,16-17; Jn 2:13-22\nThe Holy Dwelling of the Most High\n“Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Cor 3:16)\nToday the readings for the Feast of the Dedication of the Ba-silica of St. John Lateran in Rome supersede those assigned for the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Built in the fourth century, this church remains a magnificent and lively place of worship today. It is the cathedral church of the bishop of Rome (the pope). The various Scripture readings revolve around the theme of the “temple” and illustrate the different ways in which that motif appears in the Bible: the Jerusalem Temple, the ideal temple, the person of Jesus and individual Christians.\nThe archaeological evidence for temples in the ancient world goes back many thousands of years. A temple was a place where a god was believed to be present in a special way, and where rituals honoring the god (especially sacrifices) were conducted. For a large part of ancient Israel’s history from Solomon onward, the Jerusalem Temple was the people’s central shrine and the only place where sacrifices were to be offered to Yahweh, the God of Israel.\nMany of the Old Testament psalms celebrate the presence of Yahweh in the Jerusalem Temple. Indeed, the Book of Psalms is sometimes called the hymnbook of the Jerusalem Temple. We get a glimpse of how much the Temple meant to ancient Israel in today’s excerpts from Psalm 46. There the psalmist describes the Temple as “the holy dwelling of the Most High” and as Israel’s “stronghold,” its source of security, safety and hope because of Yahweh’s special presence there.\nNevertheless, the Temple built by King Solomon was destroyed in 587 B.C., along with the city of Jerusalem. The prophet Ezekiel was among the exiles in Babylon, and there he reflected on how such a catastrophe could have happened. While his book is full of denunciations and warnings, it ends on a note of hope when in Chapters 40 to 48 it provides a de-tailed verbal picture of the ideal New Jerusalem and its rebuilt Temple. The imagery of water in both Psalm 46 and Ezekiel 47 allude to its life-giving and life-sustaining power and its healing properties. Even after the Second Temple was built in the late sixth century B.C. and rebuilt in grand style under Herod the Great (37-4 B.C.), many early Jewish writers kept alive and embellished Ezekiel’s hope for a new and better Temple. The Qumran New Jerusalem texts and the Temple Scroll, as well as the New Testament Book of Revelation, are good examples of these hopes.\nThe Jerusalem Temple to which Jesus came, according to John 2, was a large complex of buildings whose Herodian re-furbishing had been in progress for 46 years. We ought to en-vision the Temple not as one huge church building (like St. John Lateran or St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York) but as a campus with many buildings and installations. By Jesus’ time, the Temple had become the major industry of Jerusalem. It employed construction workers and an administrative staff, and innkeepers and other service-providers profited from crowds of pilgrims coming regularly into the city.\nIn this historical context the symbolic demonstration by Jesus the Galilean prophet of God’s kingdom against the excessive commercialization of the Jerusalem Temple complex is un-derstandable both in Jesus’ program and in the effect it had on the local Jewish and Roman leaders. In John’s account Je-sus raises the stakes further by referring to the Temple as “my Father’s house” and proclaiming himself as the locus of God’s presence (“this temple”). As readers of John’s Gospel, we already know that Jesus is the Word of God who has be-come flesh and made his dwelling among us.\nAs followers of Jesus and so members of the body of Christ, we as individuals have become “the temple of God” through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Through our faith in Christ and baptism, we have been made into places where God is now present in a special way. Of course, we still need buildings where we may worship God in community and express our shared identity and dignity. Yet we do so convinced that Christ is the reality to which all earthly temples, shrines and churches point, and that through Christ God dwells in us and makes us holy through the Spirit. As God’s people in Christ, we are now dwelling places of the Most High.\n• How could Jesus, according to John, identify himself as the temple of God?\n• Do you ever think of yourself as a temple of God? How might such a concept affect your actions?\n• Why do you go to your local church? What do you hope to find there?\nDaniel J. Harrington, S.J. is professor of New Testament at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry in Chestnut Hill, Mass.\n© 2008 America Magazine", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Red Swim Crab, Cronius ruber: The Red Swim Crab is characterized by having nine teeth-like extensions or spikes along the side of its hexagonally shaped shell that commence at the eyes and run to about halfway back on the shell or carapace.\nThe carapace of the Red Swim Crab is wider than it is long, reaching a maximum size of 3.75 x 2.25 inches. The spikes are anterolateral being of unequal size alternating between large and small. The Red Swim Crab's body is violet red in color with tan molting. The legs are striped. The tips of the spines on the claws are tipped in black.\nThe Red Swim Crabs are normally found up to 300 feet deep in the water column over a variety of bottom types including hard rock and coral structure. It is a global species found in abundance along the Atlantic coast of the United States and in all Mexican waters. It cannot be easily confused with another species.\nThe Red Swim Crab is a member of the Portunidae Family which are the swimming crabs known in Mexico as jaibas. The family has 16 individual species from five genera living in Mexican waters. Swim crabs are colorful and active crabs that are among the few crabs that are swift and agile swimmers. They swim sideways utilizing their paddle-like fifth pair (dactyl) of legs that rotate like propeller blades when they swim.\nHowever, they are essentially bottom dwellers. They have a streamlined profile that allows for rapid swimming and long pincers armed with sharp spines to snag food. They are decapods with ten limbs. They consume clams, fish, snails, worms and other crustaceans. The commercially important Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus, is the flagship member of this family.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "All engineers must have an understanding of fluid behaviour under both static and dynamic conditions. In this course, you will learn how to estimate the forces on moving, or stationary bodies caused by flowing fluids, either internally or externally such as forces on nozzles, elbows, blades and drag forces on chimneys, high rise buildings, and different types of constructions, aircraft and ships. You will also become proficient in analysing enclosed and pressurised fluids. The course will allow students to analyse and design systems in which fluids form the working medium.\n- MTH312 or MTH203 and enrolled in Program SC411\n- Semester of offer: *\n- Sippy Downs: Semester 1\n- Student contribution band:\n- Band 2\n- Tuition fee:\n- Science, Engineering, Surveying:\n- Census date:\n- Academic Calendar\n- Class Timetable:\n- View class timetables for this course\n* Semester of offer is subject to change.\nENG300 Course Outline Semester 1, 2017 (PDF 493KB) Students enrolled in this course should check the course Blackboard site to ensure that they are accessing the most recent approved version of the course outline.\nFor PDF documents you must have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded from the Adobe Download page.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Programmable Logic Controller\nprogrammable controller | régulateur programmable | جهاز تحكم مبرمج | programmierbarer Regler | autómata programmable | controlador lógico programmable | ohjelmoitava ohjauslaite | controllore programmabile | プログラマブルコントローラ | sterownik programowalny | regulator programowalny | controlador programável | PLC | 可编程控制器\nPLCs are computer-based solid-state devices that control industrial equipment and processes. While PLCs are control system components used throughout SCADA and DCS systems, they are often the primary components in smaller control system configurations used to provide operational control of discrete processes such as automobile assembly lines and power plant soot blower controls. PLCs are used extensively in almost all industrial processes . PLCs are used in both SCADA and DCS systems as control components of an overall hierarchical system to provide local management of processes through feedback control. In the case of SCADA systems, they provide the same functionality of RTUs. When used in DCS, PLCs are implemented as local controllers with in a supervisory control scheme. PLCs are also implemented as the primary components in smaller control system configurations. PLCs have a user-programmable memory for storing instructions for the purpose of implementing specific functions such as I/O control, logic, timing, counting, three mode proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control, communication, arithmetic, and data and file processing .\n- ERNCIP's Thematic Group on Case Studies for the Cyber-Security of Industrial Automation and Control Systems", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The recorded history of Gibraltar (pictured in 1782) spans over 2,900 years. First inhabited 50,000 years ago by the Neanderthals, Gibraltar may have been one of their last refuges before their extinction. To the Carthaginians and Romans it was one of the Pillars of Hercules at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea. Moors from North Africa first settled and fortified it, calling it Jebel al-Tarik, later corrupted into Gibraltar. Castile contested it and eventually conquered it in 1462, after which it became part of Spain. An Anglo-Dutch force seized it in 1704. It was ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht, signed on 13 July 1713. Spain unsuccessfully besieged Gibraltar in 1704, 1727 and 1779–83; its status is still disputed. The territory became a British Crown colony and an important trading post and base for the Royal Navy during the Peninsular War. During the Second World War it was a key British garrison, controlling access to the Mediterranean. Gibraltar’s fourteen sieges have led to it becoming “one of the most densely fortified and fought over places in Europe”. Today it is a self-governing British Overseas Territory with an economy based largely on financial services, shipping and tourism.\nSince 1985, Gibraltar has undergone major changes as a result of reductions in Britain’s overseas defence commitments. Most British forces have left the territory, which is no longer seen as a place of major military importance. Its economy is now based on tourism, financial services, shipping and Internet gambling. Gibraltar is largely self-governed, with its own parliament and government, though the UK maintains responsibility for defence and foreign policy. Its economic success has made it one of the wealthiest areas of the European Union.\n- Gambling on Gibralter (jackcollier7.com)\n- Malvinas/Gibraltar hand-to-hand with Argentina: “a ridiculous adventure” opposition tells Rajoy (en.mercopress.com)\n- See you in court, Gibraltar chief tells Spain over fishing spat (uk.reuters.com)\n- UK warship heads for Gibraltar (timesofmalta.com)\n- See you in court, Gibraltar head tells Spain over fishing spat (theglobeandmail.com)\n- Gibralter – should it be ruled by Spain? (bookmarkdaily.wordpress.com)\n- Britain to fight dirty over Gibraltar hostility by using EU veto to block Spain’s plans (express.co.uk)\n- Gibraltar: Britain may SUE Spain over border checks row (mirror.co.uk)\n- What are the competing claims over Gibraltar? (bbc.co.uk)\nI obtained a video just recently relating to 1954 by coincidence date of my birth! It made very interesting listening and just stumbled on this article! An excellent read and well worth knowing who is behind the scenes, manipulating our world!\nOriginally posted on ExplosiveReports.Com:\nJune 19, 2013\nEnvironmental think tank aspired to global matrix of manufactured consent\nRecently unearthed documents from the private collection of former diplomat and Bilderberg regular George C. McGhee have revealed (among other things) that the Club of Rome in 1970 wanted to create a “global matrix approach”, or G-Matrix approach, as a means of bringing people into an enviro-eugenicist mindset globally.\nThe Club of Rome was an influential think tank, advocating among other things worldwide population reduction and global environmental governance.\nThe author of the uncovered manuscript from 1970 was Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei, who founded the Club of Rome in 1968. Peccei wrote that any acceptance of the Club’s conclusions “relies heavily on a global matrix approach”. Furthermore he writes that these conclusions by the infamous Club (which includes advocacy of worldwide population reduction) can only be generally accepted “through (…) an iterative, global…\nView original 644 more words\n1807 was a momentous year in British history as it brought the abolition of the slave trade. Yet it is estimated that today around the world there are more slaves being held captive than ever before. Organisations like The Salvation Army have never ceased to raise awareness of the continuing problem and in the 126 countries in which we operate, human trafficking is a high priority and we respond in practical ways depending on the local need and our resources.\nSo where are the 21st century slaves? Yes, there are children held in parts of Africa, harvesting cocoa beans to make our chocolate; women in Asia are trapped and exploited to make the cheap clothes that we wear and discard; and in the South Pacific men are enslaved on ships. However, people are also enslaved right on our doorstep, living in our communities, in the UK. They are often hidden but not necessarily invisible; you may see them but not recognise them; but you can help them. http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&id=109966\n- Indian History, British History, National History, World History (timemaps.wordpress.com)\n- Evaluating England’s Role in Opposing Slavery (stephenbasdeo.wordpress.com)\n- Invitation: Be a part of Black British history (leahcharles.wordpress.com)\n- Database of British Slave Owners (eogn.com)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Friday, May 2, 2014\nDurrell Courses 2014\nDurrell Courses 2014\nEndangered Species Recovery – 14/07/14 – 25/07/14 http://www.durrell.org/training/courses/Endangered-Species-Recovery/\no The Endangered Species Recovery (ESR) course is a two week introduction to the issues and practical skills involved in saving threatened species from extinction. You will develop a critical understanding of biodiversity conservation and the issues it raises, as well as practical research skills. This course is perfectly suited for those wanting an up to date summary, and has also proved invaluable to those considering a career change to conservation as a profession.\n· Latest Development in Primate Conservation – 01/09/14 – 05/09/14 http://www.durrell.org/training/courses/Latest-Developments-in-Primate-Conservation/\no The course is designed for anyone working in or considering working in the field of primate conservation, or others simply wishing to gain a detailed up to date understanding of this topic (e.g. educators). You will develop your knowledge of the latest primate conservation theory, and gain key practical skills.\n· Conservation Breeding and Husbandry of Callitrichids – 14/10/14 – 17/10/14 http://www.durrell.org/training/courses/Conservation-Breeding-and-Husbandry-of-Callitrichids/\no Conservation Breeding and Husbandry of Callitrichids is a four day intensive course designed to equip participants with the necessary skills to successfully manage and breed primates, particularly callitrichids in captivity.\n· Conservation Education and Interpretation – 25/10/14 – 27/10/14 http://www.durrell.org/training/courses/Conservation-Education-and-Interpretation/\no Drawing upon cutting edge research, theory and practical experience, the course will be taught by experts from Durrell and University College London, giving participants a firm grounding in how to deliver conservation education and interpretation.\n· Tropical Conservation and Ecology Field Skills: Mauritius – 6/10/14 – 15/10/14 http://www.durrell.org/training/courses/Tropical-Conservation-and-Ecology-Field-Skills-Mauritius/\no This course is designed specifically for graduate students looking to gain their first foot-hold in a wildlife conservation career. It will also be relevant for existing conservation professionals who may not have received much formal training in field skills.\n· Avian Egg Incubation Workshop – 10/11/14 – 14/11/14 http://www.durrell.org/training/courses/Avian-Egg-Incubation-Workshop-/\no The Avian egg incubation workshop is a five day practical workshop designed to give participants the skills required to successfully incubate bird eggs and deal with problems that could arise.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Find the missing numbers with this quick and fun maths activity. We have been learning how to order numbers to 10 and practising saying and writing them in the correct order. Children in my class have been enjoying playing this simple game at choosing times and at the maths table. All they have to do is find the missing numbers and velcro them in the correct place.\nOriginally the idea was to fill in the answer with wipeable markers, but I found that the children weren’t great at wiping the pen off the laminated cards. This meant that the answers ended up being left on and the cards quickly became grubby and unattractive. This time I’m using sticky back velcro, hopefully this will be more successful. My only concern is that the game won’t last very long because the number strips will get crumpled as the numbers are pulled off. I was careful to use a clear font that was designed especially as a handwriting font with correct formation.\nIf you’d like a free copy of the template I laminated, feel free to download it here: Missing Number Game", "label": "No"}
{"text": "If I ask your views about duplicate content on the internet, your answer would be a resounding: “Oh! it is bad.”\nBut Matt Cutts, who was former Google’s head of search spam, said that 25% to 30% of the content on the internet is duplicate.\nIt means one in four pages is engaging in an act that many consider wrong, and rightly so.\nBut, the problem is with our understanding of duplicate content and how search engines view similar content.\nThe scope of duplicate content goes beyond “copy & paste” and “content syndication.” These two are extreme examples of content duplication, but they aren’t the only forms of it.\nContent duplication takes many forms. Sometimes it results from a deliberate attempt to seal the content and earn undue benefit. Other times, it occurs as a result of technical complexities.\nEither way, it is essential to understand it in more detail.\nWhat is content duplication?\nHere is how Google defines duplicate content:\n“Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely matches other content or are appreciably similar. Mostly, this is not deceptive in origin.”\nDuplicate content poses a problem for both the site owners and the search engines. But if a website engages in content duplication, Google doesn’t punish it with a harsh duplicate content penalty.\nGoogle says that the duplicate content is not the grounds for action against any website unless there is a clear intent to deceive and manipulate search engines with similar content.\nSo, why is Google not coming down hard on content duplication?\nFor this, you have to understand what causes content duplication and what its types are.\nThere are two types of duplicate content. They both cause problems for site owners and search engines:\nOffsite content duplication\nOffsite duplication is when the same content appears on two or more websites. The content can be an exact copy of each other or have few modifications. Offsite content duplication happens in three ways:\n- A website is involved in content syndication: scrapping content from other websites and republishing it.\n- A website has published any third-party content.\n- A website has distributed its content to be published by other websites, for example, article distribution.\nOnsite content duplication\nOnsite content duplication is when similar content is published on more than one URL of a website. While offsite content duplication is hard to manage, onsite duplication is easily managed by some technical changes to the site’s structure and development.\nDuplicate content and SEO\nDuplicate content cancels out the benefit of and SEO. While SEO is all about ranking a website higher in the SERP, duplicate content negatively impacts the website’s rankings by compromising uniqueness.\nIt also causes problems for search engines in identifying the source of the content. Sometimes, the duplicated content ranks higher in SERP than the original content. Thus, web owners suffer the loss of traffic and visibility.\nHere is how duplicate content can affect your SEO efforts:\nDivides the traffic\nWhen it comes to syndicated content – content appearing on more than one website – the search engines, on most occasions, cannot identify the source of the content or the webpage where it was first published.\nSo, they rank all the pages on their indices. This dilutes the uniqueness of each page, and instead of one page getting undivided traffic, several pages get the traffic.\nDistributed link juice\nIf content appears on a single URL, all the external backlinks – URLs linking to that content – will go on that single URL.\nBut, if similar content appears on more than one URL, the backlinks will be divided among several web pages. Since backlinks pointing towards a webpage are a ranking factor, any loss in the backlink can impact your ranking in the SERPs.\nEats into the crawl budget\nWhenever the search engine crawlers crawl a website, they limit the number of pages they can crawl in one attempt.\nWith duplicated content, this crawl budget is wasted on crawling and indexing unwanted pages. Your updated or money pages might not be crawled because the crawl budget is consumed in pages with duplicate content. Even if these pages are crawled and indexed, they won’t serve any purpose in the SERPs.\nComplicates site structures\nDuplicated content not only creates offsite issues but also leads to problems within the website. If two or more URLs have the same content, it will increase your website’s number and affect the site speed.\nThis problem is more common with e-commerce websites or websites with thousands of pages. For example, in an e-commerce website that sells shirts, multiple URLs will be generated if the users apply filters (size, color, collar size) to the product.\nSimilarly, some CMS generates separate links for products listed under different categories or tags. It also increases the number of pages on a website.\nHow to check duplicate content\nThe easiest way to identify the pages with duplicate content on your website is by checking all the pages from your site indexed in Google.\nHere is a simple way of doing it. Go to google.com in the search bar, type site: and enter your website’s URL without the subdomain.\nIt will give a list of all the indexed pages from your website.\nYou can also check the indexed pages of your website through the Index Coverage report in the Google Search Console.\nFrom the left sidebar, click ‘Coverage’ under the ‘Index.’ It will report URLs indexed in Google and the URLs that aren’t indexed due to errors. This report looks like this:\nThere are also duplicate content tools that you can use to identify duplicated content, such as DupliChecker, Copyscape, Siteliner, etc.\nHow to fix content duplication issues:\nThe most common duplication problem occurs when multiple URLs lead to a single page. For example, all these links will lead to one page:\nAll these URLs will lead to the homepage of our website. Now, the simplest way to fix this problem is by applying a 301 redirect. No matter what URL the users enter, they will be redirected to one place.\nLarge e-commerce websites are the absolute cesspit of similar content. Not only do their product descriptions match, but their products also generate multiple URLs because of being categorized under different tags.\nIt is also the case with third-party product descriptions that features on these e-commerce websites. These products are listed on more than one website, and a third party provides the description for them. Thus, too many product pages carry the same product description.\nTo fix this issue, you can apply canonical tags Rel=”canonical.” Canonical tags tell search engines about the “preferred” version of a web page if the content is duplicated.\nUsers can add canonical tags to tell the search engines that out of these two pages with similar content, I want to get this page ranked and not the other one. Otherwise, duplicate page without canonical tags leads to the indexing of all pages in random order.\nBut, canonicalization doesn’t fix the duplication issue completely.\nOne of the rel canonical problems is that the search engines see these tags as mere signals. They choose to acknowledge or ignore it as they seem fit. So, even after applying Rel=”canonical,” you might not be able to direct all the traffic towards a single URL.\nIf you have heard of the Robots.txt file, you will know that it works as a gatekeeper for your website if you create it. It controls the avenues where the search engine crawlers can and cannot enter.\nIn a robots.txt file, users can input “follow” and “nofollow” tags for pages. The pages with a nofollow tag in their HTML header are not crawled or indexed by the search engines.\nAssigning a nofollow tag to your pages with duplicated content means that they won’t appear in the SERPs.\nHowever, this practice is not recommended by Google. If the crawlers’ access to the web pages is blocked, they can’t identify similar content. As a result, the crawlers will treat them as unique pages.\nDuplicate content penalty\nAs a webmaster, there is no way of knowing how much duplicate content is acceptable. While you should always strive for as minimal duplicate content as possible, it is also essential to know Google does not punish content duplication.\nGoogle has not outlined any penalty for the content it deems copied or scraped off from other websites. It doesn’t prefer original source over duplicate content pages while indexing and ranking pages in the SERP.\nGoogle rarely penalizes a website with deindexing for copying and syndicating content. For it, there has to be a ‘clear indication of manipulation by the websites to deceit the search engine.’\nContent duplication is a big problem for websites. It impacts their SEO efforts, affects their rankings in the SERP, and dilutes the uniqueness of content.\nHowever, it is important to note that Google or other search engines do not punish duplicate content. Still, webmasters should limit both onsite and offsite duplication to improve the website’s SERP ranking and increase its authenticity. Looking to improve your content? Let the Vancouver SEO Company help you!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "German War Industry during the Nazi German Era 1933-1945.\nJust Click on Any Picture Below to Make it Large for Viewing!!\nBlack and White Photos\nBlohm+Voss (B+V), also written historically as Blohm & Voss, Blohm und Voß, etc., is a German shipbuilding and engineering company. Founded in Hamburg in 1877 to specialize in steel-hulled ships with its most famous product being the World War II battleship Bismarck.\nIn the 1930s its owners established the Hamburger Flugzeugbau aircraft manufacturer which, shortly before the outbreak of World War II, adopted the name of its parent company.\nFollowing a difficult period after the war, B+V revived its fortunes by becoming a public company under a change of ownership. In 2016, it became a subsidiary of Lürssen and continues to supply both the military and civil markets. The company also carries out related activities, managing a dockyard in Hamburg and undertaking maintenance and repair of large cruise ships. Since the acquisition, it has been concentrated in three areas: warships (new construction), cruise ships and merchants (repairs) and yacht refitting. The company has been in operation, building ships and other large machinery, almost continuously for 142 years.\nKriegsmarinewerft (or, prior to 1935, Reichsmarinewerft) Wilhelmshaven was, between 1918 and 1945, a naval shipyard in the German Navy’s extensive base at Wilhelmshaven, (80 miles (130 km) west of Hamburg).\n- Industry – Shipbuilding\n- Fate – Dismantled after World War II\n- Founded – 1918\n- Defunct – 1945\n- Headquarters – Wilhelmshaven, Germany\n- Products – Warships, U-boats\nThe shipyard was founded on the site of the Wilhelmshaven Imperial Shipyard which had been closed down after World War I.\nIn 1935, the name was changed to Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven (Wilhelmshaven Naval Shipyard) when the German Navy (Reichsmarine) was renamed Kriegsmarine by the Third Reich\nDuring 1939-1945, the yard’s main activities were in building U-boats and repairing damaged warships. Personnel were often assigned to organizing naval facilities in occupied countries, e.g., in the ports of Lorient, Brest, and St. Nazaire. At the war’s end, there were about 17,000 workers.\nPolish and British troops reached Wilhelmshaven in May 1945. For a time, the yard refurbished ships to be sent to the Allies as war reparations but, from 1946, most buildings and equipment were either dismantled or blown up.\nSince 1957, part of the site has housed an arsenal for the German Navy (Deutsche Bundesmarine).\nSelection of Ships Built:\n- 1920-1922: 28 Fishing Vessels\n- 1922: Four Cargo Ships\n- 1925: Light Cruiser Emden\n- 1926-1928: Six Torpedo-Boats\n- 1929: K-Class Light Cruiser Königsberg\n- 1930: K-Class Light Cruiser Köln\n- 1931: Gunnery Training Ship Bremse\n- 1934: Deutschland-Class Panzerschiff (armored ship, later classified as a heavy cruiser) Admiral Scheer\n- 1936: Deutschland-Class Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee\n- 1939: Scharnhorst-Class Battleship Scharnhorst\n- 1941: Bismarck-Class Battleship Tirpitz\n- 1941-1944: 27 Type VII Submarines\nPorsche Factory Gmünd\nThe Porsche factory Gmünd in Gmünd was 1944-1950 design and production plant of the car manufacturer Porsche. By order of Nazi government agencies, Ferdinand Porsche moved in November 1944, the headquarters of the design office of Stuttgart in the less threatened by bombing Carinthia, where it traded under the name Porsche Constructions Ges .mbH. In 1948, the first vehicle named Porsche was produced in Gmünd with the Porsche 356 No. 1 Roadster. In 1950, the company returned to its headquarters in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen and finally abandoned the Gmünd location in March 1951.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "NUTRITION EDUCATION MODULE AND WORKBOOK DEVELOPMENT FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN\nPrimary school students are in a period of continued growth and development after the pre-school age period. However several studies have shown that children at this age are vulnerable to under- and over-nutrition, which can interfere in their learning process and school achievement. The objective of this activity was to develop a nutrition education module for primary school students aged 8-12 years. This activity was held on January – August 2018 into Primary Schools of Bogor. The steps of this activity included: 1) to establish of technical working group (TWG); 2) to review existing nutrition education for primary school students; and 3) to develop student module and workbook (SMW) for nutrition education. The TWG which were formed, consists of school principles, nutrition professional society (Food and Nutrition Society of Indonesia), university staffs (Bogor Agricultural University and SAHID University Jakarta), and local government (Bogor Education Office). This activity was done collaboration with SEA-PHN. Currently, there is no activity on nutrition education at these schools, neither teacher guide for nutrition education for primary school students. The TWG developed nine topics of SMW were developed, namely balance diet and my plate, active and healthy life, cereals, fruit and vegetable, protein food, limit sugar salt and fat, choosing safe and nutritious food, food label, and summary. The SMW was designed colorfully and interestingly. Prior to final version of SMW, it was assessed to be used by school children. In conclusion, the SMW could be used to educate primary school students on nutrition.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This volume provides a fresh look at the Capetian century (1214-1314), a period that changed the cultural and political fabric and laid the foundation for the modernisation of the medieval West. The period from the birth of Louis IX to the death of Philip the Fair is remarkable for a series of developments and accomplishments associated with the Capetian kings of France. Innovations in architecture, manuscript illumination, and music all helped shape the cultural fabric of French and European life. Administrative historians emphasize the development of political institutions that have been said to lay foundations of the modern State. 'Moral reform', partly in support of the crusading movement, led to various changes in policies toward Jews, prostitutes, heretics, and many other social groups. This volume brings together essays presented at the Capetian Century Conference held at Princeton University, commemorating two seminal anniversaries bracketing the 'Capetian Century'--the Battle of Bouvines (1214), and the death of Philip the Fair (1314).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Pantheism is the false belief that everything is God, or more precisely, that God is incarnate in everything.\nAs an error, it is an absurdity. It arises in the East in the Indus Valley in the ages before Christ and it is the core principle of Hinduism.\nBut it is also the consequential philosophical position of German nominalism.\nNominalism is an error introduced into Europe in the high middle ages by the Arabic philosopher Averroes. It spread rapidly at the University of Paris and thence to all of Europe, especially to the faculty of Tubingen. It was popular among secular logicians who, following Peter Abelard, thought they could carve out a place in Catholic society where they were not obliged by the faith to live moral lives.\nNominalism was condemned by both Saint Thomas of Aquinas, whose feast is celebrated today, at Aquinas and Priverno, Italy, and by Saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio.\nNominalism ends up in pantheism, because nominalists deny that any particular word names anything particular or idea in a definitive way. For the nominalist, another word can just as easily name what is named.\nInfecting Germany for centuries before the rise of Modernism, Nominalism became the favorite position of Modernists, who believe that there is not God and thus that religious sentiments are the true reality behind all religions. All religions are equal and are willed by religious sentiment. Modernists still speak of God, but they mean religious sentiment when they say God.\nAs one permanent Deacon explained to me, here in Italy, most of the clergy do not think there is anything named by the word, God. For them, God is a word.\nYou can see, therefore, the difficulty a Modernist will have when confronting the fact that Pope Benedict XVI renounced the ministerium and the Code of Canon Law says a pope must renounce the munus, if he wants to un-pope himself.\nTo them words have no fixed meaning, so whatever word you want to use, out of religious sentiment, is just as good and just as approved by God — which for them is the code word for religious sentiment.\nYou can see that the Bishops are modernists in that they are responding to the Corona Virus as if God is not in the Eucharist and that the waters of Lourdes have no miraculous connection to the God of all Healing and Grace.\nThis is why they wont even give you a response or audience when you ask to speak about the Renunciation. Questions and problems of this kind never enter into their heads.\nThis is why, just as the Lord punished the Jews of old for apostasy, with plague, so now the Lord sends the Corona Virus to punish the wicked clergy for their atheism.\nFor just as God incarnated once, and can incarnate not again, so every specific word has a specific meaning. This is the error also behind the subsistit in, in the “Dogmatic Constitution on the Church”, passed at Vatican II, on Sept. 17, 1964.\nThe Church of Christ susbsists as the Catholic Church, She doe snot subsist in the Catholic Church. The latter means She can subsist in several Churches. That is false. It is denied by the Incarnation of the Son of God. But it is affirmed by pantheism and modernism.\nThat is why all those who insist that Bergoglio is the pope are not Trad Inc. or traditional Catholics, they are Modernist Inc. and modernists, even if they say the Old Mass with all the rubrical perfection that has ever or could ever be achieved, in all possible universes.\nCREDITS: The Featured Image is a screen shot of the search results of Google Image search for pantheism, and is used here in accord with fair use standards for editorial commentary. While the results have many interesting graphics, many of them are from occult sources and contain various errors or unseemly images, which are not recommended.\n+ + +\nHelp us take on the established Catholic Media who are controlled opposition. They are promoting schism from Pope Benedict, and remain silent at the heresies and schisms of Jorge Mario Bergoglio. We cannot let the St. Gallen Mafia win the information war, which they are presently doing through controlled media. — TO FIGHT THIS WAR we need your generous financial support. — Funds go to Ordo Militaris Inc., and are capital gifts for this Apostolate.\nThe purpose of human language is to communicate truth.\nThis is saying which is agreed upon by nearly every member of humanity. But we often forget how profound its implications are.\nSaint Thomas says, that the truth of which we speak here, is the right relation between the human mind and reality as it is. The discovery of truth, then, is the discovery of the right way to understand the reality which is around us or inside us.\nBut we often forget the other word in this universal definition of human language: communicate. “Communicate” is word which comes from the Latin verb meaning “to build up together” or to “to share gifts with one another”. In the definition of human language we see the profound social aspect of speaking and its goals on the level of society: sharing and the promotion of the perfection of one another. The communication of truth therefore is the fulfillment of the inherent goals both of communication and of truth.\nWhat I have just written could be called the philosophical or anthropological principles of human language. Not just of any one particular human language, but of all human language.\nThe other tongue\nAn individual human language is also called a “tongue” from the fact that each language requires for its proper enunciation a way of enunciation which is habitual and requires the tongue which speaks it to adapt accordingly.\nBut there is another sense of the word, “tongue”, which I want to employ here: this is the sense in which the word means not one kind of human speech, but an entire different philosophy or definition of human language.\nBecause just as human language according to its natural or proper definition is a set of spoken sounds, which can be recorded in written forms, for the sake of communicating truth, so, if one changes the final purpose of human language, one, as it were, gives birth to an entirely different tongue, on account its altered purpose.\nAnd such a tongue exists. And it has a name, not from its human author, but analogously from the first being which used communication for another purpose: Satan.\nSatanic language is a system of communication for the purpose of sharing falsehood, and not for building up or the sharing of gifts, but for tearing down and theft and robbery, and ultimately for murder. As Christ said of its author: “Who was a liar and a murderer from the beginning” (cf. John chapter 8: read this whole chapter to see both Tongues at work)\nThis other tongue, since it is not creative except of deception — as it has no other reason for being — uses the words of human language and creates new words which serve to hide the lie under the appearance of truth. We can easily recognize these lying words, because of their novelty, and not just any novelty, but a novelty used to overthrow the words which have been used from the beginning.\nEvery tongue gives birth to its own Culture\nNow it is a fact of reality and a truth of anthropology that every unique tongue gives rise to unique culture. This is because the language according to which we speak is the default form for our way of thinking and perceiving. And hence every language gives birth to its own culture: every language, not only in the sense of modes of human speech, but also in the sense of which I speak here, of the two purposes of speech.\nThe summit and perfection, the culmination and fulfillment of every language finds itself and its salvation in Christ, and in particular, in the preaching of the Gospel, the good news, which is the greatest gift we can share verbally and the greatest truth we can communicate.\nThe characteristic of a human language which is thus baptized is that it means what it says and says what it means, and both in the most profound way. We see this in Sacred Scripture, where though the Hebrew Language was chosen by God to prepare the world for the coming of the Messiah, it speaks in vagaries and in a dark and obscure manner, quite unlike the Koine Greek which the Apostles sanctified for the preaching of the Gospel, which reveals clearly and openly the Salvation which comes from the Incarnation of the Eternal Word of the Father. Shadow passes to light, figure and prophecy to reality and fulfillment.\nThis is true even on the historical level. Because in very many such cultures, it was the preaching of the Gospel which gave rise to the historical forms of their human languages or at least fixed them in written form as a monument to the ages, and provided a millennial bridge from one generation to the next for the preservation of meaning and signification. We can see this especially in the Latin language, which once understood can grasp the meaning of what writers from the 5th century before Christ to the 19th century after the birth of Christ are saying. We see this especially in languages which had their birth or genesis after the preaching of the Gospel, as for example, English, a language which in its present form knew not disbelief until disbelief was introduced from another land.\nThe tongue of Satan also gives rise to its own culture. We can see this in the way those who oppose the Gospel have ever acted: denying the plain meaning of words, denying that words have meaning, denying that words mean things different than other words. This attack on human language is a necessary technique of that Tongue which serves to break down the other by the employment of deception.\nThis technique gave rise to a false and misleading way of reading the Old Testament, so as to convince all who read it to deny that Christ was its fulfillment. It created an entire commentary on the Old Testament filled with vain and false tales and strange and novel doctrines which aimed all with that same purpose. This way of denying Scripture gave birth to a sect in which attacking the good and attacking Christianity was a practiced habit of mind and speech.\nAll peoples, however, who abandon Jesus Christ and all groups who reject Him, must follow in the same path, because you cannot reject Incarnate Truth without attacking the truth incarnate in every word and speech or thought of mind.\nThus we see this Other Tongue in action in the errors of Nominalism (the philosophical position which says that words do not name anything real), Modernism (the theological heresy which holds that everything in religion comes from sentiment, not God) and the global push for a new form of humanity, divorced from reality and wantonly joined to unnatural falsehoods.\nThis war of two tongues is most evident in the fight to defend the life of children in the womb and at birth. The entire maniacal and diabolic industry of death and genocide makes its every move on the turn of the meaning of an old word or the invention of a new word to conceal their murderous intent.\nAnother recent example of this war is the recent study by the Pontifical Biblical Commission, in which the destruction of Sodom is insisted to be a punishment for a lack of hospitality not for a lack of chastity. Still another, is seen in the verbal gymnastics used to insist that Benedict resignation were valid or conformable to the Code of Canon Law also gives rise to entirely new words (Bennyvacantism) used to conceal lies and entirely new ways of reading Canon Law (munus = ministerium), Catholic Doctrine (infallibility does not prevent a heretical pope), or the Bible (the Gates will not prevail means they can succeed some times), which are invented solely for one purpose, to deny the truth.\nThe war between Satan and Saint Michael the Archangel began with a war of communication with entirely two different tongues. The war of cultures among men also has its source in a war of Two Tongues. I hope, therefore, that this post enables you to discern these Two Tongues and these Two Cultures better. Of them Saint Augustine wrote eloquently in his Book on the City of God, in which he spoke of Two cities: one founded on the love of God unto the contempt of all other things, and the other founded upon the love of self unto the contempt of God.\nA CALL FOR VIOLENCE TO PROMOTE THE GREATER REVOLUTION\nRome, March 9, 2015: Students of theology at Rome, who are catholic, have long experience in “reading” what their professors are saying. This is because the current climate of Modernism, and the persecution of Catholic seminarians which is attendant upon keeping it in power, makes a woeful variety of the forms of dishonestly flourish under its pallid “sun” of error.\nModernism, as Catholics know and recognize, is the error which says there is nothing religious but what comes from the sentiments of the human heart. It is a species of atheism, of the kind apt to be found in those who pretend to be religious. It is a very apt and useful error for the ecclesiastical parasite, the priest-careerist or the hierarchical climber, because it absolves from all conscience and morality and thus enables any compromise necessary to ascend to ever greater depths of moral depravity and power.\nIn classes at the Pontifical faculties at Rome, the Modernist is easily recognized by his inability to speak sincerely and straightforwardly, his use of metaphors, indirect symbols, passing remarks, to key to his audience the “secret” meaning of his lecture, and allow it to be understood correctly. Few modernists omit this method, because it is so useful and successful; it leaves them in a strong position from where they can with difficulty be accused of being heretics, and one in which those who espouse heresy, can understand what they should be understanding in a certain sort of coded language or discourse.\nThe talk at Ognissanti is a perfect example of this method, but since this method is rarely recognized for what it is, let us unpack it for those Catholics who have the blessing never to have been “initiated” into it by attending a Pontifical university or seminary class.\nFirst, the very occasion of the talk provides the context. The Modernists who pushed to dump the original schema for Vatican II and who controlled the entire implementation of the texts of the Council into which they wrote nearly all their own errors, find no greater occasion to rejoice but the anniversaries of their revolution. The 50th anniversary of the first mass in the vernacular, as was celebrated on Saturday March 7th, is just such an occasion.\nIt would be enough for the Pope to celebrate the occasion, even though he scrupulously avoided using the actual ritual Pope Paul VI used on that day, 50 years ago: no, no! such a liturgy, that of 1965, is much too much like the Traditional Latin Mass, of the “preconciliar era”. To have used that liturgy, would have been to confirm what Pope Benedict XVI often spoke about, the necessity to reconcile the 2 liturgies. But since “reconciliation” presupposes equality, and since Modernists deny the legitimate spiritual equality of the Old Rite — they actually deny the totality of the legitimate spiritual quality of that rite — there could be no question about using the liturgy of 1965. That would send the “wrong” message, in their minds, to their followers.\nThus, the significance of the day of March 7 and the use of the Novus Ordo for the 50th anniversary.\nSignificant too, is the Cardinal of whom this church is assigned among the Sacred College: Cardinal Walter Kasper, chief theologian of “Team Bergoglio” and papally authorized proponent of the Kasper thesis, which holds that it is mercy to abandon 2000 years of Christian teaching which bars public and impenitent sinners from reception of the sacraments.\nAll of these 3 circumstances already say all which the Modernists need to say. Their con-catenation means that unless their agenda is explicitly denounced in the Homily for the celebration, that agenda is in fact explicitly affirmed by the silence.\nLet us now examine the text of the talk to see what else can be gleaned.\nAs the Modernists would be very inclined to fear that Traditionalists would be apt to criticize this talk — there were even rumors in Rome that the Vatican was obsessed that traditional Catholics would stage a demonstration against the Anniversary — we have to look closely to see what is intended to be seen only by initiated Modernists.\nQuotations are from our unofficial English translation of the homily…see previous Blog post for citations.\n+ + +\nHoly Mass at the Roman Parish of Ognissanti, on the Via Appia Nuova\nHomily of Pope Francis\n3rd Sunday in Lent\nSaturday, March 7, 2015\nOn the occasion of the feast of the Jewish Passover, Jesus went to Jerusalem. Arriving at the Temple, he does not find people who seek God, but people who are conducting their own business: merchants of animals for the offering of sacrifice, money-changers, who exchange the “impure” money, bearing the image of the Emperor, with the money approved by the religious authority to pay the annual temple tax. What do we find when we take ourselves there, when we go to our temples? I give you this example: The unworthy commerce, source of ill-gotten gain, provokes the energetic reaction of Jesus. He overturns their tables and throws their money to the ground, he drives the merchants away, saying to them: « Don’t make the House of my Father a market! » (John 2:16).\nNote, from the start, that the Pope founds his entire homily on the comparison between the Jewish liturgy and the Christian liturgy. This is the standard Modernist reading of the liturgical aggiornamento: Just as the Jewish liturgy was ignorant and superficial, the Christian inspired and interior; so the old Mass was obsessed with appearances and rules, the reformed Liturgy is open and free and unvexing.\nNote that the Pope uses the current Italian version of the Gospels, which erroneously translates the Greek, οἶκον ἐμπορίου, as “market”, when in fact is means “house of business”, that is, “covered market place”. (The actual mercantile practices in the Gospel text took place, not in the Temple, but in the Courtyard of the Gentiles, the most exterior part of the outer area, in which even Gentiles who were believers could enter. No part of the Mosaic Law forbade trade in this area. Contrariwise, the Mosaic Law, of which Jesus as God is the author, precepted the offering of sacrifices to God: the support of the Temple by the annual tax, too, was a customary obligation of the entire Jewish People, to which Jesus never objected.)\nIn fact, the use of the Jewish – Christian parallelism to fault the old liturgy and praise the new, is a form of antisemitism which we would expect from a Lutheran faithful to Luther’s bigotry against both the Jewish People and the traditional Mass, the kind of theological bigotry propounded in liberal Germany theological institutes, such as those from which Cardinal Kasper may draw his racially tinged concepts of African Bishops, as Edward Pentin exposed during the recent Extra-Ordinary Synod on the Family. But let’s not allow our expectations or history to get in the way of the evidence.\nReferring to the words of Jesus in John 2:16, the Pope continues:\nThis expression does not only refer to the traffic which was being practiced in the courtyards of the Temple. Rather, it regards the type of religiosity. The gesture of Jesus is a gesture of “cleaning”, of purification, and the mentality which He expresses can be found in the texts of the Prophets, according to which God does not take pleasure in an exterior cult wrought through material sacrifice and based upon personal interest (cf. Isaiah 1:11-17; Jeremiah 7:2-11). This gesture is a call back to authentic worship, to the correspondence between liturgy and life; a call which is valid for every epoch and even for us today. That correspondence between liturgy and life. The liturgy is not something strange, over there, far off, and one during which I think of many things, or pray the Rosary. No, no. There is a correspondence, between the liturgical celebration and what I then carry on in my life; and on this (path) one must go further ahead, one must journey onward.\nHere the pope abandons the common reading of this passage in the Fathers, which attributes Jesus’ ire not to the mercantile operations per se, but to the corruption which had crept into it, such as not exchanging coins at the fair value, or selling animals for sacrifice at inflated prices; all of which defrauded the honest Jew who came to worship God, especially the poorer ones. (Remember that Jesus’ family was so poor that, at His birth, Joseph could only afford 2 turtle doves for sacrifice not the customary lamb).\nTo use this text while avoiding the condemnation of the sin of the exploitation of the poor, is a very notable exception for the man who is Pope Francis: seeing that he has railed against this for his entire Pontificate. This omission, therefore, should be seen as significant: namely that the true message of his homily is aimed at something else. We can see what that is, in the text paragraph of his talk:\nThe conciliar Constitution, Sacrosanctum Concilium, defines the liturgy as « the first and indispensable source from which the faithful can draw the true Christian spirit » (n. 14). Which means to reaffirm the essential link which unites the life of the disciple of Jesus with liturgical worship. This is, above all, not a doctrine to comprehend, or a rite to fulfill; it is naturally also this but in another manner, it is essentially diverse: it is a source of life and of light for our journey of faith.\nThat is, he is going to speak about the liturgical renewal, not about Jesus cleansing the Temple, per se. The Pope continues:\nMoreover, the Church calls us to have and to promote an authentic liturgical life, so that there may be a harmony between what the liturgy celebrates and what we ourselves life in our own existence. It treats of how to express in life what we have received by means of the Faith and what which have celebrated (cf. Sacrosanctum Concilium, n. 10).\nThe Church does nothing of the kind, actually. Vatican II did not impose any obligation on anyone in the Church, since it established no canons or anathemas not even promulgated a new liturgy. The Novus Ordo came into being only in 1969, and its authors were the Consilium established by Pope Paul VI, not by the Council Fathers. Nor did it even attempt to be faithful to the document, which the Pope just cited. The Pope could have mentioned this, but he did not: and his silence is significant. He is affirming that his intentions are to continue in that line of misrepresenting the Council as Pope Paul VI did.\nThe Pope continues:\nThe disciple of Jesus does not go to church only to observe a precept, to feel okay with a God who should not “trouble” him much. “But I, Lord, go every Sunday, I fulfill …, don’t mix yourself up with my life, don’t bother me”. This is the mentality of so many Catholics, so many. The disciple of Jesus goes to church to encounter the Lord and to find in his grace, working in the Sacraments, the strength to think and act according to the Gospel. On which account, we cannot delude ourselves into thinking that we can enter the house of the Lord and “cover ourselves over”, with prayers and devotional practices, comportments contrary to the requirements of justice, of honesty or of charity towards our neighbor. We cannot substitute with “religious gifts” what is owed to our neighbor, putting off a true conversion. The cult, the liturgical celebration, are the privileged place to heed the voice of the Lord, which guides us along the road of righteousness and Christian perfection.\nNotice the dichotomy between the “disciples of Jesus” and “too many Catholics”. If you think the Pope is literally saying that “many Catholics” are not “disciples of Jesus”, you are correct!The truth is, however, that when one speaks properly, “Catholics” are the only disciples of Jesus that there are! for they are the only ones who take Him as seriously as He Himself insisted to be taken. So what is the Pope getting at? We must understand, that while it appears that he is using words in their proper sense, he is not; thus we must consider that he is not, if we are to understand him aright.\nSecondly, if one considers the many scandalous deeds and actions of Pope Francis, as Pope and before in Argentina, we can rightly say that we find his words astounding: because he is condemning “many Catholics” for doing what he himself is notorious for doing, yet omitting that he is also at fault for that.What kind of “authentic Christian life” is that?\nWe must understand, therefore, that in this homily, the Holy Father has no intention of presenting a call to authentic Christian life, rather, his goal is to attack it. For his actions speak louder than his words and give them context, even if that is politically incorrect to say. If his intentions were otherwise, he would publicly repent of his bad example and many scandalous words and deeds during the last 2 years as Pope. He did not. That is significant.\nTherefore, the true reading must be, that the authentic Christian life which seeks interior conversion for the sanctification of the exterior life, is to be rejected, and in its place one should implement what the aggiornamento gave us, the appearances of a renewal, which have visibly altered the liturgies of the Church, but have entirely abandoned the interior man, especially the interior of many priests and bishops, to interior corruption, to hypocrisy, superficiality etc., the very same things the Pope appears to be condemning.\nThe Pope continues:\nThis regards the fulfillment of a journey of conversion and penitence, to take from our life the scars of sin, as Jesus did, by cleansing the Temple of petty interests. And Lent is the favorable time for all of this, it is the time for interior renewal, for the forgiveness of sin, the time in which we have been called to rediscover the Sacrament of Penance and of Reconciliation, which causes us to pass from darkness to the light of grace and friendship with Jesus. There is no need to forget the great strength which this Sacrament has for the Christian life: it makes us grow in union with God, it makes us reacquire the lost joy and to experience the consolation of feeling ourselves personally welcomed by the merciful embrace of God.\nThe error of Luther was to seek God in the confirmation of his own personal “will” to be saved, founded in a fiducial faith. This error gave rise to the sentimentalism of Protestantism, which puts the experience of faith in the place of dogmatic faith; to which error there followed unbridled free thought in matters of religion, since “faith” no longer required intellectual assent to defined propositions or to revealed truths. What remained from Protestantism was consumed by Modernism, where sentiment alone remains. Thus Modernists go to church to get a feeling, a consolation, just as the pope is proposing for “disciples of Jesus”. Thus, we have our true key to read the Papal homily: The “disciples” are Modernists, the Jews are the Traditionalists, the pre-conciliar Catholics, who refuse the Aggiornamento.\nThe pope continues this line of thought, in his concluding remarks, where he calls for the continued revolution in the Church.\nDear brothers and sisters, this Church was constructed thanks to the apostolic zeal of St. Luigi Orione. It is precisely here, that, fifty years ago, blessed Paul VI inaugurated, in a certain sense, the liturgical reform with the celebration of the Mass in the language spoken by the people. I auger that this circumstance may revive in you all the love of the house of God, In her, may you find great spiritual help. Here you are able to experience, every time you wish to, the regenerative power of personal prayer and of community prayer. Listening to the Word of God, proclaimed in the liturgical assembly, it sustains you in the path of our Christian life. You meet together here between these walls, not as strangers, but as brothers, capable of giving one another a hand freely, because you have been built up in love through Christ, the foundation of hope and the fundament of pledge for every believer.\nHim, Jesus Christ, the Corner Stone, do we embrace in this Holy Mass, renewing the resolution to commit ourselves for our own interior purification and for the interior cleansing of the spiritual edifice of the Church, of which each of us is a living part in force of our Baptism. Amen.\nTo a simple Catholic it might seem that the Pope is saying something quite different than what we have expounded, but take it from a student of 3 pontifical faculties, that is just what it is intended and crafted to appear to mean to a simple Catholic.\nThus, in summation, we can say, that the homily as presented is calling for greater violence against the “Jews”, that is the traditionalists — Jesus cleansing the Temple, is after all a prime example for the justification for violence* — and in favor of the Aggiornamento of the Church ever more deeply, and thus in favor of the Kasper Thesis, the heretical thesis of divorcing the Sacraments from the observance of the moral law, the thesis promoted by Cardinal Kasper, who is the Cardinal patron of the very church in which this homily was given.\n* Remember, it is a mortal sin of sacrilege to use scripture for an evil purpose or to interpret it in a sense contrary to the common opinion of the Fathers of the Church. The true example given by Our Lord in the Temple, is that as God’s Divine Son He has the right to cleanse His own Church from corruption, and this He surely will do, even before the great day of His Final Return. And that it is a grave offense to the Divine Majesty of His Father, that the uses of the places dedicated to the worship of God, as He commanded it, be stained with moral corruption. In other words, the example of Our Lord in the temple gives us the exact opposite indications as that which the Pope promotes, because it is diametrically opposed to the impiety of Modernism, to the hypocrisy of the pink mafia, and to the objectives of Free Masons and the Progressive Movement, and the adaptation of liturgy to life, such as the Aggiornamento has been applied.\nIS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CATHOLICISM AND MODERNISM\nEditorial: I heard the most absurd thing today. A journalist was interviewing the new Roman Catholic Bishop, recently appointed by Pope Francis; and the report ended by quoting the Bishop, that he was working to make the Church what it used to be, “a happy place to be” (sic)!\nWhen I was on pilgrimage in France in the winter of 2004, I had the opportunity to beg a ride from a Catholic layman, whose name I do not remember, who after sometime began spontaneously to talk to me of his sorrow concerning the horrible state of morals into which the Catholic Church in France had fallen in recent decades. I asked him, to what he attributed the primary cause of this decline. He said to me, “Its the bishops! I cannot understand why Rome is appointing the worst of men to be our Bishops!” Then he “confessed” his personal sense of guilt, in having spoken thus, because he considers that as a good catholic, one should not think like that, and asked me what I thought.\nI was completely honest with him: I said, “You are telling me nothing different than what the laity tell me wherever I go, whether in North America or in Europe: they all say, the problem is the Bishops; even clergy lament to me, saying, “Where on earth did they find such a man to be the bishop of such and such a diocese?”\nIt is remarkable, even more so, when the individuals nominated do not even understand the very nature of the Church. The Church, it should be obvious to anyone who has read the Gospel, is not a restaurant: a happy place to be; which must sell Herself like a commercial operation, pandering to each and every opportunistic proposal or desire of its patrons.\nThe Church is Christ’s mystical Bride, which He founded and redeemed by His Most Bloody Passion and Death, as the Ark of Salvation for all who want to be rescued from their own perdition, merited by their personal sins and/or the sin of Adam. The Crucifixion of Our Lord is not a source of entertainment, except for the wicked headed to perdition: for the faithful it is a most serious, grave and sorrowful thing to remember.\nHence it is, that to make of the Liturgy or a church, a “happy place to be” is tantamount to overturning the entire Catholic religion in that place. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is, yes, a “Sacrifice”, not a “celebration”. To make it the latter is not to participate in it. To approach and celebrate with the former, is to authentically celebrate.\nLet us not delude ourselves: to be at mass in the latter spirit, is to spiritually adulterate the mass, is to spiritually abuse Christ, making of His most Bitter Sufferings, the occasion of my own personal enjoyment, entertainment, satisfaction. That is nothing short of perverse sadism at the highest theological level.\nThe Church, indeed, every Church, is a place where man rejects sin, purges himself with mortification and penance, receives the reconciliation merited by Christ’s horrible Passion and Death, is nourished by the most perfect participation in that Sacrifice, which is a humbly, contrite, penitential participation in the Sacrifice by a worthy communion and a life lived in the same spirit, in fidelity to the unchanging perennial Faith, taught by Christ, received by the Apostles, handed down in Sacred Tradition.\nThe trick of the Modernists has been to make us change the words we use to express our Faith, so as to make of forgetful of what the Catholic Faith is all about; and to substitute in its place the sticky-sweet terminology and philosophy of the world: of hedonism, in which personal satisfaction is placed before all other things.\nPerhaps, that is why the Bishop who was interviewed by this journalist is so overweight as to no longer even have a neckline.\nThe persecution of Catholics by Modernists has advanced from the days of the Second Vatican Council by means of tricks, games, and deceits which were more sophisticated than the average Bishop, priest, layman or religious could understand, and so most or nearly all Catholics were fooled.\nThe Modernists have used these tricks to separate good Catholics who recognize the errors which Modernists promote and oppose these errors, from those Catholics who have not yet recognized them or who accept them.\nThe From Rome blog has spoken of this in particular, as regards centers of formation for priests and religious, previously. But now, it seems needful to address the laity in general.\n4 Games Played by Modernists\nWhat does Our Lord Jesus Christ expect of us during a doctrinal crisis in the Church, where heretics control some or a majority of the ecclesiastical structures? Does He want from us blind obedience?\nIn Creation and the Divine Order of things, a comprehensive theological explanation was given, to explain what true obedience and false obedience are, and there it was demonstrated that it is blind obedience which is the chief tool which Modernists use to turn good Catholics against other Catholics.\nBut false obedience takes many forms, and these are the tricks and games which Modernists play at.\nLet us leave aside, for a moment, the lies and misinformation which are regularly given out by Modernists, since these regards words not appeals to obedience.\nThe first game is the “Approval Game”:“You don’t have my approval for that!”, the Modernist says, and the Catholic who does not know his faith, not realizing or recognizing what is Catholic and what is not in practice, takes such a disapproval as the norm or rule for recognizing what is Catholic or not. — “Father does not approve of that, therefore it must not be Catholic!” is the mantra which the Modernists most want to hear from the pews.\nThe second game is the “Normal Game”:“That is not normally done, the norm is to do such and such!” says the Modernist. A prime example of this was given today by Michael Voris on Church Militant TV (link to video here). The Modernist for whom the Faith is the enemy, obviously, will always call normal what is abnormal or not-Catholic, but he uses an authoritative seeming declaration to use obedience to bait-and-switch a Catholic from what is catholic to what is heretical.\nThe third game is the “Mercy & Rigor Game”:“You can’t expect people now-a-days to do such things, and by doing them you show yourself to be a rigorist, addicted to paradisaical practices.” This is a very commonly-played game in liberal parishes or in some liberal countries, such as in Argentina, where in the name of mercy, one sells out the faith lock-stock-and-barrel.\nThe fourth game is the “Guilt and Re-education Game”: Modernists, it must be remembered, are experts at emotional or psychological manipulation, since most of them are sexual perverts or moral misfits: they honed this skill in bucking the discipline their parents should have taught them. They know how to make the good feel guilty for being good, and how to propose the proper re-education of emotions or thoughts necessary to make a good Catholic think and act like a Modernist: they say, “Love is what the Lord want’s from us more than anything else; if it harms charity or sows division, then it is not of God!” They don’t want you to consider for a moment that love of evil is not charity, or that division from the devil is a work of holiness. Or that the Apostles and Fathers of the Church are unanimous in condemning every novelty as well as the norms and mores of the contemporary age (modernus in Latin means “contemporary”). Whereas, Modernists want the Catholic Church conformed to every aspect of contemporary culture and values, or at least accommodated to them in such wise that one can claim the name of “Catholic” without assenting to the Catholic faith or recognizing any objective moral obligation, as taught in Scripture, Tradition and the perennial Magisterium.\nThe Church will go down to destruction until Catholics stop playing with Modernists\nThe first requirement of every Good Catholic, is, as St. John the Apostle exhorts us in his letters, never to commune with heretics, never to seek their company, and not to share in their polluted affairs.\nIf Catholics continue to play these 4 games with Modernists, they will only succeed in destroying their own virtue, losing God’s grace, and being led to Hell.\nThey will also dis-empower themselves, because they will end up letting Modernists isolate them from good Catholics, from the saints of our age who recognize what Modernism is and who fight it openly.\nChrist Jesus, Who by His august Sacrifice on the Cross, completely conquered this world, gave us the means to conquer every error and deceit in all future ages and to do His Will on Earth: this victory is chiefly in the Faith, the one true Faith without which no many can be saved, for without faith it is impossible to please God or even to want to please Him.\nBut for Our Lord, “faith” is always understood in conjunction with the love of God and hope in God which put faith into practice.\nAnd one puts faith into practice chiefly by rejecting every practice which is not approved by Faith, Scripture or Tradition.\nThus, the next time you are doing something which is perfectly Catholic, and a Modernist proposes otherwise, remember that you only remain faithful to Christ by ignoring him, disobeying him, resisting him, and encouraging others to do the same.\nIn the meantime, for your re-inspiration, a beautiful video about what the Catholic Church was, before the Modernists, should now be without them, and will always be, once good Catholics like yourself rise up against them.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The “Lycabettus Programme” will enliven one of the capital’s abandoned hills\nAt the beginning of the XVI century, during the second Italian war involving France and Spain, Barletta was the scene of many important historical events, such as the famous Challenge of Barletta. The conflict between Italian and French knights, which took place following provocations from the French side, took place on February 13, 1503 and ended with an Italian victory. The city became a stronghold of the Spanish, who enlarged the walls and the castle. In 1528, already torn by internal divisions, Barletta was devastated by the French, who perpetrated lootings and burnings that destroyed churches and conventual buildings. From that moment Barletta's decline began. In 1656 the plague hit the city and the number of its inhabitants was reduced to some twenty thousand.\nSigns of rebirth occurred only at the end of the 18th century, during the reigns of Bonaparte and Murat.\nThe XX century began with peasant struggles and strikes. On May 24, 1915 Barletta was hit by an Austrian ship, which destroyed the northern front of the castle, the maritime railway and some houses near the Cathedral. The city did not suffer further blows thanks to the intervention of the destroyer Turbine.\nDuring the Second World War, on 8 September 1943 and in the following days, the city was the scene of several conflicts with the Resistance.\nThe sixties for Barletta constituted a flourishing period of economic recovery, with the establishment of new industries, the construction of new school complexes, the inauguration of the Canne museum and the completion of the City Palace.\nBarletta is an Italian municipality of 94 344 inhabitants (30 June 2019), the capital of the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani in Puglia together with Andria and Trani. The territory of Barletta has about 13.5 km of coast and overlooks the Adriatic sea.\nBarletta's economy is mainly linked to agricultural and industrial production. The most common crops are those deriving from vineyards and olive groves. There is a large presence of companies in the textile, clothing and footwear sector, which in the last forty years have led to the formation of an extensive production district on a provincial scale.\nThe Castle of Barletta\nConstruction of the Castle of Barletta began in 1532, at the behest of the Spanish king Charles V. In 1867 the Castle was purchased by the Municipality of Barletta, later becoming an arms depot and a prison.\nIn 1973 it entered a long period of restoration that was finally completed in 1988. In 2001 redevelopment works were carried out, which lasted about a year. Today the Castle is home to the municipal library, the civic museum and art gallery and the lapidarium.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This Royal Chapel was consacreted on February 19th 1690. Afterwards, it became the main church of Waterloo. The chapel was built according the orders of the governor, marquis de Castanaga, in classical style. He wanted to become from God that the Spanish King Charles II (who was also ruling Belgium) would get a son.\nThe text on the fronton under the 2 lions points to that: 'To the good and great Lord, consacrated to Saint Joseph and the Holy Anne, for the by the Catholic Sirs wanted offspring of Charles II, King of Spain and India, Pins of Belgium. François Antoine Agurto, marquis of Castanaga, governor, has donated this chapel and laid its first stone with endless wishes.'\nIn 1844 and 1968, the chapel was restaurated. The chapel is crowned by a dome with a spherical vault. it is illuminated by a lantern tower on the top and 6 oculi on the sides.\nAt the beginning of the 19th century, it became too small for the growing Waterloo population. it was enlarged, but not sufficiently. Finally, the current nave was built in 1855, according to Emile Coulon's plans. The choir with tower was added 2 years later according architect Dumon's plans. But the spire would have to wait until 1899.\nInside, the nave is under a ribbed vault.\nThe baroque, oak wooden pulpit was probably made by the Antwerpian Van Hoof. it is coming from the Cistercienzer abbeye of Aywiers.\nFor more info (French), see here.\nJean - Claude AHN (translated by us): 'This church has style and is simple and beautiful. It gives the Wellington area and the house of tourism a nice athmosphere in the centre of Waterloo. The rest of the Brussels stoneway is more chaotic and lacks style.'", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A person who commands a group of people or an organization is known as a leader. A leader has a dominant and superior position in his/her field. He/she has enough abilities to control that group of people or organization. A good leader helps the people to influence their behaviour, to fulfil their needs, to introduce their required changes, to solve their conflicts in an effective way, and to provide help in the development of subordinates. If you are not able to adopt essential qualities of a leader, then you can get help from expert writers of the academic writing services. Some essential qualities that you should adopt to become a leader are given below;\n- Honesty and integrity\nIf we talk about the supreme quality of a leader, then we come to know that integrity is a supreme quality of a leader. Without integrity and honesty, a leader can’t get possible successes. The honesty and integrity are also considered as two essential ingredients in order to become a successful leader. As a leader, if you don’t have honesty and integrity, then you will not expect honesty and integrity from your followers. As a result, it is difficult for you to lead a team or an organization. That’s why honesty and integrity are also considered as core beliefs and ethics of a successful leader.\nAs a leader, you will have to encourage your followers to follow your commands. This thing is possible only if you are confident enough in your decisions. On the other hand, due to a lack of confidence in your own beliefs and qualities, it is difficult for you to encourage your subordinates to follow your commands. Some essential things to get respect from your followers are to show swagger and to show assertiveness. All of these things are possible only if you are confident enough about your decisions and qualities.\n- Inspire others\nAs a leader, you will have to persuade others to follow your instructions. No doubt, this is considered one of the most difficult tasks of a leader. The only way to persuade your followers is to inspire them by setting a good example. For this reason, you should try to take all the things in a positive way. This positivity should also be visible to your followers through your actions and deeds.\n- Good communicator\nAs a leader, you will have to communicate your vision with your team. In this communication, it is necessary for you to explain a clear strategy to achieve the required goals. This thing is possible only if a leader has impressive communication skills. These impressive communication skills are also helpful for a leader to achieve his/her required goals.\n- Decision-making capabilities\nAs a leader, your decision-making capabilities should also be impressive. Its reason is that due to the lack of decision-making capabilities, you will have a futuristic vision. With the help of this futuristic vision, you will never be able to achieve the required outcomes. A good leader should think hard and long before taking a decision. Before making a decision, he/she should also try to get suggestions from other stakeholders.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Voluntary Exchange vs. Government Mandates\nThe basic unit of all economic activity is the uncoerced, free exchange of one economic good for another. Moreover, the decision to engage in exchange is based upon the ordinally ranked subjective preferences of each party to the exchange. To achieve maximum satisfaction from the exchange, each party must have full ownership and control of the good that he wishes to exchange and may dispose of his property without interference from a third party, such as government.\nThe exchange will take place when each party values the good to be received more than the good that he gives up. The expected — but by no means guaranteed — result is a total higher satisfaction for both parties. Any subsequent satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the exchange must accrue completely to the parties involved. The expected higher satisfaction that one or each expects may not be dependent upon harming a third party in the process.\nThird Parties Cannot Create Value by Forcing Exchange\nSeveral observations can be deduced from the above explanation. It is not possible for a third party to direct this exchange in order to create a more satisfactory outcome. No third party has ownership of the goods to be exchanged; therefore, no third party can hold a legitimate subjective preference upon which to base an evaluation as to the higher satisfaction to be gained. Furthermore, the higher satisfaction of any exchange cannot be quantified in any cardinal way, for each party’s subjective preference is ordinal only.\nThis rules out all utilitarian measurements of satisfaction upon which interventions may be based. Each exchange is an economic world unto itself. Compiling statistics of the number and dollar amounts of many exchanges is meaningless for other than historical purposes, both because the dollars involved are not representative of the preferences and satisfactions of others not involved in the exchange, and because the volume and dollar amounts of future exchanges are independent of past exchanges.\nOne Example: The Case of Ethanol\nLet us examine a recent, typical exchange that violates our definition of a true exchange yet is justified by government interventionists today: subsidized, protected, and mandated use of ethanol.\nThe use of ethanol is coerced; i.e., the government requires its mixture into gasoline. Government does not own the ethanol, so it cannot possibly hold a valid subjective preference. The parties forced to buy ethanol actually receive some dissatisfaction. Had they desired to purchase ethanol, no mandate would have been required.\nBecause those engaging in the forced exchange did not desire the ethanol in the first place, including the dollar value of ethanol sales in statistics purporting to measure the societal value of goods exchanged in our economy is meaningless. Yet the government includes all mandated exchanges as a source of “value” in its own calculations.\nThis is just one egregious example of many such measurements that are included in our GDP statistics purporting to convince us that we have “never had it so good.”\nAnother Example: The Soviet Economy\nOur flawed view that governments can improve satisfaction caused us to misjudge the military threat of the Soviet Union for decades. Our CIA placed western dollar values on Soviet production data to arrive at the conclusion that its economy was growing faster than that of the US and would surpass US GDP at some point in the not too distant future. Except for very small exceptions, all economic production resources in the Soviet Union were owned by the state. This does not necessarily mean that it was possible for the state to hold valid subjective preferences, for those who occupied important offices in the state held them at the sufferance of what can only be described as gang lords, who themselves held office very tentatively.\nState ownership is not real ownership. Those in positions of power with responsibility over resources hold their offices for a given period of time and have little or no ability to pass their office on to their heirs. Thus, the resources eventually succumb to the law of the tragedy of the commons and are plundered to extinction. Nevertheless the squandering of the Soviet Union’s commonly held resources was tallied by our CIA as meeting legitimate demand.\nProfessor Yuri Maltsev saw first-hand the total destruction of the Soviet economy. In Requiem for Marx he gives a heartbreaking portrayal of the suffering of the Russian populace through state directed, irrational central planning that did not come close to meeting the people’s legitimate needs, while our CIA continued to crank out bogus statistics of the supposed strength of the Soviet economy upon which the Reagan administration based its unprecedented peacetime military expansion.\nPeaceful Exchange Allowed, Violent Exchange Redressed\nWith the proviso that no exchange may harm another, as explained so well in Dr. Thomas Patrick Burke’s book No Harm: Ethical Principles for a Free Market, we are led to the conclusion that no outside agency can create greater economic satisfaction than can a free and uncoerced exchange. The statistics that support such interventions are meaningless, because they cannot reflect the satisfaction obtained from true ordinally held subjective preferences. Once this understanding is acknowledged and embraced, the consequences for the improvement of our total satisfaction are tremendous. Our economy can be unshackled from government directed economic exchanges and regulations.\nImage Source: iStockphoto.\nAbout the Author\nPatrick Barron is a private consultant to the banking industry. He has taught an introductory course in Austrian economics for several years at the University of Iowa. He has also taught at the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin for over twenty-five years, and has delivered many presentations at the European Parliament.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "When a rotorcraft pilot moves pushes on the cyclic control stick, the swashplate tilts so that angle of attack of the retreating blades increase and of the advancing blades decrease, which creates forward pitching moment on the rotor (shifted 90° due to gyroscopic effect).\nNow the first reaction is that the blades flap up aft and down forward, tilting the plane of rotation forward. But which is then the dominant effect that makes the helicopter body to follow the pitch?\n- Is is the blades pulling on the hub due to centrifugal force trying to align it with their own plane of rotation,\n- or is it that the lift vector tilts with the rotor so its action line no longer passes through the centre of gravity?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Pass FCE is a comprehensive general English course which prepares students for the updated specifications for the Cambridge ESOL First Certificate in English, B2 Vantage of the CEFR. It is suitable for young teenagers and above and can be used either in class or for self-study.\nFeatures:. 15 easy-to-use, topic based units. Revision sections every 3 units. Workbook focused on the main grammar and vocabulary of each unit. the Exam Practice section of the Workbook features practice test questions in exam format, detailed descriptions of each part of the exam and exam advice. a full FCE Practice Test. Audio CDs provide a complete range of authentic FCE-type listening exercises and pronunciation activities. Teacher's Book includes lesson plans, exam information, advice and additional activities, answer keys and recording scripts.\nDownloadable from the Cideb site:. Pass FCE TestsPhotocopiable two-page test for each unit focusing on grammar, vocabulary and functions,. Workbook key and Tests key\nUnable to find what you want? Try our advanced search facility.\nStill unable to find what you want? Why not submit a query to our bibliographical search facility?\nFor stock and delivery information regarding our titles, please refer to the individual title page.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Across the Cowboy State, the promise of riches drew pioneering miners to seek their fortunes in precious metals. The once-bustling mining settlements now preserve a vibrant chapter of frontier history. Step back in time as we take you to some of Wyoming’s best-kept ghost towns\nThe Cowboy State offers many opportunities for summer travelers. There’s world-class fishing in its lakes and rivers, hiking and rodeos, mountain and ranch vistas, wildlife viewing, rafting, hot springs, seasonal festivals, Yellowstone National Park — and 70 ghost towns. At one extreme, many of these historic sites are little more than decaying logs, a few crumbling foundations and perhaps an old well gone dry. At the other extreme, they are fully curated campuses restored to their original livable state.\nWhether Wyoming’s deserted settlements contain real apparitions from an earlier era is a matter of speculation, but one thing is for sure — wandering around a ghost town is a ticket back in time. The question is, which one to visit? If you’re planning a trip through Wyoming, the following Spook Route, listed north to south, will give you an intriguing peek at the poignant aspects of frontier life.\nKirwin and Double Dee Ranch\nLocated on the North Fork of the Wood River near Meeteetse, Kirwin had its heyday in the late 19th century when, in 1881, William Kirwin and a hunting buddy discovered gold and silver there. By the late 1890s, the settlement swelled to 200 residents and had 38 buildings, including a hotel, sawmill, post office, stores and numerous private homes. That said, much of the development, including a powerhouse, electric lines and a railroad spur, was abandoned before it was finished. The precious ore turned out to be low grade, then tragedy struck. In 1905, an explosion killed a miner, then two years later, a blizzard dumped more than 50 feet of snow in eight days, causing an avalanche that killed another three people. When the road to Meeteetse became passable again, the entire town departed.\nIn the 1930s the deserted town became part of the Double Dee Guest Ranch. The dude ranch operated for a decade, through 1942. Amelia Earhart and her husband, George Putnam, were among the ranch’s more famous guests. Earhart started to build a cabin there, but the project was abandoned when she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.\nToday, both Kirwin and the Double Dee Ranch are publicly owned by the USDA Forest Service and are part of Shoshone National Forest. Visitors can see the remains of Earhart’s cabin at the abandoned ranch, then continue to Kirwin where the hotel, several log cabins and mining machinery are scattered around the site.\nPlan a full day to visit Kirwin and the Double Dee. A four-wheel-drive vehicle is recommended for crossing one shallow river and several streams to get to the ranch. The Meeteetse Museums complex periodically hosts free tours of the ranch and the ghost town, and can assist in arranging rides or providing directions for self-guided visits.\nMeeteetse Museums | www.meeteetsemuseums.org\nThough considered a ghost town, Atlantic City, one of Wyoming’s oldest cities, is an interesting mix of ruins and modern-day rural living. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, 37 people still reside in Atlantic City, which has a reputation as the boom-bust capital of the Cowboy State.\nLike many other ghost towns, Atlantic City’s fortunes were directly tied to mining. In 1868, prospectors discovered a vein of gold several feet thick and several thousand feet long. They dubbed it the Atlantic Ledge because of its location on the eastern side of the Continental Divide. Despite the remote mountainous location, 100 miles from the nearest railroad, other hopeful diggers soon came in search of riches, and Atlantic City swelled to 300 people. During the town’s first boom, it boasted a brewery, a beer garden, an opera house and a 90-foot-long dance hall where frontierswoman and guide Calamity Jane is said to have worked.\nThe city’s second boom occurred in the 1880s when a French engineer and capitalist, Emile Granier, introduced his hydraulic mining system. Granier invested $1,000 and hired 300 Swedish laborers to dig a 20-mile sluiceway to transport gold ore from Christina Lake around the town and then to the south. However, the grade was too steep, causing the water to spill over the sides, along with the gold, which other prospectors were glad to grab. Granier declared bankruptcy in 1893 and returned to France.\nThe town’s last boom occurred during the Great Depression when miners dredged nearby streams and found small amounts of gold. Some nearby mines reopened, but during World War II, when the U.S. government declared gold a nonstrategic metal, they closed again. Atlantic City was added to Wyoming’s list of ghost towns about 10 years later.\nInterestingly, the town experienced yet another boom in the 1960s when U.S. Steel dug a large open-pit iron-ore mine there, but that mine closed as well, in 1982. Three decades later, visitors to this half-deserted hamlet can take a self-guided tour of 27 historic sites, including a mill, barns, cabins, the hotel, a saloon, stores and even a crumbling chicken house amid a handful of inhabited homes and businesses.\nAtlantic City Historical Society | www.facebook.com/atlanticcityhistoricalsociety\nSouth Pass City\nWhen prospectors discovered the Cariso Lode in 1868, it triggered a gold rush to South Pass City that attracted more than 2,000 people. The boom turned to bust after only two years, but a number of hardy residents stayed, ever hopeful of another gold strike. The state of Wyoming took over the town on its 100th anniversary, turning it into a state historic site.\nToday, South Pass City is among the most well-preserved ghost towns in the western United States. Visitors can walk down the main street of town and step into various shops, public buildings and residences, each curated to show life during the gold rush.\nThe old dance hall serves as the visitor center and the first stop of the walking tour. The most prominent artifact on display inside the dance hall, an American flag with 44 stars, was hand-sewn in 1890 when Wyoming became the 44th state.\nThe hotel in the middle of town dates back to 1873 and was originally owned by a widow named Jane Sherlock-Smith. In the 1800s, operating a hotel was one of the few businesses deemed socially acceptable for women. Today, the front desk looks as if Sherlock-Smith could appear at any moment to check in a guest.\nThe Exchange Saloon is another interesting landmark. Built as a bank during South Pass City’s initial two-year gold boom, the building drew miners to exchange a total of 3,600 ounces of gold dust for minted coins, valued at about $3.85 million today. Pausing there, it’s easy to imagine ordering a whiskey, playing a hand of poker or spinning the roulette wheel after a long day underground. If miners didn’t find gold in the surrounding hills, they could dream of winning riches in the saloon.\nThe adit (entrance) to Wolverine mine is a short walk above the schoolhouse. Though it never produced a notable amount of gold, it gives visitors a sense of what the mines were like. An ore-stamp mill, a sizable contraption by the adit, crushed mineral-bearing ore, then mercury was added to the pulverized rock to collect the gold particles.\nFor those who want to dig deeper into the pioneer mining era, a 1.6-mile loop trail follows Willow Creek past several more mine entrances, an arrastra (another type of ore mill), a larger stamp mill and the remains of a brick kiln that is on the edge of South Pass City.\nFriends of South Pass | www.southpasscity.com\nPoint of Rocks\nWith the start of the American Civil War, the U.S. Army withdrew troops from the west to fight for the Union. As a result, during the 1860s, Indian and outlaw attacks increased along the Oregon Trail, one of the primary east-west routes across the continent, which passed through the middle of Wyoming. The government detoured travelers and mail carriers onto the Overland Trail across the southern part of the territory, believing it a safer route.\nThough not a ghost town per se, the now-deserted stagecoach and Pony Express pit stop at Point of Rocks was one of the more infamous waypoints along the Overland Trail. Known as the Almond Stage Station, it was built in 1862 from local sandstone. Today, visitors can peek out of the window openings in the crumbling stables or into the restored depot. Several plaques retell the history of Point of Rocks, which withstood attacks and attempted arson by various Indians, and was the site of a purported murder.\nJack Slade, a stagecoach driver and notorious alcoholic, killed a passenger named Jules Beni, a Frenchman and one of Slade’s enemies. Several years earlier, Beni shot Slade and left him for dead, but Slade lived, swearing he would one day wear one of Beni’s ears on his watch chain. Slade, a bully prone to whiskey-induced rages, was eventually hanged by vigilantes.\nThe stage line operated until 1869. With the completion of the transcontinental railroad, passengers and mail gained a more efficient westward mode of transportation. Today, Interstate 80 follows the basic route of the historic Overland Trail.\nLocated between the Sierra Madre mountains and the Snowy Range, Grand Encampment is yet another mining boom town of the late-19th century, though not for gold. In 1897, an English prospector named Ed Haggarty discovered copper, initiating a decade of profitable mining in the area. The Rudefeha Lode (named for the first two letters of Haggarty’s and his partners’ last names) and the Ferris-Haggarty Mine continued to produce copper until 1908.\nFrom the mine, a 16-mile aerial tramway, the longest in the world, carried the ore to a smelter in Grand Encampment, which processed up to 500 tons of ore per day. During the boom, the settlements of Rudefeha, Dillon, Copperton, Rambler, Battle and Elwood sprang up, but they all became ghost towns when the mining company closed after being indicted for selling fraudulent stock and claiming more capital than it owned. During the bust, the town of Grand Encampment quietly dropped “Grand” from its name. Now known simply as Encampment, it has a population of about 400 people.\nWhile not a ghost town in its own right, Encampment hosts many of the buildings from the surrounding ghost towns on the campus of the Grand Encampment Museum. A two-story outhouse, a fire observation tower, a portion of the aerial tram and homes of both prominent and working-class people are among the 19 preserved structures.\nGrand Encampment Museum | www.gemuseum.com\nTRAVELING THE SPOOK ROUTE\nKirwin to South Pass City\nFrom Meeteetse, south of Cody, travel south 52 miles on State Route 120 to Thermopolis. Take U.S. Route 20 south 32 miles through the Wind River Canyon to Shoshoni. Turn southwest on State Route 789. Go another 55 miles, then head south on State Route 28 past Lander. A series of well-maintained dirt roads with good signage leads to Atlantic City and, 2 miles further south, South Pass City.\nCamping: Boysen State Park | wyoparks.state.wy.us\nSouth Pass City to Point of Rocks\nContinue south on State Route 28 45 miles to Farson. Take U.S. Route 191 south to Rock Springs. Head east 25 miles on I-80 to Exit 130/Point of Rocks. Turn right (south) off the ramp. Go past the Overland Stage Map, a roadside pullout, then turn left on Sweetwater County Road (no sign). Point of Rocks is 0.1 mile up the hill on the right.\nCamping: Sinks Canyon State Park | www.sinkscanyonstatepark.org/visitor/camping\nPoint of Rocks to Encampment\nTake I-80 east 44 miles to Exit 235/Walcott. Go 38 miles on State Route 130 south to Riverside. Turn right (west) on U.S. Route 70. Continue another mile to Encampment. Following the signs to the Grand Encampment Museum, turn left on Sixth Street (dirt), then right to 807 Barnett Avenue.\nCamping: Lazy Acres Campground and RV Park | www.lazyacreswyo.com", "label": "No"}
{"text": "World War One Sites - The NETWORLD Database\nAustro-Hungarian Military cemetery Hochgränten, East Tyrol, Austria\nThe Hochgränten military cemetery was laid in 1915 by Austro-Hungarian soldiers. It contains the graves of four riflemen who lost their lives on 6 September 1915 on the ridge between the Hochgränten Joch and the Hollbrucker Spitz. The graves are decorated by wrought iron crosses and an obelisk with a cross and inscribed panel. The cemetery itself is surrounded by a stone wall with wrought iron chains and lattice doors.\nType of WWI-heritage\n- Military cemetery\nThe Austro-Hungarian military cemetery Hochgränten (2,429 m) in the Carnic Alps (Karnischer Kamm, borough of Kartitsch, cadastral commune of Hollbruck) consists of an area of approximately 4 x 3 metres. The cemetery is the highest-situated military graveyard in the eastern Alps.\nState of repair/preservation\nThe Hochgränten military cemetery is in relatively good condition and is maintained by the Austrian Black Cross as part of the War Graves Commission.\nHistorical WWI Context\nThe Hochgränten military cemetery is situated near the Hochgräntenjoch on Karnischer Kamm (Carnic Ridge). Near to the Hochgränten Lake in this region, Austro-Hungarian troops established this military cemetery in 1915 in which soldiers are buried who lost their lives during the battles in this sector. The cemetery still contains the graves of four riflemen.\nThe Karnischer Kamm formed a section of the so-called Southwestern Front – the front situated between Austria-Hungary and Italy from May 1915 onwards. It stretched over a length of around 600 kilometres in a linear distance from the Swiss border to the Adriatic coast. Italian, Austro-Hungarian and German soldiers faced each other on this part of the front mainly between 1915 and 1918, primarily in high-Alpine terrain and usually at an altitude of 2,000 to 3,900 metres above sea level. In 1915, soldiers on both sides initially had to make the complete terrain suitable for military operations. Apart from a few mountains made accessible for tourists and trails used by the local population in summer for cattle driving, hardly any well-developed paths or tracks existed between the Ortler (3,899 m) near to the Swiss border and the Julian Alps.\nTo enable Austria-Hungary to control the region of the front, the area was subdivided by their army into several administration units. Border sector 10 for example consisted of several border sub-sectors (GUA), and these in turn consisted of battle sectors (KA): GUA 10a consisted of the battle sectors Ruffredo, Gemärk and Landro (later called Schluderbach), GUA 10b of battle sectors Zinnenhochfläche, Fischleintal, Burgstall and Hornischeck/Hornischegg (known as “Seikofel” from 23 June 1915), and GUA 10c of the battle sectors Eisenreich and Filmoorhöhe. While border sub-sector 10a continued to be under the command of Field Marshal Lieutenant Ludwig Goiginger, the two border sub-sectors 10b and 10c came under the responsibility of the 56th Mountain Brigade from November 1915 and the command of General Major Karl Englert.\nThe front on the Karnischer Kamm belonged to border sub-sector 10c, had a length of approximately 30 kilometres and stretched from Hornischegg/Mt. Arnese (2,550 m) to Steinkarspitz/Mt. Antola (2,524 m) in the East. From 1916 onwards, border sub-sector 10c was administrated as a border sector and subdivided into battle sectors I: Hochgränten, II: Obstans, III: Filmoor/Leiten and IV: Obertilliach. The most northerly area of the Kreuzberg front was integrated into battle sector I: Hochgränten. From October 1916 the official name of border sub-sector 10c became “Karnischer Kamm”.\nState of legal protection\nThe Hochgränten military cemetery is heritage-protected.\nNo information available.\nKind of cultural use of WWI\nThe Hochgränten military cemetery can be visited for free and is situated on the long-distance hiking route Karnischer Höhenweg (no. 403), also called the Trail of Peace (\"Via della Pace\"). The trails of peace were set up by the Austrian Dolomitenfreunde association in the 1970s.\nThe “Open-Air Museum of the Mountain War 1915–1917” on the Plöckenpass can be visited for free.\nEntry must be paid to the “Museum 1915–18. From the Ortler to the Adriatic Coast” in Kötschach-Mauthen that focuses on the history of World War One in the mountains.\nThe Hochgränten military cemetery can be visited for free.\nThe “Museum 1915–18. Vom Ortler bis zur Adria” (From the Ortler to the Adriatic Coast), Kötschach-Mauthen\nSeason runs from 15 May – 15 October\nOpening times during the season:\nMonday to Friday 10am–1pm and 3pm–6pm\nSaturday, Sunday and bank holidays 2pm–6pm\nVisits by groups are also possible with appropriate pre-registration outside of opening times.\nThe Hochgränten military cemetery can be visited for free.\nInformation regarding cities, villages, other touristic attractions (non-WWI) nearby\nRegion Karnische Alpen: www.karnische-alpen.com\nMountain climber villages: www.bergsteigerdoerfer.at\nCity of Lienz: www.lienz.gv.at\nCity of Spittal at Millstättersee: http://www.millstaettersee.com/de/region-orte/spittal-drau/spittal-drau.html\nThe public traffic network (trains and buses) connects the communities in Lesachtal along Karnischer Kamm with the towns of Lienz in the West and Spittal in the East.\nFurther information sources\nÖsterreichisches Schwarzes Kreuz (Hg.), Kriegsgräberfürsorge. Dokumentation, Wien (2012).\nGabriele & Walther Schaumann, Unterwegs vom Pustertal zum Plöckenpass. Auf den Spuren der Karnischen Front 1915–1917, Klagenfurt (2003).\nGabriele & Walther Schaumann, Unterwegs vom Plöckenpass zum Kanaltal. Auf den Spuren der Karnischen Front 1915–1917, Klagenfurt (2004).\nGabriele & Walther Schaumann, Unterwegs zwischen Save und Soča. Auf den Spuren der Isonzofront 1915–1917, Klagenfurt (2005).\nChristian Terzer, Frontstellungen im Hochgebirge. Das Projekt Karnischer Kamm, in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege, Ort - Erinnerung - Denkmal. Relikte des Ersten Weltkriegs, Heft 3/4 (2015), S. 262–271.\nJulia Walleczek-Fritz & Peter Fritz: Ascend-Apprehend-Aspire. The First World War along Carnic Ridge between Sexten and Plöckenpass, Kartitsch/Sexten (2015).\nLudwig Wiedemayr, Weltkriegsschauplatz Osttirol. Die Gemeinden an der Karnischen Front im östlichen Pustertal, Lienz (2007).\nOther heritage sites nearby\n- Trail of Peace / Karnischer Höhenweg in the Carnic Alps, East Tyrol and Carinthia, Austria\n- Prinz-Heinrich Memorial chapel, East Tyrol, Austria\n- Open-Air Museum of the Mountain War 1915–1917, Plöckenpass, Carinthia, Austria\n- Austro-Hungarian Military cemetery Kreuztratte, Plöckenpass, Carinthia, Austria\n- Chapel of Peace at Zollnersee, Carinthia, Austria\n- Outdoor Museum Ravelnik, Bovec, Slovenia\n- Austro-Hungarian Military Cemetery Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia\nMuseums Private Collections\n“Museum 1915–18. Vom Ortler bis zur Adria” ( (From the Ortler to the Adriatic Coast), Kötschach-Mauthen (Carinthia)\nAustro-Hungarian Military cemetery Hochgränten, East Tyrol, Austria46.69008890065852 12.43976816722568 fileadmin/res/images/layout/standar-marker.png", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In response to the repeated requests from area farmers for Rudolf Steiner to provide guidance on how they could reverse the trend of soil degradation and reduced yields, Steiner gave an eight-part lecture series on agriculture. These lectures outlined principles to improve soil and plant health; afterwards they became the basis of biodynamic farming. Steiner offered a perspective on trees that was rather radical for his time in 1924. Still today, a reading of his lectures continues to provide a unique and refreshing understanding of Earth’s largest and oldest life forms — trees. This presentation focuses on two concepts introduced by Steiner: the interconnectedness of trees to their soil environment, and the tree consisting of herbaceous plants “rooted” to the branches and trunk of a tree. An understanding of Steiner’s description of trees can deepen anyone’s relationship with trees. The principles outlined, nearly 100 years ago, are still relevant today for homeowners addressing soil degradation and plant disorders in residential landscapes.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Discourses Analysis by a Decolonial Perspective\nIn the last years in Latin America, the decolonial perspective has been growing up to analyze discourses in qualitative research. This theoretical, methodological, and epistemological way to deconstruction has done an interesting way to analyze social topics. Some authors like Dussel, Quijano, etc. have done the bases about this decolonial regard, which provides Latin American researchers a way to analyze social problems taking the North Global theories but also increasing them with our decolonial perspective. We call it the South Global regard. It is not only to know that the classifications and qualifications of the north global reproduce the inequalities in the material life, but also the theoretical and epistemological way to analyze it. The decolonial theory, used also to analyze discourses, gives the possibility to understand people’s feelings, emotions, and sensations; meanwhile, words are given in the speeches, interviews, participating observation, focus group, etc.\nKeywords: qualitative research, discourses, decoloniality\nThis chapter gives an account of one of the perspectives framed in the Latin American critical theory around the processes of research: decolonial perspective. This theory, emerged at the end of the last century, has been generating more and more theoretical-methodological, ethical-political, and epistemological inputs, which have allowed to address reality in a social-historical framework from the Global South. The concepts of Global North and the Global South refer, more than to territorial delimitations around the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere of the globe, to epistemic demarcations in the production of knowledge of societies that have been colonizing or colonized and the power that this provides in the apprehension of knowledge and deconstruction of reality particularized and mediated by it. This epistemic break enhances the recognition of reality from a perspective that deconstructs the coloniality/modernity of the Global North, which has been internalized as absolute truth.\nThe logic of the exposition goes to the presentation of decoloniality as a theoretical-methodological approach to carry out the analysis of discourses and, substantially, to analyze them reflexively from a perspective that breaks the instituted and normative of the heterogeneity of the “should be.” In this way, this decolonial turn is presented in his short history, to later reflect on the power that it has in the analysis of discourses.\n2. Becoming of the modernity/coloniality group\nIn the mid-90s of the last century, various Latin American authors of social and human sciences began to meet in university spaces, such as Enrique Dussel, Aníbal Quijano, Walter Mignolo, Ramón Grosfoguel, Nelson Maldonado, and several others. These spaces would come to be the so-called Modernity/Coloniality Group. This generated the power of a collective feed through the analysis of reality from the particularities of a Global South colonized on the plane of being and thinking by a Global North in constant expansion.\nFor the presentation of this shallow development, the publication of Castro-Gómez and Grosfoguel  is taken as the main source.\nIn 1996, the Peruvian sociologist, Aníbal Quijano, worked at the State University of New York (SUNY), in Binghamton, with Immanuel Wallerstein, who at the time was the director of the Ferdinand Braudel Center in Paris. Both authors were recognized in the international sphere since the 70s for their productions around the Theory of Dependence and System-World Analysis. By this time, Quijano participated in the seminars organized by the “Coloniality Working Group”, directed by Kelvin Santiago, in which the Puerto Rican Grosfoguel also participated. Afro-Caribbean thinker Sylvia Wynters was also a part of that group, well-known in the United States for her work on colonial heritages.\nIn 1998, Edgardo Lander, a sociologist based in Venezuela, organized an event in Caracas, where Mignolo, Escobar, Quijano, Dussel, and Coronil were invited. From that event came one of the most important books produced by the group: “The coloniality of knowledge: Eurocentrism and social sciences”, published in Buenos Aires in 2000. Also in that year, Grosfoguel and Quijano organized in Binghamton the international congress “Transmodernity, historical capitalism, and coloniality: a post-disciplinary dialogue”, where Quijano, Wallerstein, and the Argentinians philosopher Enrique Dussel and semiologist Walter Mignolo participated. It was at this congress that Dussel, Quijano, and Mignolo met for the first time to discuss their approach to colonial legacies in Latin America, in dialog with Wallerstein’s world-system analysis. Dussel was known in Latin America for being one of the founders of the Philosophy of Liberation in the 70s, while Mignolo was beginning to be recognized in the growing circle of postcolonial studies as a result of his book “The Darker Side of the Renaissance.”\nIn 1999, the Binghamton group organized the event “History Sites of Colonial Disciplinary Practices: The Nation-State, the Bourgeois Family and the Enterprise”, where the dialog with the postcolonial theories of Asia, Africa, and Latin America was opened. In this event, Vandana Swami, Chandra Mohanty, Zine Magubane, Sylvia Winters, Walter Mignolo, Anibal Quijano, and the Venezuelan anthropologist Fernando Coronil participated. On the other hand, Oscar Guardiola and Santiago Castro-Gómez organized, with the support of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, the International Symposium “The restructuring of the social sciences in the Andean countries.” Argentinean semiologist, Zulma Palermo, and German Romanist, Freya Schiwy, also joined. This event served as a catalyst for everything that had been happening in the other nodes of the network. From this activity, an academic cooperation agreement was signed between the Javeriana University of Bogotá, the Duke University, the University of North Carolina, and the Andean Simón Bolívar University of Quito to organize activities and publications on the subject of the geopolitics of knowledge and coloniality of power. From these spaces arise two books that will be the first publications of the group: “Think (in) the interstices, Theory and practice of postcolonial criticism” (1999) and “The restructuring of social sciences in Latin America” (2000).\nFor the beginning of the present millennium, the confluence of the System-World Analysis and the Latin American Theories on Coloniality were directed toward the production of knowledge of a new way of being and thinking. In the year 2000, Grosfoguel organized in Boston the conference corresponding to the 24th edition of the PEWS “Political Economy of the World-System,” inviting the Colombian philosophers Santiago Castro-Gómez and Oscar Guardiola Rivera, of the Thinking Institute of the Javeriana University. At that time, a new node of the network in Colombia was also being formed, based on the activity generated by Santiago Castro-Gómez at the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies Pensar.\nIn 2001, a first group meeting was organized, where the progress made from the different spaces that were working on the theme was discussed. The event meeting was organized by Walter Mignolo at Duke University under the name “Knowledge and the Known”, which was also joined by the Bolivian cultural theorist Javier Sanjinés and the American linguist Catherine Walsh, professor at the Andean University Simón Bolívar.\nIn 2002, the second meeting of this group was held in Quito, by Catherine Walsh. Here, a dialog was established with indigenous and Afro-American intellectuals from Ecuador. This meeting produced the book “Indisciplinary Social Sciences. Geopolitics of knowledge and coloniality of power,” edited by Catherine Walsh, Freya Schiwy, and Santiago Castro-Gómez.\nIn 2003, the third meeting of the group was held at the University of California (Berkeley), this time organized by Grosfoguel and Saldívar. In that moment, the Puerto Rican philosopher Nelson Maldonado-Torres joined the group. The result of this meeting was the book “Unsettling Postcoloniality: Coloniality, Transmodernity and Border Thinking,” published in 2007.\nIn 2004, the fourth meeting of the group “Modernity/Coloniality” was organized by Grosfoquel, Maldonado-Torres, and Saldívar in the University of California. The main topic was the decolonization of the American empire in the twenty-first century. In this instance, the group begins a dialog with the Afro-Caribbean philosopher, Lewis Gordon, (president of the Caribbean Philosophy Association) and the Portuguese sociologist, Boaventura de Sousa Santos , one of the most important organizers and theoreticians of the World Social Forum. The book “Latins in the World System: Decolonization Struggles in the 21st Century US Empire” (published in 2005), and the volume edited by Ramón Grosfoguel in an academic journal directed by Immanuel Wallerstein, entitled “From Postcolonial Studies to Decolonial Studies”. In the same year, a few months later, the fifth meeting of the group was held by Escobar and Mignolo under the name “Critical theory and decoloniality.” The publication “Globalization and Decolonial Thinking” arises.\nIn 2005, the sixth meeting of the group was held in Berkeley, called “Mapping the Decolonial Turn”, by Maldonado-Torres, and coordinated together with Grosfoguel and Saldívar. It counted with the participation of members of the Caribbean Philosophical Association and a group of Latin American, African-American, and Chicano intellectuals.\nIn 2006, the seventh meeting was held in Quito, organized by Catherine Walsh.\nIn the following decade, the Modernity/Coloniality Group continued to produce knowledge about the epistemic turn of the Global South, generating the most diverse accessions and critical reproductions of this analytical-reflective proposal of social reality.\n3. The conceptual/theoretical framework: the decolonial turn and the discourses analysis\n3.1. The decolonial turn\nThis new matrix of analysis distanced itself from postcolonial studies of the time, which had emerged from French poststructuralism instead of “the dense history of decolonial planetary thought”1 (Mignolo in , p. 27). In these postcolonial studies, the concept of “truth” (aletheia), widely discussed, analyzed, formulated, and reformulated by the theorists of the Global North, continued to appear from a colonial totality, there being no space for “the traces of the colonial wound from which it weaves decolonial thinking. Gates that lead to another type of truth whose foundation is not the Being, but the coloniality of the Being, the colonial wound” (p. 29). The postcolonial postures ended up reproducing with their positions the same logics of location of an “outside” (barbarian) and an “inside” (civilized) own of the Global North. This continued to classify and qualify subjects according to their social and global space of origin, so it was more of a “chronicle of an announced death” than of the possibilities of projecting themselves singularly and collectively of those who were born and lived in the Global South.\nIn contrast, the called “decolonial turn” proposed since the beginning “the openness and freedom of thought and ways of life-other (economies-other, political-other-theories); the cleanliness of the coloniality of being and knowledge; the detachment of the rhetoric of modernity and its imperial imaginary “ (Mignolo in , p. 30). Its reason for being was the colonial matrix of power, and in its deconstruction, the decoloniality of power. This begins to recognize that coloniality was (and it is) one of the substantial forms for the global logics of distribution of power in the capitalism of modernity, where “all social-historical phenomenon consists of and/or expresses a relationship social network or a mesh of social relationships” in a field of relationships that transcends it (Quijano in , p. 103). Here is the concept of social-historical totality. From this perspective, modernity is understood in decolonial terms:\nIn this sense, Mignolo () suggests that conceptualizing coloniality as constitutive of modernity implies positioning itself from a decolonial perspective. Modernity, in its phenomenal2 discursive anchoring of the rhetoric of salvation and progress, does not offer greater margins of objectification before the ideological components that make it up, nor concretions in an asphyxiating global capitalism for most of the people. The various forms that today are added to the expression of the “social question”3 are hardly understood within the framework of coloniality “hidden under the rhetoric of modernity” (p. 26), and in its systematic and naturalized reproductions of a unique truth of the rationality of modernity.\nAs stated by Maldonado , the decolonial attitude provides the basis for what he calls decolonial reason. These (attitude and reason) are substantial in this “decolonial turn.”\nIt is considered that recognizing the social framework in which the people (singular and collective subjects) unfold in a universality that accounts for a historical-social totality enables one to think about their particular and singular realities beyond the phenomenal. Further, Quijano (In ) raises its decolonial court also through its distance from the Hegelian totality; personally, it is understood that the analysis that this author makes at this specific point may have other reflective edges. A social-historical totality is thus proposed in the dialectic of the universal-particular-singular for the understanding of the singular and collective reality of people within the framework of specific and generic territorial contexts mediated by ideological logics that transcend their daily lives. Hence, the objectification process that is achieved through research is key to the materialization of what the knowledge apprehended generates for this analysis of reality.\nThis decolonial perspective gives power to the social and human sciences of today, since it allows thinking and producing knowledge about the long-term processes that cross-section people in the disputes over the “control of the basic areas of social existence and from whose results a pattern of power distribution centered on relations of exploitation /domination/conflict between the population of a society and in a given history is configured” (Quijano in , p. 114). This allows thinking and rethinking reality transcending the “unique thought” of coloniality/modernity.\nTaking the theoretical-methodological, ethical-political, and epistemological foundations of decoloniality, it is presented below what the analysis of discourses from decoloniality would be, in the overcoming of master-slave relations in a historical-social framework that contains both (who investigates as who is the subject of the investigation).\n3.2. The discourses analysis\nThe awakening of the Global South before the internalized ideologies of the Global North was a fundamental point to generate new ways of understanding reality, and to investigate and intervene in it. These forms of apprehension of reality are far from the concretions of capitalism in the daily people and communities lives.\nHow to investigate from a decolonial perspective when what is demanded in the academy is clearly the opposite? How to overcome colonial logics that generate gaps between “us” and “others” so that it is possible to objectify oneself in the historical-social totality? It is believed that the social and human sciences of today are conditioned by a context of exercise and power logic of big capital (colonial/modern), and it should not throw away the objectification that is achieved from the delimitation of the research object from theoretical-methodological, ethical-political, and epistemological frameworks “others.” That exercise is learned, strengthened, and expanded (or constrained) from the “think” spaces of the academy.\nResearch from a decolonial perspective enables to generate knowledge and provides tools to achieve real processes of objectification in the subject-subject relationship. This is considered substantial since the colonial forms of power in modernity have been in charge of “dividing the world between hierarchies of lordship and different forms of slavery based, no longer on ethnic or religious differences, but more properly on presumed natural differences, this is, anchored in the very corporality of subjects considered as not entirely human” (, p. 65). It is a struggle against the required forgetfulness of people relegated to non-existence in this modern/ colonial and global world, in a relationship identified as master and slave: “The turn-decolonial refers to the moment when the suspicion of the slave remains ratified and alters the consciousness of the slave in a global way. To the reason of the colonizer invested with lies, is opposed in this case a des-colonizadora reason (reason des-colonial) that is opposed to the lie and modern/colonial hypocrisy.” (, p. 70). It is considered that the production of knowledge from the decolonial perspective allows: on the one hand, to transcend the phenomenal and generate analytical-reflexive detours necessary for the analysis of reality; and, on the other, to find the substance of the problems in a round trip with the “others.” Thus, the power of the decolonial perspective as a theoretical-methodological framework enables us to work with people in their various concretions to overcome relations of inequality, classifications, and power logics of colonial modernity. Who investigates from the Global South must have the clarity that is before a modernity/coloniality metamorphosed discursively in concepts (like rights and citizenship) that continues reproducing the logics of power of always.\nBased on what has been raised about decoloniality, the relationship between the researcher and who is the subject of the research changes epistemic and methodological substance, giving rise to the potential to generate analytical tools that account for this substance. In this context, the analysis of the discourses comes to contain a strong implication in the reflection on what was said and not said, how it was said and the sensations and perceptions that mediate the people, who are raising their experiences, their pains, their joys, their expectations, etc. In this way, the breakthroughs that this decolonial perspective generates in the analysis of discourses for the social and human sciences are presented:\n- Relationships comprised in decolonial power logics (based on subject-subject relations and joint processes of objectification) that overcome the colonial (diverse and metamorphosed reproductions of inequalities).\n- Recognition of a historical-social totality as a field of research, where the overcoming of the logic of modernity/coloniality anticipates the knowledge.\n- Ethical exercise in research processes that generate knowledge from both: the subjects who investigate and the subjects of research.\n- To know part of a societal framework that contains and expands singular and collective pains of hegemonic logics of big capital, which violent symbolically and/or literally, and that only in the encounter in and with the others there is the power for change it.\nThese aspects generate the possibility of intersubjective relationship between the researcher and who is the subject of the research, analyzing the discourses not only from the spoken word, but incorporating sensations, perceptions, emotions, etc. framed in a social-historical context. Recognizing parts of a network that produces and reproduces the logic of modernity allows us to analyze these discourses by grounding the belief of an absolute truth (aletheia), and relocating them in collective historical processes of social pains generated by the imposed coloniality.\nIn this sense, it is imperative to distance oneself from the internalized colonialities imposed by a “unique” scientific knowledge from the Global North for the analysis of a dissimilar societal framework such as that of the societies of decoloniality. As Zimmermann says, with this decolonial turn, they are enabled and share “arguments about scientific knowledge, freed from Western modern rhetoric, that is, from science or knowledge subject to norms and formalities, giving voice to other covert cultural interpretations, colonized and discredited as primitive or mystical, by modern rationality” (, p. 3). The discourses and their analyses are generated and interpreted based on the recognition embodied in each of the colonized subjects of the Global South, focusing on certain aspects and leaving aside dissimilar ones from the logic of power and analysis of colonial modernity. It is committed to the “ideological and socio-cultural positioning, which supposes an ethical attitude of respect to man in all his cultural expressions, of care of the values that improve him, and opposed to the global social injustice that corresponds to a global cognitive injustice” (, p. 3). Value and meaning are given to “other” issues that are not registered from coloniality because they focus on their modern “truths.”\nIn this framework, the language becomes a core substance in this analytical logic, since it enables to reconstruct the social and cultural reality of the subjects through the meaning given in the interaction generated by one and another subject of the enunciation: “the language builds social reality, interacts with culture, and produces with writing and reading how we see, understand and value the world, subjects and their relationships” (, p. 4). With language, reality is created, which accounts for the societal framework of the moment as a synthesis of the social-historical totality that is singled out in the communication processes displayed by the subjects in discursivity. Throughout this process, subjectivity becomes a constitutive part, and therefore, the analysis of discourses that is mediated by decoloniality enables us to recognize subjects in their space, historical time, becoming, taking into account that from the epistemological point of view, a break with the colonial logics of the speeches and their interpretations. The questions imposed by the rationality of modernity/coloniality are no longer a substance of analysis, but the focus will be placed on the subject framed in its singular and collective history, where the analytical categories do not reflect the absolutes of the modern “truth.”\nFrom decoloniality, language is substantial in the framework of the social historical totality that accounts for its materialization, as well as grammatical reflection, which “returns to the first meanings to understand the ideological content of discourse, although processes and structures, evaluations or social roles are only legible if we attend to a deep or crypto-typical level of pattern formation where these structures are installed” (, p. 5). Thus, the analysis of discourses from the decolonial view recognizes human diversity as inexhaustible, so that the epistemology mediated by its analysis is self-referential and procedural, that is, constantly questioning and distancing itself from conceptual and political instruments that do not lead to a rhetoric of the discursive interpellated by language and writing. This is possible by taking distance from the absolute truths of modernity/coloniality, where modes of thinking and acting are homogeneous. The Global South is committed to an analysis of discourses from a decoloniality, where the subject who investigates and the subject of research work together for an exploration of internal and counter-hegemonic plurality.\nLikewise, the concretion of the language displayed in the speeches is expressed through writing, which also contains ideological components that cross it out, since “it brings the language to consciousness, makes it possible to structure, categorize and discipline, through two critical properties of grammar: nominalization and grammatical metaphor” (, p. 6). The grammatical terms require to be deconstructed in an ideological process that contains and expands them, which is present in the way of expressing and understanding the discourses.\nIn this way, both the subject who investigates and the subject of the investigation pass through the encounter of the discursive in an imprint that must be located in the social historical totality, on the one hand, and in the singularized concretions that give substance to reality. The way in which this is expressed in the writing is preoccupied with ideological components that the researcher must retrace to avoid falling into false ethnocentrisms typical of colonial modernity. Through the analysis and exposure of economies “others,” subjects “others,” ideologies “others,” a process of discourse analysis is formed from the decoloniality of power and knowledge, with a view to meeting both the subject (singular or collective) as with the object in the process of delimitation.\nIn synthesis, the proposed decolonial turn as a theoretical-methodological and epistemological frame of reference for the analysis of discourses leads to “other” encounters between subjects that, on the one hand, on the plane of being reproduce in everyday life ways of being, being, feel and think proper to decoloniality, and, on the other hand, on the plane of thinking, enables the epistemic break with the colonialities imposed ideologically, culturally, and symbolically. From the decoloniality of discourses, in the comprehension of their boundless heterogeneity, analytic-reflexive detours are generated, where language is a substantial point as a construction of reality.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The graphical interface to GENESIS is provided by XODUS, the X-windows Output and Display Utility for Simulations. This interface is provided by graphical objects (called ``widgets'') which can be used to create elements that are treated like other GENESIS elements. These are discussed in detail in ``The Book of GENESIS'' and in the documentation for the individual XODUS objects and commands, so we will give only a brief overview here.\nThe table below lists the basic XODUS widgets used to create labels, buttons, toggles, dialog boxes, and for the display of bitmapped images and text.\n|xbutton||A button which executes script actions from mouse clicks.|\n|xdialog||A dialog box containing a text string.|\n|xform||The window containing other graphical elements.|\n|ximage||Displays a GIF format bitmapped image inside a form.|\n|xlabel||A rectangular label containing a text string.|\n|xtext||A widget for the display and editing of text.|\n|xtoggle||Maintains toggle state and executes actions from mouse clicks.|\nThe form, created from the xform object, is the container for all other graphical elements. Although the position of an element in the element hierarchy is arbitrary for other GENESIS elements, widgets which are to be displayed in a form must be children of the parent form. The following example creates a graph and three buttons within a form:\ncreate xform /data create xgraph /data/voltage create xbutton /data/RESET -script reset create xbutton /data/RUN -script \"step 100\" create xbutton /data/QUIT -script quit\nAs described in Messages, a message from another element would be used to send values to the graph for plotting.\nNote the use of the ``\n-script'' option to set the\nscript field of the xbutton to the string representing the\nstatement to be executed when the button is clicked upon. Most of the\nXODUS widgets (except for xform) also execute script actions in\nresponse to mouse clicks. These are described under\nXODUS Mouse Clicks.\nOther fields (described in the documentation for the particular widget or listed with the showobject command) are used for setting background and foreground colors, label strings, fonts, and other properties of the widget. In addition, there are fields for specifying the geometry of the widget, i.e. its location and size. In the example above, the default values were used.\nThe horizontal and vertical positions and the width and height of an\nXODUS widget are specified by the four geometry fields xgeom,\nygeom, wgeom and hgeom. These fields may\nbe set at any time with the setfield command. You may also set them\nwhen the widget is created, by using the options ``\n-wgeom'' and ``\na shorthand notation, and for backwards compatibility with previous\nversions of GENESIS, these four geometry values may be given in square\nbrackets as ``[xgeom,ygeom,wgeom,hgeom]'' at the time the widget is\ncreated. For example,\ncreate xform /form [10,10,400,100] create xbutton /form/QUIT [0,20,,50] -script quit // use default wgeom\nWhen given as numbers, these values represent the (x,y) coordinates and the width and height of the widget, measured in pixels. For forms, the coordinates are measured relative to the upper left-hand corner of the screen. For other widgets, they are measured relative to the interior upper left-hand corner of the form which contains them. The ygeom coordinate is measured downwards. A percent sign may be used after a number to indicate that it represents a percentage of the screen or form dimension, instead of a pixel value.\nThese conventions are used for the basic widgets described above, as well as for the draw widget varieties described below.\nIt is also possible to specify the geometry of a widget with respect to that of the parent form or another sibling widget using a notation of the form ``offset:reference.edge''. Here, ``offset'' is a pixel value or percentage, as before. ``reference'' may be ``parent'' (meaning the parent element -- usually the form), ``last'' (the most recently created widget), or the name of a sibling widget. The ``edge'' may be ``left'', ``right'', ``top'', ``bottom'', ``width'', or ``height''.\nWhen used with xgeom or ygeom and a parent reference, left, right, top and bottom will place the child's corresponding edge a given distance in from the given edge of the parent. For a sibling, the child's opposite edge is placed a given distance away from the given edge of the sibling.\nWhen specifying a wgeom or hgeom, and giving a parent reference, left, right, top and bottom will set the dimension of the child such that the widget right or bottom edge will be the given distance from the given edge of the parent. A width edge sets the dimension to the value given while a height edge sets it to the parent height less the given value. For a sibling, left, right, top and bottom will set the dimension of the child such that the opposite edge of the widget will be a given distance from the given edge of the sibling. For width and height edges the dimension is set to the sum of the siblings width/height and the given value.\nNote that some combinations of references and edges result in nonsensical geometry specifications which may cause errors.\nIn cases where a complete geometry value is not given, default values are assumed. When no geometry is present the defaults are:\n|hgeom||<default height for widget>|\nWhen a value is given, then the reference widget defaults to parent and the reference edge defaults to:\n|xgeom||left for a parent ref, right for a sibling ref|\n|ygeom||top for a parent ref, bottom for a sibling ref|\nThese combinations are best explained with some examples:\ncreate xform /form [10,10,400,200] xshow /form // make it visible // make a 100 x 50 pixel label, 100 pixels from the form left edge create xlabel /form/label -xgeom 100:parent.left -wgeom 100 -hgeom 50 create xbutton /form/button // full width button below the label (default) // put button's right edge 10 pixels left of the label and reduce width setfield /form/button xgeom 10:label.left wgeom 70 // increase the height of the button to 80% of the label height setfield /form/button hgeom 80%:label // \".height\" is assumed // change the button height to 30% of the label width setfield /form/button hgeom 30%:label.width // put bottom of button 50 pixels below top of label setfield /form/button ygeom -50:label.top // add a toggle 5 pixels to the right of the button create xtoggle /form/toggle -xgeom 5:last.right -wgeom 100\nIn addition to the basic widgets described above, XODUS provides a set of more advanced graphical objects based upon the draw widget. A draw widget may be thought of as a window into a three dimensional space for the display of graphical objects called pixes. Draw widgets are displayed inside of forms, and pixes are displayed inside of draws, using the element hierarchy ``form/draw/pix''. The draw widget provides for coordinate transformations of the pixes, including pan, zoom, two dimensional projections into a given plane, orthographic and perspective projections. These transformations may be controlled by keyboard commands as well as by setting fields of the draw widget. Further details are given in the documentation for xdraw .\nThe graph widget (described in the documentation for xgraph ) is a specialized form of draw widget for the display of plots and axes. In addition to the transformations provided for draw widgets, it allows additional transformations for rescaling axes and the displayed plots.\nThe table below summarizes the varieties of draws and pixes that are currently available.\n|xaxis||Makes axis for plots -- automatically created by xgraph.|\n|xcell||Similar to xview, but specialized for compartmental cell display.|\n|xcoredraw||The core class from which other draw widgets are subclassed.|\n|xdraw||Main object class for the display of pixes, with transforms.|\n|xdumbdraw||Simple example window for the display of pixes.|\n|xfastplot||High-speed graphic display similar to an oscilloscope|\n|xgif||Draws GIF format images as a pix inside a draw.|\n|xgraph||Specialized draw widget for the display of plots.|\n|xpix||Basic object for drawing graphical objects (pixes) in 3-D space.|\n|xplot||Displays plots within a graph -- created by messages to xgraph.|\n|xshape||Pix used for drawing shapes -- often used for icons.|\n|xsphere||Example pix which draws a filled circle.|\n|xtree||Displays and manipulates elements and their messages.|\n|xvar||Uses shapes to display numerical values with color, size, etc.|\n|xview||Like an array of xvars, displaying multiple points in 3-D space.|\nWhen a form is first created, it is not visible. GENESIS has several commands affecting the display of forms. Other commands are specific to certain XODUS widgets. The table below lists the commands used with XODUS.\n|pixflags||Alias for xpixflags.|\n|setpostscript||Alias for xps.|\n|xcolorscale||Sets the color scale for mapping numerical values to color.|\n|xflushevents||Forces XODUS to go through the queue of pending events.|\n|xgetstat||Returns 0 if XODUS has not been initialized.|\n|xhide||Hides a form and its contents.|\n|xinit||No longer necessary in GENESIS 2 (does nothing).|\n|xlower||Moves a form below any other forms or windows.|\n|xmap||Like xshow, but does not put form on top if it is not hidden.|\n|xpixflags||Describes set of flags which determine properties of pixes.|\n|xps||Sets parameters for postscript output of widgets.|\n|xraise||Moves a form on top of any other forms or windows.|\n|xshow||Shows (displays) a form and its contents.|\n|xshowontop||Alias for xshow (for backwards compatibility).|\n|xsimplot||Plots data from a file to a graph.|\n|xtextload||Loads muliple lines of text into a text widget.|\n|xupdate||Forces an update of the display of pixes within a draw.|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "by Loreena Thiessen\nWhich is your favourite cookie? Oreos? Chocolate chip? Peanut butter?\nWould you eat only cookies if you could? All day? Every day?\nWhat would happen if you did? Your body would feel unbalanced. You would need something more.\nTo be balanced means to have the right amount of different things. Your body needs a balance of different foods, fruits, vegetables, protein, grains, and dairy, like milk or yogurt. Together these foods have what your body needs to be healthy and grow.\nTo be your best you need balance in everything you do. In one day you play some of the time. You stop to eat lunch and supper. You need time to clean up, to get dressed and walk to school. You need time to do your homework, and get your chores done, perhaps clear the supper dishes and load the dishwasher. You can’t do only one thing. To be your best you must balance your time and your activities.\nYou can find balance all around you. Every morning the sun comes up, the sky gets brighter and birds begin to sing. And each evening the sun sets, the sky darkens and the birds grow silent. The balance of night and day is a pattern, day follows night and night follows day.\nSeasons follow a pattern too. Cold weather follows warm. After summer there’s fall, then winter and spring, and once again the warm summer.\nIt’s easy to see pattern in flowers. Take the daisy. Its white petals grow in a circle around a yellow centre. The petals of the sunflower circle a bed of seeds like the rays of the sun. The rosebud’s petals fold around each other to form a tight round ball.\nTake a look at the houses on your street. Do they have a tall pointed roof or a low roof? Do any have a chimney? Are their windows the same? How many have a garage? Are they attached or separate? Look at the cars driving on the street, or parked at the curb. Are they the same or different? Are they different colors or are they pretty much the same?\nThere’s a pattern to how we connect with each other. When you say “Hi!” to someone, usually that person says “Hi!” right back. When you smile at someone they smile too.\nNumbers have patterns too. Count by tens and each number ends the same: 10, 20, 30; 13, 23, 33, and so on.\nLanguages have patterns. In an English sentence the subject, the thing you are talking about, comes first, followed by the verb or the action. For example, a dog barks.\nA pattern is a repetition, something that happens in the same way again and again. Patterns are all around you. They make you feel balanced. It’s easier to go to bed at night when it’s dark outside. You know the sun will be back in the morning. You expect it. You feel there is order. You can predict it will happen again tomorrow.\nGod created the earth to have order so we can live on it. He created the sun to give energy to all living things. He created food in the form of plants and animals for all living beings. And he created water for without water there is no life.\nRead Genesis 1:1-24 and Isaiah 45:18.\nActivity: Find pattern in nature.\nNeed: One head of broccoli, one blooming geranium plant, a pine tree.\nDo: Remove one small part of the broccoli. Is its shape similar to that of the whole head?\nLook at the flower of the geranium. Do the tiny flowers, in shape and colour, imitate the large bloom?\nExamine a pine branch. Is it similar to the shape of the whole tree? Does it look like a miniature pine tree?\nThese are examples of patterns in nature where the parts imitate the whole thing. In science this is called self-similar structure, or a fractal.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A report is a business tool used to convey research, findings and recommendations. A mini report is a condensed version of a report. It is used in a number of business cases. For example, a mini report can be used when frequent updates about a project are being made to superiors or when the reader of the report only requires a short summary of the matter at hand. Mini reports are also used when a full recap of the research is not required for the reader in order to understand the main objectives.\nA mini report needs to have one clear goal. Don’t try to convey too much information in a mini report because it can get convoluted and confusing. Identify the main point you want to communicate to the reader and extrapolate that in the mini report.\nState the main objective of your mini report in the heading so that it’s clear to the reader what the mini report will discuss. For example, if the mini report is about the success metrics of a recent marketing campaign, the heading can be “marketing campaign KPIs and recommendations.”\nWhile a full report may have research and data on corresponding elements of the main subject, a mini report should only provide directly relevant information. As mini reports are used to summarize information or provide key details in a short amount of time, it’s best to only include information that is directly related to the main goal of the report.\nFor example, if the mini report focuses on customer feedback for your store for the last 30 days, don’t include data that pertain to the last 12 months. Instead, stick to what is relevant for this mini report, which is the 30 days of data.\nA mini report should be written using clear language. Avoid using overly technical words or industry jargon in your mini report because it can distract the reader from understanding the key points you’re trying to communicate. Instead, focus on telling the reader the main findings and recommendations using plain language.\nSince mini reports are often used when the reader is short on time and isn’t able to review the full scope of information, it’s appropriate to use bullet points in your mini report. This makes it easy for the reader to scan the information quickly and understand the key elements in a shorter amount of time as compared to reading full paragraphs.\nIn business, you may be required to provide a mini report along with your colleagues or team members. A group report example is a sales update for the last week by each sales representative. If multiple people are working on a report together, be sure to review the full mini report to ensure the same tone and language is being used throughout. This not only makes it easier to read, but it also appears more professional.\nMini reports should include a section on resources or other documents the readers may want to consult after reading the mini report. This way, if the readers require further details or more information on the research and findings, they know where they can find additional materials.\nThis is where you can include data that are indirectly related or research material that is relevant but not required to fully understand the main point of the mini report. A report example for students may include a reference section for materials consulted while writing the mini report, while a report example for business employees may include links to previous mini reports or data from previous studies.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "When you read text on your computer monitor, do the fonts seem . . . grainy? Do the edges of the letters appear ragged? Especially italicized text?\nClick the “Start” button (on the task bar at the bottom left of your screen).\nHover over “Settings” and click “Control Panel”\nDouble Click “Display”\nClick the “Appearance” Tab (the fourth tabbed page)\nClick “Effects . . . ” (at the bottom right of the menu)\nUnder the second check mark, labeled: “Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts:” Click the drop down arrow and select “ClearType” instead of “Standard”\nClick “OK” (NOT cancel or the red “X” in the top right corner)\nClick “Apply” (at the bottom right of the menu)\nVISTA USERS: Clear Type is enabled by default on Windows Vista.\nTo Find the Option:\nRight Click Anywhere on Your Desktop (away from any icons)\nClick “Personalize” on the menu when it appears.\nClick “Windows Color and Appearance”\nClick “open classic appearance properties for more color”\nClick the “Effects” button\nUnder “use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts” Click the Arrow to the Right of the Box and Select Either “standard” or “cleartype”\nClick OK, then OK again and then Close the personalization window", "label": "No"}
{"text": "There is currently no effective cure for the common cold or flu.\nThe best you can do is to treat the symptoms of both, to reduce the severity of any attack, and to shorten the time for which you need to suffer.\nSeveral over-the-counter remedies are available for colds and flu, but before turning to these, there are a number of self-help measures you can take that will certainly help.\nTable of Contents\nThe Natural Approach to Treating Colds and Flu\nGet plenty of rest.\nWhen a cold or flu takes hold, your body’s natural reaction is to fight it, and a battle commences within your immune system.\nThis fight can put a considerable strain on your body, and you can help by getting as much rest as you can during the early stages of any attack. Trying to push on through a cold or flu attack might seem like the best thing to do, but it actually makes matters worse.\nBlow your nose.\nOne common effect of a cold is that the body produces excess mucus and, all too often, you are tempted to sniffle this back into your system, rather than blow it out through your nose. This mucus however needs to be cleared from the body and blowing your nose is far more effective than sniffling.\nBut there is a right way and a wrong way to blow your nose, and blowing hard out of both nostrils at the same time can leave you with a sore nose, and possibly earache as well. To blow your nose, use a finger to close one nostril while you blow out gently through the other. Then, repeat this for the other nostril.\nGargling will keep your throat moist and help relieve that annoying tickle and cough which so often accompanies the sore throat a cold or flu inevitably brings with it.\nTo simply keep your sore throat moist, dissolve a little salt in warm water and gargle with it four or five times each day. To reduce that tickle in the throat, gargle with an astringent, such as tea, or use a viscous gargle, such as that made from a mixture of honey and apple cider vinegar.\nDrink plenty of hot liquids\nIt is very important that you keep your body well hydrated while you are fighting off a cold or the flu, but simply drinking plenty of water to do this is not as effective as taking liquid in the form of frequent hot drinks. Hot liquids are excellent for soothing inflamed membranes in both your throat and nose, and also help to relieve nasal congestion.\nAll of these self-help measures will go some way towards reducing the severity of your cold and flu symptoms and speed your recover, but you will need to do a little bit more than this. The next thing to turn your attention to is your diet.\nIt is often said that your should feed a cold and starve a fever, however, this is incorrect. Illness often leads to a loss of appetite, but in many cases, including those of a cold or flu, you need to eat so that your body has the fuel it needs to fight off these conditions.\nCold and Flu Fighting Foods\nChicken soup is an old favorite when it comes to relieving the symptoms of colds and flu and there are very good, and scientific, reasons for this. It scores of course simply by being a hot liquid, but more than this, it reduces inflammation in both the throat and nasal passages, and improves the ability of cilia, contained within the nasal passages, to fight off bacterial and viral infections.\nOne of the best foods for a cold or the flu is a salad, but there is a good chance that you are not going to feel much like standing in the kitchen for long enough to make yourself a good bowl of salad.\nA quick and easy alternative is to turn to a glass of vegetable juice. This will not only help to keep you hydrated, but it contains a wealth of antioxidants that will boost your immune system.\nThe humble banana is another quick and easy food item, and is especially good if the effects of your cold or flu have reached your stomach, and you have symptoms of nausea or are experiencing diarrhea. Bananas, together with rice, toast and apple sauce are easy on the stomach, and are often the first foods that doctors will recommend when you are recovering from stomach flu.\nGinger is another excellent food for tackling the problems of nausea or a stomachache, frequently associated with the flu.\nGinger will calm your stomach and help to fight inflammation, and it can be added to other foods, either freshly grated or as a powder. If you do not like eating ginger, then simply take it in liquid form by drinking flat ginger ale.\nGarlic is not everyone’s favorite food item, but it will fight off bacterial infection and help to stimulate your immune system.\nIt has also been shown to produce relief for the congestion of colds and flu. If you do not like the taste of garlic, try adding just a little to other foods, such as soup.\nSelf-help remedies and a good diet are an excellent start to reducing the severity of a cold or flu attack, and they should certainly be your first line of defense.\nTo have a real impact on your symptoms however you may need to add some over-the-counter medication into the mix.\nColds and flu are simply part of life and, until a cure can be found, we must learn to live with them.\nHowever, while a severe case of either can certainly be very unpleasant, most cases are relatively mild and do not debilitate us too much.\nA little self-help, a good diet, and perhaps a bit of over-the-counter medication, will usually produce a noticeable reducing in the your symptoms, and thus in your suffering.\nHealth by choice, not by chance.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "- The Meshech Chochma explains that these days were chosen because nobody was fighting on these days, and the Jews could commemorate Purim by focusing on the miracle rather than on death.\n- In Darash Moshe, R’ Moshe Feinstein, explains that the verse repeats the dates of the holiday because Adar 14th was an extra day for which Esther had to ask. The Jewish people wanted it to always be remembered that their success was due to their trust in their leaders and prophets.\n- The Ben Ish Chai notes that the mispar katan of Haman (9+5=14) is the same as the date of the first day of Purim, and the mispar katan of Amalek (7+4+3+1=15) is the same as the date of the second day of Purim.\nR’ Dovid Feinstein writes that Haman asked advice of these people who like him because he trusted them, even if they were not the wisest.\n- The Malbim points out how this verse shows how selfless Esther was. According to him, what Esther was saying was that, if she is punished for approaching the king, at least only she will die – and the rest of the Jews will remain.\n- The Talmud (Megillah 15a) writes that Esther’s repeating “I will be destroyed” means that, just as she lost her father by being orphaned, so is she expecting to lose to her relationship to Mordechai through this act.\n- R’ Henach Leibowitz explains the Talmud’s use of the phrase “my father’s house” that one of our duties in life is to utilize our past experiences to further our personal growth. He continues that an orphan, like Esther, should use the loss of their parents to reawaken the feeling of trust in H-Shem that orphan had when still with parents.\n- R’ Moshe Dovid Valle writes that Esther used this phrase to indicate that she knew she would be disappointing one king or another – either Achashverosh or the King of kings. Either way, she was concerned she would be losing one king.\n- R’ Shimon Schwab wonders why Esther is concerned about losing her husband if she is anyway using a sheid to get out of relations with Achashverosh. He explains that the demon was created miraculously in reward for her resisting the gentile king. Such a miracle would not occur once she submits to him.\n- R’ David Forman writes in The Queen You Thought You Knew that there is a parallel verse in the Torah where the word ka’asher is followed by a double-verb. When Yaakov allows his sons to bring Binyamin to Mitzrayim he says, “ka’asher shakolti, shakolti” (“as I am mourning, so I am mourning”) (Bireishis 33:14). The parallel phrasing also parallels similar situations of national strife; Just as there, friction between Jews caused the threat on Jewish existence, and peace between Jews would bring their redemption.\n- Class participant RS pointed out another parallel in the fact that Esther descends from King Shaul, who was from the tribe of Binyamin.\nה וַתִּקְרָא אֶסְתֵּר לַהֲתָךְ מִסָּרִיסֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ אֲשֶׁר הֶעֱמִיד לְפָנֶיהָ וַתְּצַוֵּהוּ עַל–מָרְדֳּכָי לָדַעַת מַה–זֶּה וְעַל–מַה–זֶּה\n5. And Esther called to Hasach from the chamberlains of the king who stood before him, and she commanded him on Mordechai to know what is this and why is this.\n- According to both the Alshich and Malbim, whoever Hasach was, he was obviously someone trustworthy.\n- The Maharsha adds that he must have been wise, discreet, and Jewish.\n- Perhaps for this reason, the Talmud (Megillah 15a) says that he was the prophet, Daniel. After all he should have been alive at this time, and fits all of these criteria. The Talmud (ibid.) suggests that the name, Hasach, may also be related to “hesech” (“decision making”). It also suggests that the name, Hasach, may be related to “his’chuhu” (“cutting down”) because the prophet, Daniel, was demoted. At first, Nevuchadnezzer “made Daniel great…ruler over the whole province” (Daniel 2:48). Then, at the time of Balshazzar, he only had the power to “rule as a third in the kingdom” (Daniel 5:29). Then, under Darius I, Daniel merely “prospered,” with no mention of power or prestige (Daniel 6:29). Now, under Achashverosh, he is not even mentioned by name. Finally, under Darius II, Daniel went back to the level where he could have “prophesied” (Megillah 15a). Why did Daniel suffer such a steep fall from grace? According to the Talmud (Baba Basra 4a), Daniel gave Nevuchadnezzer advice to give charity. This kind act allowed the tyrannical Nevuchadnezzer to merit living an entire year more, causing countless deaths. Sometimes tragedy results from the best of intentions.\n- The Meshech Chochmo points out that Daniel’s earlier greatness was achieved in the eyes of the Jews from the fact that he was willing to give up his life for H-Shem. At this point, however, during this time of intense teshuvah, Daniel was no longer the only Jew willing to give up life. Therefore, he was not considered as great anymore in Jews’ esteem. The\n- M’nos HaLevi writes that Daniel changed his own name to Hasach because Daniel (4+50+10+1+30=95) has the same gematria as Haman (5+40+50=95).\n- Interestingly, the difference in gematria between Hasach (5+400+20=425) and Daniel ((4+50+10+1+30=95) is 330, the gematria of “saris” (60+200+10+60=330) (“chamberlain”), his current position.\n- Ginzei HaMelech points out that it is most appropriate that Hasach is a Jew, as this leads to a renewed trust in hashgacha pratis (H-Shem’s individual concern for all) in that a Jew saved Jews.\nי וַיָּסַר הַמֶּלֶךְ אֶת–טַבַּעְתּוֹ מֵעַל יָדוֹ וַיִּתְּנָהּ לְהָמָן בֶּן–הַמְּדָתָא הָאֲגָגִי צֹרֵר הַיְּהוּדִים\n10. And the king removed his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman son of Hamdasa the Aggagite, enemy of the Yehudim.\n- According to M’nos HaLevi, the significance of Achashverosh giving Haman his ring is a sign that he consents to an agreement with Haman.\n- The Midrash here (Esther Rabbah 7:20) that Achashverosh hates the Jews more than Haman. After all, “the custom of the world is for the buyer to give a pledge to the seller. But here, the seller [Achashverosh] is giving the pledge [the ring].”\n- The Alshich writes therefore, that this giving of the ring is a legal transaction indicating an acceptance of Haman’s offer, an amount Haman is not likely to be carrying with him.\n- The Megillas Sesarim writes the ring means Achashverosh is giving Haman full authority to do anything he likes.\n- The Talmud (Megillah 14a) writes that the removal of the ring was stronger than forty prophets and seven prophetesses. None of them could encourage the Jews to repent as much as this one act. The Jews seemingly do not repent en mass until their very survival is threatened. R’ Mendel Weinbach says that this act is particularly frightening for the Jews because they know Achashverosh is capricious, and is famous for changing his mind. Once he gives authority to Haman, though, the Jews realize that they are in serious danger.\n- The Bircas Chaim asks why, when Mordechai is elevated to Haman’s position (Esther 8:2), does Achashverosh immediately give Mordechai his ring? In contrast with Mordechai at that point, Achashverosh does not trust Haman. However, now that Haman is willing to give this great amount of silver to the government, Achashverosh is under the mistaken impression that he is patriotic.\n- In Pachad Yitzchak, Rav Yitzchak Hutner wonders why the Talmud calls this incident the “removal of the ring” when it is Haman’s desire to kill the Jews which should be the focus. In response, he writes that whenever the descendants of Eisav or Yaakov prosper, the descendants of the other fall (see Rashi to Bereishis 25:23). Therefore, Achashverosh’s raising up of Haman necessitates a corresponding lessening of the Jews in the esteem of the king.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Conduct your own Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence!\nSee locations of planets that might harbor life from your own back yard and without a telescope.\nAstronomers at Windowpane Observatory have assembled a scientific kit for amateur astronomers to attempt to locate and contact extraterrestrials.\nThe Hubble Space Telescope has positively identified over 200 planets orbiting around stars similar to our own sun. This ET Planet Finder Kit gives you the coordinates of all those stars and planets.\nWe have prepared a special star chart that plots the brightest of these, which you can see in the night sky, even without a telescope. An audio CD helps you find their exact location from your own back yard and explores what kind of life might exist out there.\nThe Extraterrestrial Planet Finder Kit contains:\nFull color star chart\nListen to an audio sample\nExcellent gift for all ages.\nFun & easy!\nAvailable on CD or mp3 download.\nTrack 1: Searching for ETs\nTrack 2: The Red Flashlight\nTrack 3: The Planets\nTrack 4: Starhopping Indoors\nTrack 5: Starhopping Outdoors\nTrack 6: What Might Be Out There?\nComplete kit $19.95", "label": "No"}
{"text": "StudyJams is an animated site which has over 200 Maths and Science ‘Jams’ to use in your classroom. The Jams include karaoke songs which you can sing along to and cartoons which teach different concepts. They are all explained clearly with images and animations to help pupils to remember the topics. There are also related tests and key vocabulary which link with each Jam.\nSome of the spellings are American, but this is still a really valuable resource for teachers in other countries too. Visit the site at studyjams.scholastic.com.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Background research worksheet book selection: the red umbrella author: christina diaz gonzalez instructions: for each question, respond in one or more paragraphs of at least four complete sentences include supporting facts and details from your research in each response. In microsoft excel, you can use a picture as a sheet background for display purposes only a sheet background is not printed, and it is not retained in an individual worksheet or in an item that you save as a web page. When embarking on a research program, you need to set long-term goals and figure out what needs to be done now to achieve them if you're ready to start making a 3 to 5 year plan for your research program, here are several methods adapted from the early career workshop activities.\nSecond grade plant life 2 weeks lesson plans and activities math/science nucleus ©1990,2000 2 life cycle water which contains all the essential minerals and food the plant needs to live the worksheet crayons background. Background research plan worksheet name: _____ 1 what is the question you are going try to answer with an experiment 2 list the keywords and phrases from your question and the topic in general (hint: use an encyclopedia to help you. Worksheet for researching occupations - page 1 of 4 - 7/13/2005 worksheet for researching occupations gathering information is a critical step in making an effective career decision make a copy of this worksheet for each occupation that you are considering read about how to research.\nUse the priorities worksheet to list current goals, challenges, issues, areas of concern, or opportunities, in order of decreasing priority to you these can be personal goals, work goals, career goals, or a mix. The schedule provides seven days to complete any research and outline aid worksheets you need for your novel there is no day-to-day breakdown of the schedule for this stage. Quality improvement or research worksheet rachel nosowsky, esq seq issue and guidance rating 1 are patients randomized into different intervention groups in order to enhance confidence in differences that might be obscured by.\nResearch background to put that in perspective, if we were somehow able to breath water, we would need to take about 450 breaths per minute just to get enough oxygen into our lungs people have been thinking about how humans could breath underwater for quite some time (just think of the military implications). Meet the queen of chimpanzee research, jane goodall is a scientist who has devoted her life to studying animals in the wild, most notably chimpanzees for kids who love animals, this worksheet should spark an interest in research and recording, and maybe a lifetime of love for science. Research definition research is a careful and detailed study into a specific problem, concern, or issue using the scientific method it's the adult form of the science fair projects back in. Free worksheets and printables for kids worksheets are a great way to give your child some extra skills practice, introduce them to new concepts and ideas, and track they’re growth as they travel along their educational journey.\nWilliams-queen, ashley, life challenges among ex-offenders:a needs assessment (2014)electronic theses, projects, and dissertationspaper 19 chapter one in the first section, background information about the problems ex-offenders experience are explored section two covers the purpose of the the purpose of this research study is to. Background research is necessary so that you know how to design and understand your experiment to make a background research plan —a roadmap of the research questions you need to answer—follow. Science fair background research report topic, but you should try to set up the need for your experiment pretend you are trying to convince mrs elsissy that your experiment is needed and that you should get paid to do it for example: science fair background report author. Teacher's guide to science projects 3 projects are not just feel-good exercises we know that you are most likely under pressure to background research plan worksheet 2 bibliography worksheet 4 part ii: write a research paper 1 research paper 2 research paper checklist 5. Insert a printable background image in excel: with kutools for excel ’s insert watermark utility, you can quickly insert the backgroud image or text into the active worksheet, and the background can be printed as well as you need.\nA ready-to-use worksheet for students to use for background research this is an aid for students to record basic information for historical events, people, places and movements. Lesson plans & worksheets grades 3 - 5 paws in jobland: lesson & worksheet 8 - job talk students research a job of their choice and give a talk about it lesson & worksheet 9 - top of the jobs background: how the worksheet relates to paws in jobland each worksheet expands on ideas in the program to demonstrate how. Design step 2: research the problem quick look grade level: 9 (9-12) 2 worksheets of the following four, review an example idea web with the students to illustrate how to start thinking about what background research they need to conduct have student teams each create an idea web of the design challenge. Goal setting: a fresh perspective allow accurate forecasting of resource needs, foster the efficient use of those resources, an d avoid costly stops, starts, and changes in direction rigorous analysis of research conducted over 30 years with 17 million employees, gallup identified.\nSamples, forms, and worksheets compliments of mountainside md press and conducting clinical research 5 budgeting by activity worksheet this budget example, from an uncomplicated pneumonia study, is broken. Key info background research is necessary so that you know how to design and understand your experiment to make a background research plan — a roadmap of the research questions you need to answer — follow these steps: identify the keywords in the question for your science fair project. Need and background research worksheet filed under: essays tagged with: research 1 page, 306 words for each question, respond in one or more paragraphs of at least four complete sentences include supporting facts and details from your research in each response provide the sources for your supporting research. Research lesson plans and worksheets from thousands of teacher-reviewed resources to help you inspire students learning research teacher resources groups are assigned one of the six main themes (included) each group has an outline to guide research but will need an assignment guide consider supplementing the get free access see.\nThe penn online research tutorial (port) site was built with old software that is neither sustainable nor secure the pages have not been maintained, but they can be consulted for historical reference on the internet archive. E g benedict’s ambulance activity—guided background research worksheet answer key 1 1 define the following words or phrases and use them each in a sentence that shows understanding. Parts 1 and 2 of this worksheet this assignment is the first step in writing your final essay assignment, due in week 5. To further research 18008755029 wwwneedorg manassas, va 20110 18008755029 wwwneedorg 3 wonders of magnets table of contents ¡ standards correlation statement 4 ¡ teacher guide 5 ¡ materials needed 5 ¡ masters ¡magnetic fields of force 9 ¡earth’s magnetic field 10 6 wonders of magnets background information: magnets and.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "On \"Dream Song 1\"\nOn the first page of the first dream song we read, stanza 3:\nWhat he has now to say is a long\nwonder the world can bear & be.\nOnce in a sycamore I was glad\nall at the top, and I sang.\nHard on the land wears the strong sea\nand empty grows every bed.\nThree voices, two lines each, speaking in one stanza. The first voice is objective, the poet introducing his character, giving the gist of his theme. The second voice may be received as Henry's voice, recalling the good times, sycamores and songs. But the third voice is different from either; it is generic, representative, apocalyptic, Mankind rather than any particular man, Henry or J. B. or anyone else. In this third voice the feeling is universal rather than local; it is consistent with the first and second voices, but distinct, as if its experience were the history of the world rather than the fate of a man. It is my understanding that these three voices are nearly as many as the poet requires for his long poem: the unidentified friend who addresses Henry occasionally as Mr. Bones uses an AI Jolson voice and a chocolate idiom to admonish his white American friend, but beyond that degree he is hardly distinguished from any other figure, silent, sympathetic, watchful. So the three voices are nearly enough.\nfrom Art International 13, no. 3 (March 20, 1969)\nJoel Conarroe (1977)\nThe stanzas are self-contained, but the rhythms are more complex, and the norm on which the variations are played is the fourrather than fivestress line. The sound pattern is also more subtle, the strong regular rhymes (day-away, thought-ought, etc.) partly obscuring the less obtrusive slant rhymes (sulked-talked, long-sang, glad-bed).\nWith its alliterative opening phrase followed by a caesura the first line resembles Anglo-Saxon verse. except that the half line following the pause fails to repeat the pattern of the first half. It is clear that the repetition of the \"h\" sound is meant to underscore the implications of \"huffy.\" The pause. however. where one would logically expect a preposition, such as \"throughout,\" thus making a conventional five-stress line, lets the reader know immediately that he must collaborate actively, must suspend his expectations and learn to hear Henry's music. After the comically alliterative expression of persecution (\"the thought that they thought\"), Henry describes himself (the \"I\" and \"his\" being the same person) as \"wicked & away.\" This odd phrase, totally unexpected, is quintessential Berryman, the sort of thing that accounts, at least in part, for the charm of Henry's lengthy lamentation.\nThe transition between the first stanza and the second is implicit rather than obvious: we immediately discover why Henry is in such a rotten mood. The world was once on his side, like a woolen lover, which suggests someone wrapped in a warm blanket, sharing Henry's side of the bed (and the empty bed emerges explicitly at the song's end). Following the departure, and the ensuing disappointment, Henry introduces the image of being \"pried open.\" There are several possible interpretations for this phrase. It suggests, for one thing, an oyster, pried open for its pearland \"all the world\" was Henry's oyster once. (In number 25 he is referred to as \"valved.\") It also suggests the scene of number 91 in which, like Lazarus, Henry is dug up from a grave. And \"pried open\" implies, in addition, an operation, a reading that takes on added resonance when we come to number 67, in which Henry conducts operations of great delicacy on his own body. (In number 8, another hospital poem, \"they lifted off / his covers till he showed, and cringed & pled.\") The word \"pry\" also hints at secrets, knowledge of intimate details, and as a poet Henry has been, and still is, on display, his \"pride\" in his \"long wonder\" subject to the world's scrutiny. The world, however, no longer a single lover, is now a manipulative, impersonal \"they.\"\nWhile in stanza two Henry does not understand how he survived, he introduces in the final stanza an elegiac lament for past happinessthe memory of what has been and never more will bewhen he sang like a bird in a tree. This image, which derives from references in the Sonnets to the sycamore outside Lise's house (and which may also allude to Zacchaeus in a tree, watching Christ pass), is picked up in the final song in the first book: \"The glories of the world struck me, made me aria, once,\" and later, in number 352, \"He sang on like a harmful bird,\" as well as elsewhere. The concluding lines have considerable power. In the course of the songs we come to associate the sea both with Berryman's mother (and birth) and with his father (and death). In this case the \"empty bed,\" following the sexual pun in \"hard on,\" looks back specifically to the departed woolen lover as well as generally to attrition (the sea wearing down the land) and to loss through death. Moreover, the movement from the singing bird to the empty bed is related to the image in number 68 of Pinetop and Charlie (Bird) Parker playing the \"'Empty Bed\" blues.\nThis song, putting forth images of a man sulking alone (like Achilles when his bedmate has been taken from him), of a woolen lover, of a prying open, a sycamore, and finally of the sea and an empty bed, introduces its symbols with the associational logic of a dream. It is helpful when reading the songs to remember that dreams (including nightmares), on which so many of them are modelled, are mysterious, that they tend to lack coherent transitions, and that their symbols are often grotesquely distorted. To explain away particularly difficult passages, however, by saying that dreams are, after all, inscrutable, would be to give up our critical and imaginative prerogatives too easily. Dreams (and songs, and poets) can be analyzed, if not always definitively, then at least suggestively. Moreover, there are a great many songs (the one describing Pound at Eliot's funeral, for example) that have nothing to do with dreams. A few, some quite wonderful (101, 317), are apparently transcriptions of dreams, but these are out-numbered by those in which dreamwork, if involved at all, comprises only one facet of the song.\nThe caesura in line one, the ampersand in line five (\"wicked & away\"), the complex interlacing of rhymes, the repeated word (\"Henry\" is named five times in eleven lines), and the images picked up in other songs are all strategies that Berryman employs throughout the book.\nfrom John Berryman: An Introduction to the Poetry. Copyright © 1977 by Columbia UP.\nLouise Glück (1994)\nImplicit in the idea of the lyric is the single voice. Berrymans primary disruption of the lyric is the fracturing of voice. From poem to poem the paradigm varies: minstrel shows, schizophrenia, psychoanalysis, But always one persona taking over for another, taking the stage: these are noisy poems shattered, voluble, fragmented, desperate, dramatic, futile. The intense purpose characteristic of the lyric becomes, in Berryman, intense cross-purposes.\nThe poem begins with two lines of report: our speaker is someone who knows Henry from the outside (\"huffy\" being descriptive of behavior) and from the inside (\"Unappeasable\"). Reasonable, then, to presume that the central figure with a curious detachment that contains the internalized perpetual reproach of a parent here describes himself. If Henry, in lines one and two, is the speaker, the guiding or prevailing intelligence, then who is the \"I\" of line three? Friendly to the cause, adult, capable of entertaining several ideas at once (\"his point\" suggests the many other angles already considered). A reader encountering the first person tends to identify that pronoun with a poems central intelligence. But the problem in The Dream Songs, the drama of the poems, is the absence of a firm self.\n[T]he ruminative tone of the third line suggests that its commentary may go on. In fact, it doesnt: the \"I\" is immediately absorbed into the intimate childish rancors of lines four and five. \"Do it\" means do to: it is all things done to Henry against Henrys unknown, unknowable best interests. The very idea, which is actually Henrys, that others have such power is enough to send Henry into violent hiding. The power is vague because its agents are hazy. What exists is a sense of victimization, of jeopardy, but it is never particularly explicit. In fact, so well does Henry hide himself that, ultimately, he cant find where he is either.\n.The last line of the first stanza is the line of fate: he should have. He didnt. Spoken by the mother, her head shaking sadly.\nBut theres a surprising turn in stanza three, surprising and heartbreaking. Who says \"Once in a sycamore I was glad / all at the top, and I sang\"? This is an \"I\" different from the \"I\" of stanza one, who sees. Or the \"I\" of stanza two, who doesnt see. This is engagement, not commentary. This is a whole being, in behavior spontaneous, Henry-like, but in tone, calm. The Dream Songs search for such wholeness.\nFrom Louise Glück, \"Disruption, Hesitation, Silence\" in Proofs & Theories (New York: Ecco, 1994), 77-78. Copyright 1994 by Louis Gluck\nReturn to John Berryman", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities\nWorld Explorers: A Math Hunt Activity\nIn this learning activity, students explore exciting lands, searching for clues to help them solve five challenging math-related questions.\n- Grades: 3–5, 6–8\nIn “World Explorers” (grades 5–8), an online learning activity from Scholastic’s Math Hunt series, students set off on a fact-finding expedition to answer five math problems about Lewis and Clark, treks to the Missouri River and Mexico City, and other explorations.\nIn addition to challenging students’ reading comprehension skills, “World Explorers” tests these “math hunting” skills:\n- Algebraic Expressions\n- Converting Units of Measurement\n- Fractions: Writing and Reducing Fractions\n- Numerical Sequences: Calculating with Negative Numbers\nIf the explorers had to manage with President Jefferson's initial budget, about how much could Lewis and Clark spend per month without going broke? The expedition lasted from June 1803 to September 1806.\nBy participating in Math Hunt, students will:\n- Practice problem-solving skills from the grade 5-8 math curriculum\n- Explore topics from the grades 5-8 science and social studies curriculum\n- Learn basic Internet research skills\n- Develop an understanding of the construction of standardized test questions and multiple-choice answers", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What you’ll learn\nComputer Vision with OpenCV\nDeploying Object Detection Model as Flask Web app\nUsing Pre-trained Machine Learning Models\nPython Project Development\nTraining using Tensorflow\nBeginner Knowledge of Python\nDetecting Objects and finding out their names from images is a very challenging and interesting field of Computer Vision.\nThe core science behind Self Driving Cars, Image Captioning and Robotics lies in Object Detection.\nIn this course, you are going to build a Object Detection Model from Scratch using Python’s OpenCV library using Pre-Trained Coco Dataset.\nThe model will be deployed as an Web App using Flask Framework of Python.\nTECHNOLOGIES & TOOLS USED\n- Machine Learning\n- Deep Learning\n- Transfer Learning\nWho this course is for:\n- Beginners who are curious about Object Detection\n- Beginners who are curious about Computer Vision\n- Python Developers\n- Computer Vision enthusiasts", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Narrative essays are a popular type of academic writingboth high school and college students write loads of them these essays show your creativity, character, and ability to tell a compelling story. What makes a narrative essay unique is your story, voice, and writing style the best way to meet teacher's requirements & grading rubric is to order a quick academic help from essaypro scroll down and find some great narrative essay topics for college students. In personal narrative essay always on this theme dwell on the situation offering you to try yourself in a new role revealing your first emotions of this opportunity tell how you managed to succeed in this role. A narrative's thesis statement is not exactly like the thesis statements used in argumentative or analytical essays the thesis statement for a narrative essay does not necessarily need to.\nLike any other essay, writing a narrative essay comes with an essay topic prompt this serves as the guide of students in how to compose their paper as with an opinion essay , there are no wrong answers with a narrative essay however, some teachers get disappointed with the papers they. 100% free papers on narrative essay sample topics, paragraph introduction help, research & more class 1-12, high school & college. Narrative essay topics for college students in various institutions of learning, writing an essay is a crucial part of the curriculum in some cases, it represents a quarter of your total grade. Ideas for descriptive essay descriptive essays may be difficult when you don't have any idea what to write about if you are in search of the topic that would be worth exploring, pay attention to the little prompts presented for you in this article.\nHow to choose a narrative essay topic choosing an interesting topic and thinking over short story ideas is particularly important you should always remember that even a tiny event or incident could serve a plot for an interesting narrative story the point is that it should convey a meaning it should. Narrative essay is commonly confused with the descriptive one this article will lead you through all necessary steps and help you write a successful your potential theme should be interesting for both you and your audience the topic of the narrative essay usually refers to the writer's experience and. Unique narrative essay topics are earth-shattering indeed, the importance of your narrative essay rubric is astoundingly important even the greatest piece of writing will reside unnoticed if it has a poor topic and title.\nInteresting narrative essay ideas narrative essays consist of your own ideas, thoughts and beliefs written down in essay format these essays can sometimes be more difficult than we'd like to admit which is why many times we're hiring others to writer our papers for us. Like this page narrative essay topics and story ideas a narrative essay is a journey through time write about a time when you benefitted from following directions some people are just looking for a reason to not like you. Top 40 personal narrative essay topics for high school most teachers in the high school begin the academy year by assigning personal narrative essay topics to the students personal essays are nothing but the experience of one's own life and how they look at different things. Smart narrative essay topics sometimes it can be difficult to write really interesting and exciting essay of the good quality writing a narrative essay, you have to follow these options: write an essay on the topic given by the professor or to make your own topic for your narrative essay. Narrative essay topics for college students how to prepare for finals does dignity mean no more than respect for a person's autonomy.\nA narrative essay or speech is used to tell a story, often one that is based on personal experience this genre of work comprises works of nonfiction that hew argumentative: in these essays, the writer makes the case for a specific opinion on a topic, using research and analysis to persuade the reader. Narrative essays are the best when you need to tell a story about unforgettable life experience and describe your personal attitude to some things, events, places, people they are easy to write as there aren't strict rules or restrictions when one day novice writer has to choose narrative essay topics by. A personal narrative essay is a piece set down in text describing an event or sequence of events in the writer's life there are many possible topics for a narrative essay, depending on the audience you are trying to reach.\nNarrative essay topics: the journey 16 on holiday discuss a pleasurable trip you took in which you gained new experiences, met interesting folks, or had your eyes opened to new ideas. The narrative essay makes a point and that point is often defined in the opening sentence, but can also be found as the last sentence in the opening paragraph since a narrative relies on personal experiences, it often is in the form of a story. Narrative essay topics list is what every person will find attractive discover how to write personal pieces of writing, including a story or narration on a set of topics: your life experience, a school day, a memorable place, an impressive event learn how the writer can make a topic eye-catching spending.\nUnlike other essays which may focus on research or argument, the narrative essay relies on carefully crafted details narrative essays take the format of a memoir - they should have a clear beginning, middle, and an end. Narrative essay writing help, ideas, topics, examples as a mode of expository writing, the narrative approach, more than any other, offers writers a essay topic ideas is a free resource that will provide 50 topic suggestions for a narrative essay or speech at least one of these 50 topic suggestions.\nFind the best narrative essay topics and a well written narrative essay example right here before actually choosing a specific topic for your essay keep in mind that you are welcome to tell a story about your own experience, as well as about some fantastic situation that just came to your mind. Writing a narrative essay is an essential talent for field research rather than summing things up for your reader, it presents your experience and allows them to draw their own conclusions the narrative essay makes it point by subtly guiding the reader, rather than battering them the way a. 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{"text": "Every parent wonders when their child is ready to start using kitchen cutters and peelers !\nWe all will have to address a child’s natural interest in the variety of shiny small wares we have in the drawer– because we use peelers, mashers, and cutters in our home kitchens on a regular basis… children will naturally be curious about them.\nParents and caregivers look at that overstuffed utensil drawer as something that fulfills a purely functional purpose. Look at the attached photo – and for a moment try to think like, well– think like a child. Curious, Inquisitive. This looks like a fun location to explore doesn’t it? Kids will naturally look shiney treasures as items that need to be explored. And why not. Play is the work of the child! It’s up to us– as caring adults to teach and to keep them safe.\nBecause we use peelers, mashers, and cutters in our home kitchens on a regular basis, children will naturally be curious about them; parents and caregivers look at that overstuffed utensil drawer as something that fulfills a purely functional purpose. But what does a child see? Given the right equipment and an opportunity to use it correctly, your child will be able to manage peelers, paring knives, and other kitchen gear with surprising dexterity and confidence. However, without the proper training those tools can also be hurtful to small hands.\nWhen making your determinations on what to teach- when, keep in mind every child is different. You should make the decision based on the child’s ability to focus, their desire to learn, and their dexterity. Children that are same age but physically larger will be working on motor skills as oppose to maybe a child who happens to be working on cognitive development. Don’t judge toddlers. Everyone learns at their own pace and ends up at the finish line at the same time anyway. Follow the child’s lead and your…”in the moment teach point” will soon surface.\nChildren 7 to 9 can handle peeling tasks. Guide a small hand with your own hand at first. The more often they hear, “Always peel away from your hands, not toward them,” the better. Have them peel over a paper towel for easy clean up.\nChildren 11 and older are usually ready to begin using a paring knife. While peeling vegetables with length like carrots help keep their hands and the peeler further and further apart from one another. Start this age group put with vegetables that offer a little less resistance and are easier to cut, such as zucchini, potatoes and cucumbers.\nTeens 13 and older can use larger knives and tackle more challenging cutting jobs. Even though these kids show more dexterity keep an eye on them. Usually this age breeds confidence which will lead to increased speed, increased speed which can lead to cuts. A gentle reminder to slow down is often the best way to keep someone on the right road. Always teach the children to make a round surface flat and then cut from there. Example: Round onions- cut in halves, place flat side down on cutting surface and begin cutting from there. Celery, lay on the flat side instead of the curved side.\nMake sure all your knives are very sharp. If by chance (and let’s hope not) someone does get cut a cut from a sharp knife the cut will not be as bad as one from a dull knife.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Dental erosion is a form of tooth wear – where enamel and then dentin is worn down (the other forms, abrasion and attrition are discussed here). It is defined as irreversible damage to the teeth caused from chemicals (usually acids).\nThis acid can come from outside sources (e.g. food and drink) or from inside the body; these are explained below.\nCommon Causes of Erosive Damage\n1. Outside Sources of Acids:\nAcid is present in lots of foods and drinks, e.g.:\n- Fruits and fruit juices, in particular citrus fruits such as oranges and lemons. Common cause in children\n- Sodas/fizzy drinks, including ‘diet’ soft drinks. A major cause!\n- ‘Sports drinks’.\n- Alcohol consumption, including wine and ‘alcopops’.\n- Medicines such as iron supplements and chewable vitamin C.\nRarer sources include factories with acids in the air and chlorine from swimming pools.\n2. Inside Sources of Acid:\nThe acid that causes erosion may also come from stomach fluids inside the body. Acid reflux is where stomach fluids come up towards the throat and mouth. It is often felt as ‘heartburn’ after eating. There are several gastric disorders that can lead to reflux.\nVomiting will also expose the mouth to gastric acid. Frequent episodes of vomiting through illness, alcoholism or eating disorders such as bulimia can cause enamel erosion. Pregnancy may also increase the risk of damage through acid reflux and vomiting associated with morning sickness.\nHow To Prevent Damage\nAs with most types of dental diseases, tooth erosion can usually be prevented. The following tips contain general advice on how to prevent the problem. If you have damage already, you will need to pay particular attention to the causes of it, and avoid what is causing it!\n- Reduce the overall amount of acidic food and drinks you consume. Also limit these to mealtimes only, if you do consume them. This is to reduce the amount of time that your mouth is under acid-attack each day.\n- If taking acidic drinks, best to drink them quickly, again to limit the time your mouth is under attack. Don’t whirl the drink around your mouth or hold the drink in your mouth for long. The use of a straw can help keep the acid away from the teeth better (also good for reducing risk of decay). Chilling acidic drinks also reduces the harm they do.\n- After taking an acidic food or drink; drinking milk, water or rinsing your mouth out with water (or a fluoride mouthwash) can help neutralize the acid quicker.\n- Chewing sugar-free gum after eating can have a similar effect, by increasing saliva flow which helps neutralize acids.\n- Do not brush your teeth immediately after taking acidic foods or drinks. Wait for at least 30 minutes, otherwise you will be increasing damage by brushing when tooth surfaces are ‘softer’ from the chemical attack.\n- The same advice as above applies to what to do after any vomiting episodes. In particular, rinse your mouth out after vomiting but do not brush for at least 30 minutes.\n- Brush your teeth gently twice a day using fluoride toothpaste. Some new formulations of toothpaste are available for enamel repair. Tooth mousse is similar to toothpaste, but is a little stronger. However these are not a ‘miracle’ cure for dental erosion; the key message is to eliminate whatever is causing the damage.\nDental Erosion Symptoms\nThe symptoms can vary depending on what type of tooth-wear you have, but common signs include:\n- Appearance. The effect will depend on the type of tooth wear, but can include chipping away of the edges and increased transparency of the tips of front teeth. The surfaces may appear smooth, rounded and ‘polished’ (see image above).\n- Sensitivity to hot and cold. This can occur when the outer protective enamel wears away exposing the more sensitive dentine. Sensitivity does not always occur, especially if the wear is progressing slowly.\n- Changes to your bite.\n- Fillings may stand out from the surrounding tooth surfaces- a classic diagnosis marker.\n- Gum recession and wearing down of the teeth at the gum-margin (in abrasion and abfraction).\n- Overall flattening of the teeth (with attrition).\nDental Erosion Treatment\nIf you think you have this, or some other form of tooth-wear, visit your dentist. Your dentist will help you to first identify the sources of any damage (via a risk assessment) and advise you on how to eliminate these causes.\nTreatment is not always needed, particularly if any enamel wear is minor. In this case, preventive measures are all that is needed, but these are very important. Keep attending the dentist for check-ups and follow any advice given. Regular check-ups allow your dentist to monitor the progression of any damage and best diagnose if and when any therapy is needed.\nTreatment will be needed if enamel wear has caused significant loss of the tooth structure and/or is causing problems such as sensitivity and cosmetic defects. Any treatment will depend on the extent and position of any damage.\nTreatment aims are to:\n- Repair cosmetic appearance if this has been affected.\n- Reduce sensitivity by protecting and covering the dentine.\n- Help reduce further damage from tooth-wear.\nTreatment options may include:\n- To help treat sensitivity the dentist may place fluoride gels or varnishes and advise fluoride toothpastes and mouthwashes.\n- Repairing tooth enamel loss with white filling materials.\n- In the case of extensive damage, fixing veneers or crowns may be necessary.\n- Replace missing teeth.\n- You may need a bite guard if bruxism is also a factor.\nIf in any doubt contact your dentist. If left untreated, tooth-wear can cause severe damage. Tooth surface loss from dental erosion and other tooth wear can be very difficult to treat.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "- Atanu Biswas is Professor of Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata has analysis the whether data science is same as statistics in recent times.\n- The growth of data has been promoted a new class of professionals called the data scientists.\n3. According to an IBM report, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created per day.\n- In the current scenario the question has arisen whether data science is another ‘hot’ job or a new form of science.\n- For Example In the Hollywood movie 21, six students, brilliant with numbers, make money at the blackjack tables of Las Vegas casinos by using numbers, codes, and hand gestures. Can we call them data scientists?\n- In 2009, pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray argued that data science is the “fourth paradigm” of science.\n- Data have played a major role in scientific developments and the growth of knowledge for example:\n- Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection was largely based on observational data that he collected during his voyages around the world.\n- Gregor Mendel developed the laws of Mendelian inheritance from the the data he collected from his experiments on peas.\n- According to the American Statistical Association, statistics is the “science of learning from data”. Still there is huge scope of confusing whether data science with statistics.\n- Statistics is a data-driven science, but it focusses on developing theories based on data insights.\n- There is no doubt that statistics was primarily data-driven.\n10. Various experiment\n- The ‘Lady Tasting Tea’ experiment would be treated as one of the two supporting pillars of the randomization analysis of experimental data.\n- In 1997, C.F. Jeff Wu gave a famous lecture entitled “Statistics=Data Science” at the University of Michigan. The confusion over statistics and data still continues till date.\n- The term data science was used initially as a substitute for computer science by Peter Naur in 1960.\n- Presently, expect data scientist know mathematics and algorithms, experimental design, engineering chops, and communication and management skills.\n- Presently, people struggle to decide whether data science is statistics on a high capacity computer or not.\n- The author said according to him data science appears to be a technology rather than a science in its present form.\n- A Harvard Business Review article of 2012 concludes that a hybrid of data hacker, analyst, communicator and trusted adviser makes a successful data scientist.\n- Many types of small data are of great challenge, even in this era of big data.\n- With the ocean of data at hand, the scope of data science might look limitless.\n- statistics did not detract itself from the principle of theorizing from data, big or small.\n17. The author indicated that we are possibly heading towards an era of software’s and algorithms. But a shade of uncertainty remains with the advent of data science.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "• stylite •\nPart of Speech: Noun\nMeaning: No, not a stylish socialite, just the opposite: an ascetic monk who does penance by living atop a column. (Yes, I proof-read the sentence.)\nNotes: Occasionally we run a totally useless word because it has a fascinating story. This is definitely such a word. It comes from the name of the first column-sitter, St. Simeon Stylites (pronounced [sti-lee-teez]) (390-459 AD), immortalized in a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson named, appropriately enough, St. Simeon Stylites. He was first followed by two other, younger monks known in Church history as Simeon the Younger and Simeon III. Many others followed these.\nIn Play: The first three St. Simeons were followed by many other monks who wished to get above it all and live closer to God. Some built huts atop their columns to protect them from the sun and rain; some created hollow columns and lived inside them. Most, however, lived atop a column, perhaps forerunning the recurring fad of flagpole-sitting.\nWord History: The use of this word in history is fascinating enough but the history of the word itself is just as riveting. The word comes from late Classical Greek stylites from stylos \"pillar\". The question, of course, is how did this word end up as English style? It did. Here's how: Latin had a word, stilus \"spike\", that referred to an instrument used in writing. The Greek word was so close in spelling and meaning that the Latin word soon became stylus, borrowed as is by English to refer to a primitive writing utensil. In Latin, however, it was used metaphorically to refer to a writer's style, just as an English-speaker's pen or hand may be his or her style of writing. This sense of the word dribbled down to French, whence English borrowed it. (We are happy that Monroe Thomas Clewis suggested this bizarre item for today's Good Word column.)\nCome visit our website at <http://www.alphadictionary.com> for more Good Words and other language resources!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Chichicastenango, also known as Santo Tomás Chichicastenango, is a town in the El Quiché department of Guatemala, known for its traditional K’iche’ Maya culture. The Spanish conquistadors gave the town its name from the Nahuatl name used by their soldiers from Tlaxcala: Tzitzicaztenanco, or City of Nettles. Its original name was Chaviar.\nChichicastenango is a large indigenous town, lying on the crests of mountaintops at an altitude of 1,965 m (6,447 ft). It is located about 140 km (87 miles) northwest of Guatemala City.\nChichicastenango is well known for its famous market days on Thursdays and Sundays where vendors sell handicrafts, food, flowers, pottery, wooden boxes, condiments, medicinal plants, candles, pom and copal (traditional incense), cal (lime stones for preparing tortillas), grindstones, pigs and chickens, machetes, and other tools. In the central part of the market plaza are small eateries (comedores).\nAmong the items sold are textiles, particularly the women’s blouses. The manufacture of masks, used by dancers in traditional dances, such as the Dance of the Conquest, have also made this city well-known for woodcarving.\nChurch of Santo Tomás\nNext to the market is the 400-year old church of Santo Tomás. It is built atop a Pre-Columbian temple platform, and the steps originally leading to a temple of the pre-Hispanic Maya civilization remain venerated. K’iche’ Maya priests still use the church for their rituals, burning incense and candles. In special cases, they burn a chicken for the gods. Each of the 18 stairs that lead up to the church stands for one month of the Maya calendar year. Another key element of Chichicastenango is the Cofradia of Pascual Abaj, which is an ancient carved stone venerated nearby and the Maya priests perform several rituals there. Writing on the stone records the doings of a king named Tohil (Fate).\nThe Chichicastenango Regional Museum lies in its grounds.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Last update: 21 September, 2019\nEmotions exert a powerful influence on food choice and eating habits. For example, it was found that the link between emotions and food it is stronger in people who suffer from obesity than in those who do not suffer from it and in those who follow a diet (Sánchez and Pontes: 2012).\nIt has also been argued that emotions are not in themselves a cause of overweight, but rather the way they are handled and dealt with.\nThe relationship between emotions and food is a bilateral relationship: what we eat affects our mood and the emotions we feel affect our our way of eating. Cooper et al. (1998) tells us that failing to manage negative moods greatly affects the onset and persistence of eating disorders.\nEmotional regulation is a concept that refers to the management of the emotions experienced by a person depending on the circumstances and the emotional state of others. Like this, It has been observed that shame and guilt are the emotions that can have a greater negative impact on the diet. As you can see, the link between emotions and food is much more important than we think.\n\"What we think generates emotions, but what we eat does too.\"\nEmotions and food: a couple necessary for health\nPeople develop different behaviors in response to their emotions depending on various factors, such as the context in which they find themselves, the level of education and the ability to identify and manage their feelings. All of this results in a better or worse ability to control one's weight.\nFor example, it has been observed that the greater emotionality in food intake corresponds to a greater lack of control over the number of meals, with the constant elimination of breakfast from one's eating routine. As you can see, the link between emotions and food is a real fact.\nThe most influential emotional factor for sedentary people is disinhibition during meals and small cheats that you indulge in with certain foods, such as chocolate and pastry products. For athletes, on the other hand, the emotions linked to guilt, such as the fear of scales and of eating sweets, are more influential than those linked to disinhibition towards meals.\nThe emotional factor in sedentary people is much less functional than in sportsmen. The excess of these mistakes and the lack of control in food intake are more frequently associated with overeating and eating disorders.\nThere is also a group of individuals who, due to their own eating habits, have been defined as repressed eaters or a chronic diet. These people experience a tremendous fear of gaining weight and this leads them to restrict their diet through strict diets. Paradoxically, due to these restrictive conditions, the individual increases his ingestion levels by overeating.\nExperiencing the pleasant act of eating not only makes us feel more tired, thus causing us to constantly search for food, but can also cause serious health problems. The couple emotions and food must be based on ingesting the right and necessary amount of food. Our emotions must make us aware of the eating habits we need.\nDepriving oneself from eating causes an obsession with food\nThe greater the deprivation, the greater the attraction. Normalizing the relationship with food must be an essential goal in the treatment of food control. The purgative conducts act as a reinforcement to ingestion, therefore favoring the lack of control of eating habits, as well as implying important health risks.\nTo demonstrate that depriving oneself of eating causes obsession with food, we will use the following technique: we tell you a sentence that you do not have to remember, for example “there is a yellow butterfly in the room”. The premise made has the opposite effect and when we are told not to remember what was communicated, our brain cannot help but process the information received.\nThe cause of this is to be found in the unconscious, the part that is in charge to a good extent to direct our body, interpreting and storing the information received from our senses.\nAn essential feature of the unconscious is that it functions through symbols and images, rather than through texts or letters. This means that does not process negative terms. If we say to ourselves \"I must not eat french fries\", the unconscious will only have the image of french fries and consequently we will have even more desire to eat them. This does not mean that it always happens, but it considerably increases the likelihood that it does.\nWhen we use food to calm our mood, we feed ourselves emotionally. Likewise, worry about our weight and our body conceals deeper concerns. This triggers a vicious circle of unresolved worries that hinders our ability to grow and develop.\nEach organ generates certain emotions. Based on the foods we consume, we will experience very different emotions. This happens because each food \"affects\" different organs. If we ingest foods that block the liver, such as alcohol, emotions such as anger, rage, aggression or impatience will emerge more easily.\nPeople with emotional problems often resort to food to get better and this is due to the fact that many foods contain tryptophan, an amino acid that stimulates the secretion of serotonin. Low levels of this hormone are associated with depression and obsession.\nThe lack of serotonin therefore causes various negative effects on the body, such as distress, sadness, or short temper. When the body does not produce tryptophan, we get it from the diet. Foods rich in this amino acid therefore act as natural antidepressants.\nAccording to experts, cereals are the group of foods that contribute most to regulating emotions, as they are rich in vitamin B, which directly affects the nervous system. It has been established that frequent consumption of grains reduces anxiety and affects the attitude we adopt in the presence of problems.\nAt times we believe that eating will save us from experiencing negative emotions. This thought reinforces the vicious circle between emotions and food.\nCooper, P. J., & Taylor, M. J. (1988). Body image disturbance in bulimia nervosa. The British Journal of Psychiatry.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Space is: “tingling with anthropomorphic life, dancing, ceremonial, a festival not a machine.” —C. S. Lewis1\n“So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes a universe exist.” —Stephen Hawking2\nEmpty Space or Populated Heavens?\n*This reading experience will be much better if you click this link which will play actual music of planets recorded by NASA.\nElon Musk is driven by the mission to bring human civilization to Mars during his lifetime. If he succeeds we may be living beyond our planet in the near future. Can you imagine flying on a privately made rocket through space? Many of us have picked up the idea that the journey would be a long traverse across a cold, vacuous void. This is reflected in the unimaginative term we have come to prefer for what is out there: space.\nAs we learn to think about the world the way our Father does, it is helpful to notice that the Bible doesn’t use the word ‘space,’ but rather ‘the heavens.’ This name casts our imagination in a different direction. The way we use the word ‘space’ in other contexts refers basically to emptiness. The idea of the heavens calls out something more “tingling with anthropomorphic life, dancing, ceremonial, a festival not a machine” (Ward).1 While I have called ‘space’ an unimaginative choice, Lewis puts a harsher criticism in the mouth of his hero Ransom in Out of the Silent Planet. While on his way to another planet, Ransom calls the term “a blasphemous libel for this empyrean ocean of radiance in which they swam” (22).3\nIn his trip through the heavens, Lewis’ fictional Ransom makes several interesting observations that help us re-enchant our imagination about the starry expanse above us. He observes that the light was golden with sharp shadows, and the heat “produced no tendency to drowsiness: rather, intense alacrity. His headache was gone: he felt vigilant, courageous and magnanimous as he had seldom felt on Earth” (19-20).\nBut he could not fear… The adventure was too high, its circumstance too ‘solemn’, for any emotion, save a severe delight. A nightmare, long engendered in the modern mind by the mythology that follows in the wake of science, was falling off him. He had read of ‘Space’: at the back of his thinking for years had lurked the dismal fancy of the black, cold vacuity, the utter deadness, which was supposed to separate the worlds. He had not known how much it affected him till now — now that the very name ‘Space’ seemed a blasphemous libel for this empyrean ocean of radiance in which they swam. He could not call it ‘dead;’ he felt life pouring into him from it every moment. How indeed should it be otherwise, since out of this ocean the worlds and all their life had come? He had thought it barren; he saw now that it was the womb of worlds, whose blazing and innumerable offspring looked down nightly even upon the Earth with so many eyes — and here, with how many more! No: Space was the wrong name. Older thinkers had been wiser when they named it simply the heavens — the heavens which declared the glory. (Lewis, 22-23)\nWhat Populates the Heavens\nThe words of Lewis are powerful, but are they true? On what basis does he imagine the heavens to be brimming with light and life? Light is easy.\nAnd God said, ‘Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. (ESV, Gen 1.14-18)4\nThis really isn’t controversial. Everyone knows there are lights in the heavens. Perhaps it provides a helpful tweak to our imagination in seeing space as lit. But why does it say the lights rule; one over the day and the other over the night? This is where we press our imaginations a bit further. According to the Bible, the heavens are full of wonderful beings, and those beings are connected to the lights.\nFor who in the skies can be compared to the Lord?\nWho among the heavenly beings is like the Lord,\na God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones,\nand awesome above all who are around him? (Ps 89.6-7, bold mine)\nIf you follow the Hebrew parallelism you notice that there are heavenly beings in the skies. Or listen to Job.\nOn what were its (the earth) bases sunk,\nor who laid its cornerstone,\nwhen the morning stars sang together\nand all the sons of God shouted for joy? (Job 38.6–7, bold mine)\nMorning stars were singing and sons of God shouting at the creation of the earth. Who are they, and what did their shout sound like? What key was their song in?\nThe kings came, they fought;\nthen fought the kings of Canaan,\nat Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo;\nthey got no spoils of silver.\nFrom heaven the stars fought,\nfrom their courses they fought against Sisera. (Jdg. 5.19–20, bold mine)\nStars fought against Sisera from heaven. They fought from their courses, or paths. That is, from their paths across the expanse of heaven. Are these merely poetic images? Poetic images of what? We know that angels do battle in the heavens, one tells Daniel about a battle he and Michael had with the prince of Persia. Is it a difficult stretch to imagine that an angel is made of fire? That is what Hebrews 1:7 seems to suggest, “Of the angels he says, ‘He makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire.” Because of our Enlightenment perspective, we think the wise men followed the star to Jesus by means of some weird mathematical triangulation. Can you imagine following a star to a specific house? It seems like it needed to come down to guide them.\nThis is how Lewis viewed the heavens, a perspective he had picked up in his studies of pre-modern, medieval literature, a time when everyone viewed the heavens through the lens of the Bible. In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, he has the children talk to a star at rest named Ramandu who is growing young again to return to “tread the great dance…In our world, said Eustace, ‘a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.’ ‘Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is but only what it is made of.’” (226)5\nAs Lewis helps illustrate, none of this is in opposition to modern science nor a denigration of the incredible advances it has brought us in our knowledge of the heavens. We can now look at pictures of nebulae while listening to the music of the planets. We may soon be able to board a rocket to Mars. What I am advocating is not the rejection of the scientific perspective on the heavens, but a recognition that the scientific perspective is not the only one, nor does it tell the whole story. We have greater need of integrating the truths we read in God’s Bible with the truths we discover in God’s world. Sadly, too often people trained at the feet of modernists have been made to feel they have to choose. The resulting vacuum of a solely modernist view of space is doing what vacuums always do, it is seeking fullness.\nTwenty three years after Lewis published these ideas in Out of the Silent Planet, the first man went into space. What have we found up there? Was Lewis’ imagination, informed by the Bible and a Medieval cosmology, accurate?\nThere are two things that are particularly worth noting in this regard. First is what is called “The Overview Effect.” The short story about the Overview Effect is that going into space has this interesting tendency to turn astronauts into mystics. They have a profound experience up there that they cannot fully explain but which transforms them forever in a profoundly spiritual way. Listen to this description of Edgar Mitchell’s experience during his Apollo trip to the moon, “Suddenly, everything he thought he knew seemed grossly wrong. He had, many years earlier, set aside the religious views with which he had been raised, considering them the leftover attempts of prescientific people to understand their existence. But the vision of reality that had come to occupy his mind since then, a purely scientific view, was also now shattered by what he saw… looking out at the cosmos from space, he did not so much understand a new vision of reality as feel it” (Volk, 154). He describes what he experienced as “an ecstasy of unity,” saying that “Knowledge occurred to him in an instant, he felt, and since then he has endeavored to use the means of science and logic to verify what he learned” (155,156). The website he founded later in life to carry out this pursuit quotes him as saying, “The presence of divinity became almost palpable, and I knew that life in the universe was not just an accident based on random processes…The knowledge came to me directly” (IONS). And lest you are inclined to distrust Mitchell, a PHD from MIT, notice that many other astronauts have recounted similar experiences. “Author Frank White…interviewed thirty astronauts about the life-altering view from space… His book details several fundamental shifts in their thinking, all redolent of Mitchell’s ‘ecstasy of unity’ and the idea of intuitive knowing” (161).\nIn a different realm of science, Quantum physics has been finding that the apparently empty void of space is not empty at all. I won’t go too much into this because I am way over my head, but they are claiming that the latest science is demonstrating the empty space is filled with what they call dark energy and quantum particles that appear and disappear randomly. The dark energy supposedly contains more energy than is in all the known universe. I am far from an expert on quantum physics, and the more I read about it, the less I think I understand. I am not able to weigh the accuracy of these findings, and quantum physics is still filled with speculation, but it is interesting to note that there are strange energies in the heavens.\nEngaging The Fullness\nWhat is the significance of all this? What do we do with it? I think first, we stand in wonder. When you look up, don’t just see empty space, see lively heavens, and imagine the music of the spheres. Go outside more and look up at the stars in wonder. Embrace the glory of the Biblical view of the heavens with a renewed confidence and awe. And when you look up at the night sky, see the moon ruling over the night, see the stars in their courses as more than mere balls of flaming gas. And as you look in wonder, know that Jesus has ascended above them all and has thrown all the dark forces down from the heavens, so that all that is left up there are angels doing the work of Christ the King. Rest in the profound reality that Jesus Christ is seated on his throne up there, and in a very real and mystical sense, all those who are in him by faith sit there with him until all the nations bow before his kingdom of light. Then say a prayer that it may be on earth as it is in heaven.\n- Considering the validity of Valiant Thor, a space alien from Venus who claims Christ, a Gnostic invention, or someone else? March 14, 2018 Frank Stranges tells us about the mysterious figure, Valiant Thor, his origins, his biology, and that he bears the name of Christ. Is there any weight to what…\n- When the Devil Walks the Earth he Wears a Coat of Many Colors March 28, 2018 A Series Examining the Legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Part 1 Part I: Currently viewing Part II: When the Devil Walks the Earth he Wears a…\n- Did Humans Multiply Before The Fall? October 9, 2019 A blog post I read yesterday made the case that Adam and Eve had children before the fall. The author's point was that because in Genesis 1:28 God…\n- When the Devil Walks the Earth he Wears a Coat of Many Colors, part II May 30, 2018 A Series Examining the Legend of the Pied Piper Catch up and read the first article, here: Part I: When the Devil Walks the Earth he Wears a…\n- Considering the Validity of Valiant Thor Part 2—an Alien Consultant for Government Black Ops? November 29, 2018 A former government engineer and geologist claims involvement in secret underground military bases, the alien agenda, and a meeting with the mysterious figure, Valiant Thor.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Magnesium is a mineral that is essential for many biochemical reactions in our body that keep us healthy. It is involved in nerve impulses in our muscles and in our brain. It is used as a cofactor in the chemicals reactions that allow us to produce energy to get us through our day. In addition, it is needed for the structural development of our genes and bones. Lastly, it is even pivotal in keeping your heart beating correctly and maintaining a healthy blood pressure! (1)\nWe can get Magnesium from the food that we eat. The highest sources are in leafy green vegetables such as kale and spinach. It is also in high concentrations in pumpkin seeds, tuna, lima beans or fruits like avocadoes and bananas. In addition, it is present in chocolate which is my personal favourite source of Magnesium. For the later source I always recommend to choose a low sugar or dark chocolate. The best approach is to eat a variety of the foods listed above to not only get a good amount of Magnesium, but also to have a diet rich in all the other minerals and vitamins your body needs. But even when we do this, we still do not always ingest the amount of Magnesium our body needs to properly carry out all the biochemical reactions mentioned above. (3-4)\nIn 2012, Health Canada reported that more then forty percent of adults have an inadequate amount of Magnesium intake. This deficiency can present as muscle cramps, brain fog, difficulty concentrating, low energy and difficulty sleeping. (7)\nMagnesium must be combined with another substance to be delivered into our body. This other carrier substance determines how well our body absorbs Magnesium and how fast it gets into our blood stream. This carrier substance is what defines the different types of Magnesium: Magnesium Oxide, Magnesium Citrate, Magnesium Glycinate and Magnesium Malate.\nMagnesium Oxide: This is the most common type of Magnesium found over the counter at most pharmacies and grocery stores. It pairs Magnesium with a chemical compound called oxide. Sadly, this type of magnesium has the lowest absorption of all the types of Magnesium. In addition, it has a strong laxative effect when taken in higher dosages. I don’t recommend this type of Magnesium to any of my patients. (6)\nMagnesium Citrate: This form of Magnesium is much better absorbed into our body partly because it is paired with citrate which is an organic salt. In addition, it is available at most health food stores. It also has a laxative effect but it is much milder and more tolerable then Magnesium Oxide. This type of Magnesium works great for patients who want to safely increase their Magnesium intake who also have constipation or less regular bowel movements. But it should be avoided in patients that have loose bowel movements or gastrointestinal issues. (6)\nMagnesium Glycinate: This type of Magnesium is also very well absorbed in our body and it has an affinity for our muscles and our nervous system. Glycinate comes from the amino acid glycine which is one of the calming neurotransmitters in our brain. Therefore, this type of Magnesium also promotes relaxation and helps with falling asleep. It is best to take this type of Magnesium at night. (2)\nMagnesium Malate: In addition to also being a well absorbed this form of Magnesium also helps us with low energy levels. Malate is an intermediary in our cell’s energy production cycle called the Kreb cycle. Therefore, this type of Magnesium is best for patients with muscle cramps and low energy. It is an excellent choice for patients with the symptoms of chronic fatigue and Fibromyalgia. (5)\nGiven how difficult it is to get the level of Magnesium you need through a healthy diet I advocate for all my patients to be on a daily Magnesium supplement especially if they are experiencing muscle cramps.\nDr. Sandip Oppal MD(inactive), ND\n- Institute of Medicine (IOM). Food and Nutrition Board. Dietary Reference Intakes: Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Vitamin D and Fluoride. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1997.\n- Kawai, N. Neuropsychopharmacology. The sleep-promoting and hypothermic effects of glycine are mediated by NMDA receptors in the suprachiasmatic nucleus, 2015; 40(6): 1405-16.\n- Rude RK. Magnesium. In: Coates PM, Betz JM, Blackman MR, Cragg GM, Levine M, Moss J, White JD, eds. Encyclopedia of Dietary Supplements. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Informa Healthcare; 2010:527-37.\n- Rude RK. Magnesium. In: Ross AC, Caballero B, Cousins RJ, Tucker KL, Ziegler TR, eds. Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease. 11th ed. Baltimore, Mass: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2012:159-75.\n- Russell, IJ. J. Rheumatol. Treatment of fibromyalgia syndrome with Super Malic: a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled, crossover pilot study, 1995; 22(5): 953-8.\n- Walker AF, Magnes Res. Mg citrate found more bioavailable than other Mg preparations in a randomised, double-blind study, 2003; 16(3): 183-91.\n- Website: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutrition/food-nutrition-surveillance/health-nutrition-surveys/canadian-community-health-survey-cchs/. Do Canadian Adults Meet Their Nutrient Requirements Through Diet Alone?, 2012.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This page uses content from Wikipedia and is licensed under CC BY-SA.\n|Unit system||English unit|\n|Symbol||mi or m|\n|1 mi in ...||... is equal to ...|\n|SI units||609.344 m1|\n|nautical units||0.86898 nmi|\nWith qualifiers, \"mile\" is also used to describe or translate a wide range of units derived from or roughly equivalent to the Roman mile, such as the nautical mile (now 1.852 km exactly), the Italian mile (roughly 1.852 km), and the Chinese mile (now 500 m exactly). The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 roman feet but the greater importance of furlongs in pre-modern England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to 8 furlongs or 5,280 feet in 1593. This form of the mile then spread to the British-colonized nations some of which continue to employ the mile. The US Geological Survey now employs the metre for official purposes but legacy data from its 1927 geodetic datum has meant that a separate US survey mile (6336/ km) continues to see some use. While most countries replaced the mile with the kilometre when switching to the International System of Units, the international mile continues to be used in some countries, such as Liberia, Myanmar, the United Kingdom, the United States, and a number of countries with fewer than one million inhabitants, most of which are UK or US territories, or have close historical ties with the UK or US.\nThe mile was usually abbreviated m. in the past but is now sometimes written as mi to avoid confusion with the SI metre. However, derived units, such as miles per hour or miles per gallon, continue to be universally abbreviated as mph and mpg, respectively.\nThe modern English word mile derives from Middle English myl and Old English mīl, which was cognate with all other Germanic terms for \"miles\". These derived from apocopated forms of the Latin mīlia or mīllia, the plural of mīle or mīlle,[n 1] literally \"thousand\" but used as a clipped form of mīlle passus or passuum, the Roman mile of one thousand paces.\nThe present international mile is usually what is understood by the unqualified term \"mile\". When this distance needs to be distinguished from the nautical mile, the international mile may also be described as a \"land mile\" or \"statute mile\". In British English, the \"statute mile\" may refer to the present international miles or to any other form of English mile since the 1593 Act of Parliament, which set it as a distance of 1,760 yards. Under American law, however, the \"statute mile\" refers to the US survey mile. Foreign and historical units translated into English as miles usually employ a qualifier to describe the kind of mile being used but this may be omitted if it is obvious from the context, such as a discussion of the 2nd-century Antonine Itinerary describing its distances in terms of \"miles\" rather than \"Roman miles\".\nThe mile has been variously abbreviated—with and without a trailing period—as m, M, ml, and mi. The American National Institute of Standards and Technology now uses and recommends mi in order to avoid confusion with the SI metre (m) and millilitre (ml). However, derived units such as miles per hour or miles per gallon continue to be abbreviated as mph and mpg rather than mi/h and mi/gal. In the United Kingdom road signs use m as the abbreviation for mile though height and width restrictions also use m as the abbreviation for the metre, which may be displayed alongside feet and inches. The BBC style holds that \"There is no acceptable abbreviation for 'miles'\" and so it should be spelt out when used in describing areas.\nThe Roman mile (mille passus, lit. \"thousand paces\"; abbr. m.p.; also milia passuum[n 2] and mille) consisted of a thousand paces as measured by every other step—as in the total distance of the left foot hitting the ground 1,000 times. The ancient Romans, marching their armies through uncharted territory, would often push a carved stick in the ground after each 1,000 paces. Well-fed and harshly driven Roman legionaries in good weather thus created longer miles. The distance was indirectly standardised by Agrippa's establishment of a standard Roman foot (Agrippa's own) in 29 BC, and the definition of a pace as 5 feet. An Imperial Roman mile thus denoted 5,000 Roman feet. Surveyors and specialized equipment such as the decempeda and dioptra then spread its use. In modern times, Agrippa's Imperial Roman mile was empirically estimated to have been about 1,617 yards (1,479 m) in length. In Hellenic areas of the Empire, the Roman mile (Greek: μίλιον, mílion) was used beside the native Greek units as equivalent to 8 stadia of 600 Greek feet. The mílion continued to be used as a Byzantine unit and was also used as the name of the zero mile marker for the Byzantine Empire, the Milion, located at the head of the Mese near Hagia Sophia.\nThe Roman mile also spread throughout Europe, with its local variations giving rise to the different units below.\nAlso arising from the Roman mile is the \"milestone\". All roads radiated out from the Roman Forum throughout the Empire – 50,000 miles of stone-paved roads. At every mile was placed a shaped stone, on which was carved a Roman numeral, indicating the number of miles from the center of Rome – the Forum. Hence, one always knew how far one was from Rome.\nThe Italian mile (miglio, pl. miglia) was traditionally considered a direct continuation of the Roman mile, equal to 1000 paces, although its actual value over time or between regions could vary greatly. It was often used in international contexts from the Middle Ages into the 17th century and is thus also known as the \"geographical mile\", although the geographical mile is now a separate standard unit.\nThe Arabic mile (الميل, al-mīl) was not the common Arabic unit of length; instead, Arabs and Persians traditionally used the longer parasang or \"Arabic league\". The Arabic mile was, however, used by medieval geographers and scientists and constituted a kind of precursor to the nautical or geographical mile. It extended the Roman mile to fit an astronomical approximation of 1 arcminute of latitude measured directly north-and-south along a meridian. Although the precise value of the approximation remains disputed, it was somewhere between 1.8 and 2.0 km.\nThe \"old English mile\" of the medieval and early modern periods varied but seems to have measured about 1.3 international miles (1.9 km). The English long continued the Roman computations of the mile as 5000 feet, 1000 paces, or 8 longer divisions, which they equated with their \"furrow's length\" or furlong.\nThe origins of English units are \"extremely vague and uncertain\", but seem to have been a combination of the Roman system with native British and Germanic systems both derived from multiples of the barleycorn.[n 3] Probably by the reign of Edgar in the 10th century, the nominal prototype physical standard of English length was an arm-length iron bar (a yardstick) held by the king at Winchester; the foot was then one-third of its length. Henry I was said to have made a new standard in 1101 based on his own arm. Following the issuance of Magna Carta, the barons of Parliament directed John and his son to keep the king's standard measure (Mensura Domini Regis) and weight at the Exchequer, which thereafter verified local standards until its abolition in the 19th century. New brass standards are known to have been constructed under Henry VII and Elizabeth I.\nArnold's c. 1500 Customs of London recorded a mile shorter than previous ones, coming to 0.947 international miles or 1.524 km.\nThe English statute mile was established by a Weights and Measures Act of Parliament in 1593 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The act on the Composition of Yards and Perches had shortened the length of the foot and its associated measures, causing the two methods of determining the mile to diverge. Owing to the importance of the surveyor's rod in deeds and surveying undertaken under Henry VIII, decreasing the length of the rod by 1⁄11 would have amounted to a significant tax increase. Parliament instead opted to maintain the mile of 8 furlongs (which were derived from the rod) and to increase the number of feet per mile from the old Roman value. The applicable passage of the statute reads: \"A Mile shall contain eight Furlongs, every Furlong forty Poles,[n 4] and every Pole shall contain sixteen Foot and an half.\" The statute mile therefore contained 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards. The distance was not uniformly adopted. Robert Morden had multiple scales on his 17th-century maps which included continuing local values: his map of Hampshire, for example, bore two different \"miles\" with a ratio of 1 : 1.23 and his map of Dorset had three scales with a ratio of 1 : 1.23 : 1.41. In both cases, the traditional local units remained longer than the statute mile.\nThe Welsh mile (milltir or milldir) was 3 miles and 1470 yards long (6.17 km). It comprised 9000 paces (cam), each of 3 Welsh feet (troedfedd) of 9 inches, usually reckoned as equivalent to the English inch. Along with other Welsh units, it was said to have been codified under Dyfnwal the Bald and Silent and retained unchanged by Hywel the Good. Along with other Welsh units, it was discontinued following the conquest of Wales by the English under Edward I in the 13th century.\nThe Scots mile was longer than the English mile, as mentioned by Robert Burns in the first verse of his poem \"Tam o' Shanter\". It comprised 8 (Scots) furlongs divided into 320 falls or faws (Scots rods). It varied from place to place but the most accepted equivalencies are 1,976 Imperial yards (1.123 statute miles or 1.81 km).\nIt was legally abolished three times: first by a 1685 act of the Scottish Parliament, again by the 1707 Treaty of Union with England, and finally by the Weights and Measures Act 1824. It had continued in use as a customary unit through the 18th century but had become obsolete by its final abolition.\nThe Irish mile (míle or míle Gaelach) measured 2240 yards: approximately 1.27 statute miles or 2.048 kilometres. It was used in Ireland from the 16th century plantations until the 19th century, with residual use into the 20th century. The units were based on \"English measure\" but used a linear perch measuring 7 yards (6.4 m) as opposed to the English rod of 5.5 yards (5.0 m).\nThe international mile is precisely equal to 344 km (or 1.60925146/ km as a fraction). It was established as part of the 1959 international yard and pound agreement reached by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, which resolved small but measurable differences that had arisen from separate physical standards each country had maintained for the yard. As with the earlier statute mile, it continues to comprise 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet.\nThe old Imperial value of the yard was used in converting measurements to metric values in India in a 1976 Act of the Indian Parliament. However, the current National Topographic Database of the Survey of India is based on the metric WGS-84 datum, which is also used by the Global Positioning System.\nThe difference from the previous standards was 2 ppm, or about 3.2 millimeters (1⁄8 inch) per mile. The U.S. standard was slightly longer and the old Imperial standards had been slightly shorter than the international mile. When the international mile was introduced in English-speaking countries, the basic geodetic datum in America was the North American Datum of 1927 (NAD27). This had been constructed by triangulation based on the definition of the foot in the Mendenhall Order of 1893, with 1 foot = 1200/ metres and the definition was retained for data derived from NAD27, but renamed the U.S. survey foot to distinguish it from the international foot.[n 5]\nThe exact length of the land mile varied slightly among English-speaking countries until the international yard and pound agreement in 1959 established the yard as exactly 0.9144 metres, giving a mile exactly 1,609.344 metres. The U.S. adopted this international mile for most purposes, but retained the pre-1959 mile for some land-survey data, terming it the U. S. survey mile. In the United States, statute mile normally refers to the survey mile, about 3.219 mm (1⁄8 inch) longer than the international mile (the international mile is exactly 0.0002% less than the U.S. survey mile).\nWhile most countries replaced the mile with the kilometre when switching to the International System of Units, the international mile continues to be used in some countries, such as Liberia, Myanmar, the United Kingdom and the United States. It is furthermore used in a number of countries with vastly less than a million inhabitants, most of which are UK or US territories, or have close historical ties with the UK or US: American Samoa, Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Falkland Islands, Grenada, Guam, The N. Mariana Islands, Samoa, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & The Grenadines, St. Helena, St. Kitts & Nevis, the Turks & Caicos Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The mile is even encountered in Canada, though this is predominantly in rail transport and horse racing, as the roadways have been metricated since 1977.\nThe U.S. survey mile is 5,280 survey feet, or about 1,609.347 metres. In the United States, statute mile formally refers to the survey mile, but for most purposes, the difference between the survey mile and the international mile is insignificant—one international mile is 998 U.S. survey miles—so statute mile can be used for either. But in some cases, such as in the U.S. 0.999State Plane Coordinate Systems (SPCSs), which can stretch over hundreds of miles, the accumulated difference can be significant, so it is important to note that the reference is to the U.S. survey mile.\nThe United States redefined its yard in 1893, but this resulted in U.S. and Imperial measures of distance having very slightly different lengths.\nThe North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), which replaced the NAD27, is defined in meters. State Plane Coordinate Systems were then updated, but the National Geodetic Survey left individual states to decide which (if any) definition of the foot they would use. All State Plane Coordinate Systems are defined in meters, and 42 of the 50 states only use the metre-based State Plane Coordinate Systems. However, eight states also have State Plane Coordinate Systems defined in feet, seven of them in U.S. Survey feet and one in international feet.\nState legislation in the U.S. is important for determining which conversion factor from the metric datum is to be used for land surveying and real estate transactions, even though the difference (2 ppm) is hardly significant, given the precision of normal surveying measurements over short distances (usually much less than a mile). Twenty-four states have legislated that surveying measures be based on the U.S. survey foot, eight have legislated that they be based on the international foot, and eighteen have not specified which conversion factor to use.\nThe nautical mile was originally defined as one minute of arc along a meridian of the Earth. Navigators use dividers to step off the distance between two points on the navigational chart, then place the open dividers against the minutes-of-latitude scale at the edge of the chart, and read off the distance in nautical miles. The Earth is not perfectly spherical but an oblate spheroid, so the length of a minute of latitude increases by 1% from the equator to the poles. Using the WGS84 ellipsoid, the commonly accepted Earth model for many purposes today, one minute of latitude at the WGS84 equator is 6,046 feet and at the poles is 6,107.5 feet. The average is about 6,076 feet (about 1,852 metres or 1.15 statute miles).\nIn the United States, the nautical mile was defined in the 19th century as 6,080.2 feet (1,853.249 m), whereas in the United Kingdom, the Admiralty nautical mile was defined as 6,080 feet (1,853.184 m) and was about one minute of latitude in the latitudes of the south of the UK. Other nations had different definitions of the nautical mile, but it is now internationally defined to be exactly 1,852 metres (6,076.11548556 feet).\nThe nautical mile per hour is known as the knot. Nautical miles and knots are almost universally used for aeronautical and maritime navigation, because of their relationship with degrees and minutes of latitude and the convenience of using the latitude scale on a map for distance measuring.\nThe data mile is used in radar-related subjects and is equal to 6,000 feet (1.8288 kilometres). The radar mile is a unit of time (in the same way that the light year is a unit of distance), equal to the time required for a radar pulse to travel a distance of two miles (one mile each way). Thus, the radar statute mile is 10.8 μs and the radar nautical mile is 12.4 μs.\nCities in the continental United States often have streets laid out by miles. Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Miami, are several examples. Typically the largest streets are about a mile apart, with others at smaller intervals. In the Manhattan borough of New York City \"streets\" are close to 20 per mile, while the major numbered \"avenues\" are about six per mile. (Centerline to centerline, 42nd Street to 22nd Street is supposed to be 5250 feet while 42nd Street to 62nd Street is supposed to be[clarification needed] 5276 ft 8 in.)\nThe informal term \"metric mile\" is used in sports such as track and field athletics and speed skating to denote a distance of 1,500 metres (4,921 ft). In United States high-school competition, the term is sometimes used for a race of 1,600 metres (5,249 ft).\nThe Scandinavian mile (mil) remains in common use in Norway and Sweden, where it has meant precisely 10 km since metrication occurred in 1889. It is used in informal situations and in measurements of fuel consumption, which are often given as litres per mil. In formal situations (such as official road signs) and where confusion may occur with international miles, it is avoided in favour of kilometres.\nBefore metrication, the Norwegian mile was 11.298 km.\nThe traditional Finnish peninkulma was translated as mil in Swedish and also set equal to 10 km during metrication in 1887, but is much less commonly used.\nA comparison of the different lengths for a \"mile\", in different countries and at different times in history, is given in the table below. Leagues are also included in this list because, in terms of length, they fall in between the short West European miles and the long North, Central and Eastern European miles.\n|Length (m)||Name||Country used||From||To||Definition||Remarks|\n|960–1152||talmudic mil||Israel||Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement|\n|1,480||mille passus, milliarium||Roman Empire||Ancient Roman units of measurement|\n|1,609.3426||(statute) mile||Great Britain||1592||1959||1760 yards||Over the course of time, the length of a yard changed several times and consequently so did the English, and from 1824, the imperial mile. The statute mile was introduced in 1592 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I|\n|1,609.344||mile||international||1959||today||1760 yards||Until 1 July 1959 the imperial mile was a standard length worldwide. The length given in metres is exact.|\n|1,609.3472||(statute) mile||United States||1893||today||1760 yards||From 1959 also called the U.S. Survey Mile. From then its only utility has been land survey, before it was the standard mile. From 1893 its exact length in meters was: 3600/ × 1760|\n|1,852||nautical mile||international||today||approx. 1 minute of arc||Measured at a circumference of 40,000 km. Abbreviation: NM, nm|\n|1,852.3||(for comparison)||1 meridian minute|\n|1,855.4||(for comparison)||1 equatorial minute||Although the NM was defined on the basis of the minute, it varies from the equatorial minute, because at that time the circumferences of the equator was only able to be estimated at 40,000 km|\n|2,220||Gallo-Roman league||Gallo-Roman culture||1.5 miles||Under the reign of Emperor Septimius Severus, this replaced the Roman mile as the official unit of distance in the Gallic and Germanic provinces, although there were regional and temporal variations.|\n|3,898||French lieue (post league)||France||2000 \"body lengths\"|\n|4,000||general or metric league|\n|4,190||legue||Mexico||= 2500 tresas = 5000 varas|\n|4,444.8||landleuge||1⁄25° of a circle of longitude|\n|4,452.2||lieue commune||France||Units of measurement in France before the French Revolution|\n|4,513||legua||Chile, (Guatemala, Haiti)||= 36 cuadros = 5400 varas|\n|4,828||English land league||England||3 miles|\n|Germanic rasta, also doppelleuge\n|5,196||legua||Bolivia||= 40 ladres|\n|5,152||legua argentina||Argentina, Buenos Aires||= 6,000 varas|\n|5,556||Seeleuge (nautical league)||1⁄20° of a circle of longitude\n3 nautical miles\n|5,570||legua||Spain and Chile||Spanish customary units|\n|5,572||legua||Colombia||= 3 Millas|\n|5,572.7||legue||Peru||= 20,000 feet|\n|Spain||= 3 millas = 15,000 feet|\n|5,590||légua||Brazil||= 5,000 varas = 2,500 bracas|\n|5,685||Fersah (Turkish league)||Ottoman Empire||1933||4 Turkish miles||Derived from Persian Parasang.|\n|6,170||milltir||Wales||13thC||9000 cam ( = 27 000 troedfedd = 243 000 inches)||eclipsed by the conquest of Wales by Edward I|\n|6,197||légua antiga||Portugal||= 3 milhas = 24 estadios|\nnew league, since 1766\n|Spain||= 8,000 varas|\n(state survey mile)\n|7,409||(for comparison)||4 meridian minutes|\n|7,419.2||Kingdom of Hanover|\n|7,419.4||Duchy of Brunswick|\n|7,420.439||geographic mile||1⁄15 equatorial grads[dubious ]|\n|7,421.6||(for comparison)||4 equatorial minutes|\n|7,467.6||Russia||7 verst||Obsolete Russian units of measurement|\n|7,500||kleine / neue Postmeile\n(small/new postal mile)\n|Saxony||1840||German Empire, North German Confederation, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Russia|\n(German state mile)\n|Denmark, Hamburg, Prussia||primarily for Denmark defined by Ole Rømer|\n|Austro-Hungary||Austrian units of measurement|\n|9,062||mittlere Post- / Polizeimeile\n(middle post mile or police mile)\n|9,206.3||Electorate of Hesse|\n|9,261.4||(for comparison)||5 meridian minutes|\n|9,277||(for comparison)||5 equatorial minutes|\n(old state mile)\n(old state mile)\n|10,000||metric mile, Scandinavian mile||Norway, Sweden||still commonly used today, e. g. for road distances.; equates to the myriameter|\n|10.688.54||mil||Sweden||1889||In normal speech, \"mil\" means a Scandinavian mile of 10 km.|\n|11,113.7||(for comparison)||6 meridian minutes|\n|11,132.4||(for comparison)||6 equatorial minutes|\n|11,299||mil||Norway||was equivalent to 3000 Rhenish rods.|\nEven in English-speaking countries that have moved from the Imperial to the metric system (for example, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand), the mile is still used in a variety of idioms. 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{"text": "Comprehensive and Critical Period Monitoring Program to Evaluate the Effects of Variable Flow on Biological Resources in the Comal Springs/River Aquatic Ecosystem Final 2011 Annual Report\nThe purpose of this report is to document the results of all aquatic ecosystem monitoring conducted in 2011 at Comal Springs located in New Braunfels, Texas. The monitoring and report preparation was performed by BIO-WEST, Inc. Pflugerville, Texas.\n[Excerpted from Executive Summary]\nLess severe, but negative effects on aquatic vegetation and fountain darter populations were evident in Landa Lake during the majority of 2011. Aquatic vegetation and fountain darter conditions within the Old Channel remained consistent with post-culvert reconstruction conditions, while New Channel conditions improved during 2011.\nNeither water quality parameters measured (including water temperature) throughout the Comal Springs/River ecosystem, nor endangered macroinvertebrate habitat or population data posed concern during the extended drought witnessed in 2011. As such, the juxtaposition of high and low-flow events in 2010 and 2011 caused impacts (some severe) in the certain reaches of the ecosystem, but overall the aquatic communities presently remain intact. As the drought continues, or is broken it will be invaluable to continue to monitor the response and/or recovery of the Comal Springs/River ecosystem.\nSearch for Documents\nExplore EAA's Scientific Reports\n- All Reports\n- Weather Modification\n- Water Use and Conservation\n- Water Resources Planning and Management\n- Water Quality\n- Surface Water / Groundwater Relationship\n- Springs, Groundwater Discharge\n- RZ Protection\n- Remote Sensing\n- Overview Studies\n- Hydrology and Hydrogeology\n- Groundwater Recharge, Recharge Zone\n- Groundwater Movement\n- Geomorphology and Caves\n- Floods and Drought\n- Aquifer Levels", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Oklahoma Land Rush\nby John Riggio\nLand! That was the promise of the Oklahoma Land Rush. On April 22nd, 1889, tens of thousands of settlers were lined up at the Oklahoma border, waiting for the signal to go. Thanks to the Homestead Act of 1862, the U.S. government was giving away free land, up to 160 acres per applicant. So when the cannon fired (some accounts say multiple cannons and rifles), you can imagine the multitude of people racing to stake their claim. History was being made.\nWith an Old West vibe, this song has everything you need: guitars, fiddles, banjo, washboard, a cow, horses, a really great horn rip - what more could you ask for? Seriously, though, we added lots of sound effects, including a barely discernible \"buffalo sigh\" at measure 12 the third time, so listen for it!\nThe vocals are simple and repetitive, though a tad wordy on the verses so we can tell the story. It should be sung with all the vigor of those settlers, and singers may want to dress the part when performing this piece.\nGiven the historic nature of the topic of the song, we absolutely recommend sharing it with the classroom teachers, whether you actually use it in a performance or not. After all, it's another prime example of bringing music across the curriculum, reinforcing the lessons of other subjects.\nFactoid: There were some settlers that did not wait for the official opening of Oklahoma, who snuck across the border to stake their claims early. These people became known as \"sooners,\" as they claimed the land too soon!\nText is taken from Music K-8 magazine.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "TosaOld Norse Dictionary - tosa\nMeaning of Old Norse word \"tosa\" in English.\nAs defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:\n- að, [A. S. tæsan; Engl. tease], to drag a dead weight; tosa við e-ð; perh. from the English.\nPossible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛏᚢᛋᛅ\nYounger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements\n- A. S.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Tonto National Monument\nTonto National Monument is a National Monument in the Superstition Mountains, in Gila County of central Arizona. The area lies on the northeastern edge of the Sonoran Desert ecoregion, an arid habitat with annual rainfall of about 16 inches (400 mm) here. The Salt River runs through this area, providing a rare, year-round source of water.\n|Tonto National Monument|\nLower Cliff Dwelling\n|Location||Gila County, Arizona, USA|\n|Nearest city||Globe, Arizona|\n|Area||1,120 acres (4.5 km2)|\n|Created||October 21, 1907|\n|Visitors||53,426 (in 2011)|\n|Governing body||National Park Service|\n|Website||Tonto National Monument|\nWell-preserved cliff dwellings were occupied by the Salado culture during the 13th, 14th, and early 15th centuries. The people farmed in the Salt River Valley, and supplemented their diet by hunting and gathering native plants. The Salado were fine craftspeople, producing some of the most flamboyant polychrome pottery and intricately woven textiles to be found in the Southwest. Some of the artifacts excavated nearby are on display in the visitor center museum.\nThe Tonto National Monument Archeological District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. Tonto National Monument, Lower Ruin and Tonto National Monument, Upper Ruin are archeological sites that were NRHP-listed in 1989.[a]\nThe Upper Sonoran ecosystem is known for its characteristic saguaro cacti. Other common plants include: cholla, prickly pear, hedgehog, and barrel cactus (flowering from April to June); yucca, sotol, and agave; creosote bush and ocotillo; palo verde and mesquite trees; an amazing variety of colorful wild flowers in good years (February to March); and a lush riparian area which supports large Arizona Walnut, Arizona Sycamore, and hackberry trees.\nIt also serves as a home for native animals such as whitetail and mule deer, mountain lion, bobcat, three rattlesnake species and many more.\n- All three NRHP-listed areas are included within the National Monument, but the National Monument itself is not NRHP-listed\n- \"Listing of acreage as of December 31, 2011\". Land Resource Division, National Park Service. Retrieved 2012-05-14.\n- \"NPS Annual Recreation Visits Report\". National Park Service. Retrieved 2012-05-14.\n- Roosevelt 1 WNW, Arizona - Climate Summary. Western Regional Climate Center.\n- National Park Service (2009-03-13). \"National Register Information System\". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.\n|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tonto National Monument.|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A general view of poverty in Turkey as an issue for social work in the light of behavioral finance and game theory\nÜst veriTüm öğe kaydını göster\nIn this chapter, the authors define poverty in general terms before including statistics for a detailed, Turkey-Specific discussion. Once the authors elaborate on the causes of poverty, they introduce behavioural economics and game theory, the fundamental aim of the chapter being to examine how these two theories affect perceptions of poverty and the struggle against poverty. Another issue that enters into the scope of this chapter is to what extent the poor themselves are responsible for their own poverty. On this question, game theory and behavioural economics can potentially be marshalled against the poor. However, we also argue that, by using a different approach, both theories can be interpreted in the poor's favour. We examine the Double-Sided nature of these two theories in detail and stress how important it is in the study of poverty to consider the disadvantageous position in which the poor find themselves. © 2015, IGI Global. All rights reserved.\nKaynakHandbook of Research on Behavioral Finance and Investment Strategies: Decision Making in the Financial Industry", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Find / Fall: Find - 1911\nLocation: Western Australia, Australia\nClassification: Iron, IAB-ung\nTotal Known Weight: 24 Metric Tons\nThe original Mundrabilla meteorite find in Western, Australia was in 1911 with subsequent finds of both large masses of many tons and thousands of small knuckle size pieces. The recoveries continue to the present. The total weight of this fall is over 17 tons. Mundrabilla has had several classification over the years since its first discovery. It was a medium octahedrite for most of that time. It is now a member of the IAB ungr complex. Several meteorite groups, grouplets and recently defined classes have been associated together. Among these was the former IIICD group of which Mundrabilla was a member. Mundrabilla individuals are often very interestingly shaped and sculptured.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Plate Tectonics, Continental Drift and Earth Sciences\nThese links have been carefully selected and were considered relevant and suitable for school use at the time of checking. Clicking on them will take you to other websites over which we have no control. If you have any doubts or concerns please check what is at the other end before using them in lessons. If you find any broken, re-directed or dead links please let us know.\nABAG Earthquake Maps\nAn interesting collection of resources with an emphasis on California. There is information on making your home as safe as possible during earthquakes, a quiz, puzzles, hazard maps and animations, the impact of quakes on transportation, ground liquefication and many other topics. The main page is well laid out and easy to navigate. A good resource for schools.\nWegener proposed the Continental Drift theory. This is a one paragraph biography of this famous geologist. No pictures, and no links.\nCalifornia Has Its Faults...\nAn informative page about not just California's faults, but different types of geological fault as well. The information is well written, clearly presented and idea for school use with 'new' geologists.\nCascade Range Volcanoes\nSelect a volcano in the Cascade Mountain Range from either a map or a list of names. This site will tell you all about the volcano you select. A very interesting site well worth visiting.\nCascades Volcano Observatory\nThis site is full of fascinating information. There are special features, such as updates to news and current events, hazard assessment reports, educational talks and lectures, a selection of links to volcanoes, hazards and a wealth of other topics related to volcanism.\nA short text providing an overview of Continental Drift and the evidence put forward to support the theory. The 'General Description Of Continental Drift' is a useful resource for all school students wanting to understand the basics of the subject without having to read pages and pages of text.\nEarth's Active Volcanoes\nA clearly presented list of links to the worlds active volcanoes. The volcanoes are broken up by region, making it easy to spot associations between volcanoes in the same general locations. This site is a good starting point for research if you know either the name of the volcano or the part of the Earth where it can be found. For general school project work it is also a good starting point, offering students a good range of volcanoes to research further.\nEarth's Interior and Plate Tectonics\nA very good article on the Earth's Interior looking at its composition and structure, including a brief explanation of seismic waves and how they are used to deduce the Earth's internal structure. Both the Ocean and Continental Lithospheres are discussed, as well as a short introduction to Plate tectonics. This is a very good site but not aimed at the younger student or people new to geology. As a rough guide, in the UK it would coincide with the work undertaken by students aged 15 and over.\nEarthquake Facts and Follies\nTwenty five questions and answers about Earthquakes, such as Can Earthquakes be prevented? , How are Earthquakes Measured? and What Was the Greatest Number of People Killed in One Earthquake?. This site is well suited to school use, being a collection of interesting facts that could form the basis of further investigation or be read for their own interest. Suited to most age groups.\nEarthquake Information from the USGS\nThis site is run by the United States Geological Survey and contains six sections; Latest Quake Information, What's New or Interesting, Hazards and Preparedness, More about Earthquakes, Studying Earthquakes, and Resources. Each section links to another page or pages covering the topic in detail.\nEarthquake Prone Areas\nThis is a very unusual but vivid map showing the danger areas in the USA. By using a combination of colouring and vertical relief the danger areas are highlighted in excellent clarity. There should be more maps like this one!\nEarthquakes in British Columbia\nBritish Columbia receives an Earthquake everyday. The site looks at the causes and effects of quakes: good photographs and diagrams are included.\nEarthquakes in the UK\nData for the last month is presented as a gif type map. The map covers all of the UK, and the epicenters of quakes are shown by proportional circles. Contrary to many people's beliefs, the UK experiences numerous earthquakes every year, though most are too weak for us to notice them. This map is an excellent way of showing this activity. The maps are updated every month and show Uk Seismicity over the last 30 days.\nThis is like a diary of the geological events around the world on a day to day basis. As interesting geological events occur, they are added to the site with links to further information, maps, news stories etc. This is another valuable site for school use, allowing teachers to keep up to date with case studies and examples. Using this site you can teach with events that are in the news, rather than ones published in text books already 5 years out of date.\nThe Electronic Volcano is a window into the world of information on active volcanoes. From here you can find many types of materials on active volcanoes worldwide, such as maps, photographs and full texts of dissertations and a few elusive documents. The Electronic Volcano will guide you to resources in libraries or resources on other information servers.\nFolding (Appalachian Ridge and Valley)\nThe geology of Pennsylvania,USA is shown in Landsat satellite images, together with a detailed text explaining the geology that has shaped the landscape. Some of the language is quite technical and suited only to those students with a good level of geographical and geological understanding, ie able to comprehend \"homogeneous crystalline rocks\".\nFolding, Faulting and Mountains\nThis is an interesting lesson on Mountain formation due to plate movements. It concentrates on Folding, Faulting and Dome building, using text, diagrams and maps. An interesting online lesson, or download it and use it as the basis of your own lesson plan.\nGlobal Earthquake Map\nThe map shows the recent earthquakes around the globe as red squares, the size of which are proportional to their intensity. By clicking on the squares you can zoom in closer.\nGlobal Earthquake Report\nA regularly updated list of the earthquakes recorded around the world over the last few days. Only the larger quakes are shown, giving their time, location, magnitude and depth below the surface. You may also choose to view the quakes superimposed on either a world or USA map.\nInternet Natural Hazards Links\nA set of links to pages dealing with a range of natural hazards including volcanoes, earthquakes, fires and windstorms.\nIRIS Seismic Monitor\nThis is an interactive educational display of global seismicity that allows you to monitor earthquakes in near real-time, view records of ground motion, and visit seismic stations around the world. The display is updated every 30 minutes using data from the National Earthquake Information Center. Earthquakes that have occurred within the last 24 hours are shown with red circles. The circles fade through orange to yellow within 15 days. After 15 days, the circles are replaced by light purple dots that remain on the map for five years.\nA QuickTime video clip of the earthquake that struck Kobe on January 17th 1995. The file is 5MB with a run time of 3 minutes 34 seconds.\nLargest Earthquakes in the USA\nProduced by the National Earthquake Information Center, this site lists the largest 15 earthquakes to have hit the USA, complete with online maps and text. A very useful site if you want to know about past quakes in the USA.\nLatest Earthquake Information\nThis is a near real time earthquake bulletin provided by the NEIS, part of the US Geological Survey. The data provided is ; Date, Time, Lat/Long, Depth, Magnitude and Comments. You can also click on a link to see the earthquake located on a world map.\nLatest New Zealand Earthquake Report\nThe Institute of Geophysics at Victoria University of Wellington provides a report on the very latest earthquakes in New Zealand. The page is brief, loads quickly ( it does from here anyway ) and gives the usual basic quake information.\nMontserrat Volcano Observatory\nMontserrat is an island with serious volcano problems! This page is the official report on the current situation at Soufriere Hills Volcano. There are archives of the weekly newsletter published by the Emergency Dept, information about the Volcano Observatory, pictures, daily scientific reports, maps and links to other related sites. The best Montserrat information site I have found, and a valuable educational resource.\nMt. St. Helen's\nSome interesting photographs of this famous volcano before and after its recent eruption. The collection of slides makes a visit here well worthwhile , and as an added bonus there is even a live video camera image from the Johnston Ridge Observatory, updated every 10 minutes.\nMuseum of the City of San Francisco\nThis is the home page of the Museum. Among it's exhibits are the Great Earthquake of 1906, images of the earthquake, the 1989 San Francisco Earthquake and the Oakland Firestorm.\nNASA Volcanology Pictures\nImages of volcanoes in action, provided by NASA. There is information about the EOS IDS project and an 'Ask an Expert' facility too.\nNational Earthquake Information Center\nHome of the National Earthquake Information Centre, with links to Current Earthquake Information, general Earthquake Information, an Earthquake Database, Seismograph Station Info and other earthquake information sources.\nPacific Ring of Fire\nAn excellent map showing active volcanoes, plate boundaries and names, trenches, ridges and the 'Ring of Fire'. It's in colour too.\nPlate Motion Calculator\nDiscover how fast your plate is moving, right now by entering the name of your plate and a set of latitude / longitude co-ordinates. The form is very easy to complete, and the server returns the velocity and direction of your plate's movement is a few seconds. A wonderful use of internet technology and a place you have to visit at least once while studying plate tectonics.\nAn explanation of tectonics, volcanoes, earthquakes, continental drift and the Earth's interior. It is well written and most informative, though it has a bias towards the USA when giving case studies. A good educational site.\nThis site takes a different approach to tectonics. It explains the history of our understanding of the Earth and provides a brief overview of the theories behind our understanding. The special feature is the collection of animations showing plate movement over the last 750 million years - schools should visit this resource!\nPlates of The World\nRecent Natural Hazards News\nA set of articles related to natural hazards, including some covering tectonics, earthquakes and volcanics. The content is aimed at more advanced students and is not suitable for younger students or those new to plate tectonics.\nMt Ruapehu is an active volcano in New Zealand. With the great catch phrase of \"Forget java, we've got lava\", this site provides the most recent information about the volcano and the latest video image from the volcano camera..\nRing of Fire\nA map of the Ring Of Fire\nSan Andreas Fault Zone\nA short but very informative introduction to the San Andreas Fault Zone. Some of the terminology is a bit technical but the general content can probably be understood by most students, perhaps with a dictionary to hand.\nSurfing the Internet for Earthquake Data\nA very useful list of links to internet sites related to seismic activity, including ways to get seismic data if you don't have access to a web browser. This is a very good site for finding other sites, and can save you hours of searching for data.\nThe Quake of '89\nA short fact file about the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, covering value of damage, number of injuries, deaths etc. Suitable for any age group of students who are seeking basic factual data about the quake.\nThis Dynamic Earth\nThis is a really good site. It explains the story of Plate tectonics in an interesting and absorbing style, with many illustrations and photographs. This is a 'must visit' site in my opinion, and an excellent place for students to browse.\nNote:This site requires Java for some of it's animations, but also contains static images and text. There is an Earthquake quiz, but it consists of only four questions. Other features are Famous Earthquake accounts from the likes of Mark Twain and Charles Darwin, Rotating globes and a textual history of seismology to 1910.\nU.S Geological Survey\nThe home page of the United States Geological Survey. From here you can link to their many resources covering all aspects of earthquakes, tectonics and volcanism.\nU.S. Earthquake Epicenters\nA map of the USA epicenters during the last 2 Weeks. The map is updated at regular intervals and shows epicenters as proportional dots, the size of dot being related to the magnitude of the quake.\nU.S.A. Earthquake Map\nU.S.A earthquakes are shown on this map, with the size of the symbols proportional to the magnitude of the earthquakes. In addition to the Continental U.S.A, Alaska and Hawaii are included. You may choose any location on this map to zoom in much closer. Once you zoom, you will see a lot more detail appearing on the map, such as roads, railways, rivers and national park boundaries.\nViolent Planet Page\nThis is an extremely good site that covers all the forms of natural violent hazards created by nature. her you can find a vast range of information including quakes, volcanoes and related incidents. There are facts, reports, case studies and links to other specialist sites. This is really a very well designed and informative site.\nThis is another 'unusual' site, this time offering students the chance to trigger a virtual earthquake and generate seismograph charts of their own quake. There os also a good introduction to earthquakes, seismic waves, seismograms and epicentres. This is a fun place to visit as well as being a good educational resource.\nThe lighter side of working with volcanoes, containing some stories and cartoons.\nThis is an excellent idea; a sort of grown up version of a child's picture dictionary. For each of the words in a geological glossary there is a photograph. If you want to see an image of a cinder cone, aa, spatter or Pillow Lava this is the place to visit. I had a great time just browsing the pictures.\nVolcano Watch is a weekly newsletter written by the scientists at the US Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. It is published in the Hawaii Tribune-Herald's Sunday newspaper and the West Hawai'i Today's Monday newspaper, and posted on their internet site the following Monday or Tuesday. While primarily addressed to the residents of the Big Island of Hawai`i, some articles may have a broader scope. Article topics may range from volcanic features on the Big Island, volcanic hazards, informational topics of Long Valley, Montserrat, or Alaska, to topics about the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.\nThe U.S. Geological Survey maintains this registry of Earth and Environmental Science Internet resources as a service to the research community. It contains links to sites related to volcanology, such as the Alaska Volcano Observatory and the Montserrat Information Archives.\nVolcanoes.Com is another site of links to other volcano sites. The links are arranged by geographical area and can all be accessed from the main page. There is a search engine allowing you to look for more volcano related information on the internet, or to search for volcano books! The site is intended for use by student and promised to be student friendly, with no adult links whatsoever.\nA mixture of links and original information, and even a search engine. The main page is split into sections, each covering a different aspect of the site, such as \"Research and Information\", \"Interact with US\", and \"Volcano Indices\". This is a good resource and ideal for school use.\nWorld's 10 Most Recent Large Earthquakes\nA gif format map of the world with the 10 most recent large earthquakes plotted on it. The earthquakes are represented by proportional circles, the size of the circle reflecting the magnitude of the earthquake. The image seems to load quite quickly.\nCan't find the link you need? Try searching through Google", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Adapting the Past to Improve the Future\nThough the trend of greenhouse gas emission is declining, the equivalent of 6,870 million metric tons of CO2 was emitted in the United States in 2014. About one quarter of this pollution is emitted by the transportation sector. Instead of waiting for the next technological development in transportation to provide us with clean vehicles, what if we could adopt past transportation systems to reduce our emissions and increase future sustainability? This study explores the idea of adopting intra- and inter-urban electric rail and a people’s car to reduce the annual U.S. transportation emissions using historical examples, the most recent studies published on emissions, and articles discussing the sociological impacts of transportation. Recently, the U.S. has seen the biggest railroad investments in the last 100 years, giving the country a huge opportunity to reintroduce electric rail. Since it is not feasible to reach everyone with public transit, private vehicles also need to shift towards sustainability as well by using low-emission technology currently available in a flexible manner so it is possible to upgrade the vehicle when newer technology is released. The major limitation of this study is the scope of this issue, and due to this the cultural feasibility of adopting these systems, the financial cost, detailed estimates on the actual amounts of emissions prevented, and alternative transportation systems were not heavily addressed.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Your vehicle’s transmission is like the delivery man of your car, transferring power from the engine to the wheel’s axles. That power then rotates the wheels, moving your car, to get you wherever you need to go. There are two basic types of transmissions: automatic transmission and manual transmission. Both types of transmissions accomplish this same task, but each have their own unique way of doing so.\nThere are two basic types of automatic transmissions: traditional and dual-clutch. The traditional automatic transmission connects to the engine with a hydraulic torque converter. As the name implies, the dual-clutch transmission connects to the engine with a pair of clutches.\nRegardless of the type of automatic transmission you have, the process of changing gears is similar. Either hydraulically or electronically, factors like speed, rpm, the throttle pedal position, etc. are monitored to determine when gears change and how much power is transferred.\nOnce put into drive, automatic transmissions change gears without needing any help from the driver. Generally, it’s almost impossible to stall with an automatic, and the ride feels smoother- without the jerking of changing gears you might feel with manual transmissions.\nSome people find automatic transmissions easier to use. You don’t have to worry about a clutch pedal (found with manual transmissions) or physically shifting gears. This also frees up a hand while driving.\nWith a manual transmission, the driver is in control of changing gears. Along with a shift lever connected to the transmission (found in the center console), vehicles with manual transmissions have clutch pedals (located near the brake pedal). The shift lever tells your car which gear the driver needs. The pedal releases a clutch disc between the engine and transmission, allowing your car to change gears.\nFor the complete process, you release the clutch pedal, select the gear on your stick-shift, then press the clutch pedal again. This process can be tricky at first. If you complete it too quickly, or incorrectly it can cause your engine to stall out.\nWhen driving with a manual transmission, you need to be more conscious of your speed, driving conditions, and surrounding traffic- since you are in control how your car responds. Many drivers who choose manual transmission vehicles do so because they feel like they have more control over their vehicle.\nSo which type of transmission is best? Honestly, whichever works best for you. Each driver has their own preference and type of transmission they are most comfortable with.\nNo matter which type of transmission you have, Transmission Technicians are your experts for any maintenance or repairs you may need. Call us today, stop by the shop, or schedule your appointment online.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|墨翟 Mo Di|\nA line drawing of Mozi\n|Born||ca. 470 BC|\n|Died||ca. 391 BC|\n|School||Founder of Mohism|\n|moral philosophy and ethics, social and political philosophy, logic, epistemology|\n|Literal meaning||Master Mo|\n|Literal meaning||(personal name)|\nMozi (Chinese: 墨子; pinyin: Mòzǐ; Wade–Giles: Mo Tzu, Lat. as Micius, ca. 470 BC – ca. 391 BC), original name Mo Di (墨翟), was a Chinese philosopher during the Hundred Schools of Thought period (early Warring States period).\nBorn in Tengzhou, Shandong Province, China, he founded the school of Mohism that argued strongly against Confucianism and Daoism. His philosophy emphasized self-restraint, self-reflection and authenticity rather than obedience to ritual. During the Warring States period, Mohism was actively developed and practiced in many states but fell out of favour when the legalist Qin Dynasty came to power. During that period, many Mohist classics were ruined when emperor Qin Shi Huang carried out the burning of books and burying of scholars. The importance of Mohism further declined when Confucianism became the dominant school of thought during the Han Dynasty, until mostly disappearing by the middle of the Western Han Dynasty.\nMozi is known by children throughout Chinese culture by way of the Thousand Character Classic, which records that he was saddened when he saw dyeing of pure white silk, which embodied his conception of austerity (simplicity, chastity). For the modern juvenile audience of Chinese speakers the image of his school and its founder was popularized by the animated TV series The Legend of Qin.\n|This section does not cite any sources. (September 2014)|\nThere has been considerable debate about the actual name of Mozi, not less than three concepts of its origin exist as of the date.\n1. Traditionally, Mozi was said to have inherited the surname \"Mo\" from his supposed ancestor, the Lord of Guzhu (Chinese: 孤竹君; pinyin: Gūzhú Jūn), himself descended from Shennong, the legendary emperor. The descendants of the Lord of Guzhu had the clan name \"Motai\" (Chinese: 墨胎; pinyin: Mòtāi), which later was shortened to \"Mo\". However, modern scholarship suggests that \"Mo\" was not, in fact, the clan name of Mozi, as this clan name/family name is not encountered during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.\n2. As \"Mo\" came to be the name of the Mohist school itself, it might have derived from the name of a criminal punishment (tattooing of the forehead of criminals; \"mo\" literally means \"ink\"), usually inflicted on slaves. It signals the Mohists' identification with the lowest of common people. The actual ancestral name and clan name of Mozi is not known. It may be that, because he was likely born into the lower classes, he did not have an ancestral or clan name. During Chinese antiquity, the vast majority of the Chinese people who were not related to aristocratic families did not possess ancestral and clan names.\n3. A plausible source of Mozi's name may have been the philosopher's skin complexion itself, which is referred to as \"dark\" (lit. \"black\") in the text. \"Mozi was going north to Qi and met a fortune teller on the way. The fortune teller told him: \"God kills the black dragon in the north today. Now, your complexion is dark. You must not go north.\"\nMost historians believe that Mozi was a member of the lower artisan class who managed to climb his way to an official post. It is known, however, that his parents were not affectionate towards him and showed him very little love. Mozi was a native of the State of Lu (Today's Tengzhou, Shandong Province), although for a time, he served as a minister in the State of Song. Like Confucius, Mozi was known to have maintained a school for those who desired to become officials serving in the different ruling courts of the Warring States.\nMozi was a carpenter and was extremely skilled in creating devices, designing everything from mechanical birds to wheeled, mobile \"cloud ladders\" used to besiege city walls (see Lu Ban). Though he did not hold a high official position, Mozi was sought out by various rulers as an expert on fortification. He was schooled in Confucianism in his early years, but he viewed Confucianism as being too fatalistic and emphasizing too much on elaborate celebrations and funerals which he felt were detrimental to the livelihood and productivity of common people. He managed to attract a large following during his lifetime which rivaled that of Confucius. His followers—mostly technicians and craftspeople—were organized in a disciplined order that studied both Mozi's philosophical and technical writings.\nAccording to some accounts of the popular understanding of Mozi at the time, he had been hailed by many as the greatest hero to come from Henan. His passion was said to be for the good of the people, without concern for personal gain or even his own life or death. His tireless contribution to society was praised by many, including Confucius' disciple Mencius. Mencius wrote in Jinxin (Chinese: 孟子盡心; pinyin: Mengzi Jinxin) that Mozi believed in love for all mankind. As long as something benefits mankind, Mozi will pursue it even if it means hurting his head or his feet. Zhang Tai Yan said that in terms of moral virtue, even Confucius and Laozi cannot compare to Mozi.\nMozi travelled from one crisis zone to another throughout the ravaged landscape of the Warring States, trying to dissuade rulers from their plans of conquest. According to the chapter \"Gongshu\" in Mozi, he once walked for ten days to the state of Chu in order to forestall an attack on the state of Song. At the Chu court, Mozi engaged in nine simulated war games with Gongshu Ban, the chief military strategist of Chu, and overturned each one of his stratagems. When Gongshu Ban threatened him with death, Mozi informed the king that his disciples had already trained the soldiers of Song in his fortification methods, so it would be useless to kill him. The Chu king was forced to call off the war. On the way back, however, the soldiers of Song, not recognizing him, would not allow Mozi to enter their city, and he had to spend a night freezing in the rain. After this episode, he also stopped the state of Qi from attacking the state of Lu. He taught that defense of a city does not depend only on fortification, weaponry and food supply; it is also important to keep talented people close by and to put trust in them.\nThough Mozi's school of thought faded into obscurity after the Warring States period, he was studied again two millennia after his death. As almost nobody had copied the texts during the last two thousand years, there was much difficulty in deciphering them. As a result, Mohism became the most difficult philosophy within the Hundred Schools of Thoughts to study. Both the Republican revolutionaries of 1911 and the Communists saw in him a surprisingly modern thinker who was stifled early in Chinese history.\nMozi's moral teachings emphasized self-reflection and authenticity rather than obedience to ritual. He observed that we often learn about the world through adversity (\"Embracing Scholars\" in Mozi). By reflecting on one's own successes and failures, one attains true self-knowledge rather than mere conformity to ritual (\"Refining Self\" in Mozi). Mozi exhorted people to lead a life of asceticism and self-restraint, renouncing both material and spiritual extravagance.\nLike Confucius, Mozi idealized the Xia Dynasty and the ancients of Chinese mythology, but he criticized the Confucian belief that modern life should be patterned on the ways of the ancients. After all, he pointed out, what we think of as \"ancient\" was actually innovative in its time, and thus should not be used to hinder present-day innovation (\"Against Confucianism, Part 3\" in the Mozi). Though Mozi did not believe that history necessarily progresses, as did Han Fei Zi, he shared the latter's critique of fate (命, mìng). Mozi believed that people were capable of changing their circumstances and directing their own lives. They could do this by applying their senses to observing the world, judging objects and events by their causes, their functions, and their historical bases. (\"Against Fate, Part 3\") This was the \"three-prong method\" Mozi recommended for testing the truth or falsehood of statements. His students later expanded on this to form the School of Names.\nMozi tried to replace what he considered to be the long-entrenched Chinese over-attachment to family and clan structures with the concept of \"impartial caring\" or \"universal love\" (兼愛, jiān ài). In this, he argued directly against Confucians who had argued that it was natural and correct for people to care about different people in different degrees. Mozi, in contrast, argued that people in principle should care for all people equally, a notion that philosophers in other schools found absurd, as they interpreted this notion as implying no special amount of care or duty towards one's parents and family.\nOverlooked by those critics, however, is a passage in the chapter on \"Self-Cultivation\" which states, \"When people near-by are not befriended, there is no use endeavoring to attract those at a distance.\" This point is also precisely articulated by a Mohist in a debate with Mencius (in the Mencius), where the Mohist argues in relation to carrying out universal love, that \"We begin with what is near.\" Also, in the first chapter of the writings of Mozi on universal love, Mozi argues that the best way of being filial to one’s parents is to be filial to the parents of others. The foundational principle is that benevolence, as well as malevolence, is requited, and that one will be treated by others as one treats others. Mozi quotes a popular passage from the Book of Odes to bring home this point: \"When one throws to me a peach, I return to him a plum.\" One’s parents will be treated by others as one treats the parents of others. In pursuing this line of argument, Mozi was directly appealing to the idea of enlightened self-interest in social relations. Also of note is the fact that Mozi differentiated between \"intention\" and \"actuality,\" thereby placing a central importance on the will to love, even though in practice it may very well be impossible to bring benefit to everyone.\nIn addition, Mozi argued that benevolence comes to human beings \"as naturally as fire turns upward or water turns downward\", provided that persons in positions of authority illustrate benevolence in their own lives. In differentiating between the ideas of \"universal\" (jian) and \"differential\" (bie), Mozi said that \"universal\" comes from righteousness while \"differential\" entails human effort. Furthermore, Mozi’s basic argument concerning universal love asserts that universal love is supremely practical, and this argument was directed against those who objected that such love could not be put into practice.\nMozi also held a belief in the power of ghosts and spirits, although he is often thought to have only worshipped them pragmatically. In fact, in his discussion on ghosts and spirits, he remarks that even if they did not exist, communal gatherings for the sake of making sacrificial offering would play a role in strengthening social bonds. Furthermore, for Mozi the will of Heaven (天, tiān) was that people should love one another, and that mutual love by all would bring benefit to all. Therefore, it was in everyone's interest that they love others \"as they love themselves.\" Heaven should be respected because failing to do so would subject one to punishment. For Mozi, Heaven was not the \"amoral\", mystical nature of the Taoists. Rather, it was a benevolent, moral force that rewarded good and punished evil. Similar in some ways to the Abrahamic religions, Mozi believed that all living things live in a realm ruled by Heaven, and Heaven has a will which is independent from and higher than the will of man. Thus he writes that \"Universal love is the Way of Heaven,\" since \"Heaven nourishes and sustains all life without regard to status.\" (\"Laws and Customs\" in Mozi) Mozi's ideal of government, which advocated a meritocracy based on talent rather than background, also followed his idea of Heaven.\nWhat is the purpose of houses? It is to protect us from the wind and cold of winter, the heat and rain of summer, and to keep out robbers and thieves. Once these ends have been secured, that is all. Whatever does not contribute to these ends should be eliminated.— Mozi, Mozi (5th century BC) Ch 20\nMohist ethics are considered a form of consequentialism, sometimes called state consequentialism. Mohist ethics evaluates the moral worth of an action based on how it contributes to the stability of a state, through social order, material wealth, and population growth. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Mohist consequentialism, dating back to the 5th century BC, is the \"world's earliest form of consequentialism, a remarkably sophisticated version based on a plurality of intrinsic goods taken as constitutive of human welfare.\"\nUnlike utilitarianism, which views pleasure as a moral good, \"the basic goods in Mohist consequentialist thinking are... order, material wealth, and increase in population\". During Mozi's era, war and famines were common, and population growth was seen as a moral necessity for a harmonious society. The \"material wealth\" of Mohist consequentialism refers to basic needs like shelter and clothing, and the \"order\" of Mohist consequentialism refers to Mozi's stance against warfare and violence, which he viewed as pointless and a threat to social stability. Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in the The Cambridge History of Ancient China, writes that the moral goods of Mohism \"are interrelated: more basic wealth, then more reproduction; more people, then more production and wealth... if people have plenty, they would be good, filial, kind, and so on unproblematically.\" In contrast to Jeremy Bentham, Mozi did not believe that individual happiness was important; the consequences of the state outweigh the consequences of individual actions.\nMozi tended to evaluate actions based on whether they provide benefit to the people, which he measured in terms of an enlarged population (states were sparsely populated in his day), a prosperous economy, and social order. Like other consequentialist theories, Mozi thought that actions should be measured by the way they contribute to the \"greatest societal good for what we have agreed to in a social contract.\" With this criterion Mozi denounced things as diverse as offensive warfare, expensive funerals, and even music and dance, which he saw as serving no useful purpose. Mozi did not object to music in principle—\"It's not that I don't like the sound of the drum\" (\"Against Music\")—but only because of the heavy tax burden such activities placed on commoners and also due to the fact that officials tended to indulge in them at the expense of their duties.\nWorks and influence\n|This section does not cite any sources. (September 2014)|\n\"Mozi\" is also the name of the philosophical text compiled by Mohists from Mozi's thought. This text originally consisted of 71 chapters. During the Han dynasty Confucianism dominated China. As Mohism is against Confucianism, the text \"Mozi\" was neglected. During the Song dynasty, only 61 chapters were left. Today, we have only 53 chapters through which we attempt to understand this school of thought, as compiled by Sun Yirang. Because Mohism disappeared as a living tradition from China, its texts were not well maintained, and many chapters are missing or in a corrupted state. For example, of the three chapters \"Against Confucianism\", only one remains.\nThe collection of texts from \"Mozi\" is a rich source of insight into early Chinese dynastic history and culture. Much of Mozi's arguments are supported by the historical claims of even earlier records. His conversations with other renowned philosophers of that era are also recorded. From them, we can distinguish Mohism from other schools of thought more clearly.\nMohism was suppressed under the Qin and died out completely under the Han, which made Confucianism the official doctrine. However, many of its ideas were dissolved into the mainstream of Chinese thought, since both Confucians such as Xunzi and Taoists such as Zhuangzi expressed sympathy with Mozi's concerns. The influence of Mozi is still visible in many Han works written hundreds of years later. In modern times, Mohism was given a fresh analysis. Sun Yat-Sen used \"universal love\" as one of the foundations for his idea of Chinese democracy. More recently, Chinese scholars under Communism have tried to rehabilitate Mozi as a \"philosopher of the people\", highlighting his rational-empirical approach to the world as well as his \"proletarian\" background.\nSome views claim that Mozi's philosophy was at once more advanced and less so than that of Confucius. His concept of \"universal love\" embraced a broader idea of human community than that of the Confucians, but he was less tolerant than Confucius in his condemnation of all that is not directly \"useful,\" neglecting the humanizing functions of art and music. Zhuangzi, who criticized both the Confucians and the Mohists, had this in mind in his parables on the \"usefulness of the useless\". Of course, this insistence on usefulness comes from a time when war and famine were widespread and could well have made all the royal pageantry look frivolous.\nHowever, others would say the above view is not entirely accurate, and that in fact \"universal love\" (博愛), as well as \"the world as a commonwealth shared by all\" (天下為公) advocated by Sun Yat-Sen are Confucian ideas. \"Universal love\" (博愛, Boai) in Confucianism is a little different from Mozi's \"universal love\" (兼愛, Jian'ai): in Confucianism it tends to emphasize it as naturally befitting human relations, while in Mozi's ideas it tends to be community oriented and non-differentiated according to individual. Some modern-day supporters for Mozi (as well as Communism) make the claim that Mohism and modern Communism share a lot in terms of ideals for community life. Others would claim that Mohism shares more with the central ideas of Christianity, especially in terms of the idea of \"universal love\" (in Greek, \"agape\"), the \"Golden Rule\", and the relation of humanity to the supernatural realm.\n- (German) Forke, Alfred (1922). Me Ti: Des Sozialethikers und seiner Schüler philosphische Werke [Mo Di: The Social Ethicist and His School's Philosophical Works]. Berlin: Kommissionsverlag der Vereinigung wissenschafticher Verleger.\n- Until Ian Johnston's 2010 translation, this was the only complete Mozi translation in a Western language. It contains numerous errors in the Dialectical and Military chapters.\n- Mei, Y. P. (1929). The Ethical and Political Works of Motse. London: Arthur Probsthain.\n- Translates chapters 1–39, 46–50.\n- Watson, Burton (1963). Mo Tzu: Basic Writings. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231086083\n- Contains one or more chapters from each of the triads in chapters 8–37, plus chapter 39.\n- (Mandarin) Li, Yü-shu 李漁叔 (1974). Mo-tzu chin-chu chin-yi 墨子今注今譯 [Mozi, with modern annotation and translation]. Taipei: Shang wu.\n- Covers chapters 1–39, 44–50.\n- Graham, A. C. (1978). Later Mohist Logic, Ethics, and Science. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press; 2nd edition (2004), ISBN 962201142X\n- Re-edits and translates the Dialectical chapters (40–45) and includes a detailed analysis of their textual and grammatical problems.\n- Sjöholm, Gunnar (1982). Readings in Mo Ti: Chapters XXVI–XXVIII on the Will of Heaven. Helsingborg: Plus ultra.\n- Johnston, Ian (2010). The Mozi: A Complete Translation. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. ISBN 978-962-996-270-8\n- A Battle of Wits – a historical film based around Mohism\n- History of geometry\n- List of people on stamps of the People's Republic of China\n- Fa, an influential concept elaborated by Mozi\n- Fraser, Chris (2002). \"Mohism\". \"The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy\".\n- Mozi: Esteem for Righteousness\n- Needham & Wang 1956 165.\n- Needham & Wang 1956 165–184.\n- Van Norden, Bryan W. (2011). Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy. Hackett Publishing. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-60384-468-0.\n- Ivanhoe, P.J.; Van Norden, Bryan William (2005). Readings in classical Chinese philosophy. Hackett Publishing. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-87220-780-6.\n\"he advocated a form of state consequentialism, which sought to maximize three basic goods: the wealth, order, and population of the state\n- Fraser, Chris, \"Mohism\", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , Edward N. Zalta.\n- Loewe, Michael; Shaughnessy, Edward L. (2011). The Cambridge History of Ancient China. Cambridge University Press. p. 761. ISBN 978-0-521-47030-8.\n- Han Yu: \"Universal love\" (博愛, Boai) means Ren (Humanity) (韓愈: 博愛之謂仁).\n- Graham (1993), p. 340.\n- Graham (1993), p. 341.\n- Needham, Joseph; Wang, Ling (1956), Science and Civilization in China, 2. History of Scientific Thought, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-05800-7. (Printings were 1956, 1962, 1969) See also the 1986 edition published in Taipei by Caves Books Ltd.\n- Fraser, Chris. \"Mohism,\" article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy\n- Graham, A. C. (1993). \"Mo tzu 墨子\". In Loewe, Michael, ed. Early Chinese Texts – A Bibliographical Guide. Berkeley: Society for the Study of Early China & Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley. pp. 336–41. ISBN 1-55729-043-1.\n- Wing-tsit Chan, ed. A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1969, ISBN 0-691-01964-9.\n- Wejen Chang: Traditional Chinese Jurisprudence : Legal Thought of Pre-Qin Thinkers. Cambridge 1990.\n- Geaney, Jane. “A Critique of A. C. Graham's Reconstruction of the ‘Neo-Mohist Canons,’” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 119, no. 1 (1999), pp. 1–11.\n- Graham, Angus C., Disputers of the TAO: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China (Open Court 1993). ISBN 0-8126-9087-7\n- —. Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science by A. C. Graham, (1978, reprinted 2004) The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong. 700 pages.\n- Hansen, Chad. \"Mozi: Language Utilitarianism: The Structure of Ethics in Classical China,\" The Journal of Chinese Philosophy 16 (1989) pp. 355–380.\n- —. A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)\n- Hsiao, Kung-chuan Hsiao. A History of Chinese Political Thought. In: Volume One: From the Beginnings to the Sixth Century A.D.. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1979 (übersetzt von F. W. Mote).\n- Mei, Y. P. Mo-tse, the Neglected Rival of Confucius. London: Arthur Probsthain, 1934.\n- Moritz, Ralf. Die Philosophie im alten China. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-326-00466-4.\n- Opitz, Peter J. Der Weg des Himmels: Zum Geist und zur Gestalt des politischen Denkens im klassischen China. Fink, München 1999, ISBN 3-7705-3380-1.\n- Vitalii Aronovich Rubin: Individual and State in Ancient China: Essays on Four Chinese Philosophers. Columbia University Press, New York 1976, ISBN 0-231-04064-4.\n- Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, Helwig, ed.: Mo Ti: Von der Liebe des Himmels zu den Menschen. Diederichs, München 1992, ISBN 3-424-01029-4.\n- —. Mo Ti: Solidarität und allgemeine Menschenliebe. Diederichs, Düsseldorf/Köln 1975, ISBN 3-424-00509-6.\n- —. Mo Ti: Gegen den Krieg. Diederichs, Düsseldorf/Köln 1975, ISBN 3-424-00509-6.\n- Bertolt Brecht. Me-ti. Buch der Wendungen. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1971.\n- Sun Yirang (孙诒让), ed. Mozi xiangu 墨子闲诂 (Notes to Mozi). Zhonghua shuju, Beijing 2001.\n- Yates, Robin D. S. “The Mohists on Warfare: Technology, Technique, and Justification,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 47, mo. 3 (1980, Thematic Issue S), pp. 549–603.\nFind more about\nat Wikipedia's sister projects\n|Media from Commons|\n|Quotations from Wikiquote|\n|Source texts from Wikisource|\n|Data from Wikidata|\n- Mozi at DMOZ\n- Full text of the Mozi (Chinese with English translation based on Mei's translation.)\n- Mozi in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hitchhiker's Guide to Rukl Chart 72\nCCD image of Clavius and Maginus.\nRobin Casady's labelled\nimage of Clavius for a chart of the smaller craters in and around\n- Clavius (JRF <freeman _at_ netcom.com>)\n- Clavius is a \"landmark\" feature, easily recognized and useful for\norientation. Overlapping craters Porter and Rutherford make it\nparticularly simple to identify. Clavius D, C, N, and J form a\nprominent arc on its floor, and there are a wealth of smaller craterlets\n- Clavius at sunrise (...Akkana)\nSunrise over Clavius is beautiful. I caught and sketched the sequence at right\nat a public star party; the sketch at left, two months later from my driveway.\n- Clavius at sunrise (Robin Casady)\nThis CCD image of the sunrise over Clavius was taken\nthe same night as the two sketches above right.\n- Clavius (Philip Sacco <ppsacco _at_ mindspring.com>)\nThe crater Clavius was a wonder to view around, as the terminator was cutting\nthru the middle of it by the time I got to it.....The Western rim of the crater\nwas in bright sunrise, while the crater floor east of the rim was stillin\nshadow. Craters C and D were well illuminated as was the area in the immediate\nvacinity, whil the areas to the West and East of clavius' floor were still in\nshadow. This optically allowed one to see the amount of rise the middle area\nof Clavius' floor displays unlike other times of illumination when the entire\nfloor apears evenly lit....\nThere was a very brightly lit extension running south of Porter pointing\ntowards crater C. The extension doesn't appear in the Rukl Atlas, however it\nmust be a slight rise on the southern rim of Porter jutting southward.\nIn measuring the diameter of Clavius I found the Eastern rim to entail some\n36-42 km of inclined wall from the surrounding terrain to the inner edge of the\nrim. The elevation of the Eastern rim cast a wide shadow across the floor of\nClavius towards C and D. This central area was fully illuminated as I noted\npreviously, and it gave a very interesting indication of the contours and\nslight elevation of Clavius' central floor area around D/C complex.\nLongomontanus Sunrise Ray\nThe crater ray that Donald [Donald Qualls, aka The Silent Observer]\n[editor's note: in an April 27, 1999 posting on\nthe shallow-sky list, and followup discussion\npinned down what crater it was -- see the\narchives for the\nwas very likely in the crater\nLongomontanus. I was video imaging the moon Saturday night / Sunday\nmorning and captured an image\nof Longomontanus showing a v-shape, ray-like\nlight crossing the smooth crater floor.\nThere is a small group of peaks\nnear the center of Longomontanus and they did indeed cast a shadow across\nthe floor almost to the western wall of the crater. I have never seen the\nbut I have little doubt that it would be similar in\nappearance to the light on the floor of Longomontanus.\n- Scheiner (David North <d _at_ timocharis.com>)\nScheiner has a series of craters in an \"L\" shape, similar in size and\napparent age to the more noted arc in Clavius. There are other craters\nof this type all over the area; I don't know if this implies an \"event\"\nor if they are just coincidental, but it's pointed to note such a\nsimilar feature so nearby.\n- South Pole region (Steve Coe <scoeandlross _at_ sprintmail.com>)\nBlancanus--this crater has a smooth floor except on the\nsouth side, where there are 12 little craterlets that mark\nup the floor of this sizeable crater. There is a tiny\ncentral peak and some terracing in the walls.\nScheiner--is a medium size crater with a central craterlet\nrather than a peak. There are two other craters of equal\nsize on the north side of the crater floor. A rille cuts\nthis crater into 1/3 and 2/3 pieces in a E-W path. Several\nsmall craters are on the walls, which are somewhat terraced.\nKlaproth--has a very smooth floor within this large crater.\nThe south wall is overlapped by crater Casatus. There is\na small amount of terracing in the walls, but not much.\nOriginally I did not see any craterlets on the floor of\nthis crater, but in a moment of good seeing, two tiny\ncraterlets appeared for a moment on the north side of\nCasatus--is about the same size as Klaproth, its north\nwall is the south wall of Klaproth. The are two obvious\nmedium sized craters within this larger one, one of the\ncraters is on the south side of the floor and one is\nin the center of Casatus.\nThis page last modified: Oct 03, 2011\nAll materials on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Moon are ©\nCopyright the individual authors.\nThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Moon Compilation is\n© Copyright 1999,2000,2002 Akkana Peck.\nHitchhiker's Guide to the Moon |\nSearch the Hitchhiker's Guide |\nShallow Sky Home |\ncomments or contributions", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Pegged Tankard\nOriginating in wooden tankards, the peg system was introduced by King Edgar I the Peaceful; he was the King of England 959 to 975AD. The interior of the tankards would be fitted with wooden pegs or nails to divide the volume equally into eighths.\nThis innovative system was used to bring awareness to the amount of liquor being digested. At this time, a tankard would be capable of holding approximately two quarts of ale (over two litres) -which would be consumed at a rapid rate.\nThe Saxon kings’ prior influence over alcohol in taverns caused this new King- in addition to the church- to step in and set the peg law. This law stated that when vessels incorporating the pegs were drank from, if a drinker had more than one peg’s worth of ale, they were fined a penny.\nA Royal Reference\nIt is interesting to see early forms of alcohol awareness, particularly one in existence such a long time ago. At this time, laws and taxes were implemented to force consumers to fall in line. This is still the case today, however there is also the addition of displayed advertisements reminding people take responsibility of their own liquor intake.\nRachel O'Keefe-Coulson – Multimedia Executive\nRachel O'Keefe is our 'silver lady' spending her days handling silverware and processing these items for the AC Silver website. Amazingly, Rachel’s favourite items of silverware are spoons, for which she has developed a true affinity.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What is Partial Arthroscopic Meniscectomy?\nPartial arthroscopic meniscectomy is a procedure to remove the damaged part of a meniscus in the knee joint with the help an arthroscope. The meniscus is a C-shaped disc of cartilage between your thighbone and shinbone. There are 2 menisci in each knee. They act as shock absorbers and provide stability to the joint.\nWhen Do you Need Partial Arthroscopic Meniscectomy?\nMeniscal injuries may be associated with trauma or age-related wearing. Minor injuries located in the peripheral region of the meniscus either heal on their own or may be repaired with sutures. Your doctor may recommend partial arthroscopic meniscectomy if you have a more centrally located irreparable meniscal tear or unstable meniscal fragment causing pain and interfering with the free movement of your knee joint.\nPreparing for Partial Arthroscopic Meniscectomy\nBefore meniscus surgery, you will undergo a physical examination, certain tests, and imaging studies. You may be advised not to eat or drink anything after midnight the night before surgery.\nProcedure for Partial Arthroscopic Meniscectomy\nPartial arthroscopic meniscectomy is mostly performed on an outpatient basis and may last about an hour. It is usually performed under regional (spinal) anesthesia with sedation to keep you relaxed. For the procedure:\n- You will lie in a supine position.\n- The lower extremity is disinfected, and your knee is stabilized in a leg holder.\n- Small skin incisions are made over the knee and portals created to access the damaged meniscus.\n- An arthroscope (thin illuminated tube with a camera) and special instruments are inserted through the portals.\n- The torn and/or damaged parts of the meniscus are carefully removed leaving smooth, stable and healthy meniscus intact.\n- The instruments are removed, the incisions are closed, and a dressing is applied followed by a compressive bandage.\nPost Operation Care and Rehabilitation\nFollowing surgery, you may be asked to:\n- Use crutches to reduce stress on the knee until enough healing has occurred.\n- Apply ice to the knee.\n- Elevate the knee while resting.\n- Take pain medication.\nAs part of your recovery, your doctor may recommend physical therapy and other rehabilitation programs to ensure a quick return to normal activities. Rehabilitation usually takes about 4 weeks.\nBenefits of Partial Arthroscopic Meniscectomy\nSome of the benefits of the procedure include:\n- Simple, safe and effective procedure.\n- Low complication rate.\n- Decreased pain and improved mobility.\n- Allows return to activities.\n- Minimal injury to the soft tissues.\n- Avoids knee instability which can lead to arthritis.\nComplications or Risks of the Surgery\nThough partial arthroscopic meniscectomy has a very low complication rate (less than 1%), the procedure may rarely be associated with:\n- Injury to nerves and blood vessels.\n- Fracture or weakness or stiffness or instability of the joint.\n- Repeated rupture of the meniscus and additional surgeries.\n- A condition called ‘Deep Vein Thrombosis’ (blood clots in the leg).\n- Anesthesia complications (respiratory or cardiac malfunction).\nYounger individuals with healthy menisci have better results from surgery.\nPartial arthroscopic meniscectomy has a high success rate. Though recovery is usually quick, everyone heals at a different pace.\nAge plays an important role in the success of partial arthroscopic meniscectomy. The procedure is most effective if you are under 30 and have it performed within the first two months of injury. If you are over 30, the prospect of success diminishes as the meniscal tissue begins to deteriorate and weaken with age.\nThose with larger meniscal injuries are more likely to develop arthritis.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A middle school math teacher works closely with adolescents on concepts related to algebra, geometry, graphing and measurement. In addition to using best practice teaching strategies, math teachers must also assess student understanding and use this data to plan for future instruction. Effective math teachers are able to use their skills and adapt their teaching methods for varying learning styles and student interests.\nClassroom Management Skills\nEven though high-quality instruction is at the heart of teaching mathematical concepts, there are many other factors that play a role in effective instruction. Before any teaching and learning takes place, middle school math teachers must have a strong management plan in place to enforce rules, consequences and rewards for behavior. It is also very important for math teachers to be clear with parents and students about academic progress because of the building block nature of math.\nBefore stepping in front of a class of students, a lot of preparation goes into teaching math lessons. Math teachers must be able to use formative assessments to plan engaging activities and projects. This teaching cycle includes pre-assessment, planning and teaching meaningful lessons, post assessment, line item analysis and re-teaching. As a part of this process, it also is necessary that math teachers have their hands-on materials ready for help with conceptual development prior to teaching mathematical procedures. In addition, it is imperative that teachers have clear, communicated objectives for each lesson that is taught.\nHighly qualified teachers typically have a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university. For middle school math teachers, this is often a degree in mathematics or an education degree with math concentration. In addition to a college degree, most educators have a considerable amount of work-related experience prior to becoming a certified teacher. These experiences include observations, working with small groups of students and clinical teaching with supervisors and mentors.\nTeachers are models for students. Therefore, it is necessary that teachers be able to read, write and speak English properly. Because of the ever-changing nature of the profession, teachers must be open minded and willing to learn through on-the-job training related to curriculum and best practices. Due to the fact that education is about preparing students for the future, teachers also must keep up with changes in technology in the classroom by being able to adequately use equipment and programs. Being able to prioritize, organize, plan and work with others are all skills used on a daily basis by middle school math teachers.\n- Photo Credit Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images\nWhat Skills Are Needed to Become a Teacher?\nThe best teachers have the ability to influence students and help them grow. Because academic skills are basic to the profession, teachers...\nHow to Prepare for the Basic Math Skills Test\nMany students are required to prove proficiency in math skills. This is sometimes mandatory when they apply to a course in college,...\nHow to Sell a Business Concept\nStarting a business is not an easy endeavor. Selling a good business idea takes more than money. In the world of business,...\nTeaching Math Skills for Carpentry\nCarpenters need to have a number of math skills, but one of the most important skills that they are constantly using is...", "label": "No"}
{"text": "It's a great way to introduce the idea of \"unknown\" numbers to beginning algebra students.\nPick any two numbers. Add them (first number plus second number), and report the total. Then subtract them IN THE SAME ORDER (i.e. first number minus second number), and report the total.\nYou can determine the two numbers using simple algebra:\n1st number = x (perhaps: 7).\n2nd number = y (perhaps: 12).\nLet: a = x + y, and let: b = x – y. The player will report to you the values of \"a\" and \"b,\" the sum and difference of the two numbers (in our example, these numbers are 19 and -5). Add these results in your head (in this case, the sum is 14), and what you have will always be twice one of these numbers [since a + b = (x + y) + (x – y) = 2x.] Divide by two (14 ÷ 2 = 7), and you now have one of the numbers. Since you already know the sum of the two numbers, subtract to find the second one (19 – 7 = 12).\nAn entertaining variation is the \"Birth Date Trick, below.”\nAdd your birth date plus birth month (example: for June 17, 1990, the birth date would be 17, the birth month would be 6, and the total would be 23), and report this number. Then, subtract these same two numbers IN THE SAME ORDER (i.e. birth date minus birth month). Again, be careful – this second result could be negative (in our example, the difference would be 6 – 17 = -11). Since this is really just another “sum and difference” exercise like the one above, all you have to do is add these two results and divide by two to get the birth month, then subtract the birth month from the total to get the birth date!\nCopyright © 2006-present: Christopher R. Borland. All rights reserved.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "HOME: The Story of Maine\n\"A Place Apart\" - The Story Behind the Image of Maine\n(For use with Module 2, Episode 1)\n|ALIGNMENT WITH MAINE'S LEARNING RESULTS:\n1. A Clear and Effective Communicator\n2. An Integrative and Informed Thinker\nContent Area: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS: Literature and Culture\nContent Standard: Students will use reading, listening, and viewing strategies to experience, understand, and appreciate literature and culture.\nPerformance Indicator: Middle Grades (5-8): Students will be able to read literature and view films which illustrate distinct cultures in various types of works and formulate and defend opinions gathered from the experience.\nContent Area: SOCIAL STUDIES: Historical Inquiry, Analysis, and Interpretation\nContent Standard: Students will learn to evaluate resource material such as documents, artifacts, maps, artworks, and literature, and to make judgments about the perspectives of the authors and their credibility when interpreting current historical events.\nPerformance Indicator: Middle Grades (5-8): Students will be able to identify ethnic and cultural perspectives missing from an historical account and describe these points of view.\n2-3 class periods, with 1-2 weeks at home to complete assignmentProcedure:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "by Berlino Schule*\nGerman is not that easy as a language: you need a huge effort and many years to start speaking it fluently. One of the most difficult things is definitely its rich vocabulary. Nonetheless, there are so many little words – you should use in specific situations – that make you happy once you are finally able to use them.\nDoch is a conjunction which has the same meaning as aber (that is but in English). As an emphatic article, doch often stresses a contrast or a certainty, as a single word it is the affirmative answer to a negative question (Didn’t you go to the cinema yesterday? … Doch!). But you should remind that even when you speak good German, you feel like answering ja instead of doch sometimes.\nGenau is one of the first German words you learn at school, and it means exactly. German people always use it to show attention or to confirm what the interlocutor is saying.\nAchso is used to show astonishment or surprise because something, you misunderstood before, is now clear to you. It is like ah, oh or I see. For exemple: Is it not Tim the colleague with whom you argued yesterday?! Achso!\nKrass is an adjective used to take something to extremes in either a positive or a negative connotation. It is taking the place of cool and geil recently: a party at Berghain can be krass as well as a visit to a concentration camp! You won’t stop using it. Es war richtig krass!\nGermans like planning: it is a matter-of-fact. However, they found a way to do things by chance (it is weird, I know!), and for this purpose they usually say spontan. So, it can happen that you will be invited for dinner by some German friends and they will tell you: We can decide “spontan” what to do after!\nLife is too short to learn German, but it is not impossible. So why don’t you come over to our school, Berlino Schule, and take the first steps with us?\n*Berlino Schule is a language school known for the quality his German language courses in Berlin. It provides intensive, evening and private courses as well as Skype classes! It is based in Gryphiusstrasse 23, Friedrichshain-Berlin. For more info send an email to: info@berlinoschule .\nSEGUI TUTTE LE NEWS SU BERLINO, SEGUI BERLINO MAGAZINE SU FACEBOOK", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy (1837-1900) was a critically acclaimed author of poems, short stories, and novels. Unlike many post-Civil War southern writers, who focused their works on romanticizing the Old South, Bellamy instead steeped her works in the everyday experiences of contemporary people, both white and black and men and women. Her fiction tackled subjects as diverse as the plight of newly freed African Americans, the South's reconciliation with the North, and the New South's movement toward diversification of agriculture and industrialization.\nElizabeth Croom was born on April 17, 1837, in Quincy, Florida. Her parents, William Whitfield Croom and Julia Stephens Croom, were descendants of prominent North Carolina families. Her father worked as a cotton commission merchant and broker. The Croom family moved from Florida to Columbus, Georgia, in 1850 so that Elizabeth and her brother, Cicero Stephens Croom, could attain a better education; Elizabeth attended the Reverend Thomas Bog Slade's school for girls.\nIn 1853, William Croom's fabric business interests led him to move his family to New York City, where Elizabeth studied at the Spingler Institute, graduating in 1856. The Croom family returned to the South in 1857 after William Croom's business failed. He bought 1,000 acres in Bolivar County, Mississippi, and established a plantation. Elizabeth lived with her parents until her marriage on May 12, 1858, to her first cousin, physician Charles Edward Bellamy. Within a year, William and Julia Croom had relocated to Eutaw, Greene County, Alabama and Elizabeth and her husband took over operation of the Croom plantation. In the spring of 1859, Bellamy gave birth to her first child, Bryan, and in 1861 to her second child, Elizabeth, who was called \"Bessie.\"\nOn June 17, 1862, Bryan Bellamy died of unknown causes at the age of three. Although still grieving over the loss of their child, Edward Bellamy enlisted in the Confederate Army in July 1862, soon after the outbreak of the Civil War. In December of that year, the couple's daughter Bessie died. Edward Bellamy was promoted to surgeon in 1863, received the rank of major, and was ordered to report to Ringgold, Georgia, with the 38th Alabama Regiment. After falling ill with typhoid fever, he died on July 27, 1863.\nHaving lost both children and her husband in the course of a year, Elizabeth Bellamy moved to her parents' home in Eutaw in late October 1863. To defray her parents' financial burdens resulting from the war, she took a position teaching at the Mesopotamia Female Seminary in the town. At the end of the Civil War, the Croom family found itself in dire financial straits. Elizabeth continued to teach and, with the encouragement of her brother, Stephens, began submitting her writing for publication. Elizabeth began writing when she was a student at the Spingler Institute. Some of her school essays hinted at her future potential. \"A Soiree Musicale,\" written between 1854 and 1855, described the trials and tribulations of students performing a school musical. Her first published work, the poem \"Patria Dolorosa,\" appeared in the Mobile Sunday Times on August 26, 1866, under the byline E.W.B. The poem described the destruction of the post-Civil War South.\nIn 1867, Elizabeth achieved a nationwide audience when her first novel, Four Oaks, was published under the pseudonym, Kamba Thorpe. The novel examines the social life of a group of quirky characters and social climbers in the fictitious community of Netherford in 1854. Although Four Oaks received praise from national literary critics, it was not a financial success for Elizabeth. She continued to write romances for the next decade, however. After a hiatus of several years, in 1884, Croom shifted her subject matter to the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans and how they dealt with their new circumstances. She also began publishing her work under her own name, producing novels, short-story collections, and short stories in national journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Lippincott's, and Ladies Home Journal. These literary works never provided her with financial security, however, most likely because they appeared in serial form before publication in novel form. Thus, Bellamy continued to teach to support herself. In 1868, she accepted a better teaching position in Gainesville, Sumter County, Alabama, where she lived until 1877, when her brother invited her to live with him in Mobile. Although she continued to teach part-time, she was able to devote most of her time to her writing in this new living situation and began experimenting with realism and science fiction.\nIn 1884, Stephens Croom died at age 45, leaving his young son and wife, Mary Marshall Croom, without any means of financial support. Elizabeth was forced to return to teaching full time, and soon she and her sister-in-law opened a school in their home. Elizabeth continued to publish and gave lectures on literary topics such as Shakespeare, bringing in some additional money.\nElizabeth developed Bright's Disease, a form of chronic kidney failure, in 1893. She continued to write, although her health\ndeteriorated over the next seven years. She died April 13, 1900, and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Mobile.\nSelected Works by Elizabeth Croom Bellamy\nPublished under Kamba Thorpe\nFour Oaks (1867)\nBarbara's Folly (1873)\nThe Memorable Trip (1875)\nA Woman's Work (1876)\nThe Little Joanna (1876)\nThe Master's Daughter (1878)\nPublished under Elizabeth W. Bellamy\nAt Bent's Hotel (1884)\nOld Man Gilbert (1888)\nPenny Lancaster, Farmer (1889)\nDoctor Bob (1889)\nEaster Sunshine (1892)\nThe Luck of the Pendennings (1895)\nEly's Automatic Housemaid (1899)\nDonaldson, Anthony. \"A Guide to the Velma and Stephens G. Croom Collection.\" Mobile: The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1999.\nMacInerney, Dorothy M. \"Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy: The Life and Works of a Southern Belle.\" Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1996.\nWilliams, Benjamin Buford. A Literary History of Alabama: The Nineteenth Century. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 1979.\nPublished March 2, 2011\nLast updated May 9, 2011", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The algorithms would likely run better on chips with faster math operations, non-linear math ops min,max,saturate,etc. In 1964, professor Zadeh started wondering, if there wasn't a better logic to use in machinery. For example, one may declare that any instance of modus ponens is sound if the degree of truth of the conclusion is not lower than that of the strong conjunction of its premises. Fuzzy Logic control may not scale well to large or complex problems Fuzzy logic can be easily confused with probability theory, and the terms used interchangeably. However, the situation may be more complex in real world because the fuzzy characters of parameters. Instead, as the temperature changes, it loses value in one membership function while gaining value in the next. Completeness can be achieved either by including an infinitary inference rule Hay 1963 or by generalizing the set of truth-values see next section.\nIn case of colors, for example, between white and black there is a whole infinite scale: the shades of gray. Thanks for your invitation to share our colleagues in this interesting and beautiful branch of mathematics that extends our knowledge and take us away from the classical theories and branches of science that sometimes disable to interpret many scientific phenomena and sometimes lack to have applications to modern technology. Although comparatively brief, this section is not at all sketchy or too selective; rather, it can serve as a self-contained, necessarily selective introduction into the history of nonclassical logics. In first order fuzzy logic the semantics is defined as follows. It is a branch of many-valued logic based on the paradigm of inference under vagueness. Dauben, a distinguished expert on the history of mathematics and logic. We say that s is decidable if both s and its complement —s are recursively enumerable.\nSince 2005 he is College Lecturer at the Faculty of History and Arts, at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. An example of such kind of reasoning is If a tomato is red, then the tomato is ripe. However, the broad range of presented applications is certainly impressive. For example, in Varl ʘ there are structures with infinitesimal truth values. Hajek and followed by Di Nola, Esteva, Gottwald, Godo, Montagna, Mundici and by a large series of students, is very close to the tradition of multi-valued logic. Fuzzy Logic can be used to represent some kinds of human expertise. Fuzzy logic is the extension of classical logic that takes values from 0 to 1.\nThe primary constraints are possibilistic, veristic and probabilistic. It seems entirely reasonable to talk about some application domain in advertisements if your product has features that enhance its suitability for that domain. Moreover, I associates every n-ary predicate name r with an n-ary L-relation I r : D n L in D. Observe that in the case L is not complete it is possible that a quantified formula cannot be evaluated. In scientific theories, representation of constraints is generally oversimplified. As already mentioned, I expect that some philosophers, in particular those who think that an adequate theory of vagueness should either not sacrifice the principle of bivalence at all, or at most admit the possibility of gaps or gluts of truth, rather than degrees of truth, may find points of disagreement here. A generalized constraint may be generated by combining, projecting, qualifying, propagating and counterpropagating other generalized constraints.\nIn the first case the following negative result holds true. Furthermore, in fuzzy logic everything is or is allowed to be granulated, with a granule being a clump of attribute-values drawn together by indistinguishability, similarity, proximity or functionality. Mendel, Uncertain Rule-Based Fuzzy Logic Systems: Introduction and New Directions, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2000. They are the products of decades of development and theoretical analysis, and are highly effective. In other words, its ranking in the category of cold decreases as it becomes more highly ranked in the warmer category.\nThe input stage maps sensor or other inputs, such as switches, thumbwheels, and so on, to the appropriate membership functions and truth values. Yamakawa subsequently made the demonstration more sophisticated by mounting a wine glass containing water and even a live mouse to the top of the pendulum: the system maintained stability in both cases. Moreover, there is a unique logic of arbitrary continuous t-norms, nowadays called Hajek's Basic Logic. This means that, for every formula α i, we have to specify whether i α i is assumed as a logical axiom or; ii α i is assumed as an hypothesis or; iii α i is obtained by a rule in this case we have to indicate the rule and the formulas from α 1,. Prade, Possibility Theory, Plenum Press, New York, 1988.\nA method is explained that proceeds by fixing a suitable fuzzy logic in the narrow sense and then translating the informal classical meta-language of the original definition into this logic. In any case, the authors clarify that there are various types and models of uncertainty and correspondingly numerous logics of belief. Instead, something much more valuable and interesting is offered here. A proof π of a formula α is a sequence α 1,. All this sounds rather exciting, but it has to be asked whether one can really develop substantial parts of mathematics in the indicated version of set theory, called Cantor-Lukasiewicz set theory by Hàjek 2005. The centroid method favors the rule with the output of greatest area, while the height method obviously favors the rule with the greatest output value. A classical set is defined by crisp boundaries, i.\nZadeh, Outline of a computational approach to meaning and knowledge representation based on the concept of a generalized assignment statement, Proceedings of the International Seminar on Artificial Intelligence and Man-Machine Systems, M. This is particularly important in view of the early criticism of fuzzy logic as lacking a solid mathematical foundation. While I recommend reading all of it in sequence, I think that it can also profitably be used as a kind of compendium, to be consulted whenever a general question about some aspect of fuzzy logic arises. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich. Let T be a theory, then D,I is a model of T if every formula in T is satisfied in D,I. Assume that either D,I or s is subject to a slightly variation as a consequence of a tuning process, an essential component in all the applications in fuzzy mathematics.\nExtension principle has many versions. Voting semantics is based on the idea that different agents voters may coherently judge the same proposition differently. The way around this is to make the states fuzzy. In boolean logic there are two options for answer i. Although words are inherently less precise than numbers, their use is closer to human intuition. In bivalent logic, this simply is not allowed.\nFurthermore, computing with words exploits the tolerance for imprecision and thereby lowers the cost of solution. That is, allow them to change gradually from one state to the next. Klir Fuzzy Logic and Mathematics: A Historical Perspective Published: June 13, 2018 Radim Bělohlávek, Joseph W. Inference Engine: It helps you to determines the degree of match between fuzzy input and the rules. Cruise control Nissan, Isuzu, Mitsubishi Use it to adjusts throttle setting to set car speed and acceleration Dishwasher Matsushita Use for adjusting the cleaning cycle, rinse and wash strategies based depend upon the number of dishes and the amount of food served on the dishes. Also in Gerla 2005 another logical approach to fuzzy control is proposed based on fuzzy logic programming.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Editor's note: My Lightroom Classic articles have moved to my new website Mastering Lightroom. Visit the store and get 20% off any ebook or ebook bundle with the code ml20 (valid until midnight October 21). Thanks for reading, Andrew.\nBefore we look at ISO in digital photography, a little history. Prior to the creation of the ISO standard (and digital cameras), there were two ways to measure film speed – ASA and DIN.\nASA was the most commonly used and easiest to understand. It worked on a linear scale, which means that a film that was twice as sensitive to light as another had double the ASA number. That way it’s easy to see that a 400 ASA rated film is twice as sensitive to light as a 200 ASA film.\nDIN, on the other hand, used a logarithmic scale that wasn’t as intuitive. For example, a 100 ASA film had a DIN of 21, a 200 ASA film a DIN of 24, a 400 ASA film a DIN of 27 and so on. Each increment of three indicates a doubling of the speed of the film.\nIn the end, DIN was replaced by ASA, which in turned was renamed to ISO, the international standard that all camera and film manufacturers use today.\nIf you want to learn more about DIN and ASA this Wikipedia article has all the detail.\nWhy do we use ISO to measure light sensitivity?\nThe reason that ISO works so well as a measure of light sensitivity is that it makes it easy to think of film speed or the the ISO settings on a digital camera in stops.\nFor example, if you change the aperture setting of your lens from f8 to f11, you halve the amount of light entering the lens.\nThat means you need to double the ISO in a digital camera to keep the exposure the same (assuming that the light levels and shutter speed are unchanged).\nThis calculation is so easy to make once you understand the basics of exposure you don’t even have to think about it.\nWhat is ISO?\nIn (really) simple terms, ISO tells you how sensitive the camera’s sensor is to light.\nAt ISO 50, 100 or 200 your camera’s sensor is least sensitive to light. More light needs to reach it to get a good exposure.\nAt higher settings, like 6400 or 12800, the sensor is much more sensitive to light. You can get a good exposure with much less light.\nThat’s all you need to know in order to use ISO properly on your digital camera. But it’s more interesting to dig a little deeper into how it works.\nHow ISO really works\nYour camera’s sensor has a set sensitivity to light. This is known as the camera’s base ISO, usually 100 or 200.\nWhen you take a photo the sensor’s pixels measure the quantity of light that hits them. Your camera reads these measurements and turns them into a digital file.\nIf you set a higher ISO and leave the aperture and shutter speed unchanged (and the ambient light level stays the same!) then the amount of light reaching the sensor is also unchanged.\nThe difference is that your camera amplifies the measurements made by the sensor to compensate for the lower light levels. In other words, the sensor’s sensitivity to light stays the same, but your camera amplifies the signal to simulate the effect of increasing ISO.\nWhy is an ISO standard important?\nWe use an ISO standard because it’s important that photos taken with different camera and lens combinations all produce the same results, when it comes to exposure, at the same aperture, shutter speed, and ISO settings.\nThe ISO standard is set by the International Organization for Standardization. All camera manufacturers use this standard to measure and rate the sensitivity to light of their camera sensors.\nBecause of this a photo taken at ISO 200, f7.1 and 1/200th of a second, such as the one below shot with my Fujifilm X-T1, should look the same as one taken at the same settings on your camera.\nIn another scenario, imagine a studio photographer sets up some lights and uses a flash meter to measure that the required exposure is, say, f8 at ISO 100. It’s important to know that this exposure setting works for any film or digital camera.\nIn practice, there may be variations in the accuracy of ISO settings between different camera models. But with digital cameras at least, these are minor and nothing to worry about.\nNow it’s time to take a closer look at ISO and what the choice of ISO setting means for your photos.\nHow to use ISO\nISO is part of the exposure triangle. The aperture and shutter speed settings determine how much light enters your camera’s lens and reaches the camera’s sensor. The ISO, for all practical purposes, determines how sensitive your sensor is to light. Your selected combination of all three settings determines whether your photo is accurately exposed or not.\nISO, aperture and shutter speed all work together. You can’t leave one out of them of your exposure calculations.\nHow to choose the best ISO setting for your camera\nGenerally speaking the best ISO setting to use, in terms of image quality, is your camera’s base ISO setting.\nFor example, I used ISO 100 for this landscape photo.\nThe thing is, there are three sides to the exposure triangle. You may want to use a small aperture to get lots of depth of field. You may be shooting in low light for the mood. In the photo above I set the aperture to f8 and needed a shutter speed of 30 seconds to get a good exposure.\nThat’s fine for landscape photography, but what if you’re hand-holding the camera? Then you need to set a certain shutter speed to prevent camera shake. Or what if you want to set the aperture to f8, but the light levels mean you can only use f2.8 at your camera’s base ISO?\nFor instance, in this photo I decided to use a shutter speed of 1/180 second and an aperture of f3.2. The low light (it was taken indoors in a dark building) meant I needed to use ISO 3200 for accurate exposure.\nAll factors need to be taken into consideration. Creative decisions like depth of field are as important as image quality. There are times when you have to use a higher ISO setting to get a good exposure.\nISO and noise\nBut raising ISO has side effects. It decreases dynamic range and increases noise. It’s not the only factor that effects noise (underexposure is another) but it’s a major one.\nLuckily, thanks to the high ISO performance of digital cameras this isn’t the problem it once was (although you still need to be aware of it).\nI remember having to think hard about whether to use ISO 400 instead of ISO 100 on my first digital SLR. Now you are more likely to be worrying about whether you should be using ISO 3200, 6400 or 12800.\nThe best approach is this. When image quality is a priority use your camera’s base ISO (100 or 200). If it’s not practical to use that ISO setting then use a higher one. Aim to keep it as low as possible but don’t worry too much about it. And always remember that depth of field and shutter speed are just as important as ISO.\nAvoiding Auto ISO\nAnother benefit of using digital cameras is that most models have an Auto ISO setting. That’s where you let the camera decide what ISO to use rather than make the decision yourself.\nThere are a few reasons why I don’t like using Auto ISO (and hence don’t recommend it to other people).\nI learned photography on film cameras so I’ve been trained to think of ISO as a a fixed quantity, not a variable one. That’s a hard habit to break.\nMy camera tends to err on the side of setting a high ISO. Yes, you can usually control this to a degree by setting the highest ISO setting your camera can use. But as you might need to change this depending on the situation it makes the business of setting ISO more complex than it needs to be. It’s easier to set ISO yourself and change it if you need to.\nFinally, setting the ISO yourself makes you think about the relationship between ISO and image quality.\nFor example, let’s say you’re in a situation where you are hand-holding the camera and can’t use a slower shutter speed because of camera shake. But light levels have dropped and you need to adjust the exposure.\nIf you open the aperture, you’ll have less depth of field. If you raise the ISO, you’ll get more noise.\nYou have to make a choice. What’s more important, depth of field or noise? You get to make the decision. You have creative control, your camera doesn’t.\nHere’s an example. I made the photo below indoors with a hand-held camera. I set the shutter speed 10 1/125th of a second to avoid camera shake. Then I decided to shoot at ISO 6400 and f5.6 to give good depth of field. Alternatively, I could have used settings of ISO 800 and f2 to make a photo with much less depth of field. The choice is yours!\nHaving said that, I understand that some photographers like to use Auto ISO. They find it useful when taking photos in situations that don’t give you much time to think about camera settings, such as taking photos of active kids.\nSo, feel free to experiment with Auto ISO. Learn how it works on your camera and make up your own mind about whether it’s useful for you.\nFull-frame versus crop sensor and medium format cameras\nGenerally speaking the larger your camera’s sensor the better the image quality, especially when it comes to noise.\nThat’s why some photographers prefer to buy full-frame or even medium format cameras rather than cameras with APS-C or Micro Four-thirds sensors.\nBut, if you’re thinking about buying a new camera, don’t feel you have to buy a full-frame model.\nIn practice the image quality (especially regarding high ISO performance and noise) on crop sensor cameras is more than good enough for most photographers.\nThere are plenty of pro photographers that use APS-C or even Micro Four-thirds cameras. If the image quality is good enough for a pro, then it’s good enough for a hobbyist.\nFor example, when I tested my Fujifilm X-T1 camera, which I bought when it was Fujifilm’s newest model, against my older Canon EOS 5D Mark II I found that the image quality from the newer camera (APS-C sensor) visibly beat that of the older full-frame camera.\nI’m not knocking Canon. The difference is due to advances in sensor technology. You can expect this trend to continue in coming years.\nAPS-C and Micro Four-thirds cameras have advantages in terms of size, weight and price over full-frame cameras. Noise and image quality are important, but they’re not the only factors to consider.\nThis is part of a series of lessons about photographic exposure. You can read the other lessons using the links below.\n- Exposure Lesson #1: How to Choose an Exposure Mode\n- Exposure Lesson #2: Why Cameras Get Exposure Wrong\n- Exposure Lesson #3: Does the Metering Mode Matter?\n- Exposure Lesson #4: Manual Mode\n- Exposure Lesson #5: How to Read a Camera Histogram\n- Exposure Lesson #6: Exposing to the Right\n- Exposure Lesson #7: Exposure Compensation Or Manual Mode?\n- Exposure Lesson #8: How To Use Bulb Mode Successfully\nMastering Exposure ebook\nHave you ever wondered why your digital camera has so many exposure modes, and what each one does? Or why it’s so easy to under- or overexpose your photos even with the latest cameras and most advanced evaluative or matrix metering modes?\nOur best-selling ebook Mastering Exposure teaches you how to get the best exposure every time, no matter how tricky the light.", "label": "No"}
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{"text": "Found in library: students using Wikipedia\nBorn in 2001, Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia, has grown to contain over 2million articles and attracts nearly 700 million visitors per year.\nDespite its heavy use, this tool has not been without controversy. This is largely due to the fact that anyone can contribute to Wikipedia and no specialized qualifications are necessary. Users may edit the content of an existing story, or write an entirely new piece. Thus, the accuracy of the information is often questioned.\nNonetheless, the creators of Wikipedia have established editing policies and standards. Anyone can dispute the content of an article, and that disputed information is then subject to removal.\nAlthough Wikipedia may be a great site to find background information or a summary on a specific topic, and its accessibility is appealing, we encourage you to use it carefully, always considering your source. As always, feel free to contact us with any of your information needs.\nAlso See “4 Ways to Use Wikipedia” from Gearfire, a student productivity and organization blog.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Engaging with other people and honing your social skills can be challenging for anyone, but these challenges are magnified for children and adults on the autism spectrum. People with autism usually have the desire to interact and engage with others, but are often overwhelmed by new social experiences and therefore have a hard time making friends.\nIntegrating social skills with practice enhances participation in the community and results in desirable outcomes, like building a social circle and having social fulfillment.\nWhat are Social Skills?\nIn a nutshell, these are rules and customs that guide our daily interactions with one another. These skills are inherently learned growing up; and over time, learning these social norms enables us to map out how to act in different social situations. But for people with autism, learning and honing these skills can be difficult. This leads them to navigate social situations without the experience of their peers.\nWhere to Learn Social Skills?\nSocial skills can be learned from different settings and different people. From home and school. To just being a part of the general community, there’s someone who can impart appropriate social skills. But if you’d like to advance the development of these skills. There are professionals who can aid in the adoption of social skills and the perception of social cues. For children, you might want to consider an education setting designed especially for kids on the spectrum. Such as an autism school. Orange County and other areas of California are home to several autism schools that can help facilitate appropriate social interactions.\nThe professionals that will be helping in this journey. Must be able to coordinate with the student’s family, friends, and/or colleagues. To properly strategize a way to make learning easier for the child. Here are some professionals who can assist with navigating social environments and scenarios:\n- Special Education Teachers\n- Speech Pathologists\n- Behavioral Therapists\n- School Psychologists\n- Occupational Therapists (for adults)\nSocial Skill Support Groups: Are They Effective?\nSocial skill support groups are a way to create a social setting for people. With autism to learn about and navigate social situations. This is an effective and methodological procedure in which the person. Autism is given small increments of change in regard to social interactions. This allows them to get comfortable with practicing different social skills in a facilitated and safe environment.\nAn effective social skills group would need to have the following:\n- Simplifies language for children based on their cognitive level and language adaptivity\n- Encourages working in groups or pairs\n- Builds self-awareness and increases self-esteem\n- Explains and shatters complex and abstract concepts into more understandable bits\n- Provides multiple and diverse opportunities for learning\nProfessional Help in Orange County — Orange County Autism Services\nIf you’re living in Southern California. Orange County autism services are available to help you or your loved one learn essential social skills. Any established autism school in Orange County that offers programs. Counseling, behaviorally designed classrooms. Free resources and emotional support can also be beneficial to someone that may be struggling with social situations. The right autism health service provider along with a trusted autism school. Orange County residents rely on can provide the resources and proper guidance. So that one can better adapt to society despite the challenges of having autism.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Water Filtration Systems\nIn order for water to be used in most cases after pumping it will need to be filtered to some degree. The type of filtration required depends on the proposed use of the water. If the water is to be just for irrigation then often no filtration is necessary or a simple sediment filter to catch any sand particles.\nIf however you intend to drink the water then some or all of the items listed below may apply to you.\nThe type of filtration you may need will depend on the results of your water analysis.\nIf you are to drink or consume the water it MUST be filtered to keep in line with the drinking water standards regulations which states the minimum if the water is pure (proven by water test results) there must be an Ultra violet light and sediment filter fitted.\nAs a guide to filtration please read the following: (Click links for more information)\nThe process of pumping water through what are known as sediment filters. These types of filters remove solid particulate from the water. Solid contaminants such as grit, organic matter, sand etc will always be encountered and can be seen with the naked eye. Contaminants in dilution can also be removed with this method and usually cannot be seen with the naked eye.\nThe presence of high levels of metals in your water can cause numerous problems both in terms of health & equipment. Iron for example can in high quantities, give the water an unpleasant metal taste & colour it dark brown or orange. It will also stain anything it comes into contact with and is not good for humans.\nIf required, is to add a water softener. If the water is to be used in heating systems for example a water heater, tap or shower head, a water softener is advisable to prevent scale build up. This is particularly necessary in hard water areas.\nIn some cases the water can be lower then 7 which is acidic. A ph level of 6 is more acidic then a level of 7 by 10 times! We are able to install PH correction units to bring the PH level back to neutral to enable safe usage of the water.\nSometimes the water you draw may contain harmful chemicals which cannot be removed with standard filters. In such cases other specialist filters can be used which will remove or reduce the harmful effects of many specific chemicals for example: Chlorine, lead, benzene, arsenic, mercury, cadmium, nitrates & pesticides.\nTo destroy any pathogens that will be present through what are known as Ultra Violet filters. These filter types destroy all & any bacteria which may be present rendering your water clean & suitable for drinking. The wattage is specified based on your water test results.\nIt is far beyond the scope of this webpage to offer a definitive list of all known harmful or undesirable substances & the various means to remove them. Should your analysis show the presence of harmful substances we will advise you of your options & the filtration solutions available.\nIf you require a water test or would like advice please get in touch with us.\nFor filtration maintenance and servicing please get in touch with us for quotations, regular servicing or simple advice.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "At the close of his presidency in 1999, Nelson Mandela praised Mohandas Gandhi for believing that the “destiny” of Indians in South Africa was “inseparable from that of the oppressed African majority.” In other words, Gandhi had fought for the freedom of Africans, setting the pattern for his later effort to liberate India from British rule.\nNothing could be more misleading. Gandhi’s concern for the African majority — “the Kaffirs,” in his phrase — was negligible. During his South African years (1893-1914), argue Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed in “The South African Gandhi,” he was far from an “anti-racist, anti-colonial fighter on African soil.” He had found his way to South Africa mainly by the accident of being offered a better job there than he could find in Bombay. He regarded himself as a British subject. He aimed at limited integration of Indians into white society. Their new status would secure Indian rights but would also acknowledge white supremacy. In essence, he wanted to stabilize the Indian community within the stratified system that later became known as apartheid.\nGandhi’s two decades in South Africa did enable him to perfect the methods and aims of nonviolent resistance, but he practiced them solely on behalf of Indians. Gandhi was especially concerned with the indentured laborers of the sugar plantations in Natal, where the Indian population since the mid-19th century had grown to some 150,000, outnumbering whites. From the time of his arrival, he suffered such indignities as being forced off a train even though he held a first-class ticket and being pushed from the sidewalk into the gutter. But he remained loyal to the ideals of the British Empire, to, in his words, its “spiritual foundations.”\nGandhi’s principal adversary was Jan Christian Smuts. They were born a year apart, Gandhi in 1869 and Smuts in 1870. Both studied law in England. Smuts received highest honors at Cambridge. Though leading a lonely existence, he established lifelong contact with some of Cambridge’s more prominent intellectuals. By contrast, Gandhi acquired legal credentials while becoming acquainted with Helena Blavasky, the occultist and founder of the Theosophical Society, and with Annie Besant, another theosophist, with whom Gandhi discussed “the universal brotherhood of humanity.” Both Gandhi and Smuts shared the assumption that black Africans were simply, in Smuts’s summation, “barbarians.”\nThey fought on the opposite sides of the Boer War (1899-1902). Smuts rose to the rank of general, and Gandhi waged one of his most conspicuous campaigns on behalf of the British. He organized an “ambulance corps” of no fewer than 11,000 Indians, who helped wounded soldiers find their way to field hospitals, often by bearing them on stretchers. In the fierce battle of Spion Kop in Natal, Gandhi, with the discipline of a sergeant major, led his volunteers through rough terrain in blistering heat and heavy fire to save British lives. The Indian volunteers found the terrain so rough that stretchers proved impossible to use, so injured soldiers had to be carried individually. Gandhi’s bravery proved that he was willing to sacrifice his own life to save the lives of others and, in this case, to further the purposes of the British Empire.\nGandhi was never naïve enough to think that the Indian communities in Durban and Johannesburg would achieve social equality with whites. But they were, he believed, entitled to legal protection. The viceroy in India agreed with Gandhi. The status of overseas Indians was a sensitive issue. The power and influence of the Raj lent force to the cause of upholding the rights of British subjects—Indians—in South Africa.\nGandhi’s legal credentials enabled him to practice law in South Africa. He challenged the government with petitions, thereby raising issues such as the right of Indians to own property. His success in organizing protest movements brought him to such prominence that he was able to meet with high-ranking officials, including Smuts, by then on his way to becoming prime minister.\nGandhi helped lead the two Indian rebellions of the era in South Africa, one in 1906 and the other in 1913. Both had origins in complaints about working conditions and the ambiguous status of Indian immigrants. In 1906, Indians protested against the Black Act, which required them to be fingerprinted—a practice reserved in India for common criminals. At one point Gandhi was briefly jailed, on Smuts’s own orders, as a result of his followers turning peaceful protests into riots.\nWhen Gandhi eventually met with Smuts, they reached agreement, according to Gandhi, that the petty restrictions of the Black Act would be repealed. Smuts did not believe that he had made any fundamental concessions. In fact many of the restrictions were not repealed but recast sufficiently, so Smuts thought, to meet Gandhi’s satisfaction. He had not taken notes and failed to catch some of Gandhi’s exactitude. Gandhi later declared that he had been deceived. At their next and last meeting, some seven years later, Smuts took care precisely to transcribe all legal and other points.\nThe revolt of 1913 arose over the question of sending Indian dissidents back to India if they protested about wages or rights to property. In this action, the authors argue, Gandhi perfected the revolutionary technique of nonviolent resistance. At one point he led 13,000 Indians in protest. Gandhi proclaimed victory. Yet Smuts deftly secured important points regarding immigration and land ownership.\nGandhi was capable of spontaneous goodwill, as he demonstrated not only with Smuts but also later with Lord Irwin (Halifax) in India. In both cases, he characteristically laughed at his own inconsistencies and reaffirmed his faith in the ideals of the British Empire. He inspired intellectual and emotional bonds. Both sides could at least try to comprehend their differences and attempt to forge mutual respect. But it was an undertaking that had nothing to do with the African majority. Smuts believed that he could make minor concessions on such matters as passports and minimal labor laws, which persuaded Gandhi that Indians had secured legal protection.\nWhen Gandhi left South Africa in 1914, he was hailed as the Mahatma (Great Soul). He thereafter wore a loincloth and shawl, looking not much different from the way Churchill famously described him later as a fakir striding “half-naked” up the steps of the viceroy’s palace.\n“The South African Gandhi” deals comprehensively with Gandhi’s decisive two decades in South Africa. It complements Perry Anderson’s “The Indian Ideology” (2013), which explains how Gandhi later treated the Dalits, or Untouchables, much as he had dealt with black Africans.\nFor my taste, the book’s tone is too academic, but the authors use sound evidence and argue their case relentlessly—Gandhi’s vision did not include the majority of the people in South Africa, the Africans themselves. Gandhi was consistent, but in ways quite at variance with the general belief that he championed all parts of society, whether in South Africa or, in regard to caste, in India. “The South African Gandhi” helps explain the complexity and contradictions of Gandhi’s personality while emphasizing the way in which he became a symbol of peaceful means to resolve conflict.\nYou may also like:\nAnd these book reviews on Not Even Past:\n- Gail Minault on The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan (2008).\n- Dharitri Bhattacharjee on Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope by Judith M. Brown (1989).\n- Sundar Vadlamudi on Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India by Loseph Lelyveld (2010)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Join George Maestri for an in-depth discussion in this video Using the exercise files, part of Maya Essentials 2: Polygonal Modeling Techniques.\n- View Offline\nIf you're a lynda.com Premium Subscriber, or you got this course on DVD, you will get a copy of the exercise files that I use in this course. Now if you want to follow along with those files, go ahead and copy them to your Desktop like I have here. The exercise files folder has a number of subfolders here, and we have one for each chapter in the course. Now each one of these folder is a standard Maya project with a standard Maya directory structure.\nSo when you start a chapter, go into Maya and make sure you do File > Set Project and go to your Desktop and find the appropriate tools. So go ahead and select ModelingTools as your project and hit Set. Now when you do that, you will be able to find your assets very easily. All you have to do is to do an Open Scene, and it should show up as the first folder. So go ahead and get that set up, and we can get started with Maya Essentials 2: Polygonal modeling Techniques.\n- Creating and modifying polygonal objects\n- Editing with reflection\n- Smoothing objects\n- Keeping faces together\n- Using the Polygon Bridge tool\n- Selecting and editing edge loops\n- Spinning edges\n- Working with objects history\n- Modeling symmetrically\n- Merging vertices\n- Combining objects\n- Using the Crease tool", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Technology Enhanced Language Learning Connecting Theory And Practice PdfBy Claudia C. In and pdf 24.03.2021 at 21:57 7 min read\nFile Name: technology enhanced language learning connecting theory and practice .zip\nGoodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving….\n- Technology enhanced language learning : connecting theory and practice\n- What’s the Use of Technology? Insights from EFL Classrooms in Chinese Secondary Schools\n- Technology enhanced language learning: Connecting theory and practice\nTechnology enhanced language learning : connecting theory and practice\nTechnology is believed to have benefits for learning. Since , research has flourished in the use of technology in second and foreign-language FL learning Chapelle ; Lim and Shen Baek et al. Results suggest that, overall, teachers demonstrate positive attitudes towards using technology, and various factors were reported to influence this see Ertmer and Ottenbreit- Leftwich ; Li ; Tondeur et al. However, in terms of the actual use of technology in teaching, in a range of educational settings across different countries, studies indicate that teachers are reluctant technology users see, for example, Li and Walsh b; Yang and Huang , although various forms of technology have been reported in language classrooms, including both stand-alone computer tools and web 2. Unable to display preview.\nWhat’s the Use of Technology? Insights from EFL Classrooms in Chinese Secondary Schools\nYou do not have to be a weather forecaster to know which way the wind is blowing. In our profession, the current wind of technology, the main topic of this book, seems to be blowing from all directions and in all directions at once. No one, from the youngest of young learners to the most senior executive in ELT publishing, can afford to be indifferent to the technological winds of change. The last, because I suspect that like many retired colleagues, I am happy that for most of my ELT career, Most users should sign in with their email address. If you originally registered with a username please use that to sign in.\nStudy-Unit Description. It is useful to have a set of guidelines to be able to critically evaluate resources, and to use when designing or adapting materials for diverse learners. Specific reference will be made to both technology-based and no-tech resources. By carrying out practical tasks and engaging in relevant readings, the study unit proposes to equip participants with a critical lens through which to evaluate no-tech, low-tech and technology-based resources so that the methodological and pedagogical underpinnings are brought to the surface and evaluated for their usefulness and soundness. Study-Unit Aims: This study-unit aims to prepare students to contend with the considerable range of resources for learning and discovery that are available for the teaching of English and to critically evaluate these for their usefulness and effectiveness in helping learners in the classroom and beyond. The study unit also aims to equip students with the necessary skills and knowledge to produce contextually relevant and pedagogically sound no-tech and low-tech materials to meet their learners' needs and learning outcomes.\nTechnology enhanced language learning: Connecting theory and practice\nSkip to search form Skip to main content You are currently offline. Some features of the site may not work correctly. Walker and G. Walker , G. White Published Sociology, Computer Science.\nThe most contentious chapter is the final one in whichWilliams critiques commercial coursemanagement software, arguing that through their use of Blackboard or similar systems,academics are complicit in reproducing institutional and cultural ideologies that are as hierarchical, rigid and prescriptive asthe software p. The walled-in enclave p. While the software enables surveillance of students through unsophisticated learner analytics, the system canbe satisfied by such means as opening discussion forums so that the action is noted, but not actually reading the posts. Excepting the glimpses of a dystopian world in which academics are judged through their Klout scores and students areimprisoned within course management software, the book offers us an online world in which creativity and open access areencouraged.\nComputer-based virtual learning environments CBVLEs are potentially useful teaching tools for training nursing students in professional duties such as the mathematical tasks associated with medication proces Authors: Diana P. Van Luit.\nAll rights reserved. Powered by Blogger.\nБеккер остановился, недоумевая, откуда им известно его имя. - Кто… кто вы. - Пройдемте с нами, пожалуйста.\nЭто приказ. Чатрукьян пнул ногой урну и выругался вслух - благо лаборатория была пуста: - Диагностика, черт ее дери. С каких это пор заместитель директора начал действовать в обход фильтров. Сотрудникам лаборатории платили хорошие деньги, чтобы они охраняли компьютерные системы АНБ, и Чатрукьян давно понял, что от него требуются две вещи: высочайший профессионализм и подозрительность, граничащая с паранойей. Черт возьми! - снова мысленно выругался .\nКабинет постепенно утопал в дыму. Стало трудно дышать. Сьюзан бессильно прижалась к двери, за которой, всего в нескольких сантиметрах от нее, работала вентиляция, и упала, задыхаясь и судорожно хватая ртом воздух.\nКогда глаза Сьюзан немного привыкли к темноте, она посмотрела на дыру, зияющую в стеклянной стене. Свечение мониторов было очень слабым, но она все же разглядела вдали Хейла, лежащего без движения там, где она его оставила. Стратмора видно не .", "label": "No"}
{"text": "tips for living green\nWhat is Green Building?\nGreen building is an attitude. It's a lifestyle and our future. It's about making a difference—by protecting natural resources, conserving water and saving energy. Green building is a process, not a product. It's good design and good construction. It's being practical about the largest single investment for your future. It's getting the most out of every utility dollar. Green building is about comfort and healthy living. And feeling good. Whether you're taking advantage of what each lot has to offer, or simply using eco-friendly materials and appliances, green building is common sense. And Jim Rush is green building.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Psychotherapy is also referred to as talking treatment or the talking cure since this uses talking instead of medication. Some psychotherapy forms last for just several sessions and some are long term that can last for months or even years. Psychotherapy sessions often last for an hour once per week following carefully structured process.\nThese sessions are either one to one, in groups, or in pairs. Techniques can also include different forms of communication like music, narrative story, or drama.\nHe can also help as as a marriage and psychotherapist, a psychologist, a licensed mental health counselor or clinical social worker, a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, or a psychiatric nurse practitioner.\nWho Can Take Advantage of Psychotherapy?\nPsychotherapy proves to be very helpful for many people. Below are some of the feelings that signal that a person can benefit from this special form of therapy:\n- Overwhelming feelings of helplessness or sadness\n- Inability to handle or cope with day to day problems\n- Taking drugs, drinking too much, or being too aggressive to the extent of harming one’s self or other people\n- Difficulty to concentrate or focus on studies or work most of the time\n- A sense that there are no improvements in problems in spite of receiving help from family and friends\n- Worrying unnecessarily or always feeling on edge\nShould You See a Psychotherapist Soon?\nStress and depression are the two primary psychological conditions that affect your mental and physical wellbeing. Hopelessness and despair can pose a dangerous effect not only on your psyche as it can also you devour you from the inside. You might start to lose hope, gain weight and depend on some medications. This is why it is a must for people going through psychological weakness to seek professional help as soon as possible.\nStudies revealed that a lot of people in the world suffer from different mental ailments. But, only some of those who have moderate to severe causes undergo treatment. This kind of indifference to mental stability can have an adverse effect on different areas of your life, including workplace enthusiasm and family life.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Life is full of activity – and sometimes those activities include physical sports. Because accidents happen, having a tooth knocked out is more common than you might think. However, if this occurs, you may ask, “What happens if my tooth gets knocked out?” Keep reading! We’ll explore how to save a tooth – and what we can do if saving it isn’t possible.\nWhat Happens if My Tooth Gets Knocked Out?\nA tooth that is knocked out is called avulsed. When an accident occurs and a tooth is knocked out, it may be saved in some cases. But, it’s important to follow these procedures.\n1. When a Tooth is Knocked Out\nLocate the tooth right away and handle it carefully. For that reason, don’t touch the root as you could damage it. When you lose a tooth in an injury or accident, the blood vessels, nerves and tissues will also sustain damage. Unfortunately, the blood vessels and nerves can’t be repaired. Therefore, seeing your oral surgeon right away is very important.\n2. How to Handle a Tooth\nIf the tooth is dirty, don’t use any type of soap to clean or dry off. You can gently rinse it with milk. Keep it moist by placing the tooth back in your mouth in the socket and hold pressure. You can also store it in milk. If this happens to a child, it’s best to store the tooth with the child’s saliva. Water isn’t recommended, but can be used if needed for short time storage. Keeping it moist is what’s most important.\n3. Time is of the Essence\nIt’s recommended to have the tooth to the oral surgeon within 30 minutes. The tooth needs to be intact, but an oral surgeon can work with it if it’s been broken. Dental implants are good option if the tooth is lost or broken.\n4. When a Child Loses a Tooth\nIf a child loses a tooth you should follow these guidelines as though it’s a permanent tooth. Even though children eventually lose their baby teeth, an accident can cause problems. Gum damage due to carelessness can damage the permanent teeth below. This may also cause crooked teeth and eating problems because the permanent tooth can’t emerge properly.\nTreatment depends on the damage the tooth has sustained. A replantation may be successful if it’s done within 30 minutes and the supporting bone isn’t damaged. After that a root canal will follow. A bone graft may be needed if the bone was damaged. Bone grafting is a procedure during which bone grafting material is used to supplement the damaged bone. This can take several months to heal and be ready for dental implants. Sometimes when a serious injury has occurred neither implants nor bone grafts are an option. Therefore, the oral surgeon will clean, irrigate, and suture. In 2 or 3 months an implant may be an option. When it comes to using a temporary tooth, it can made within days for the patient.\nAn incident such as tooth loss is not something anyone wants to experience. However, if this should happen to you or a loved one, our skilled surgeons at East Brainerd Oral Surgery are here to help. Call us today at (423) 296-8210 for your appointment.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Geo- and Biosciences\nWith half of its landmass covered by forests and dotted with 1,521 islands, Estonia possesses incredible biodiversity. Add large wetlands and Europe’s largest oil-shale and rock phosphate deposits and it is easy to see that environmental researchers have their hands full. Geo- and biosciences bring together all those who monitor and address any environmental and ecological problems out there.\nFeaturing field: Ecological sciences in Estonia\nBio- and georepositories\nFrom fossils to live cells, these repositories hold a range of specimens that are actively used as bases for new research. Which is exactly why NATARC, the joint science roadmap for Estonian biologists and geologists, is coordinating the development of collections and digital archives. One, PlutoF, is a cloud database and computing service for taxonomic, ecologic and phylogenetic research. Another, SARV, is an information system for geological data.\nDevelopment of modern satellite and airborn remote sensing technology for monitoring vegetation, landscape and aquatic environment is done is close cooperation of Tartu Observatory, Marine system Institute at Tallinn Technical University, Estonian Marine institute at the University of Tartu and Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the Estonian University of Life Sciences.\nThere are three main hubs for ecological research in Estonia: the Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences at the University of Tartu, the Institute of Ecology at Tallinn University, and the Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the Estonian University of Life Sciences. The National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics rounds up the list with toxicology research into nanoparticles.\nMarine and inland water studies\nEstonia offers little to desert researchers. The country’s coastline is 3,794 kilometers long and Lake Peipus is the fourth-largest in Europe. Which is why marine and lake research has roots some two centuries deep. For example, sea-level measurements in Pärnu began in 1824 and Lake Peipus was one of the first places in the world where scientists began studying the impact of overfishing.\nInland water research is the domain of the Centre for Limnology at the Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.\nEstonia has three main institutions for marine studies:\n- Estonian Marine Institute at the University of Tartu is the country’s largest such organisation. Its research ranges from seawater physics to biology and from microscopic scale to full ecosystems. As can be expected, the Institute’s primary focus is on the ecosystem and functioning of the Baltic Sea.\n- The Marine Systems Institute at the Tallinn University of Technology conducts basic and applied research of physical and biogeochemical processes in the Baltic Sea. It also models these processes in the context of atmospheric, land and human impacts, and develops marine information systems, analysis and forecast methods.\n- The Institute of Cybernetics at the Tallinn University of Technology has many research directions. In the marine space, it studies complex and nonlinear phenomena in wave dynamics and coastal engineering, and applies mathematical methods to wave research.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "1. “Philadelphia” is a movie that gives an alternative perspective to the level of discrimination against HIV and prevalence of the disease in the early 1990s. The film gives a clear picture of a HIV positive man who is treated negatively by society and their portrayal of him. The main character, Andrew Beckett is a sharp, intelligent lawyer who works for a Philadelphia law firm. When he is diagnosed with AIDS, he does not inform his supervisors of the illness or his homosexuality. When the senior partners become aware of his sickness and sexual orientation, he is fired and dropped from an ongoing case. Issues of moral and ethical nature in relation to AIDS and connection to homosexuality are addressed.\nLegal issues play a central role in the movie. When Becket realizes what has been done to him is unjust, he fights for his rights through the court system. He hires lawyer Joe Miller to represent him (who is also familiar with discrimination being an African American) in his case against his former employer. The justice approach in the aspects of procedure and organization gives focus to procedures, their fairness and the determination of a particular ethical decision. Each party is given a voice and opportunity to present their case and evidence.\nEthical issues such as discrimination at the workplace and social areas are a key theme in the movie. Andrew Beckett is discriminated at the workplace because of his sexual orientation. Though he is an intelligent and efficient lawyer, in the process of an important case, his seniors fire him after they realize he is a homosexual and HIV positive. Social injustice is also seen when Beckett faces discrimination in the library by the librarian. Joe is caught in a dilemma whether to act or not. Lack of morals among the employers is shown when instead of showing empathy to the victim they treat him with a lot of stigmatization.\n2. The 1980s and 90swere marred by a looming epidemic of AIDS. Fourteen million patients were recorded worldwide in 1993. These statistics caused an upsurge and fear among many. In the movie, AIDS was seen as a crime against oneself and society in general. They associated AIDS with promiscuous misconduct and saw punishment as the only solution for the disease. Society therefore, discriminated against people with the disease and others were secluded. Ills associated with contracting the disease included homosexuality and addiction to drugs.\nPeople would not associate themselves or touch any infected person. This shows the level of ignorance and fear the disease had sparked. Lately, the disease has seen many changes especially in diagnosis, treatment, medical management, prognosis and public acceptance. HIV is diagnosed using blood tests with three main types of test. In the early 1990s, there was no clear and suitable test for identifying the disease. However, there has not been a cure for the disease. Medications such as Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) are used to extend and maintain a person’s life (Demme et al., 2004).\nThey help the immune system recover and in the fighting of infections. These drugs do not eliminate the disease. Previously, people only lived for a few years but research and medicine has contributed to increased survival rates of the patients. With proper treatment, an infected person can live for decades. Causes of transmission of the disease are mainly through exchange of body fluids and demystifying its association to sin and sexual orientation in earlier years. People have become more aware of the disease and there are fewer stigmas associated with the disease. Many people who contract the disease receive support from family and the society.\nDemme, J., Hanks, T., Washington, D., Robards, J., Steenburgen, M., Banderas, A., Fujimoto, T., Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm). (2004). Philadelphia. Culver City, Calif: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment.\nCopyright 2018 - Coaching WordPress Theme.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Help support New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99...\nLocated three miles from Drogheda, Co. Louth, Diocese of Armagh, it was the first Cistercian monastery established in Ireland. In the year 1140, St. Malachy, en route for Rome, visited St. Bernard at Clairvaux, and was so edified that he resolved to establish a similar monastery in his own diocese of Armagh. He therefore left several of his companions at Clairvaux, to make their novitiate under the direction of St. Bernard. In 1142 they returned to found Mellifont under Christian O'Conarchy, who had been Archdeacon of Down and who became the first abbot. A French monk, Father Robert, an able architect, directed the construction of the monastic buildings according to the plans of the Abbey of Clairvaux. The consecration of the church in 1157 was the occasion of great religious celebrations. So numerous were the postulants that six important monasteries were founded during the first ten years: Bective (1146); Boyle (1148); Monasternenagh (1148); Baltinglas (1148); Schrule (1150); Newry (1153). In 1150 the venerable Abbot Christian was appointed Bishop of Lismore, and Pope Eugene III, who had been his fellow-novice at Clairvaux, named him legate for Ireland. Soon after his death (1186) his name was inscribed in the calendar of the saints, and he has long been venerated as one of the most powerful protectors of his country. His brother Malchus, equally illustrious for his science and sanctity, succeeded him. For sixty years Mellifont rejoiced in great prosperity, and when the English invaded Ireland there were already twenty-five great Cistercian abbeys. During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the rivalries between the English and Irish exerted a baneful influence, peace gave way to discord, and in more than one case the general chapter, and even the sovereign pontiff, were forced to intervene. Not until the fifteenth century did Mellifont regain its ancient prestige, which was maintained until its suppression by Henry VIII on 23 July, 1539, when one hundred and fifty monks were compelled to leave with Richard Contour, the last Abbot of Mellifont. The king seized the treasures of the abbey, and the annals were either lost or destroyed, and with them the names of many remarkable men. Several religious continued to live in the environs, which explains why, in 1623, the title of Abbot of Mellifont was granted, by Apostolic Brief, to Patrick Barnewall, and again in 1648 to John Devreux when the title disappears. In 1566 the abbey, with its dependencies, was given to Edward Moore, chief of the family Drogheda, and passed, in 1727, to Balfour of Townley Hall, during whose term of ownership all fell to the speedy decay and desolate ruin of the present day.\nHENNESSEY, Mellifont Abbey, Its Ruins and Associations (Dublin, 1897); HAVTRY (1640), Triumphalia Chronologica Monasterii Sanctæ Crucis, ed. MURPHY (Dublin, 1891); De Cistercium Hibernorum Viris Illustribus (Dublin, 1895); JONGELINUS, Notitiæ Abbatianum O. Cist. (Cologne, 1840); JANAUSCHEK, Originum Cisterciensium (Vienna, 1877); MANRIQUE, Annales Cistercienses (Lyons, 1642); DUGDALE, Monasticon Anglicanum, VI, part 2 (London, 1830); ARCHDALL, Monasticum Hibernicum (London, 1786).\nAPA citation. (1911). Abbey of Mellifont. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10168a.htm\nMLA citation. \"Abbey of Mellifont.\" The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10168a.htm>.\nTranscription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Douglas J. Potter. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.\nEcclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.\nContact information. The editor of New Advent is Kevin Knight. My email address is webmaster at newadvent.org. Regrettably, I can't reply to every letter, but I greatly appreciate your feedback — especially notifications about typographical errors and inappropriate ads.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A cannon can shoot whatever cannons shoot at different angles to the horizon, but with the same initial velocity. At what angle does the cannon shoot to a maximal distance? What would be that angle on the moon?\n- d is the total horizontal distance travelled by the projectile.\n- v is the velocity at which the projectile is launched\n- g is the gravity\n- θ is the angle at which the projectile is launched\n- y0 is the initial height of the projectile\nThe Attempt at a Solution\nThe maximum angle would be pi/4 (I am assuming), however if the projectile velocity was great enough to break the moon's escape velocity then the maximum distance could be given at an angle of pi/2. Thoughts?", "label": "No"}
{"text": "New Completely Revised Sixth Edition!\nNational Association of the Deaf\nThis new 6th edition explains United States statutes that prohibit discrimination against deaf and hard of hearing people, the core laws and their amendments, such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and new legislation such as the Twenty-First Century Communications Video and Accessibility Act.\nA Novel of a Deaf Boy’s Checkered Life\nHoward L. Terry\nThe ninth volume in the Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies series, this novel was written between 1917 and 1919, a rollicking tale of a young deaf boy and how he learned to survive and thrive at the advent of the 20th century.\nDeaf Space in Adamorobe\nAn Ethnographic Study in a Village in Ghana\nThis ethnographic study reveals how deaf people in Adamorobe do not live in a social paradise and how they created their own “Deaf Space” by seeking each other out to form a society of their own.\nLearning American Sign Language in High School\nMotivation, Strategies, and Achievement\nRussell S. Rosen\nThis new book offers high school ASL teachers and program administrators concrete information on why students take ASL for foreign language credit, how they learn new signs and grammar, and how different learning techniques determines their achievement in ASL.\nCitizenship, Politics, Difference\nPerspectives from Sub-Saharan Signed Language\nAudrey C. Cooper and\nThis collection centers upon examining sub-Saharan African deaf people’s perspectives on citizenship, politics, and difference, and analyzing Sub-Saharan Signed Language practices in relation to sociopolitical histories and social change interests.\nInterpreter Education in the Digital Age\nInnovation, Access, and Change\nSuzanne Ehrlich and\nThe eighth volume in the Interpreter Education series, this international collection brings together innovative approaches for using digital technology in interpreter education, ranging from on-demand interpreting using iPad technology to preparing interpreting students for interactions in social media forums.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Really Useful Primary Design and Technology Book brings together essential subject knowledge and pedagogy to support and inspire those planning to teach D&T in the primary school. Offering comprehensive coverage of the 2014 National Curriculum, as well as exciting ideas to extend beyond it, the book is packed full of everything the busy teacher needs to be able to develop children’s key skills and techniques, and a range of big and small projects to put them into practice.\nWith crucial subject knowledge explained in detail, useful ‘How To’ guides at the end of each chapter reinforce the skills and technology covered with instructions for making a variety of models. Sets of lesson plans include information on the resources needed to support both more and less able children, and assessment guidance, ‘Top Tips’ and ‘Things to Consider’ provide extra help and inspiration.\nKey topics covered include:\n- cooking and nutrition\n- textiles and the design cycle\n- IT control and monitoring\n- electronic systems\n- the roles and responsibilities of the DT leader\n- assessment of D&T.\nThe Really Useful Primary Design and Technology Book provides all the information a new teacher needs to be able to teach D&T confidently, and with valuable cross-curricular links and photocopiable templates, even experienced teachers and subject leaders will find fresh inspiration for their lessons.\nTable of Contents\n1. Introduction 2. The Design Cycle 3. Cooking and Nutrition 4. Structures 5. Textiles 6. Mechanisms 7. Electronic systems 8. IT Control and Monitoring 9. Assessment 10. DT Leader: Roles and Responsibilities Glossary Index\nElizabeth Flinn is Lecturer in Primary Science and D&T at Middlesex University, UK.\nSarah Patel is Senior Lecturer in Primary Computing and D&T at Middlesex University, UK.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How to Measure Your Feet\nThere are lots of different ways of doing this and you can make this into a game and have some fun with it! Here are some of our recommended methods.\nUsing our HLS Foot Measuring Device\nThe easiest way to measure your childs feet is using our new measuring device following the instructions below. This will give you an accurate centimetre measurement for the length of your childs feet.\nIf you don't have one of our foot measuring devices then why not try one of the methods below?\nPDF Size Guide\nAs well as our new foot measurer we also have a handy PDF Size Guide which you can print out at home. Please note if you do use this method make sure you check the scale of the print out before you measure your childs feet!\nAgainst a vertical surface\nStand on a piece of card (a shoe box lid is ideal!) and either fold up the card by their heel, stand them against a wall or mark with a pencil where the longest toe comes to. Measure with a ruler the distance to the toe mark. Do this for both feet as one is often longer than the other. Be careful to ensure that they are standing up straight and not leaning on anything and that their feet are as far back as possible against the surface.\nDrawing around your feet\nYou can also draw around their feet and measure from heel to longest toe. The key marks are around the heel and around the longest toe. Measure with a ruler the distance between the heel mark and the toe mark. You will find that you are measuring on a slight diagonal and this is correct and most accurate. Do this for both feet as one is often longer than the other.\nFor particularly wriggly children, try making a game out of drawing around each others' feet and make some foot pictures or art work to encourage them!\nIf they are really not cooperating then try doing some foot print paintings to get them used to playing with their feet; you might find that whilst they are making the print you can take your chance to pop a couple of pencil marks at either end of their feet. Measuring the foot print will give some indication, although will be a bit small as it won’t pick up the heel profile.\nEven getting them to walk with wet feet on a patio can help give an indication of length if all else fails!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Olympus Mons is an extinct volcano on Mars. It’s the tallest mountain in the Solar System. This picture of the mountain was taken recently by the Indian Space Research Organization’s Mars Orbiter from an altitude of 8,387 km. The arrow indicates the summit which rises about 21 km above the mean surface level, so high that it’s effectively above the atmosphere. The white area around the mountain is a cloud formation.\nImage Credit: ISRO", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Museum visitors learn about brewing history in Japan while sampling the wares\nThe Sapporo Beer Museum\nEver since man raised himself from his animal-like state of existence and achieved conscious rational awareness, he has used his thought process to devise various and illicit ways of removing this burden of consciousness and returning to his former state. One of the earliest relievers of this burden was the divine elixir known as beer. Beer brewing can be traced back over 6,000 years ago to the resourceful Sumerians. The Sumerians were so taken by this brew they dedicated hymns praising their gods for this divine drink. They even had a goddess of beer brewing.\nOld Beer Bottles from the turn of the century\nBeer came late to Japan -- about 6,000 years later. The Japanese, however, were not slack in the \"altering of consciousness through liquid means\" department. They had been brewing their rice wine for countless generations before beer found its way over. Beer was first tentatively introduced to the Japanese during the nation's seclusionary Edo Period (1615-1867) by Dutch traders. It did not catch hold at the time.\nThe perfect combination: Geisha and beer\nIn the Meiji Period (1867-1912), Japan opened its borders to foreigners and allowed its own citizens to travel abroad. Seibei Nakagawa went to Germany where he earned a Beer Brewery Engineering License. With the discovery of hops in the northern island of Hokkaido, a beer brewery was planned with Nakagawa as its first brewmaster. In 1876, the first Sapporo Beer was sold in Japan.\nA display showing that Sapporo Beer is apparently made by magical gnome-like creatures.\nOver the following decades, beer drinking increased in popularity and became an established pastime. These days it's hard to imagine a Japan without beer, as it has become so firmly entrenched into the Japanese lifestyle. What helped is the fact that a good percentage of Japanese food, from sushi to yaki-tori (chicken skewers), simply goes great with beer.\nThe Sapporo Beer Museum in Sapporo is a good place for beer lovers to go to learn more about the history of beer brewing in Japan. The Museum has a collection of beer bottles and cans that date back to the late 19th Century. Visitors can also watch beer commercials that span several decades. There are two small bars where one can -- for a small fee -- sample the wares. Two of the beers -- Kaitakushi and Sapporo Classic -- are only available in Hokkaido.\nCommemorative Beer for the 1972 Winter Olympics which were held in Sapporo\nThe taste of Sapporo beer, which its admirers harp on about, comes from unique hops that are only produced in certain areas around the world -- areas known for their exceptional beers. Sapporo Brewery prides itself in its quality ingredients and the skill of its brewers. Sapporo beer can be seen as a delicious result of German brewing practices and Japanese attention to detail.\nSamples for the studious beer connoisseur\nAt first, visitors to the Sapporo Beer Museum may be a bit shocked to find a red star emblazoned on its building, and suddenly worry that Communist China has gained a foothold in the Hokkaido Island as a precursor to invasion of the mainland. The red star actually represents the North Star, which was the symbol of the early pioneers in the 19th Century. The red star logo was later changed to a gold star, no doubt to avoid any confusion that Sapporo Beer might be a communist brewski.\nJingisukan (Genghis Khan): a sizzling plate-grill of lamb meat\nVisitors shouldn't try to get too involved in their study of Sapporo's finest brew at the Museum's bar, however. Attached to the museum is the Sapporo Beer Garten, where for just under 4,000 Yen a person can help themselves to all the beer they can drink for 100 minutes. Accompanying the beer are strips of lamb meat cooked on a grill at the customer's table by the customer themselves. This dish is named after the famous Mongol conqueror: Genghis Khan. After 100 minutes of incessant beer guzzling and lamb chomping, the only kingdom you'll be interested in sacking will be the one with the porcelain throne.\nAll's Well in Magical Beerland", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Saxo-Norman Overlap sounds like a patent galosh but is the term used by architectural historians for churches built in the short period after 1066 when Saxons were doing the work but Normans were giving the orders. At this point, churches were still built with the big, box-like proportions the Saxons liked, but details such as arches became bigger and more ornate to cater to the Romanesque tastes of the new overlords.\nThe process is seen at work particularly vividly at Bosham and Stoughton, ironically as both places were owned by King Harold until his death at Hastings.\nSt Mary at Stoughton is a complete late 11th century church, with no aisles but transepts to the north and south. The proportions are tall and the walls are thin at only 2ft 5in, indicating an originally Saxon design, but the chancel arch is early Norman with its triple columns and roll mouldings.\nThe chancel used to be almost as tall as the nave but in the 14th century somebody decided to give it a wagon roof rather than the original beam and low-pitched rafters still evident in the nave.\nAt the same time, the chancel windows were enlarged and embellished with attached columns, but the new lower roof meant there was no space for the arched tops of the north and south windows, so they were simply chopped off. The original shape can still be seen in the east window. The Victoria County History says that it is quite possible the builder simply did not realise that the new roof would cut off the tops of the windows and truncated effect is the result.\nThe church contains very few monuments, which adds to the open, uncluttered feel of the tall open rooms.\nThere is a simple brass plate to Philip Harwood Francis, vicar from 1957 to 1997, who is described as an “athlete teacher mathematician author eccentric and master of the short sermon.”\nIn the north transept there is a particularly attractive basin for washing the communion vessels, called a piscina. It was made in the middle-13th century. The trefoil arch has dog-tooth ornament running round underneath and a lovely little head, full of life, at either end.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The example Use steganography to hide one picture inside another in C# explains how you can hide one image inside another. This example uses the same tools to hide a large image inside another large image so you can get a better view of the results. Switch back and forth between the images to see how much they changed when you store each image with a different number of pixels.\nThe images used here are 600 x 700 pixels = 420,000 pixels in total, so they contain 3 * 420,000 = 1,260,000 color component values. If you use 4 bits to store hidden information, which seems to be about the most you can reasonably get away with without noticeably altering the visible image, then you can store 4 * 1,260,000 bits or 630,000 bytes of hidden information.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "There is no doubt that some individuals, such as Steve Jobs, make enormous contributions to their fields that dwarf the efforts of peers in terms of practical consequences, intellectual advancement, creative achievement, and so forth. Such achievement is partly due to environmental factors. Otherwise, which individuals rise to the top is due either to genius talent or unusual dedication.\nWhy are Jobs and his ilk so remarkable? Many people are fond of claiming that they are geniuses, that their superior ability was present at birth, and that such latent superiority blossomed when given a favorable environment. The role of genetics is limited, however, accounting for only about a quarter of differences in scores on creativity tests, with family environment being more important (1).\nThe favorable environment proviso is well supported by the fact that when creative accomplishments are analyzed as a function of place and time, they are clustered in space and time. Whether it was Aristotle’s Athens, Michelangelo’s Florence, Shakespeare’s London, Picasso’s Paris, or Jobs’s Silicon Valley, great achievers have always been concentrated in time and space as Charles Murray has documented in exhaustive detail (2). Such concentration provides compelling evidence that creativity flourishes in some environments but not in others and highly talented persons are drawn to such centers like moths to a flame.\nWhy the genius concept does not stand up\nPeople of great accomplishment tend to be highly intelligent. Yet, the view that creative geniuses accomplish more on account of their inherent ability does not stand up. When intellectually gifted children were followed up in middle age, their creative achievements were astonishingly small according to a celebrated study by Lewis Terman (3). High intelligence may be necessary for creative accomplishment but it is clearly not sufficient.\nAlso arguing against the genius concept, achievement in most creative fields calls for a lot of work and effort. Mastery requires many years of single-minded pursuit. Music and performance arts are something of an exception where child stars emerge much more quickly thanks, presumably, to specialized talents with which they may indeed be born given that musical ability runs in families.\nFor most other endeavors, achievement is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. Nevertheless, we like to attribute great leaps of achievement to individuals of superior talent or insight. Take Charles Darwin, author of the theory of evolution by natural selection that influences all contemporary research in biology, the social sciences, and various other fields.\nIt is true that without the insight of evolution by natural selection biology would be very different today. On the other hand, this insight would have existed without Darwin. Indeed it was independently developed by Alfred Russell Wallace, albeit some 20 years later.\nYet, few people think of Wallace as a transformative creative genius, if they think about him at all. The main reason seems to be that Darwin worked much harder than Wallace to apply the theory in his empirical research winning the genius accolade through sheer perspiration.\nWhy the genius concept is so popular\nSo why are people so willing to ascribe great achievement to inherent genius? It may be less psychologically threatening than the alternative. As we account for our own humble accomplishments compared with genius-level achievements, there are two compelling possibilities. Either Jobs, or Einstein, or Galileo, or Napoleon, or Mozart, or Tolstoy, made better use of their time and opportunity than we have. Or else each had inborn genius in their chosen field that propelled them to greatness. Attributing their accomplishments to genius rather than effort lets us off the hook in the effort department.\nGenius may be a comforting fiction. For it helps explain why most of us do not achieve at the highest level in our chosen field: we are not geniuses. The trouble is that there is little compelling evidence in psychology for any such latent superiority. The concept of the genius may be comforting to the rest of us. Yet, it remains a fiction.\n1. Waller, N. G., Bouchard, T. J. Jr., Lykken, D. T., Tellegen, A., and Blacker, M. (1993). Creativity, heritability, familiality: Which word does not belong? Psychological Inquiry, 4, 235-237.\n2. Murray, C. (2003). Human accomplishment: The pursuit of excellence in the arts and sciences. New York: Harper Collins.\n3. Terman, L. M., and Oden, M. H. (1959). The gifted group at mid-life, thirty-five years follow-up of the superior child. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.\nby Nigel Barber, Ph.D. in The Human Beast", "label": "No"}
{"text": "One of the hidden treasures of neo-Latin prose is the Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI (1588) by the Italian Jesuit Giovanni Pietro Maffei (1536–1604, Latin name Maffeius). It tells the story of the Portuguese voyages of conquest and discovery in the sixteenth century around the coast of Africa, to the Malabar Coast of India, on to Malacca, China, and Japan. While Maffeius himself did not travel to the East, he spent eight years collecting material and writing in the royal archives in Portugal, and his work is based on a variety of documents, including letters from Jesuit missionaries, some of which are now lost. The full-scale ethnography of China in Book 6 is of particular importance as a shaper of European images of China in this period. First published in Florence, it went through eight separate editions by 1600, was included in a two-volume edition of all of Maffei’s Latin writings in 1747, and was last printed in Vienna in 1752. There has so far been no modern Latin edition or English translation.\nThe text merits renewed attention on three main grounds. First is the quality of the Latin. Maffei was a superb linguist (with enough Japanese to publish translations of Japanese texts and to act as an interpreter), a celebrated writer in both Tuscan and Latin, and a famously meticulous Latin stylist. After his early education in his home city of Bergamo and an apprenticeship in Rome under the head of the Vatican Library, Maffei gained the chair of rhetoric in Genoa on the recommendation of Paulus Manutius. While in Genoa in 1565 he submitted his name to the Jesuits, and shortly thereafter returned to Rome and became professor of rhetoric at the Collegium Romanum. He gained fame all over Europe in 1570 on the publication of his Latin translations of Acosta’s history of the early Portuguese voyages to the Indies and associated Jesuit letters. On the strength of this work he was invited by the learned Prince (and Cardinal, later King) Henry of Portugal to tell the whole story in a style worthy of the subject matter. After Henry’s death in 1580 the work was finished under the auspices of Philip, king of the now united Spain and Portugal, to whom the book is dedicated.\nContemporaries compared him to Caesar and Tacitus, but he is no slavish imitator, nor is his Latin as mannered as that of the other great Latin historian of the era, Paolo Giovio. His hallmarks are clarity, elegance, and variety. In the words of fellow historian Famiano Strada, “nothing anywhere unkempt or careless; indeed, elegant perfection from beginning to end—unless his only fault is that he has no faults.” At one of the debates held at the literary salon sponsored by Christina Queen of Sweden at the Palazzo Farnese in the 1650s the question was posed which two authors one should want preserved if all the others should perish, choosing one pro antiquitate, another pro Latino idiomate. The consensus was that, among ancient authors, they would keep Plutarch, among works prized for Latin style, those of Maffeius.\nThe second reason to turn to Maffeius now is that the text deserves to be better known to historians of the early modern period and the age of exploration. For most of the 20th century, when the dominant geo-political force was the north Atlantic alliance, scholars naturally tended to focus on the early period of contact between Europe and the Americas. The resurgence of China and other Asian powers has created renewed interest in the early history of European colonialism in the Indian Ocean and Pacific areas as well. The importance of the 16th century Latin sources to Atlantic studies has long been recognized, and led to modern editions and studies of authors such as Peter Martyr. But Latin in Asia is still “the great terra incognita of Renaissance literary history.” Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s excellent new study on Europeans’ early contacts with India, for example, neglects the Latin sources in favor of the undeniably important vernacular ones, and does not mention Maffeius. The only substantial discussions of Maffei by historians known to me are by Donald Lach and, more recently, Stefano Andretta. A readable Latin text, combined with English and Portuguese translations, will make the work better known.\nThe third reason to make Maffeius better known is to foster the study of Latin in the areas that Maffeius discussed, particularly China. As witnessed by numerous recent conferences and publications, the study of ancient Greek and Latin is blooming in China and Japan. Maffei’s Historiae Indicae would be of interest both to historians from those countries who study European colonialism from their own perspectives, and to students who want to learn to read Latin with a text of direct relevance to the history of their own countries. In particular I hope to edit Book 6, on China, in collaboration with a Chinese scholar, with notes to the Latin in Chinese, and comparison with what the Chinese sources to check the accuracy of and contextualize Maffeius’ and other European observers’ assertions about China in the later Ming period. As the study of the Latin and Greek classics becomes globalized, neo-Latin about Asia and Maffeius in particular can play an important role in both scholarship and pedagogy. Study of such European neo-Latin texts should be coupled with the study of the Latin versions of the Chinese classics, and the wider use of Latin in Asia in sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.\n Ioannis Petri Maffeii Bergomatis e Societate Iesu historiarum indicarum libri XVI. Selectarum item ex India epistolarum eodem interprete libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita postremo recognita, et in opera singula copiosus index. Florence: Filippo Giunta, 1588. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zOibVyJgfdoC\n Ioannis Petri Maffeii Bergomatis e Societate Iesu historiarum indicarum libri XVI. Vienna: Trattner, 1752. http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb11197028-0\n From Prolusiones Academicae (1619) II.iii, quoted by Félix Sánchez Vallejo, “Quartus imminet dies saecularis a morte insignis cultoris Latinitatis, Ioannis Petri Maffei,” Latinitas 51 (2003), 50–55, at p. 53.\n Pierantonio Serassi, Vita Maffei, in Jo. Petri Maffeji Bergomatis e Societate Jesu opera omnia Latine scripta, nunc primum in unum corpus collecta, variisque illustrationibus exornata, vol. 1 (Bergamo: Petrus Lancellottus, 1747), xxi. https://goo.gl/ubqaM6\n Andrew Laird, “North America,” in Sarah Night and Stefan Tilg, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 525–540.\n Zweder von Martels, “Asia,” in Philip Ford et al., eds., Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World: Macropaedia (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 849.\n Europe’s India: Words, People, Empires 1500–1800 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017), 63.\n Donald F. Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe. Vol. 1: The Century of Discovery (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965), 803–805. Stefano Andretta, “Modelli di santità nelle Historiae indicae di Giovanni Pietro Maffei,” Monaci, ebrei, santi: studi per Sofia Boesch Gajano: atti delle Giornate di studio “Sophia kai historia,” Roma, 17-19 febbraio 2005 (Rome: Viella, 2008), 451–470.\n Kathleen Coleman, “Nondum Arabes Seresque Rogant: Classics Looks East.” Society for Classical Studies Blog, October 16, 2016. https://classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/kcoleman/blog-nondum-arabes-seresque-rogant-classics-looks-east\n Lach, op. cit., p. 745.\n See Noël Golvers, “Asia,” in Sarah Night and Stefan Tilg, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 557–574.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "One of the most ubiquitous arachnids we have in NZ are pseudoscorpions (we have a lot of species). Despite their wide distribution, most people will never see one. The reason is two fold. First, they’re very small. Most have a body-length less than 2mm. The second is they’re quite cryptic. While they’re adept predators they also dislike being in the light. You can find them in leaf litter, bird’s nests, under rocks, sometimes even on native birds (where they hunt parasites). There are also some species that are phoresic. They hitch a ride on another arthropod for dispersal.\nThis is where I spotted this adult female. She was hanging on to the leg of a house fly. The species is Thallosocherens tairensis and is one of out most widely seen. Even so, its still very very small.\nTo take this shot I needed a microscope adapter (24x). This left a depth-of-field that was razor thin, so it took a few shots to get the front edge of the carapace in focus. What you get to see here is greatly magnified.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "As the earliest surviving self-portrait, painted from memory when the artist was forty-seven years old, Self-Portrait, 1956 is a key work within Francis Bacon’s oeuvre. In this painting, Bacon depicts himself with the classic psychological impact that has come to characterize his portraits. He is isolated and hunched over, with asymmetrical features—the right side of his face is harshly raised by comparison with the left side, and the right eye is reduced to a crude circle. Bacon sits precariously on the edge of what might be a bed or couch, indicated by a single yellow right-angled line behind his head. This simple formal device works to stabilize the subject and focus the viewer’s attention on the figure, which is centrally anchored within the otherwise vast space of the canvas.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Teacher: Faye Burnell\nWe visited the Estorick Gallery to explore how movement is represented in art. We looked at the artwork and discussed how the artists showed action. We had a go at using simple lines to draw movements made by our partner and made our own pictures showing people and objects in motion - some examples include cars, flowers and even a drummer!\nOur topic in Autumn 1 was Get Physical. Pipits put together and performed a piece about Jesse Owens' life, why exercise is good for us and how our bodies move. We learned a dance with Jo and impressed our audience (including our parents) with our amazing moves!\nIn Science, we wrote our own hypotheses on whether people with longer legs would jump further. We created an experiment and tested our hypothesis. We recorded our results and made bar charts to show them. We are super scientists!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Why do humans need a complex circulatory system while an amoeba does not?\nHumans have many cells, *all* of which need to be fed and oxygenation, and need to have waste products taken away. A circulatory system is an effective way to reach every cell on a regular, cyclic basis. An amoeba is one-celled. All of the contact with medium for nutrition and waste removal happens by diffusion and transport directly through the cell membrane.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|Name: _________________________||Period: ___________________|\nThis test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.\nMultiple Choice Questions\n1. What is the last word Robert says in the play?\n(b) \"Play fair.\"\n(c) \"The truth.\"\n2. Whose mind is described as \"sinking back into that spent calm beyond the further troubling of any hope\"?\n(b) Uncle Dick's.\n3. What does Robert hear calling him from the horizon at the end of the play?\n(a) The sheep.\n(b) Mrs. Atkins.\n(c) His neighbor.\n(d) The old voices.\n4. What is Robert sitting on while he's on the hilltop with Mary, gazing at the horizon?\n5. Where does Andrew suggest they should bring Robert to get cured?\n6. What does Andrew say to Ruth about his feelings for Robert in Act 3, Scene 1?\n(a) He is jealous.\n(b) He loves Robert more than anyone in the world.\n(c) He's mad at him.\n(d) He feels resentful.\n7. Why does Ruth tremble in fright when she steps inside Robert's bedroom?\n(a) He is gone.\n(b) He is unconscious.\n(c) He is breaking things in the room.\n(d) He is dead.\n8. What does Andrew do immediately after Robert has died?\n(c) Bends down on one knee besides the body.\n(d) Calls 911.\n9. What does Andrew say that Argentina has?\n(a) Beautiful beaches.\n(b) Good food.\n(c) Excellent wines.\n10. Who is the last person to leave the stage at the end of Act 2, Scene 2?\n11. Who says he won't come back with \"empty hands next time?\"\n(a) Captain Scott.\n(b) Uncle Dick.\n12. Who told Robert to go to the \"far-off places\" to be cured?\n(b) The specialist.\n(d) Mrs. Atkins.\n13. What does Andrew's rage change to at the end of the play when he is speaking to Ruth?\n14. What does Ruth cover her face with after Robert dies?\n(b) Andrew's coat.\n(d) Her hands.\n15. Who says \"It's a free beginning--the start of my voyage?\"\n(a) Uncle Dick.\nShort Answer Questions\n1. What time of day is it at the beginning of Act 3, Scene 2?\n2. What doesn't Ruth want to tell Robert at the end of the play?\n3. What is the medical specialist's name?\n4. What is the setting of the last scene in the play?\n5. What does Andrew look like at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 2?\nThis section contains 408 words\n(approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page)", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Q. How do I get my hydrangea flowers to turn blue?\nSome hydrangea species can have blue or pink flowers depending on soil conditions. Hydrangeas that naturally have white or cream flowers cannot be persuaded to provide blue flowers.\nTo change the color from pink to blue, two conditions are necessary: aluminum in the soil and a low pH (which makes the aluminum available to the plant). For plants that are at least 2-3 years old, add 1/2 oz. of aluminum sulfate per gallon of water, throughout the growing season. That will add the necessary aluminum and also lower the pH somewhat. To further lower the pH, you can add organic matter such as coffee grounds, fruit and vegetable peels, and grass clippings to the soil.\nThe choice of fertilizer will also affect the color change. It is also helpful to add a fertilizer low in phosphorus and high in potassium. (25/5/30 is good--potassium is the last number). Superphosphates and bone meal should be avoided when trying to produce blue. It may be difficult to keep a flower bed constantly acidic and aluminum-rich. This problem can be avoided by growing the shrubs in containers, where the conditions can be more easily controlled.\nFor tips on a variety of gardening topics, see our Plant Information Guides.\n- Courtesy of NYBG Plant Information Service", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The New Musicology is a term applied to a wide body of musicology since the 1970s with a focus upon the cultural study, aesthetics, and criticism of music. It is a reaction against traditional positivist musicology (meaning primary research) of the early 20th century and postwar era. New musicology is a non-integrated movement in the musicology field, and it often draws influences from feminism, gender studies, queer theory, and postcolonial studies.\nDefinitions and history\nNew musicology seeks to question the research methods of traditional musicology by displacing positivism, working in partnership with outside disciplines, including the humanities and social sciences, and by questioning accepted musical knowledge. New musicology scholars seek ways to apply anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, feminism, and history to the study of music. The study of new musicology does not follow a consistent methodology and definitions of new musicology vary widely.\nIn 1980 Joseph Kerman published the article \"How We Got into analysis, and How to Get Out,\" calling for a change in musicology. He asked for \"a new breadth and flexibility in academic music criticism [musicology]\" (Kerman, 1994, 30) that would extend to musical discourse, critical theory and analysis. In the words of Rose Rosengard Subotnik: \"For me...the notion of an intimate relationship between music and society functions not as a distant goal but as a starting point of great immediacy...the goal of which is to articulate something essential about why any particular music is the way it is in particular, that is, to achieve insight into the character of its identity.\"\nSusan McClary suggests that New Musicology defines music as: \"a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities—even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowing how.\" (Brett, 1994).\nNew Musicology focuses more on cultural studies through analysis and criticism of music, and it accords more weight to the sociology of musicians and institutions and to non-canonical genres of music including jazz and popular music than traditional musicology. This has caused many musicologists to question the previously held views of authenticity and make assessments based on critical musicology, which is \"concerned with finding some kind of synthesis between analysis and a consideration of social meaning\" (Beard and Gloag, 2005, 38).\nNew Musicologists question the processes of canonization. Gary Tomlinson suggests that meaning be searched out in a 'series of interrelated historical narratives that surround the musical subject' (Beard and Gloag, 2005, 123) – a \"web of culture\" (Tomlinson, 1984). For example, the work of Beethoven has been examined from a new perspective by studying his reception and influence in terms of masculine hegemony. This is seen as an essential contrast with the works of Schubert (especially with reference to the latter's supposed homosexuality).\nRelationship to Music Sociology\nNew Musicology is distinct from German music sociology in the work of Adorno, Max Weber and Ernst Bloch. Although some new musicologists claim some allegiance to Theodor Adorno, their work has little in common with the wider field of Adorno studies, especially in Germany. Adorno's own radical comments on gender, ethnicity and sexuality are rarely taken into account. New Musicologists frequently exhibit strong anti-German tendencies, especially in regard to nineteenth-century German music theorists including Adolf Bernhard Marx and Eduard Hanslick, also the twentieth-century figures Heinrich Schenker and Carl Dahlhaus.\nA fundamental distinction has to do with attitudes towards modernism and popular culture. Influential, oft-cited essays such as McClary 1989 and McClary 2006 are highly dismissive of modernist music. German music sociologists tend to be more favorable towards modernism (though by no means uncritically) and severely critical of popular music as inextricably tied to the aesthetics of distraction as demanded by the culture industry. Metzger describes 'a fascistic element' in the music of the Rolling Stones. New Musicology, on the other hand, often overlaps with postmodern aesthetics; various New Musicologists are highly sympathetic towards musical minimalism (see McClary 1990 and 2000 and Fink 2005).\nCriticisms of New Musicology\nVincent Duckles writes, \"As musicology has grown more pluralistic, its practitioners have increasingly adopted methods and theories deemed by observers to mark the academy as irrelevant, out of touch with 'mainstream values', unwelcoming of Western canonic traditions or simply incomprehensible. Paradoxically, such approaches have distanced music scholarship from a broad public at the very moment they have encouraged scholars to scrutinize the popular musics that form the backbone of modern mass musical culture.\"\nCritics of the New Musicology include Pieter van den Toorn and to a lesser extent Charles Rosen. In response to an early essay of McClary (McClary 1987), Rosen says that \"she sets up, like so many of the 'new musicologists', a straw man to knock down, the dogma that music has no meaning, and no political or social significance. (I doubt that anyone, except perhaps the nineteenth-century critic Hanslick, has ever really believed that, although some musicians have been goaded into proclaiming it by the sillier interpretations of music with which we are often assailed.)\" (Rosen 2000).\n- Agawu, Kofi (2003). Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions. Taylor & Francis.\n- Beard, David and Kenneth Gloag (2005). Musicology: The Key Concepts. Routledge.\n- Carter, Tim (2002). \"An American In,\" review-article of McClary Conventional Wisdom, in Music and Letters, Vol. 83 No. 2, pp. 274–279.\n- Vincent Duckles, et al. \"Musicology.\" Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. 4 Oct. 2011 <http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/46710pg3>.\n- Feldman, Morton, Earle Brown and Heinz-Klaus Metzger (1972). Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and Heinz-Klaus Metzger in Discussion\n- Heile, Björn (2004). \"Darmstadt as Other: British and American Responses to Musical Modernism\" in twentieth-century music, Vol. 1 Issue 02, pp. 161–178.\n- Hisama, Ellie M. (2001). Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-64030-X.\n- McClary, Susan (1987). \"The blasphemy of talking politics during Bach Year,\" in McClary and Leppert, Richard, eds. Music and Society: The politics of composition, performance and reception. Cambridge University Press.\n- McClary, Susan (1989). \"Terminal Prestige: The Case of Avant-Garde Music Composition\" in Cultural Critique 12 (1989), pp. 57–81.\n- McClary, Susan (2000). \"Women and Music on the Verge of the New Millennium,\" in Signs Vol. 25 No. 4, pp. 1283–1286.\n- McClary, Susan (2006). \"The World According to Taruskin,\" in Music and Letters Vol. 87 No. 3, pp. 408–415.\n- O'Neill, Maggie, ed. (1999). Adorno, Culture and Feminism. Sage Publications.\n- Rosen, Charles (2000). \"The New Musicology,\" in Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New, pp. 255–272. Harvard University Press.\n- Ross, Alex (2003). 'Ghost Sonata: Adorno and German Music'\n- Rycenga, Jennifer (2002). \"Queerly Amiss: Sexuality and the Logic of Adorno's Dialectics,\" in Gibson, Nigel and Rubin, Andrew, eds. Adorno: A Critical Reader. Blackwell.\n- Subotnik, Rose Rosengard (1991). Developing Variations: Style and Ideology in Western Music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-1873-9.\n- Taruskin, Richard (2005). \"Speed Bumps,\" in 19th-Century Music, Vol. 29 No.2, pp. 185–207.\n- Watson, Ben (1995). \"McClary and Postmodernism\" in Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play. Quartet Books.\n- Kerman, Joseph (1985). Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology. UK edition: Musicology.\n- McClary, Susan and Leppert, Richard, eds. (1987). Music and Society: The politics of composition, performance and reception.\n- Kramer, Lawrence (1990). Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900.\n- McClary, Susan (1991). Feminine Endings.\n- Subotnik, Rose Rosengard (1991). Developing Variations: Style and Ideology in Western Music.\n- Solie, Ruth, ed. (1993). Musicology and Difference.\n- Tomlinson, Gary (1993). Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others.\n- Citron, Marcia (1993). Gender and the Musical Canon.\n- Brett, Philip, Wood, Elizabeth and Thomas, Gary C., eds. (1994). Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology.\n- Kramer, Lawrence (1995). Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge.\n- Subotnik, Rose Rosengard (1996). Deconstructive Variations: Music and Reason in Western Society.\n- Van den Toorn, Pieter C. (1996). Music, Politics and the Academy.\n- DeNora, Tia (1996). Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803.\n- Schwarz, David (1997). Listening Subjects: Music Psychoanalysis, Culture.\n- Kramer, Lawrence (1997). After the Lovedeath: Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture. University of California Press.\n- Bellman, Jonathan, ed. (1998). The Exotic in Western Music.\n- Fink, Robert. (1998) Elvis Everywhere: Musicology and Popular Music Studies at the Twilight of the Canon.\n- Cook, Nicholas and Everist, Mark, ed. (1999). Rethinking Music.\n- McClary, Susan (2000). Conventional Wisdom.\n- Born, Georgina and Hesmondhalgh, David (2000). Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music.\n- Pederson, Sanna (2000). 'Beethoven and Masculinity', in Burnham, Scott and Steinberg, Michael P. (eds), Beethoven and his World, pp. 313–331.\n- Williams, Alistair (2001). Constructing Musicology. Ashgate.\n- Kramer, Lawrence (2003). Franz Schubert: Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song. Cambridge University Press.\n- Taruskin, Richard (2005). The Oxford History of Western Music (six volumes).\n- Fink, Robert (2005). Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice.\n- Davidović, Dalibor (2006). Identität und Musik: Zwischen Kritik und Technik (Identity and Music: Between Criticism and Technique), Vienna: Mille Tre.\n- Ross, Alex (2007). The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.\n- Szendy, Peter (2007). Listen, A History of Our Ears. Fordham University Press.\n|Wikiquote has quotations related to: New musicology|\n- Contemporary Music Theory and the New Musicology: An Introduction\n- The New York Review of Books: MUSIC À LA MODE by Lawrence Kramer, reply by Charles Rosen, Volume 41, Number 15 · September 22, 1994\n- GregSandow.com: Beethoven Howls Village Voice, December 17, 1985\n- GregSandow.com The Secret of the Silver Ticket Village Voice, April 1, 1986, see deconstruction\n- The comeback of systematic musicology\n- Original version of article for New Grove on 'Lesbian and Gay Music', by Philip Brett and Elizabeth Wood", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We worked out missing numbers from sentences by reordering them e.g.\n__ + 14= 21\ncan be written as 21-14=_____ Use a number line to count down in jumps.\nWe worked out how to identify numbers that are in the 2s, 5s and 10 x table- can you remember the rules?\nPlay this game to practice adding and subtracting money.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Version: v1, Published online: 2019\nRetrieved December 07, 2019, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/empathy/v-1\nEmpathy is a vicarious psychological reaction to the situation or psychological state of another. It may involve any, or all of, emotional contagion, sympathy, perspective taking (simulation), or affective empathy. Philosophers usually use ‘empathy’ to refer to an emotional reaction to another person’s emotion or situation that matches, more or less, what the other person feels or is expected to feel, and that has as its object the other person. In principle, one can empathise with any emotion, although empathic sadness and distress are the most commonly discussed in the literature. Empathy includes awareness that one experiences an emotion for another, whereas emotional contagion involves feeling an emotion another feels but without any such awareness. Emotional contagion is only documented in personal encounters when one is in the presence of another. By contrast to empathy and emotional contagion, sympathy is an emotion directed towards another’s welfare, but is rarely similar to the emotion the person feels. According to the psychological literature, sympathy (or empathic concern) either involves or causes altruistic motivation to help those in need. Perspective taking, sometimes called ‘cognitive empathy’, primarily describes an epistemic or cognitive state as opposed to an emotional or affective state. Sometimes people use ‘cognitive empathy’ to describe any type of understanding one might have of another. But more often, it is used to describe the act of putting oneself in another person’s situation. The knowledge gained from such a perspective shift is thought to be significantly different from that which one might gain from one’s own point of view.\nEmpathy, 2019, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-L154-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/empathy/v-1.\nCopyright © 1998-2019 Routledge.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "From the Trenches World Report\nEnforce our Bill of Rights\nJohn Adams openly wanted to be a King.\nMost people of the time hated that parchment called the Constitution.\nRhode Island put the vote to the people and it was soundly defeated.\nMost others States passed it though committees and not open vote.\nStill it could not be passed without a promise of a ‘Bill of Rights”.\nThe Constitution was nearly a carbon copy of the British Constitution.\nYes. Briton has and did have a Constitution. The Convention was comprised of Lawyers and Bankers. Only 2 or 3 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were at the CC. Read the writings of Lysander Spooner and\nA book called ‘American Aurora’. The Aurora was a paper in Philadelphia during the time of the Adams administration. Adams used his executive power to destroy the owner of that paper, and attack his other political enemies. He was acting a lot like O’bozo.\nYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *\nSave my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "|This article needs additional citations for verification. (February 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)|\nIn computer science, a preprocessor is a program that processes its input data to produce output that is used as input to another program. The output is said to be a preprocessed form of the input data, which is often used by some subsequent programs like compilers. The amount and kind of processing done depends on the nature of the preprocessor; some preprocessors are only capable of performing relatively simple textual substitutions and macro expansions, while others have the power of full-fledged programming languages.\nA common example from computer programming is the processing performed on source code before the next step of compilation. In some computer languages (e.g., C and PL/I) there is a phase of translation known as preprocessing. It can also include macro processing, file inclusion, language extensions and rational preprocessing.\nLexical preprocessors are the lowest-level of preprocessors as they only require lexical analysis, that is, they operate on the source text, prior to any parsing, by performing simple substitution of tokenized character sequences for other tokenized character sequences, according to user-defined rules. They typically perform macro substitution, textual inclusion of other files, and conditional compilation or inclusion.\nThe most common example of this is the C preprocessor, which takes lines beginning with '#' as directives. Because it knows nothing about the underlying language, its use has been criticized and many of its features built directly into other languages. For example, macros replaced with aggressive inlining and templates, includes with compile-time imports (this requires the preservation of type information in the object code, making this feature impossible to retrofit into a language); conditional compilation is effectively accomplished with\nif-then-else and dead code elimination in some languages. However, a key point to remember is that all preprocessor directives should start on a new line.\nOther lexical preprocessors\nOther lexical preprocessors include the general-purpose m4, most commonly used in cross-platform build systems such as autoconf, and GEMA, an open source macro processor which operates on patterns of context.\nSyntactic preprocessors were introduced with the Lisp family of languages. Their role is to transform syntax trees according to a number of user-defined rules. For some programming languages, the rules are written in the same language as the program (compile-time reflection). This is the case with Lisp and OCaml. Some other languages rely on a fully external language to define the transformations, such as the XSLT preprocessor for XML, or its statically typed counterpart CDuce.\nSyntactic preprocessors are typically used to customize the syntax of a language, extend a language by adding new primitives, or embed a domain-specific programming language (DSL) inside a general purpose language.\nA good example of syntax customization is the existence of two different syntaxes in the Objective Caml programming language. Programs may be written indifferently using the \"normal syntax\" or the \"revised syntax\", and may be pretty-printed with either syntax on demand.\nSimilarly, a number of programs written in OCaml customize the syntax of the language by the addition of new operators.\nExtending a language\nThe best examples of language extension through macros are found in the Lisp family of languages. While the languages, by themselves, are simple dynamically typed functional cores, the standard distributions of Scheme or Common Lisp permit imperative or object-oriented programming, as well as static typing. Almost all of these features are implemented by syntactic preprocessing, although it bears noting that the \"macro expansion\" phase of compilation is handled by the compiler in Lisp. This can still be considered a form of preprocessing, since it takes place before other phases of compilation.\nSpecializing a language\nOne of the unusual features of the Lisp family of languages is the possibility of using macros to create an internal DSL. Typically, in a large Lisp-based project, a module may be written in a variety of such minilanguages, one perhaps using a SQL-based dialect of Lisp, another written in a dialect specialized for GUIs or pretty-printing, etc. Common Lisp's standard library contains an example of this level of syntactic abstraction in the form of the LOOP macro, which implements an Algol-like minilanguage to describe complex iteration, while still enabling the use of standard Lisp operators.\nThe MetaOCaml preprocessor/language provides similar features for external DSLs. This preprocessor takes the description of the semantics of a language (i.e. an interpreter) and, by combining compile-time interpretation and code generation, turns that definition into a compiler to the OCaml programming language—and from that language, either to bytecode or to native code.\nGeneral purpose preprocessor\nMost preprocessors are specific to a particular data processing task (e.g., compiling the C language). A preprocessor may be promoted as being general purpose, meaning that it is not aimed at a specific usage or programming language, and is intended to be used for a wide variety of text processing tasks.\nM4 is probably the most well known example of such a general purpose preprocessor, although the C preprocessor is sometimes used in a non-C specific role. Examples:\n- using C preprocessor for devicetree processing within the Linux kernel.\n- using M4 (see on-article example) or C preprocessor as a template engine, to HTML generation.\n- imake, a make interface using the C preprocessor, written for the X Window System but now deprecated in favour of automake.\n- grompp, a preprocessor for simulation input files for GROMACS (a fast, free, open-source code for some problems in computational chemistry) which calls the system C preprocessor (or other preprocessor as determined by the simulation input file) to parse the topology, using mostly the #define and #include mechanisms to determine the effective topology at grompp run time.\n- using GPP for preprocessing markdown files\n- Directive (programming)\n- Snippet management\n- Template engine\n- The C preprocessor\n- The OCaml preprocessor-pretty-printer\n- The PL/I preprocessor\n- The Windows software trace preprocessor\n- General-purpose macro processor\n- The Revised syntax from The Caml language website\n- Show how to use C-preprocessor as template engine. \"Using a C preprocessor as an HTML authoring tool\" by J. Korpela, 2000.\n|Look up preprocessor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.|\n- DSL Design in Lisp\n- Programming from the bottom up\n- The Generic PreProcessor\n- Gema, the General Purpose Macro Processor\n- The PIKT piktc text, script, and configuration file preprocessor\n- pyexpander, a python based general purpose macro processor\n- minimac, a minimalist macro processor\n- Java Comment Preprocessor", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses and Women, 1870-1900, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996, $39.95, by Annmarie Adams, BA'81\nShortly after I received the commission from McGill News to review Annmarie Adams' Architecture in the Family Way, my husband and I announced our decision to buy a house, our first. This unleashed a deluge of admonition from colleagues and family. Is the insulation ureaformaldehyde? Is there lead paint on the walls? Asbestos in the walls? Radon under the floor? Allergens in the carpets? Being real estate virgins, we were (momentarily at least) flummoxed. What were we buying: a 1903 greystone, or the Irving Whale of Lower Westmount?\n\"Sick building syndrome\" is a pervasive modern obsession, and Annmarie Adams puts her finger on the historical moment of its genesis: Great Britain, 1870-1900. But the ailing edifices of Victorian England were not hospitals or office buildings; rather, they were middle-class homes. Defining the home as a health issue, and determining what should be done about it, brought doctors and women together in a number of ways which proved significant for both medicine and feminism.\nArchitecture in the Family Way is structured as five essays, loosely linked in substance, but resonating with one another thematically. The first essay tours the International Health Exhibition of 1884. The highlight of London's hygiene Expo was a walk-in model of the \"Insanitary Dwelling\" and its counterpart, the \"Sanitary Dwelling\". To the naked eye the two could scarcely be distinguished. It was the unseen that made the difference: faulty drainage pipes, improperly positioned dustbins, poor ventilation, and toxic building materials. The list of ailments ascribed to the presence of arsenic in wallpaper has a familiar ring: bowel inflammation, diarrhoea, nausea, depression, asthma, headaches, and skin irritations. Significantly, this exhibition was conceived not by architects, but by physicians. Architects, castigated as mercenary and unscientific, were the villains; doctors and housewives became the crusaders who would save the British family from the baleful architectural practices.\nHow Victorian doctors colonized domestic architecture at the expense of architects is the theme of the second essay. The Domestic Sanitation Movement emerged from the larger public health crusade of the 19th century, and shared its vocabulary of fresh air, pure water, sunshine and soap. The intrusion of the medical profession imbued these ancient hygienic commonplaces with an aura of scientific rationality which strongly appealed to middle-class culture; at the same time, asserting expertise in the design of homes promoted the doctors' own quest for enhanced public recognition. Their closest allies were another group of people ambitious for respect: middle-class women. Chapter 3, \"Female Regulation of the Healthy Home,\" argues that the so-called \"separate sphere\" of the Victorian housewife was, in fact, a highly permeable labyrinth of ventilation shafts and soil pipes. The angel of the hearth, more sanitary engineer than seraph, held a mandate from the medical pundits to conduct chemical tests for arsenic in the wallpaper, or single- handedly inspect the putty joints of her drains. Surprisingly, control over the physical fabric of her house led directly to more public roles. Pioneering women doctors argued that responsibility for the health of the home made women innately suitable for medicine, especially preventive medicine. Women carved out a niche in the burgeoning hygiene industry as domestic sanitation inspectors, and hung out their shingles as real estate agents, all on the grounds of expertise in the health of houses.\nBut the nexus of house, woman and doctor was not always liberating. The notion of a \"sick building\" implies that a building is a body, and historically, woman has also been defined primarily as a body. Equating house with body entails gendering the house as female, and vice versa. In her fourth essay, Adams traces the intensification of women's liability for disease in their houses. When she gave birth, a woman's own body became the most dangerous pathogen in her home, a living sewer of smell, noise, and sepsis. The design of the lying-in room in the Victorian middle-class house demonstrates the efforts of physicians to \"quarantine\" the birthing body and shield the house from its effluvia.\nThe final chapter, on domestic architecture and feminism, links movements for female education and liberation to the imprinting of feminine design elements on late-Victorian architecture. Women themselves began to practice as decorators and architects, and women activists patronized architects who promoted interior layouts, exterior styles, and forms of graphic presentation, like the perspective drawing, that spoke to the \"feminine point of view\".\nAdams' study is innovative, intelligently illustrated, and seasoned with a dashing and witty style. Sometimes, however, her strokes are too broad: for example, the portrait of the late 19th century medical profession exaggerates its unity and conspiratorial confidence. The thematic unity of the book also occasionally unravels. The final chapter in particular abruptly abandons medical themes, and asserts that the central motifs of the study converge on the Queen Anne style. Adams also springs her conclusions on the reader with disconcerting suddenness. Somehow the year 1900 \"marked the end rather than the beginning of a period when women enjoyed considerable control over the domestic spaces they inhabited.\" Doctors are inexplicably hustled off the scene, architects for no apparent reason exercise hegemony once more, and \"English women returned to motherhood.\" But these are minor flaws in an otherwise engaging and original study. Annmarie Adams has enriched architectural history, medical history, and women's history by documenting an under-reported episode in the medicalization of the built environment, and by extending the definition of Victorian feminism far beyond votes for women. Above all, she has destabilized the notion of the \"separate sphere\" by showing how the Victorian private house became an intensely public space.\nby Faith Wallis, BA'71, MA'74, MLS'76\nKiss Me, Porcupine's Quill, 1996, $14.95, by Andrew Pyper BA'91, MA'92\nThe back cover of Kiss Me claims Andrew Pyper has \"professed admiration for the writing of Alice Munro,\" perhaps a dangerous acknowledgment to tie to a first collection of stories, since it begs for comparison. Having taken that bait, some might object that Pyper is no Alice Munro. Which would be true, of course, but unfair to Pyper, whose stories skillfully and quietly explore the lives of the under-thirty generation. His characters, however, are more thoughtful, vulnerable, and real creatures than those who bear that overworked media tattoo, Generation X (Pyper is no Douglas Coupland clone either, thankfully).\nThe title story profiles a burn victim unable to deal with his horrible disfigurement, alienating his caring girfriend and condemning himself to an apartment-ridden, Phantom-like life of embittered solitude. In \"Call Roxanne,\" a mentally unstable young man hovers delicately between confronting his \"mechanical problems\", his relationship with a silent, circumspect father, and the fantasy refuge of a woman's name and phone number he has obtained from a bathroom stall.\nThere are wry, humourous stories in Kiss Me, too. \"If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now\" is the tale of a runaway fleeing his born-again father and joining a household of young Toronto intellectuals by pretending he's a writer, soon finding himself published in a counterculture pamphlet called Piss Pot.\nPyper's characters are lost, not a lost generation so much as individuals in limbo, in moody and uncertain transition. Their stories are the common yet often soul-shaking initiations of youth to the calamities of the adult world--personal tragedy, domestic violence, drug abuse, the departure of loved ones, and all those small yet emotionally thunderous, defining moments that occur between parents and children, lovers and friends. They are well-told, and Ms. Munro would likely approve.\nby Andrew Mullins\nThe Price of a Dream, Simon & Shuster, 1996, $32.50, by David Bornstein, BCom'85\nEver since it declared independence from Pakistan in 1971, Bangladesh has been an icon of impoverishment. Yet it's there that western-taught economist Muhammad Yunus has created a minor economic miracle: the Grameen Bank, a micro-lending institution with a radical lending philosophy. Through loans of as little as $1 and no higher than a few hundred dollars, the Grameen (\"Village\") Bank has over two million borrowers - mostly poor village women - has disbursed about $2 billion since it was founded in 1976, and has a 97 percent payback rate. Its success has effectively reduced poverty throughout the region.\nYunus, who comes from an affluent Bangladeshi family, received a PhD then taught at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. After returning home in 1972, he concluded that with just a few dollars many needy villagers would be able to sustain small businesses. With the help of an established bank, Yunus began lending money, with interest, while ensuring payback by setting up local groups and making borrowers accountable to others in their group.\nDavid Bornstein, a graduate of McGill commerce and New York University journalism, spent four years in Bangladesh meeting the people behind the numbers. In The Price of a Dream he humanizes a potentially dry topic by focusing on many of the villagers whose lives the bank changed. For instance, he tells of Aleya Begum, who initially borrowed 2,000 takas ($70) to buy a cow and sell milk, soon earning enough to increase her loan to purchase more cows. She now owns and operates a small farm. Bornstein also convincingly presents Yunus's contention that the Grameen Bank's method to reduce poverty can be transported to settings throughout the world. It's a lesson which hopefully will be heeded.\nHoward Bokser, BCom'82, BA'88", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The generation of a DTU - Diseconomy Traded Unit is characterized by the application of a rigorous Standard, together with its tools, guidelines, procedures and methodologies. DTUs are the result of activities that go beyond the baseline in terms of nature preservation and pollution reduction. The entire process is strictly scientific and ensures effective measurements and calculations.\nDiseconomy Traded Units (DTUs) are of the following types: M-DTU (originating from PREMIN projects, that preserve ore reserves), B-DTU (originating from PREBIO projects, that preserve biodiversity), F-DTU (originating from PREFOR projects, that preserve forests), C-DTU (originating from PRECARB projects, that preserves hydrocarbon reserves), H-DTU (originating from PREHYDRO projects, that preserves water reserves) and N-DTU (originating from PRONER projects, that reduce negative emissions).\nThe DTUcoin (DTX) is a complimentary currency based on the reference values for the different types of DTUs.\nThe following DTU-types have their reference values established as follows:\nUntil the mark of 5 million units, DTUcoins (DTX) are backed by the value of gold and bitcoin, according to the following formula:\npAU = Euro price AM of one ounce of gold at the London Bullion Market;\npBC = Euro price of 1 Bitcoin;\nSf = Scaling factor for F-DTU;\nDTU$ = Euro price for DTUcoin (DTX);\n50%(pAU) + 50%(pBC)\nDTU$ = ____________________\nwhere Sf = 62,53208", "label": "No"}
{"text": "👋🏻☀️🌎Good Morning! As we finish up our tour of the regions of the United States, I hope you’ll make time to watch the videos and read-alouds to gain a stronger awareness of the unique features of each region in our country.🏜\nMorning Work – Thanks for continuing our morning gratitude practice. Take a look at these pictures from our National Parks. They are from Bryce Canyon in Utah, Arches in Utah, Mount Rainier in Washington and The Badlands in South Dakota. Our country is stunning and grand. What will you add to your Gratitude Jar today?💗\nThank you for taking time to read each others blogs and leave a comment or two. Your compliments are an important part of staying connected!💕🙌🏼💐\nMorning Meeting– In our Social Problem Solving practice we’re very good at naming our feelings and making “I statements.” Let’s practice the next part of the process ~ setting goals and brainstorming ideas by reflecting and wondering about others. What can we do differently to change upsetting or annoying situation?\nTo get started, listen to Horace and Morris, but Mostly Dolores. Do you know about peer pressure? It’s when you feel like you should or shouldn’t do something because it seems like everyone else your age is doing it. Horace and Morris do what boys have to do. Dolores does what a girl has to do, even though it makes them unhappy. Think about times when you’ve been excluded or ignored. Write a letter here to Horace and Morris or maybe Dolores ~ …Problem Solving Practice or in Google Classroom.\n🏔🏕Social Studies and Reading🛶🐊\nChoose a state from each region. Leave your choices and reasons in a comment. Now you have a list of four states ~ one from each region. What one do you think you’ll have most fun learning new things about? We’ll begin working on that tomorrow ~ just think for now.\nTake a break, go outside, run around, sing, play a game, make some art.\n📚Independent Reading – Keep reading each and every day! Find a nice quiet place to read and enjoy at least 30 minutes with a great book. If you’re wishing for some new book/reading options you can find some fabulous picture book recordings at Storyline Online and recorded books here at Audible. The Elementary selections look great. Enjoy!\nAt the end of reading, choose two or three things from the Book Talk Questions grid when you leave a comment about what you read today on the blog.📖\nGo outside, have some lunch, play a game, practice your recorder. Relax.\n✏️Writer’s Workshop – If you’ve got a writing project to finish, please work on that. This week’s prompts are a random collection. Challenge yourself to write something different ~ a poem, a play, a song, a news article, a puppet show… Write as if you’re a sports announcer, or a meteorologist, a chicken or a pig…\nIf you’re ready for a new writing idea, here are today’s Quick Writes:📝\n- Would you rather have a pet unicorn or a pet dragon? Why?\n- When is it challenging to be a good friend? How do you handle those situations?\n- Write a short story using the words pizza, kazoo, tree house, puppy, and bicycle\n- Write about some of your favorite memories with your best friend.\n- Other ~ write about any thing that you find interesting today.\nRead the prompts, think for a minute or so, choose a topic and write for a full 10 minutes without stopping. At the end of 10 minutes you choose – are you done, do you have a different idea, do you want to keep going. It would be fun to see some of your writing on your blog this week.\n🔢Math Workshop – Start by listening to The 329th Friend. Many of the worksheets and activities you will do are about the characters in this book and the story. If you don’t listen to it first, math will be confusing. Plus it’s a fun book. Poor Emery Raccoon!🦝\nEmery had a lot of planning to do make sure there was enough table space for all his guests. He had to think about both area and perimeter. Did he have enough space in his yard for the tables? Was the perimeter around his table long enough for all his guest to find a seat?\nHere’s what it would look like if he set a table up for four people. Emery wondered what it would be like if he put two tables together. He found that would make space for six people to sit. Next he wonder how he could make space for ten people and this is what he discovered.\nHe decided that groups of 18 might be nice. Emery had 6 square tables to use, but he wasn’t sure he would use them all. Each table seats 4, one on each side. Please help Emery find all the possible ways he can arrange his tables to seat 18 people.\nNext, here are today’s problems to choose from. See if there are two that feel like just right challenges. You can solve them in your journal or on a piece of paper. It would be most helpful to put the color and the date the problem was posted. Thanks!\nLandin had $25.00. She went to Target. She bought the new Shopkin Shopper Pack for $10.99.\nShe bought a bottle of pink nail polish for $3.00.\nShe bought a bottle of blue nail polish for $3.00\nHow much money did Landin spend altogether?\nHow much money did Landin have left after shopping?\nLandon has 21,850 crayons. Holden has 17,039 crayons.\nHow many more crayons does Landon have than Holden has?\nVera has 2,258 more crayons than Landon has.\nHow many crayons does Vera have?\nWhen Landon, Holden and Vera put their crayons altogether to donate them to kid who don’t have art supplies, how many crayons will they donate altogether?\nEdward has 10,000 balloons. 2,126 of the balloon are blue. 3,486 are red. 2,029 are yellow. The rest of the balloons are different shades of green.\nHow many of the balloons are green?\n675 of the green balloons are star shaped. The rest are round. How many round, green balloons does Edward have?\nBrady’s family had a cookout.\nThey used five packages of hotdogs and three packages of hamburgers.\nThere were 12 hotdogs in each package. There were 6 hamburgers in each of those packages.\nHow many hotdogs did they use altogether?\nHow many hamburgers did they use altogether?\nVan went for a walk. He collected food for the birds.\nHe found 135 acorns, 46 pinecones and 37 red berries.\nHow many things did Van collect altogether for the birds?\nHe put the food in a feeder at the edge of his yard. The birds ate half of the food in one day. How much food was left?\nMay baked 124 muffins.\nKatherine baked 13 times as many. How many muffins did Katherine bake?\nKatherine baked some blueberry muffins and some chocolate chip muffins.\nIf 826 of the muffins were blueberry, how many of them were chocolate chip?\nIf you’ve worked through that, it’s definitely time for a game here at ABCya. Find a way to keep practicing your math facts in all four operations.\nUA’s for today…\nChallenges and Phys. Ed. Here is the link to their website if you need some suggestions for how to stay active and fit.\n🇺🇸🏕🏜I hope you had a great day. While you’re deciding, I suggest you choose a state you know only a little about, but that you’d like to learn more about. We’ll begin researching and collecting information for persuasive blog post. Convince us that we should visit your state first!🏔🛶🎆\n👊🏻🙌🏼💕 Mrs. Eaves", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What is driving ethics?\nThere are 4 answers\nAnswered on December 1, 2014 07:30\nDriving ethics is a set of unwritten rules of behavior for drivers on the road, for violating which no one will punish, but following them greatly improves safety and simply improves the mood of all road users. Examples of such rules: follow the rows and do not take up too much space on the road, help to drive out of the side passages, when maneuvering, be clear to others, do not dazzle with high beams, help drivers who are in a difficult situation, restrain aggressive emotions and do not use offensive language to address other road users, do not throw garbage on the road, etc.\nAnswered on December 1, 2014 08:01\nObservance of elementary rules of behavior in relation to other road users. Read more for yourself:\nAnswered on April 12, 19:13\nEarnings from 20 000 rubles a day! - Do you need a ready, already customized method of earnings? - Without difficult courses that you can not figure out. - Without routine work. - Without cheating and that the money was worthy. - It is a ready-made income, and not a useless course! Details on site 726\nAnswered on May 1 01:42\nRespect each other between drivers and a pedestrian as well.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "| | Public\nChilworth Ring is the site of a small univallate Iron Age hillfort located in Hampshire. Partial excavations of the site were carried out in 1928. The site has now been developed into circle of detached houses lying within the ramparts, constructed sometime in the 1960s. The original bank can only be seen in the Eastern quadrant where it is followed by the road. The nearby Castle Hill earthwork to the west is thought to have been a cattle enclosure. The road serving the houses is called The Ring.\nThe site lies in the village of Chilworth, just inside the South-Eastern boundary of the Test Valley, in the county of Hampshire, bordering onto the city of Southampton. The site lies at a summit of 75m AOD.\nCopyright: Creative Commons 3.0\nTest Valley, United Kingdom\n© 2006-2020 RouteYou - www.routeyou.com", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Tutorials on basic Concepts of chemistry, chemical bonding and molecular structure. Electrochemistry topics of electrolysis, Faraday's laws of electolysis and electrochemical cells. Thermodynamics topics of basic terms, zeroth law, first law, second law and enthalpy. Organic chemistry basics, stereo isomerism and structural isomerism. In the Biology section we have one tutorial on Glycolysis\nA list of suggestions to students preparing for an exam. Some simple steps which will help reduce the pre-examination stress.\nCopyright © Tutors4you.com", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In addition we can say of the number 956 that it is even\n956 is an even number, as it is divisible by 2 : 956/2 = 478\nThe factors for 956 are all the numbers between -956 and 956 , which divide 956 without leaving any remainder. Since 956 divided by -956 is an integer, -956 is a factor of 956 .\nSince 956 divided by -956 is a whole number, -956 is a factor of 956\nSince 956 divided by -478 is a whole number, -478 is a factor of 956\nSince 956 divided by -239 is a whole number, -239 is a factor of 956\nSince 956 divided by -4 is a whole number, -4 is a factor of 956\nSince 956 divided by -2 is a whole number, -2 is a factor of 956\nSince 956 divided by -1 is a whole number, -1 is a factor of 956\nMultiples of 956 are all integers divisible by 956 , i.e. the remainder of the full division by 956 is zero. There are infinite multiples of 956. The smallest multiples of 956 are:\nIt is possible to determine using mathematical techniques whether an integer is prime or not.\nfor 956, the answer is: No, 956 is not a prime number.\nTo know the primality of an integer, we can use several algorithms. The most naive is to try all divisors below the number you want to know if it is prime (in our case 956). We can already eliminate even numbers bigger than 2 (then 4 , 6 , 8 ...). Besides, we can stop at the square root of the number in question (here 30.919 ). Historically, the Eratosthenes screen (which dates back to Antiquity) uses this technique relatively effectively.\nMore modern techniques include the Atkin screen, probabilistic tests, or the cyclotomic test.\nPrevious prime number: 953\nNext prime number: 967", "label": "No"}
{"text": "In this tutorial, we going to look at subsetting in R. R language is so important for data science and this tutorial is a helper for R. If you didn’t read Data Types In R, you can read to prepare.\nWhat Is Subsetting?\nSubsetting is a useful indexing function for accessing object elements. For example, we have a list and we want to access the first index in the list, we can use subsetting to access this object. I gave the example Pseudocode below. If you don’t know Pseudocode, you can read the documentation in Wikipedia for this, click the Pseudocode link.\nList = [1 , 2 , 3 , 4] List # Access first index\nIf you don’t understand the above syntax don’t worry we going to examine a lot of examples.\nSubsetting Basic Infos\nIn this part, we going to look at subsetting in vectors so we going to make a simple vector and we subsetting in this vector. If you don’t know vectors you should read Data Types In R, because if you don’t know data types you can’t work with vectors.\nAbove, firstly, we create a new vector after that we call the first index in the vector so, the value you write in square brackets pulls data from the section in the region you specify. For example, if we wrote the index as 3, we would get the result 3.\nSometimes we need to call multiple data, for this, we can use multi-index, let’s look at this multi-index.\nAbove, we create a new vector and we are calling indexes 1 to 4. Now, we going to learn to call index by value.\nIf you assign these indexes to a variable, it will be printed as a bool type, but if it is used as an index of the vector, it will return to its old value like the final output.\nSubsetting – Lists And Matrix\nAnymore, we know basic subsetting properties, now we going to learn subsetting with lists and matrix. If you don’t know Lists or Matrix you should read Data Types In R.\nYou can call index in a list with the above methods. Now, we going to look at these methods.\n$ syntax -> Used to call variables in a set. (you can’t call normal index you can call variable from set)\nX [[“variable”]] -> Used to call variables in a set (you can’t call normal index you can call variable from set)\nAnymore we know how to use subsetting with a list, now, we going to pass Matrix subsetting. Before you start, try to create your own examples of past topics.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Private working lands (farms and forests) are natural engines that drive the economy while providing clean air and water, wildlife habitat, groundwater recharge and recreational areas. Yet, working lands are at risk from threats and pressures of extensive and often unplanned development. Landowners and citizens have witnessed North Carolina’s rapid population growth and the change in our rural landscape.\nWhen farm and forests are kept intact and “working”, they maintain the quality of life that North Carolinians and visitors enjoy. Fields and forests are the visual backdrop where 18% of the State’s jobs originate — contributing $78 billion to the NC economy!\nAs North Carolina grows, the rural landscape faces the same threats and pressures related to land use changes in the urban core. Unplanned development, encroachment, and incompatible land uses threaten the health of working lands and natural systems — just as they threaten military training and readiness in NC. This includes the bases, the “away areas” and “corridors” that link military bases and airfields with remote training ranges. To proactively address this issue, the North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Partnership seeks to create innovative strategies for sustaining and promote a healthy and valued landscape for three primary interests: private working lands, conservation, and national defense.\nThis Working Lands Conservation program is but one part of this effort. Included in this program are a training curriculum and training manual for agency and resource managers, as well as the award winning landowner handbook.\nWe hope you will take advantage of these resources to inform yourself, or farmers and landowners you know, on the steps to creating a flexible, workable, voluntary conservation plan for the future of your land.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Spain is about 6 times smaller than Argentina.\nArgentina is approximately 2,780,400 sq km,\nwhile Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km.\nMeanwhile, the population of Argentina is ~44.3 million people\n(4.7 million more people live in Spain).\nThis to-scale map shows a size comparison of Argentina compared to Spain.\nFor more details, see an in-depth\ncomparison of Spain vs. Argentina\nusing our country comparison tool.\nOther popular comparisons:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "- View Source\n> geffylau_ 'sixteen horses'. It is true that _mil_ 'thousand' requirwesUntil we have actual examples of numbers as adjectives (a real text\n> the _o_ + plural construction, but why would Sindarin follow Welsh\nwith _neldë coa/coar_ inside, for example), we can't provide a fruitful\ntheory about the plurality of that number-noun formula. The proper\nnouns having a number can act differently.\nAnyway, in many languages in which numbers manage nouns in indefinite\ncase (as in Basque, where we have _hiru etxe_ (\"three-house-ind.\") and\nnot **_hiru etxeak_ (\"three-houses-pl.\")), when numbers have noun\nfunction, they act also as indefinite (for example, Basque genitive of\nthe numbers, _hiruren_, \"three-ind.-of\", and not **_hiruen_,\nBut Quenya number-pronouns act as plural; so, we have _Neldion_ (day\nof the Three younger Gods), a clear plural genitive, and not *_Neldeo_,\nas, in my opinion, we'd expect if numbers were indefinite.\n\"I amar prestar aen\nHan mathon ne nen\nHan mathon ne chae\nA han nostron ned wilith\"", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Can You Compost Grass: A Comprehensive Guide\nIf you are an avid gardener or someone who is conscious about the environment, composting is likely a topic that interests you. Composting is not only a sustainable way to dispose of organic waste but also produces nutrient-rich soil for your garden. However, when it comes to composting grass, many people are unsure if it’s suitable or how to do it properly. In this blog post, we will answer the burning question: can you compost grass? Let’s dive in!\nThe Basics of Composting\nBefore exploring the specifics of composting grass, let us first understand the fundamentals of composting itself.\nIn simple terms, composting is a natural process where organic materials such as kitchen scraps and yard waste decompose over time with the help of microorganisms like bacteria and fungi. The end product is called “compost,” which serves as an excellent soil amendment for plants.\nUnderstanding Grass Clippings\nGrass clippings refer to the cuttings from your lawn when mowing. They consist primarily of water and nutrients that were once absorbed by the living plant. These clippings contain valuable nitrogen compounds that can greatly benefit your garden when used properly.\nThe Pros and Cons of Composting Grass\n- Nutrient-rich material: Grass clippings provide essential nitrogen along with other minerals needed for healthy plant growth.\n- Faster decomposition: Due to their high moisture content, grass clippings break down relatively quickly compared to some other yard waste materials.\n- Avoids landfill contribution: By composting grass instead of sending it to a landfill, you can help reduce methane emissions and contribute to a more sustainable environment.\n- Potential odor issues: When not properly managed, grass clippings may produce an unpleasant smell during decomposition. However, with proper composting techniques, this issue can be easily avoided.\n- Risk of matting and overheating: If grass clippings are added in large quantities all at once without proper aeration or mixing with other materials, they may form dense mats that hinder airflow and lead to overheating. This can result in anaerobic decomposition and unpleasant odors.\nTips for Composting Grass\nTo successfully compost your grass clippings while minimizing potential issues, consider following these tips:\n1. Mix it up:\nMix your grass clippings with other yard waste or brown materials such as leaves or shredded paper. This helps create better airflow within the compost pile or bin and prevents matting.\n2. Layer it right:\nAim for an ideal carbon-to-nitrogen ratio (C:N) of around 25-30:1 in your compost pile. Grass clippings are considered “green” or high nitrogen material, so balance them out by adding dry leaves or straw (“brown” materials) which are rich in carbon.\n3. Avoid excessive amounts at once:\nAvoid dumping large volumes of fresh grass clippings into the compost pile all at once; instead add them gradually along with other ingredients mentioned above to maintain proper moisture levels and promote efficient decomposition.\n4. Aerate regularly:\nTo prevent matting and promote decomposition, turn your compost pile regularly to improve airflow. This can be done using a garden fork or by investing in a compost tumbler that simplifies the process.\n5. Monitor moisture levels:\nAim for your compost pile to be slightly damp, resembling a wrung-out sponge. Grass clippings tend to have high moisture content, so monitor and adjust as necessary to prevent excessive wetness or dryness.\nThe Verdict: Yes, You Can Compost Grass!\nIn conclusion, grass clippings are indeed suitable for composting. By adhering to proper techniques such as mixing it with other materials, managing moisture levels, and ensuring adequate aeration of your compost pile, you can successfully transform grass into nutrient-rich organic matter that will benefit your garden immensely.\nBy choosing to compost grass rather than discarding it in landfills where it contributes negatively to our environment through methane emissions and wasted resources, you not only reduce waste but also contribute positively towards sustainable gardening practices. So go ahead and embrace the benefits of incorporating grass clippings into your composting routine!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Some People We Fear\n( Originally Published Early 1900's )\n\"The man who, outside of pure mathematics, pronounces the word impossible, lacks prudence.\"— Arago.\nONE Universe there is, essentially the same in all its parts — of the essence of Mind.\nTo the Universe observed objectively we give the name, matter.\nTo the Universe observed subjectively we give the name, mind-self.\nIf the objective Universe is essentially Mind, it knows itself as mind only.\nIf the human self expresses in body, it knows itself as psycho-physical.\nMatter to itself, then, is expressed Mind.\nThe self-mind is existing and expressing mind.\nTo the human self the Mind-Universe is objectively expressed as matter, and subjectively in the psychic factor.\nAll expression, in either case, is conducted by signs — marks, traits, or the like, which are susceptible of interpretation by knowing mind. Both the Universal Mind and the human mind-self can only know either mind and the self through the signs of mind-activities. The discovery and interpretation of such signs bulks so large in the mental life that it has only one other rival, the using of such interpretation in the interest of the completest personal being.\nTHE UNIVERSE A SYSTEM OF SIGNS.\nThe world we live in, including all other humans besides your self, constitutes, as expressed in external form, a vast and complex system of individual and more or less definitive signs, since that world is a vast and complex expression of mental reality. Nature is like a huge manuscript written by an Unseen Hand, some of the letters of which move about from place to place, while others appear to remain in a stationary position. As the characters on a written page are signs which we have learned to understand, so the world of things consists of signs which suggest or induce in us certain mental activities by way of interpretation. In becoming acquainted with Nature, your mind, your knowing self, does not go out to objects external, nor do the latter pass into the self. Disregarding the body, it is to be understood that nothing goes out of the self or into the self in the act of knowing the external world. The world of objects exists and remains outside the knowing self, exists in the objects as signs which induce or suggest innumerable thoughts and feelings in the observer. What we know of these signs is simply our interpretation of them: it is what we conclude they are and mean.\nThe successful human life, then, involves, for example, three questions: What are the facts about us—the signs or realities as they actually are? What attitude toward such signs or objects or facts and their sure meanings is best for individual welfare? How shall we successfully apply that attitude?\nPersonal unfoldment consists in trying to answer these questions in such a practical way as to \"make good\" for the most truly successful life.\nLet us now ask what these object-signs are in the world of Nature.\nNATURE AND HUMANITY ARE MOVEMENT-SIGNS.\nOur first study concerns movement, one of the things hardest to be explained in the whole Universe. The world seems to consist, as science informs us from its necessary point of view, of matter and force. But the word \"matter\" is merely a sign, written, printed, thought, spoken, for a certain other sign, the external \"matter itself\"— which also is to the human mind none other than just a sign of some reality objectively observed. The first sign is, a word; the word-sign stands for the something-sign. We understand the word-sign; we form some notions about the something-sign; but the essence of the' latter sign no one knows, or ever will know, since the sign is of mind-reality, and mind to itself is essentially unknowable save as a system of activities. Nevertheless, we all agree that the something actually exists, for otherwise we should not have the word-sign and the thought-sign at all.\nThe word \"force\" is also a sign, and it stands for—simply an idea. Force can no more be explained than can motion. Force in itself is always an inference from observed activity, but no one has discovered the essence of what is called force. Matter and force are inferences,, but movement is beyond doubt, whatever its origin.\nThe thinkers of the ages, discovering perfectly evident motion everywhere, began thousands of years ago to surmise that things which are apparently inert were nevertheless incessantly active. The birth of chemistry confirmed these surmises, and led to the modern conclusion, which is a scientific re-statement of old Greek guessing, that all things involve absolutely ceaseless movement within themselves. When we run this conclusion down, it is seen that it is only true for science, since in a Universe which is essentially all mind there can really be neither space nor motion, but only conditions and changes in the Universal Mind's Thoughts. For practical purposes, however, the conclusion must be accepted. On examination, the conclusion assumes two forms: the metaphysical, that all things are in a state of flux, are forever be-coming and forever ceasing; and the physical or chemical, that all things are what they are because of molecular activity. Thus the world of material Nature and physical man is simply a huge system of movement.\nMATTER AND ETHER.\nFormerly we were told that matter is composed of molecules, which in turn consisted of atoms, the smallest divisible particles of matter, and that the molecules were active or moved in grosser matter, or among themselves, while the atoms performed similarly within the molecules. To-day such molecules and atoms are regarded as very \"lumpish\" affairs, for we now believe that the atom itself is an assemblage of \"corpuscles.\" Yet here also, incessant activity prevails, for the final constituents are forever engaged in movement of inconceivable rapidity, at the rate of from 10,000 miles to 90,000 miles a second.\nWhen we ask science what the corpuscles are, one of the latest answers refers us to electricity. \"Any mass of matter is x-molecules, a molecule is y-atom, an atom is z-corpuscles surrounded by positive electricity, and a corpuscle consists of a unit of negative electricity.\" Matter, then, consists of a certain definite number of established or more or less permanent modes of motion, and the innumerable objects of Nature, so far as concerns their material, are thus seen to be simply varieties or individual specimens of etheric movement.\nNothing exists save as it acts, and it is action that constitutes things themselves. Nature, including man, is a vast complex of movements which, as observed by us, become movement-signs. These movement-signs we investigate and interpret, and with the interpretation, corresponding in a way, and thus varying, with everything that exists, we build our thought and the whole philosophy of life.\nIf, now, any material object is simply a kind of established motion of the ether within the ether, the human body is precisely the same. And what-ever may be said as to the nature of life, it is also exactly this, so it would seem: a mode of motion within material molecules (since we know it only in connection with matter), and motion of the ether within the ether (since molecules themselves are such modes of motion). Whatever, again, may be said as to the nature of conscious thought, since it takes place within the material brain, it is, as well, precisely a mode of motion involving ether within ether.\nThe law of inertia forbids that we refer the origin of that motion to the ether itself, for such reference would require that we conceive some original ether without motion, which is inconceivable under the law that a medium not in motion cannot begin motion without the agency of some external force; the original motionless ether can stir \"neither hand nor foot\" until moved upon by reality apart from itself. Even if life be indeed a mode of motion, the specific character of that motion may differ from other forms of motion, say, gravitation, or heat. We may not affirm that life, a movement within ether, is identical with molecular action, a movement within the ether, simply because we do not know. But we may say, that life, whatever the character of it, emerges in motion of the ether with-in itself. Similarly, the exact kind of etheric movement involved in consciousness and thought would not necessarily, even if we knew it, resolve itself into a motion identical with that represented by molecular action in the brain, for the one movement, though associated with the other, may stand for a very different reality. Our personality involves innumerable etheric movements, but it cannot be set down, offhand as the same in origin and nature with the movements which constitute physical nature. To say that because matter is always associated with life, matter is life, or life is an expression of matter, is equivalent to saying that because houses are associated with men, men are houses, or houses are men, or men are expressions of houses. The conclusion may be true, but it is not demanded by the association, and the reverse may be true as well.\nYOUR SELF AND THE ETHER.\nWe are justified, therefore, in affirming only: that the human personality consists of a complex system of activities or movements which take place within the material body, so that all such movements are fundamentally activities of the ether within itself, it may be occurring laterally, or in undulations, or in rings, etc., and that of these movements some are induced by the outside world, some by life acting in the body-realm, some by the psychic self.\nAs we may think of a tree as a system of etheric motions or activities located in one general place, or of a bird as a similar system capable of transfer in toto from place to place, so may we think of human beings as moving systems or centres of activity occurring in the ether and capable of voluntary transfer therein. Personality is a definite, though never clearly limited, sphere of such activities, in which the physical and psychic factors play mutual parts. Be the psychic factor what it may, it dominates more or less, and ought to dominate entirely, the physical. Inasmuch as flesh, bones, nerves and blood are merely forms of etheric action established as forms, the general state of activity in the body influences the surrounding mass of the medium, for a centre of force immersed in a medium of which itself is a part, must disturb that medium by its activities. Personality, then, really involves a complex of motions beyond its constituent ether, setting up many varieties of movement in its immediate surrounding neighborhood by way of transmitted and transformed motion, in straight lines, vibrations, vortices, and so on. Your personal sphere of unseen activities is larger than the bodily outlines, some movements which you originate running \"the diameter of the Universe,\" most of them, how-ever, being condensed, so to speak, within a comparatively small area, and all springing up throughout the physical structure incessantly during life.\nIn the purely physical functions of the body, as, say, the circulatory system, heart, lungs, stomach, nerves, etc., the activities involving the ether are more or less regular, and are conducted without conscions effort. The movements which indicate volition, thought and feeling, however, while regular in their larger phases because they are the products of psychic habits, are nevertheless incessantly varied and to a degree confused.\nThe average person, then, represents a system of very complex ether-movements, some of which are automatically regular, some of which are volitionally regular, and very many of which are exceedingly irregular and constantly modified and changed in all sorts of ways under the varying conditions of life.\nIt is at this point that the difficulties pertaining to personal relations appear.\nRIGHT LIVING INVOLVES RIGHT ETHERIC ADJUSTMENTS\nIf you will imagine a sphere several feet in diameter consisting of complex movements of some perfectly transparent jelly-like medium, and if you will suppose yourself occupying that sphere and causing such movements, and then remember that you are surrounded by thousands of other spheres (personalities) each a dweller within a similar sphere and constituting the activities and characteristics of that sphere, you will see that we are all not only causing disturbances in the Universal Medium, but also receiving into our own sphere movements induced by others.\nRecalling, now, the thought that Nature is a vast system of sign-objects, that is, of movement-signs, it is evident that, if we are to understand Nature and her objects, we must learn to discover the sure meaning of such signs. Precisely so is it with regard to human beings. A human being is to each of us simply a sign of some existence which we have learned to interpret as \"man,\" or \"woman,\" or \"boy,\" or \"girl,\" or \"John,\" or \"Mary,\"— this or that kind of individual human. This learning how to interpret personal sign is one of the most important things in life, because it is the first step toward that right adjustment of self to others which insures greatest success in practical and ideal living. Thus we come to;\nA PRELIMINARY PRACTICAL REGIME IN THE PRESENT WORK: Reading Personal Signs in General. You are now invited to engage in a study of the people whom you know, trying always to solve this question: What kind of sign is each man or woman I meet to me? A sign, for example, of dullness, brightness; slowness, quickness ; irritability, calmness; close, free-handed; morose, cheerful; tricky, honest; low, honorable; etc., etc. If you will proceed in this way, deciding always why you come to your conclusions, you will ere long develop a clean-cut understanding of the people you meet, so far as their external signs indicate; you will, that is, be able to interpret their personality-signs, and thus learn how the most effectively to adjust yourself to them in practical affairs. For detail methods of adjustment you are referred to the author's work, \"Power For Success,\" which fully discusses this important subject.\nThe question, now presented a second time, What is the relation which the individual must come into with other people for his own greatest welfare? involves just this matter of interpretation of personality-signs which we have indicated. The truth is that we do not reach our highest attainments, because we do not adequately know the signs of men and women with whom we deal. But the completest relation involves not only correct interpretation, but also right adjustment to the persons whose signs we interpret. If we interpret them incorrectly, our adjustments will be false or misleading. If we interpret them correctly, we may, nevertheless, fail in the best adjustments. It comes out, then, that life is no matter of mere happy-go-lucky, hit-or-miss contact with people, but really a wonderful science requiring the very best in us properly to master. And, since no one is great enough to master the innumerable details of this science, we are left to acquire and practise the great trunk-line principles which human experience has proved to be the most surely calculated to make for development and success. These fundamental principle are the moral laws and the dictates of what we call common sense. And common sense has worked out this universal law: that if you desire to get on with people, you must find out what their personality means — must interpret their self-signs — and so adjust yourself to them as to secure some kind of harmony with them or to repel or control any of the etheric movements which may proceed from their personal spheres and enter or strive to enter your own.\nThese two phases of every human being's life-work, interpretation of personality-signs and adjustment to personal etheric spheres, either by harmony or control or repulsion, constitute the art of arts which is open to and possible by all who may read these pages.\nFear Means Surrender to Interpretation of Personality-Signs.\nIt is because you interpret the personality-signs erroneously, or, whether you interpret them incorrectly or correctly, yield to the interpretation, that fear or timidity and nervousness seize upon you in social or business contact. If you would say, in regard to such signs: \" These signs may be intended to awaken fear, or they may be merely of a character suggestive of fear to the common run of people, but I refuse to so interpret them, and they do not mean fear to me; now, how shall I adjust myself to them in such a way as either to repel or control the etheric movements which they indicate as seeking to enter my personal sphere?\"—if you would say thus, you would find your-self in time altogether free from the fears or nervousness which the signs usually induce. In other words, you have it in your power, first, to learn what personality-signs are; secondly, to repel them if they signify evil of any sort to yourself; and thirdly, to control and use them for your own good, if not of a hostile nature. This brings us to the practical work of the present chapter.\nADJUSTMENT TO FEAR-SUGGESTING PERSONALITY-SIGNS.\nYou are therefore invited to practise the following as long-continued regimes in your daily life.\nThe work now involved I indicate in two sections: The Golden Regimes of the Masterful Self, and, The Iron Regimes of the Self Striving for Mastery. Into the second work must always be carried the first, courageously and confidently.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Jesus’ opponents refused to accept his divine authority and claim to be the only Son from the Father. They demanded evidence for his Messianic claim and equality with God. Jesus answers their charges with the supporting evidence of witnesses. The Mosaic law had laid down the principle that the unsupported evidence of one person shall not prevail against a man for any crime or wrong in connection with any offence he committed (see Deuteronomy 17:6). At least two or three witnesses were needed. Jesus begins his defense by citing John the Baptist as a witness, since John publicly pointed to Jesus as the Messiah and had repeatedly borne witness to him (see John 1:19, 20, 26, 29, 35, 36). Jesus also asserts that a greater witness to his identity are the signs he performed. He cites his works, not to point to himself but to point to the power of God working in and through him. He cites God as his supreme witness.\nSaint Augustine of Hippo says: “As Christians, our task is to make daily progress toward God. Our pilgrimage on earth is a school in which God is the only teacher, and it demands good students, not ones who play truant. In this school we learn something every day. We learn something from commandments, something from examples, and something from sacraments. These things are remedies for our wounds and materials for study.”", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Coastal saltmarsh ecosystems occupy only a small percentage of Earth’s land surface, yet contribute a wide range of ecosystem services that have significant global economic and societal value. These environments currently face significant challenges associated with climate change, sea level rise, development and water quality deterioration and are consequently the focus of a range of management schemes. Increasingly, soft engineering techniques such as managed realignment (MR) are being employed to restore and recreate these environments, driven primarily by the need for habitat (re)creation and sustainable coastal flood defence. Such restoration schemes also have the potential to provide additional ecosystem services including climate regulation and waste processing. However, these sites have frequently been physically impacted by their previous land use and there is a lack of understanding of how this ‘disturbance’ impacts the delivery of ecosystem services or of the complex linkages between ecological, physical and biogeochemical processes in restored systems. Through the exploration of current data this paper determines that hydrological, geomorphological and hydrodynamic functioning of restored sites may be significantly impaired with respects to natural ‘undisturbed’ systems and that links between morphology, sediment structure, hydrology and solute transfer are poorly understood. This has consequences for the delivery of seeds, the provision of abiotic conditions suitable for plant growth, the development of microhabitats and the cycling of nutrients/contaminants and may impact the delivery of ecosystem services including biodiversity, climate regulation and waste processing. This calls for a change in our approach to research in these environments with a need for integrated, interdisciplinary studies over a range of spatial and temporal scales incorporating both intensive and extensive research design.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Chinua Achebe believes that Joseph Conrads Heart Of Darkness is racist based on Conrads descriptions of Africa and its people. Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart, stresses Conrads depiction of Africa as the antithesis of Europe and civilization, and the animal imagery present throughout the novella. Heart of Darkness, written in 1899 during the period of British Imperialism, concerns a British trading company and their expedition into the Congo for ivory.\nThe African natives are treated brutally by the Europeans, and despite Conrads casual condescension towards the Africans, one cannot help feeling resentment at the unnecessary cruelty they must endure. The novella stands as a document against the imperialist practices — Conrad was quite liberal for the time. The natives are referred to as savages several times throughout the story, but Conrad is not using any particularly strong words for the time.\nThe European audiences who would be reading would not find anything racist about it. By todays more sensitive standards, such deference is more serious, but turn-of-the-century England was sure to expect far harsher. Educated people reading Conrad’s novel should understand the differences between the past and the present, and be forgiving of his language. The deeper the expedition progressed into the center of the continent, the more isolation was felt by the crew.\nIn a sense, Central Africa IS the antithesis of Western Europe — it lacks not only the hectic urban structures but also the Social Darwinist attitudes of the time. It is in this remote environment that man must face his true self without any illusions, and the darkness of the human soul is apparent. The uncivilized environment may mock western civilizations refinement, but this is not derogatory towards the jungle, but rather an eye-opener to the European audience.\nBy exhibiting the deeds of the Europeans, their portrayal becomes so negative that they become the savages. Conrad clearly is sympathetic to the plight of the Africans, and any racial epithets, if not accepted by progressives of the time, are not meant as attacks directed at the natives. It should be obvious that Conrad is on their side — or is this “undermined by the mindlessness of its context and the pretty explicit animal imagery surrounding it”? I think not.\nConrad’s animal imagery is used as a metaphor for the human spiritual being, not as a comparison to the natives. Heart of Darkness is not intended to be a portrait of the African people at all. It is a story of what was inflicted upon them. It is a story of mans introspective into himself when there is nowhere else to turn. It is a story of an obsessed man named Kurtz and what he did for his own gain. It is a strikingly accurate account of a historical period past, and it should not be regarded today as a hateful spew of racism.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What was the core philosophy of the Confederate States of America, as explained by Alexander Stephens?\nThe answer to this question can be found in Stephens's famous \"Cornerstone Speech,\" delivered in Savannah, Georgia in March of 1861. Essentially, the speech is an explanation and a defense of the Confederate Constitution. After outlining some of the main differences between the Confederate constitution and that of the United States, he claimed that its best feature was that it eliminated the possibility for further \"agitation\" about the issue of slavery, which of course, had led to the creation of the Confederacy in the first place. Stephens said that many of the Framers of the United States Constitution and other Founding Fathers had, even while allowing for slavery's existence (he was talking in particular about Thomas Jefferson) still believed that blacks and whites were fundamentally equal, the Confederate Constitution was based on the opposite principle:\nOur new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition.\nOnly \"a defect of reasoning\" could possibly persuade someone that the races were equal, Stephens said. He went on to offer an expanded theory of racial inequality, claiming that this was the rational basis for slavery, and because the Southern states understood this truth, they would be successful in the long run.\ncheck Approved by eNotes Editorial", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The council's food services team investigates all infectious diseases that may be linked to food or water consumption. These diseases are primarily gastro-intestinal diseases of short duration but also include diseases such as Hepatitis A.\nIf you have been diagnosed as suffering from a communicable disease (usually following a request from your doctor to provide a faecal specimen or blood test) we will either telephone or visit you to try and find out where the infection has come from. The infection may have come from contaminated food, however many infectious diseases can be transmitted through non food routes such as environmental sources.\nThe purpose of our visit/telephone call is to try to identify potential sources of infection so that action can be taken to prevent similar cases occurring, we can also soon identify if a common event or food links more than one case together. Top of page\nFood poisoning is an illness caused by eating food which hasn't been cooked, handled or stored properly. Food poisoning symptoms can include nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and stomach cramps. For further advice advice on the treatment of food poisoning, you should visit your GP. The websites below have further advice and information about food poisoning:\nNHS - food poisoning (external website)\nFood Standards Agency - food poisoning (external website)\nHealth Protection Agency - Food Poisoning and Infectious Diseases (external website)\nTop of page\nIf you believe a particular food premises or food which you have purchased has caused your illness, you should report suspected food poisoning online (opens in new window) with details of your symptoms including where, when and what you have eaten and if other people have similar symptoms. Alternatively you can call us on (01482) 396301.\nPlease note: you should visit your GP as soon as possible to be diagnosed, this will involve providing a faecal sample which will help identify the cause of illness. Top of page\nWhat do I do if I still have the food that I think has made me ill?\nKeep the food in the fridge and contact us on (01482) 396301 for more information. An officer from the team will contact you and may wish to sample the food for microbiological examination to try and identify whether the food was the cause of illness.\nTop of page\nWhere can I find out more information about food poisoning investigations?\nThe food services team has produced an advice note which includes more information about food poisoning investigations:\nID advice note (pdf 183kb opens up new window)\nTop of page", "label": "No"}
{"text": "20 Simple Square in a Square Quilt Patterns\nIf you're a new quilter, then you'll love this collection of square in a square quilt tutorials!\nIf you're new to quilting, one of the basic quilt blocks that beginners should learn is the square in a square block pattern. An essential block in many larger quilt designs, the square in a square block is comprised of one small square inside another, and can sometimes be tricky to piece together as it requires some math. Take your beginner quilting skills to the next level with these simple square in a square quilt patterns!\nFaveQuilts has included some beginner-friendly square in a square patterns for both quilt blocks and full quilt patterns, so that you have tons of options for your next project. We've also added some diamond in a square tutorials, so that you can flip the traditional square block on its head. Go back to basics with this simple quilting design.\nIf you're searching for other specific quilt patterns, be sure to check out all of our quilting collections here!\nTable of Contents\nWhat is a Square in a Square Quilt Block?\nWhen it comes to basic quilt blocks, the square in a square block is one of the most popular blocks for new quilters to make. This block features a square contained within a larger square and is often used as the center block for larger quilts such as star quilts and storm at sea designs.\nSquare in a square blocks, also known as diamond in a square blocks, are traditionally made in three distinct ways. One way to make a square in a square is by fussy cutting a square of fabric and attaching strips of fabric to each side. You can also make square in a square blocks by using a connector corners technique or by paper piecing. The square in a square block is a great block for beginners as it lets you build your quilting skills, and helps you work on improving your piecing techniques.\nIf you're nervous about the math of creating a perfect square in a square, you're in luck! Catbird Quilt Studio has a handy cheat sheet for getting your measurements just right.\nSquare in a Square Quilt Block Designs\nLearn how to make a simple square in a square quilt block with this list of quilt block tutorials. These quilting tutorials are beginner-friendly, and show you how to play with colors and prints in your next quilting project.\n- Simple Square in a Square BlockThe classics never go out of style! This beginner quilt block tutorial shows you how to make one of the most beloved blocks in just three simple steps.\n- No Math Vintage Photo Quilt BlocksInspired by vintage Polaroid pictures, these whimsical quilt blocks let you transform pretty fabric scraps into chic and modern quilt blocks that are super simple to make.\n- Off Centered Square BlockBefore you start on more square quilt patterns, use the Off Centered Square Block tutorial to make some quirky quilt block patterns. It's a great alternative to the look of wonky blocks.\n- Feminine Pink and Green Quilt BlockCreate an easy square in a square quilt block pattern for anyone from a little girl to a beloved grandmother when you make this gorgeous block design.\n- Technicolor Twist BlockUse this contemporary quilt block pattern to add a bright color accent to another quilt or make a full sized technicolor twist quilt to bring a little summery color scheme to a bedroom or wall.\n- Even if they're small, quilt block patterns don't have to be simple. Use your scrappy quilt leftovers to make an eye-catching square in a square quilt block.\nSquare in a Square Quilt Patterns\nAfter you've learned to make a square in a square block, you can branch out into larger projects with these bed, baby, and lap quilt patterns. These free quilt patterns and tutorials show you how to take the basic square block to the next level.\n- Bon Voyage Throw Quilt PatternJourney around the world with a throw quilt pattern that's incredibly beginner friendly. This free quilt pattern comes with a printable diagram and instructions for cutting and piecing together your quilt.\n- Framed Squares Quilt PatternThis free quilt pattern can be printed off at home, and comes with step by step instructions for piecing your simple squares together. It's a great way to show off prints or fussy cut designs.\n- Five and Dime Crib QuiltA great choice for using charm squares, this tutorial for how to make a crib quilt uses charming fabric inspired by vintage five and dime stores.\n- Simply Stacked Squares QuiltFollow this guide to learn how to expertly arrange your jelly roll quilt patterns into the fun modern-looking block designs of this quilted sofa throw.\n- Flavor of Summer Quilt TutorialThe tutorial will walk you through creating a fun quilt top using squares and strips. The finished product is so fun!\n- Blue Bayou Bed QuiltUse beautiful batik fabrics to create a jaw-dropping bed quilt made of simple square blocks with this easy quilt tutorial.\n- Steps to Tranquility QuiltThis tutorial makes a gorgeous, king size bed quilt which won't look out of place in any room. Its soft colors and simple design make it the perfect bed cover.\n- Fast Filmstrip QuiltWith just this one pattern, you'll be able to use charm quilt fabrics and jelly roll quilt patterns to make a series of square in a square quilt block patterns that can pieced into a simple baby quilt pattern or a full sized lap quilt.\nDiamond in a Square Quilt Patterns\nIf you're looking for a slight twist on the traditional square in a square block, then don't miss these ideas for diamond in a square quilt blocks. These diamond quilt blocks are great for fussy cutting fabric and can be made using paper piecing.\n- Hamptons Getaway Quilt PatternLet this quilt pattern sweep you off to the halls of a sprawling beachfront manor. This printable quilt pattern is much easier to create than it looks, and you can use a straight-line stitch for this project.\n- Diamond in a Square Quilt BlockThis project shows you a simple technique for making accurate and exact quilt block squares every time.\n- Giant Economy Block PillowMade in beautiful and cheerful spring colors like peach and country blue, this quilted pillow tutorial comes with a free pattern hand-out that you can print out at home.\n- Roasted Coffee Table Runner TutorialDrink in the beauty of this Roasted Coffee Table Runner Tutorial. Made using rich batik fabrics, this DIY table runner uses fabric cutters to achieve its precise look.\n- Dutch Windmill Block PatternMade to resemble the famous windmills found in the Dutch countryside, this free block pattern is the perfect way to experiment with color or printed fabric.\nSquare or Triangle Quilts Patterns: Which do you prefer? Let us know below in the comments!\nRead NextBlue Ribbon Block Pattern", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Unit conversion can be understood as the technique of converting one unit to another unit.The unit conversions is important in our day to day life.You come across many types of different online tools which are available and they use to convert the units into other according to the need.\nThese online tools are available, not only convert the units but also for quick and fast and use to give very accurate result. for example, if we want to convert km to mm then we will first convert it to meters, then to cm, and then to mm and this is very lengthy process and time consuming but by the use of these online unit converters we can directly convert km to mm and this saves the time and is much more efficient and accurate. Convertin is one of the kind of best online converter.\nDistance conversion tool is used to convert the bigger unit like kilometer, miles into smaller units like meter, centimeter or vice versa. These converters are helpful while travelling as we can check the distance between the two places. The basic unit for the measurement of distance is kilometer and is widely used everywhere but in some places distance is measured in miles as 1 mile equals to 1.6 kilometers. So, this can be converted easily using online distance converter.\nEnergy conversion involves the conversion of energy from one unit to another, like joules to kilojoules, kilojoules to joules, joules to calorie etc. energy converter is a device that converts one form of energy to other desired form. By using this tool we can simply convert these units instantly into other as per required.\nWeight conversion includes the conversion of weights. As the measurement of weight varies from country to country, it can be kilogram and grams in one country then pounds and ounces in other. if we want to purchase any item outside our country then we should know the type of system used in that country and can be converted as required using the online weight converter. The basic unit of weight is kilogram and is widely used.\nDigital Image Resolution Conversion\nIn this the image resolution is converted from one unit to other. This converter is of much more importance in this digital world. We can convert any resolution of the image into the desired unit by doing this we just alter the size and clarity of the given image.\nThis is another important type of converter which is used in our day to day life. This tool can be used to convert the currency used in one place to the other. If we went outside the country then currency can be determined by using currency converter and the currency can be converted into other simply by using this tool.\nThus you can easily solve your hectic and complicated problems very easily and very fast with the use of Converterin.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Copper and Economic Growth in Great Britain, 1729-1784\nR O Roberts, National Library of Wales journal. 1957, Summer Volume X/1.\nExtracted onto the pages of GENUKI with the kind permission of the National Library of Wales\nThis is a complete (apart from Table I and a graph) extract of this article by Gareth Hicks 2002\nThe history of the copper ore trade of Great Britain between 1785 and 1787 is characterized by its division between the Cornish Metal Company (a selling organisation for disposing of the Cornish produce) and the Anglesey mining interests. From 1787 until 1792 the history is interesting because the leading Anglesey entrepreneur, Thomas Williams of Llanidan, assumed control over the Cornish Metal Company, and ruled almost the whole British copper industry. Such monopolistic arrangements, however, were not new to that industry. For most of the period covered by Table I below (not extracted) the more important smelting firms named there had associated together to control the price of the produce of Cornish mines and to avoid competition in selling copper. Indeed, so close was their association between 1737 and 1779 that they acquired the collective name of 'The Old Company'. In the 1770's, however, more and more of the Anglesey ores became available and, for this and other reasons, in 1779 there broke out intense competition which continued until the sharing of the market between Cornwall and Anglesey in 1785. There were eleven smelting companies purchasing ore in Cornwall immediately before 1785---their names are given opposite the statistics for the 1780's in Table I---and in 1785 five of them entered into agreements to smelt on behalf of the Cornish Metal Company: three of the five were the Gnoll Company, Morris, Lockwood and Company and Freeman and Company which operated smelting works in South Wales.\nTable I (which is based on N.L.W. MSS. 15101-117) gives the amounts of Cornish copper ore sold to various firms between 1729 and 1784. As far as is known this is the only account available which gives the scale and duration of purchases by individual firms in that period. (Information about such purchases in later decades may be found in the Basset Papers in possession of the Tehidy Minerals Company, Cambourne, Cornwall and in such publications as The Mining Journal and The Cambrian.) More important perhaps is the fact that the table gives fairly secure totals for almost all the copper ore purchased in Britain during a half century which is very important for the study of economic growth.\nDr. A. H. John recently considered the net effect of wars on the economic activity in England and Wales immediately before the Industrial Revolution. 1 He argued that government demands in all wars tend to stimulate activity in 'the heavy metal industries, the allied manufacture of munitions, shipbuilding and ... certain sections of the textile industries'; that expansion in these directions more than offsets reduced activity in other directions; and, on the basis of 'admittedly crude indications of war-time economic movements', he 'submitted that war in the first half of the eighteenth century exerted, on the whole, a beneficial influence on the development of the Englisb economy'. In developing his theme Dr. John ..............\n- 1.'War and the English economy, 1700-1763', Econ. Hist. Rev., 2nd Ser., VII, No. 3 (1955)\n- 2. Ibid., pp. 330. 343.\n.................... discussed first the effect of belligerency on the copper industry, and he was undoubtedly correct in viewing the wars of 1689-1697 and 1702-1713 as a main cause of the application of the great technical improvements and of the expansion in copper production around 1700. These wars, however, were only one of the major reasons for the expansion. The abolition in 1689 and 1693 of the monopolistic rights of the Mines Royal Society and the discovery of new veins of copper ore in Cornwall (as a result of deeper mining for tin and the increased use of gunpowder) were also of great importance, and war seems to have had no great effect on them.\nThe figures of ore purchases given in Table I are a very good indication of the size of the British copper industry, for until the 1770's the overwhelming part of home-produced ores came from Cornwall and imports were relatively very small until the nineteenth century. After 1730, when they were one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight tons (and thus almost as large as the Cornish output), copper ore imports for decades remained less than a thousand tons a year. 1 For over half a century following the 1770's, however, the Cornish figures became unrepresentative of British ore output because of the large produce of Parys Mountain in Anglesey, and in the nineteenth century importation of copper ore became large. 2 Figures for copper exports in the eighteenth century show an expansion in periods of war due, as Dr. John shows, 3 to the increased share of international trade which Britain, as the leading naval power, was able to secure, but they are misleading if taken as an indication of the activity of the copper industry.\nFor the period of the War of Austrian Succession, 1739-1748, what Table I reveals is little more than a continuation of the rate of expansion of the previous years. Thereafter, following a fall in 1748-1749, the purchases of ore climbed until 1757 more steeply than in the earlier decades. Between 1757 and 1762, however, i.e. during the five middle years of the Seven Years War, total purchases remained relatively constant---and the trend, obtained from moving average figures, shows this comparative constancy for the whole war period. In the last year of the war purchases climbed to a new peak, which was to be followed by considerably higher peaks in the peace-time years of 1766, 1770 and 1784. The figures are unfortunately missing for all save the last two years of the War of American Independence, 1775-1781, but the fall over those two years and the magnitude of earlier figures indicates that those campaigns did not have a great expansionary effect on Cornish copper sales---though admittedly by that time Anglesey was rapidly increasing her output.\n- 1. House of Commons, Report from the Committee ... [on the] Copper Trade, 1799, Appendix 37, p. 173. The imported copper ore came 'almost wholly' from Ireland.\n- 2. Professor Walther Hoffman erred in basing his series for Britain's copper ore production for the whole period from 1727 to 1857 on the Cornish output and neglecting the large Anglesey produce between 1770 and 1820 ( British Industry 1700-1950, trans. W. O. Henderson and W. H. Chaloner, 1955, p. 232); and it was in South Wales, not in Cornwall as he says (ibid., p. 239), that 80 per cent., indeed 90 per cent., of Britain's output of copper was smelted in the middle of the nineteenth century.\n- 3. op cit., p. 331.\nThese facts, which are presented more clearly in the accompanying graph (not extracted), suggest that the effects of wars on the activity of the copper industry in the middle decades of the eighteenth century can be exaggerated. That industry did not languish in the inter-war periods, and its rates of growth were not significantly greater in years of war than in times of peace. On the demand side its growth between 1729 and 1785 seems to have been due mainly to increased use of manufactured goods made from copper and brass for peaceful purposes, though these metals were utilised even in periods of peace for producing munitions. But the influence of the enterprises developed and of the crucial new techniques adopted under the great stimulus of the wars between 1689 and 1713 was considerable throughout the eighteenth century. 1\nTable I is based on information in nine manuscript Account Books, which were kindly lent to me by the late Captain Hugh Vivian, of Bishopston, near Swansea, and which, along with other Vivian papers, have since been presented to the National Library of Wales. 2 (A large collection of Vivian business papers was also recently acquired by the Glamorgan Record Office, and there are others in the Library of the University College of Swansea and in the works of the Metals Division of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. at Landore, Swansea.) These notebooks mainly give details of copper ores received at Llangyfelach Copper Works and later at the Forest Works, near Swansea---their sources, by which ships they were carried, the estimated produce according to the assays---and they would be very valuable for the historians of copper mining in Cornwall. But in red ink there is given for almost every year from 1729 to 1758 an account of 'Copr Ore bought in Cornwall' and from 1759 until 1784 an account of 'The Ore sold publickly in Cornwall'. In 1729-1733 and 1741 there is added the phrase, or a variant of it, that the figures were given 'as far as we could procure accots thereof ' (1732); and in 1744 and 1745 the figures are given 'as p. accot kept in London' and 'as p.book kept in London'. The figures refer to the calendar year or, as stated for the 1740's, from Christmas to Christmas; thus the annual figures seem to have, in almost full measure, the 'uniformity in the dating of the year' which Professor T. S. Ashton has emphasised as being essential for such a series. 3\nThe figures of total ore purchases given in Table I apparently correspond to the totals for 'copper ores sold in Cornwall' in the period of 1729-1773 given in a rare, single sheet Synopsis of Mining from 1729-1833, published by H. Grylles, Redruth. 4 The total figures given in Table I however, do not agree very closely with the decennial figures of sales, according to 'buyers' books', given by W. Pryce in his Mineralogia Cornubiensis (1778) p. xv, and quoted also by J. A. Phillips and ..................\n- 1. I am very grateful to Dr. John for his emphasis of this point and for other comments on this paper.\n- 2. N.L.W. MSS. 15101-117.\n- 3. 'Economic Fluctuations, 1790-1850', Econ. Hist. Rev., 2nd Ser., VII, 3 (1955), p. 379.\n- 4. Information kindly supplied by Mr. A. K. Hamilton Jenkin, the eminent historian of Cornish miners and mining. Incidentally Grylles's Annual Mining Sheet published in the middle of the nineteenth century by F. Symons, Bookseller, Redruth, gave statistics of the ticketing sales of copper ores in Cornwall and at Swansea (cf. the 'Preliminary Announcement, in 1848 of the proposed British Copper Smelting Association, in I.C.I. Metals Division Papers at the Landore Works near Swansea).\n................. J. Darlington in their Annals of Mining and Metallurgy (1857), p. 30. Especially are the figures for the earlier years of the table (down to 1745) lower than the annual average obtained from Pryce's decennial figures. 1 This may be due to some extent to discrepancies in the matter of including or not including the amounts of ore obtained in Cornwall by companies which owned, wholly or in part, certain Cornish mines. Footnotes (f) and (g) for 1753 and 1754 in Table I show that ore thus obtained by at least one firm smelting outside Cornwall was omitted from the totals for those years. Again the movements shown on the graph based on Table I agree fairly well with those in the less detailed graph given by Professor Hoffman, plotting an index of copper ore output---apart from the much greater amplitude of the swings on his graph for the 1730's and 1740's, and some divergences also in the direction of the movements during the 1730's. 2\nEleven of the twenty-seven companies named in Table I operated in South Wales during the period 1729-1784, though not necessarily for all the years for which they bought Cornish ores. Those companies are listed in Table II in the order in which they appear in Table I and the place and date of their enterprises in South Wales is given and compared with the dates of their purchases of Cornish ores. Two of the other companies in Table I, the Brass Wire Co. of Bristol and Roe & Co. of Macclesfield, had smelting works in South Wales in a later period.\nR. O. ROBERTS.\nUniversity College of Swansea.\n- 1. Moreover, in a note on 'Cornish Statistical Material' in his Industrial Revolution in Cornwall (Liverpool University Press, 1953) Dr. J. Rowe states that even Pryce's figures, which 'may have been derived from ticketing records', do not include private sales of copper ore. Some of these private sales, however, may only represent transfers of ores from the smaller enterprises to the larger concerns which disposed of them publicly.\n- 2. op. cit., p. 309.\nTABLE I has not been extracted, it comprises 5 pages of data (amounts by weight) for each year from 1729-1784 in respect of 'the amount of copper bought in Cornwall by various firms' (not just those in Wales).\nCOMPANIES NAMED IN TABLE I WHICH OPERATED IN SOUTH WALES BETWEEN 1729 AND 1784\nNo. of Co. in Table I\nPlace and time of operation in South Wales\nDates of purchases of Cornish Ore (from Table I)\nLockwood and Co. (alias Morris, Lockwood and Co.)\nLlangyfelach Works, Landore,Swansea, 1726-1748\nCambrian Works, Swansea, 1735-1745\nUpper Forest, Morriston, 1748-c.1790\nEnglish Copper Co. (alias Governor and Co. of Copper Miners in England)\nMelincryddan, Neath, 1742-1763\nTaibach, Port Talbot, 1774-1838\nCwmavon, 1841-1848, 1852-1875\nCo. of Mineral Manufactures\nMelincryddan, Neath, 1713-1731\nThe Welsh Copper Co. (alias Governor and Co. of Copper Miners in the Principality of Wales)\nNeath Abbey Works, 1721-1730-?\nCoster and Co.\nMelincryddan, Neath 1732-1739\nJos. Percevall and Co. (became Freeman and Co. in 1764)\nWhite Rock, Landore, Swansea, 1744-1870\nC. Townsend and Co. (John Rotton and Co. from 1764)\nMiddle Bank, Landore, Swansea, 1755-1769\nUpper Bank, Landore, Swansea, 1758-? 1777-?\nMines Royal Co. (alias Mines Royal Society)\nNeath Abbey, 1757-1862-?\nRogerstone, Newport, 1772-?\nGeo. Pengree and Co\nMiddle Bank, Landore, Swansea, 1769-1785-?\nGnoll Copper Co. (alias Gnoll Works Co.)\nMelincryddan, Neath, I779-c.1790.\nFenton and Chacewater Co\nRose Copper Works, Landore, Swansea, 1780/81-1797", "label": "No"}
{"text": "We’re here to help! Wild Yards is a completely free website that is 100% dedicated to helping you create a wildlife-friendly, sustainable yard. Read more\nGardeners have long valued lavender plants thanks to their strong aroma, silvery leaves, toddy stems, and beautiful purple flowers. However, they are not always the easiest plants to maintain due to their large size and imposing disposition. With that in mind, have you considered growing a lavender tree instead?\nLike all species of lavender, these trees need plenty of sunlight, scant water, and plenty of well-draining soil or nutrient-rich compost. If you already have experience growing lavender plants, there are a few additional points to brush up on when ‘upgrading’ to trees – but they are marvelously simple to maintain.\nWhat exactly is a lavender tree?\nLavender trees, or topiaries, are technically plants trained into tree-like shapes and growths. They are called ‘trees’ thanks to their profile and stature, though when clipped and trained into this style, lavender will only grow to around three feet at its tallest.\nLavender trees are easy to cultivate indoors and outdoors, either in pots or directly in a well-draining medium. They will grow from one long woody stem, or trunk, and are pruned specifically to grow taller, with naked stems and bushy tops, making them look like small trees.\nRegardless of where you place and/or plant a lavender tree, their tops can grow to be a maximum of two feet wide – making pruning an essential practice. Keeping these trees well cut will also help you keep them to a shape you find aesthetically pleasing. As with growing and caring for lavender in general, regular pruning will also ensure that your trees continue to bloom for the coming seasons.\nCan I grow any species of lavender into a tree?\nYou can grow lavender trees from multiple species, but the two most commonly pruned into these topiary shapes are Spanish and English lavender – they propagate wildly in the US and are among the easiest to grow from scratch.\nWhile similar in look and scent, English lavender is much hardier than its Spanish cousin – meaning choosing the English variety is likely prudent if you wish to grow and keep lavender trees outside.\nHow long do lavender trees live for?\nLavender trees will only last up to five years on average, blooming after the first year – as with most species of lavender at ‘plant level’. In its more natural, bush-like shape, lavender can easily last up to 15 years – meaning while aesthetically pleasing, a lavender tree is only ever going to be a temporary fixture in your garden.\nThis decreased longevity is thought to be a result of training and pruning – rather than letting your lavender plant grow wild and bushy. If you’d prefer to keep lavender in your garden for as long as possible, topiary may not be of much interest.\nWhat are the benefits of growing a lavender tree?\nMany gardeners prefer lavender trees as they provide the delightful sights and smells of the base plant without the potential for overgrowth – or intensive upkeep.\nLavender has many key benefits in general, from its sweet smell to its unique look and, of course, its ability to deter certain pests, such as mosquitoes. It’s also fantastic for attracting more beneficial wildlife such as bees, butterflies, and even hummingbirds.\nHowever, in ideal conditions, lavender can become difficult to manage if left to propagate wildly. Most varieties will grow thick and fast, tall and wide. What’s more, growing some other species too close to lavender can even prove difficult, as it can quickly take over a bed or area if not well-maintained.\nLavender trees are considerably easier to maintain from a mobility standpoint, as they will grow to waist height or taller, therefore simpler to prune and manage at arms’ length. Despite their shorter longevity compared to the base plants, lavender trees are reportedly easier to manage in terms of temperature and feeding. For example, you can simply move less hardy specimens, if kept in pots, inside during intensively hot or cold periods.\nLavender trees are also highly popular with gardeners with little space to grow crops or flowers. You may find it simple to cultivate and prune a lavender tree on a balcony or as part of an indoor arrangement in a conservatory or greenhouse. Providing you are careful not to make your tree’s soil too moist, and offer it lots of daily sunlight, these growths will thrive well in the city as well as off the land.\nMany gardeners will also find that lavender trees are surprisingly resistant against drought, despite the lavender plant’s sometimes infamous care demands.\nGrowing a lavender tree yourself – where to start\nWhile you can purchase perennial lavender as trees outright, growing a lavender tree from scratch allows you to shape the plant as you wish – and it’s arguably a much more rewarding process.\nA lavender tree is likely to fare best in USDA zones five up through nine in the direct sun outside – and you’ll need to try and keep your soil pH between 6.5 and 7.5 for the best growth and flowering results. Soil PH is easily managed by adding elements to the growth medium and by regularly checking levels with a testing strip. Regardless, if you live in a particularly dry and sunny area, you’re likely to be the perfect host for a lavender tree.\nIdeally, start by investing in a small lavender plant and prune it as soon as it flowers. This equally applies if you’re growing your own lavender from seed. Prune the side stems of your lavender until the shape resembles that of a small tree, always leaving the strongest stem in the middle, as this will be the tree’s main trunk.\nTo maintain the strong, upright shape of the central stem, plant and tie a bamboo stick for added support.\nIf you plan on growing your tree in a pot, choose a pot at least two inches wider (in circumference) than the lavender root ball. This will help the moisture spread out and ensure that the tree has plenty of room as it grows. As with all lavender plants, drainage is a must – and your pot will need lots of drainage holes to allow water to leak through.\nPlant the tree in well-draining soil or nutrient-rich compost, and place your pot in full sunlight. If it is too cold outside (e.g. during winter or spring frosts), you can feel free to keep your pot indoors. Ideally, the plant will need at least six hours of sunlight daily, so choose a bright spot in your home as the sun rises or falls.\nAlternatively, if you wish to plant a lavender tree directly into the ground, wait until spring or towards the start of summer – as your plant will need warm, readily-draining soil to thrive outdoors. Choose a bright spot in your garden, ideally with minimal wind. If your tree’s at risk of weather damage, consider supporting it with a bamboo cane or shielding it with a parasol to offer shade if drying out.\nCaring for your lavender tree – key points to remember\nCaring for a lavender tree mainly revolves around keeping it finely pruned and shaped to your standards and ensuring it’s within full view of the sun. Much like in its plant form, a lavender tree isn’t likely to need much fertilization, but careful watering is necessary.\nWatering your lavender tree\nOnce your lavender tree has been potted and placed (inside or out), give it a little water to help it settle. Ideally, you should water it whenever the top inch of soil becomes thoroughly dry. Lavender – even in tree form – struggles immensely with root rot and fungi, meaning excessive moisture is always likely to stunt its growth.\nIt’s also worth noting that while many trees have long, deep-reaching roots, lavender plants are infamously short-rooted – meaning they can’t drink from deep down into the soil.\nPruning and shaping your lavender tree\nTo maintain the shape of your lavender tree as it continues to grow, you will need to prune it regularly. Stems will continue to grow out of the sides of the central ‘trunk’ – you will need to cut them back a few times a year, sometimes even into the tree’s adulthood.\nIt’s best to check your tree stems every week during the growing season and to keep your lavender blooming after its first year in the soil, don’t be afraid to prune it twice. The first prune should occur after flowering, and the second should occur at the start of fall.\nLavender trees and temperature\nIf potting indoors, keep your lavender tree in a relatively dry part of your home. Ideal temperatures should be between 65˚ and 70˚ Fahrenheit at all times for most lavender trees to thrive. If your home’s unlikely to get this warm, it may be worth keeping your plants outside.\nThere should also be plenty of air circulation in your chosen room, so try to open a window or keep doors open as you move about during the day. Drafts can cause lavender plants and trees distress – they are easily shocked – so keep your growth away from any direct inlets of air or wind.\nManaging your lavender tree during winter and spring\nIf your lavender tree usually lives outside but needs to overwinter indoors, it is important to bring it in gradually to avoid shocking and killing the plant.\nOnce the temperature outside falls below 60˚ Fahrenheit, start bringing your lavender tree in for a few hours per day. Always keep it in a sunny spot in your house, ideally near a window where it can get full sunlight. Every day, you can start bringing it in for longer periods, thus helping to acclimate your tree to its new surroundings steadily.\nIt is likely to take up to a week for an outdoor lavender tree to fully acclimatize to being indoors, after which point it can stay inside full-time until warmer weather returns.\nDuring the winter, you will need to rotate your plant slightly every week. Even turning it by just a quarter-rotation each time will help to ensure that the whole plant gets plenty of sunlight.\nCut back on watering your lavender tree during this time – but don’t let the soil dry out completely, and always check the top layers before watering to avoid root rot.\nWhen it’s time to return outside in the spring, repeat the process of moving your tree into its new scenario little by little. Start taking it out for a few hours daily, increasing the time every day for a week. You should keep it in a sunny spot, away from the wind.\nOnce this initial week has passed, you can generally expect to leave your lavender tree outside full-time until the cold weather returns!\nAs the spring arrives, so too should the spring pruning! Cut the stems back by at least one-third to promote healthy growth throughout the season. Never cut on the woody part of the stems, or they will not regrow in that area.\nIt is also a good idea to deadhead the flowers throughout the season. You can use the dead heads in your home or garden as potpourri or insect repellent. You can easily promote a second bloom during the season by deadheading them.\nIs it worth growing a lavender tree?\nMany people prefer growing lavender trees as they can trim and train their plants into ornamental shapes – while still adding that famous, heady scent to any garden or rockery. Lavender plants are popular with gardeners and homeowners who want to move their plants around a lot, and those who may not have too much space for a full flower bed.\nBest of all, lavender is a proven pollinator marvel, is rich in nectar, and readily blooms every spring. Lavender is a popular herb used in cuisine and medicine – but it’s most famous as a charming visual complement to any wild garden. Lavender trees may not live as long as wild plant specimens, but they can still bring character – and wildlife – to your outdoor space.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\nis a genus of about 400 species of herbs and shrubs, in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the legume family Fabaceae\n. The generic name is derived from the Greek word µ?µ?? (mimos), meaning \"mimic.\"\nThere are two species in the genus that are notable. One is Mimosa pudica, because of the way it folds its leaves when touched or exposed to heat. It is native to southern Central and South America but is widely cultivated elsewhere for its curiosity value, both as a houseplant in temperate areas, and outdoors in the tropics. Outdoor cultivation has led to weedy invasion in some areas, notably Hawaii. The other is Mimosa tenuiflora, which is best known for its use in shamanic ayahuasca brews due to the psychedelic drug dimethyltryptamine found in its root bark.\nThe taxonomy of the genus Mimosa has had a tortuous history, having gone through periods of splitting and lumping, ultimately accumulating over 3,000 names, many of which have either been synonymized under other species or transferred to other genera. In part due to these changing circumscriptions, the name \"Mimosa\" has also been applied to several other related species with similar pinnate or bipinnate leaves, but are now classified in other genera, most commonly to Albizia julibrissin (silk tree) and Acacia dealbata (wattle).\nMembers of this genus are among the few plants capable of rapid movement; examples outside of Mimosa include the telegraph plant, and the venus flytrap. The leaves of the plant close quickly when touched. Some mimosas raise their leaves in day and lower them at night, and experiments done by Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan on mimosas in 1729 provided the first evidence of biological clocks. Mimosa can be distinguished from the large related genera, Acacia and Albizia, since its flowers have 10 or fewer stamens. Note that, botanically, what appears to be a single globular flower is actually a cluster of many individual ones. Mimosa contains some level of heptanoic acid.\nThere are about 400 species including:\nMimosa aculeaticarpa Ortega\nMimosa aculeaticarpa var. biuncifera Ortega\nMimosa arenosa (Willd.) Poir.\nMimosa asperata L.\nMimosa borealis Gray\nMimosa casta L.\nMimosa ceratonia L.\nMimosa diplotricha C.Wright ex Sauvalle\nMimosa dysocarpa Benth.\nMimosa dysocarpa var. dysocarpa Benth.\nMimosa emoryana Benth.\nMimosa grahamii Gray\nMimosa grahamii var. grahamii Gray\nMimosa hystricina (Small ex Britt. et Rose) B.L.Turner\nMimosa latidens (Small) B.L. Turner\nMimosa laxiflora Benth.\nMimosa malacophylla Gray\nMimosa microphylla Dry.\nMimosa nuttallii (DC.) B.L. Turner\nMimosa pellita Kunth ex Willd.\nMimosa pigra L.\nMimosa pigra var. pigra L.\nMimosa pudica L. - La sensitive\nMimosa quadrivalvis L.\nMimosa quadrivalvis var. hystricina (Small) Barneby\nMimosa roemeriana Scheele\nMimosa rubicaulis Lam.\nMimosa rupertiana B.L. Turner\nMimosa scabrella Benth.\nMimosa schomburgkii Benth.\nMimosa strigillosa Torr. et Gray\nMimosa tenuiflora (Willd.) Poir. (= Mimosa hostilis)\nMimosa texana (Gray) Small\nMimosa turneri Barneby\nMimosa verrucosa Benth.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "These bizarre artifacts, wagon-wheel sized, solid disks of bronze and jade, appearing as giant cymbals, each possessing intricately carved spokes and patterns of seemingly meaningless concentric circles and swirling spirals, have dumbfounded historians and sages for generations.\nThe wheels differ in size; ones anywhere from four to seven feet across have been found over the centuries. The strange designs differ slightly or more so from each wheel as well.\nThese items are relics from antiquity. That is agreed upon. No one to date however has surmised how these disks were once used or what they may have signified, much to anyone elses satisfaction. Most frustrating of all, they radiate a mild magic charge, yet no powers have yet been discovered by the few arcanalogists who have been able to examine one of these wheels at length.\nIn truth, they were merely the many discarded and buried ear spools of an antediluvian race of giants, who once eons ago, ruled the human lands, and whose civilization was wiped out long before the human races even kept track of history. These giants particular societal traditions and vanities included the wearing of ear-spools, not unlike some Amazonian or Central American native tribes of our world do to this day. Slits were cut into the lobes of the ears, and engraved and stylized bronze and jade plugs or disks were fitted into the holes, causing the lobes to stretch expand greatly over time.\nAs in the mentioned cultures, these antediluvian giants wore the disks as jewelry, often using them as symbols of societal status. It should be noted also that these were no hill or stone giants, but a progenitor race of behemoths, some towering eighty or even a hundred feet into the air. Their earlobes therefore stretched over many years, could indeed become obscenely large, and quite able to hold huge decorative objects in their fleshy grasps. Few human texts today if any, even mention these gargantuan beings, and they are almost forgotten to history, not to mention the knowledge of what might have passed for jewelry back in their day.\nThere are those convinced however, that the Wheels of Akh-Tzilmzil are something else entirely. And this is how in fact these mysterious objects acquired their modern names. Legends speak of this Akh-Tzilmzil, the Great Destroyer, a demonic being asleep for eons. It is written in foul texts, that Akh-Tzilmzil will return one day, when the sixty four wheels of his magical chariot are found. The chariot itself was long ago destroyed, but the same ancient, foul texts speak of it in awe, claiming that the juggernaut blotted out the sun as it rolled, and was drawn by sixteen dire bison, huge undead beasts, with matted, rotted fur clinging in grotesque clumps along their blackened spines. It is written in apocryphal scrolls that this great chariot, the Akh-Tzilmzil, was a machine of doom, and obliterated the great walled cities of men, as it crashed into them, leaving the inhabitants helpless to stop the ravenous hordes of the Sleeping Demons minions from descending upon them. It is believed by some erroneously, that the ear ornaments of the ancient giants are in fact the wheels of this erstwhile chariot, and that if the mighty thing was built once more, and the many wheels, scattered about the world re-assembled, no force could then withstand the rider of the Akh-Tzilmzil.\nSo there are those to this day, who search the globe for the sixty-four \"wheels\", at the behest of dark masters, and there are those who seek the materials to rebuild the fearsome weapon of destruction itself.\nMaddeningly, (to sages and others), the wheels do radiate with slight magic vibration if detected for, however they possess no known powers.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum is a 30,000-square-foot museum facility operated by the Lehigh County Historical Society, showcasing exhibits related to the social and cultural history of the Lehigh Valley region in the 20th and 21st centuries.\nThe Lehigh County Historical Society was founded in 1904 for the purposes of collecting and preserving artifacts and documents related to the social and cultural history of the Lehigh Valley region. The Society was the vision of Allentown citizen Charles Rhoades Roberts, who began the Society’s library and archive repository for preserving collection items. As one of the largest historical societies in the United States, the Society now holds a collection of more than three million historic documents and 75.000 archival photographs. In 1964, the Society was granted nonprofit organization status, and in 1976, it moved its collections into the Old Lehigh County Courthouse, which was constructed in 1817 and abandoned after the construction of a new courthouse facility in the early 1960s. In 2005, the Society moved its collections from the Old Lehigh County Courthouse to a new public museum facility on the city’s West Walnut Street.\nPermanent Exhibits and Collections\nToday, the Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum is one of the largest historical society museums in the United States, presenting six exhibit galleries within 13,000 square feet of exhibit space. The 30,000-square-foot museum facility serves as the headquarters for the Lehigh County Historical Society, which oversees all museum operations and collections. As a nonprofit organization, the Society is dedicated to the preservation of the region’s social and cultural history for future generations and offers a variety of public programming designed to foster civic engagement and historical consciousness attitudes in Lehigh Valley citizens.\nThe museum’s permanent Lehigh Valley History exhibit is housed within the National Penn Bank Historical Exhibit Gallery and explores the history of the Lehigh Valley region from its indigenous occupation to its present-day innovations. Exhibit areas are structured around major cultures and trades that have called the Lehigh Valley region home, from the Lenni Lenape indigenous tribe to the area’s settlement by Pennsylvania Germans and its role in 20th-century industries such as iron, cement, and silk. Major artifact collections on display include Lenape tools, Pennsylvania German folk art, and items related to the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the area’s participation in major 20th-century international conflicts. Exhibit artifacts are rotated on a continuing basis to provide new exhibit experiences for return visitors.\nIn addition to permanent exhibits, the museum also offers a variety of temporary exhibits rotated on a periodic basis, typically opened in conjunction with a major holiday or museum special event. Past temporary exhibits have included the Native Americans: A Diverse and Evolving History exhibit, which explored the past, present, and future of the area’s indigenous tribes, and the Zinc Industry in Palmerton, Pennsylvania exhibit, which examined the natural and economic impact of the zinc industry on the region throughout the 20th century.The American Presidency showcased collections of items related to the campaigns and office terms of influential American presidents such as Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, while The 1960s: A Decade that Transformed America explored the decade’s impact on popular culture and minority rights movements.\nThe Lehigh County Historical Society’s Library and Archives facility is one of the most significant historical archives in the state of Pennsylvania, offering research opportunities by appointment for students and scholars in a reading room setting supervised by museum staff. A museum gift store sells a wide variety of historically-inspired gifts, books, and multimedia items. Several living history museum sites within the Allentown region are also administered by the Lehigh County Historical Society, including the 1770 Trout Hall, the 1756 Troxell-Steckel Farm Museum, the 1893 Claussville School, the Historic Haines Mill, the Historic Lockridge Furnace Museum, and the Saylor Park Cement Kilms. Guided tours of the museum sites may be arranged for small groups and organizations by appointment.\nOngoing Programs and Education\nGuided tours of the Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum may be arranged for small groups and organizations, including curriculum-incorporated tours for elementary and secondary school groups. All tour programs for students follow Pennsylvania State and Common Core academic standards. A speaker’s bureau program and historic reenactors are available for outreach programming in the classroom and at community and business events. Historic reenactments are also presented at the museum periodically on weekends in collaboration with current rotating exhibits and public special events. Annual special events include a Fabulous Flapper’s Mother’s Day Tea event and a holiday model train display.\n432 Walnut St, Allentown, PA, website, Phone: 610-435-1074", "label": "No"}
{"text": "What is the law of consistencies?\nKepler’s 3rd law often described as the law of consistencies compares the orbital duration and radius of orbit of a world to those of other worlds.\nHereof, what are Kepler’s 3 laws?\nThere are really 3, Kepler’s laws that is, of planetary movement: 1) every world’s orbit is an ellipse with the Sun at a focus; 2) a line signing up with the Sun and a world purges equivalent locations in equivalent times; and 3) the square of a world’s orbital duration is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its\nOne may likewise ask, what are Kepler’s 3 Laws Why are they crucial? Description: Kepler’s laws explain how worlds (and asteroids and comets) orbit the sun. They can likewise be utilized to explain how moons orbit around a world. However, they do not simply use to our planetary system they can be utilized to explain the orbits of any exoplanet around any star.\nHerein, what is the equivalent location law?\nGeneral Astronomy/Kepler’s Laws Kepler’s 2nd Law, or The Law of Equal Locations in Equal Time The line in between a world and the sun purges equivalent locations in the aircraft of the world’s orbit over equivalent times.\nWhat is Kepler’s second law called?\nKepler’s 2nd law of planetary movement explains the speed of a world taking a trip in an elliptical orbit around the sun. It specifies that a line in between the sun and the world sweeps equivalent locations in equivalent times. Hence, the speed of the world increases as it nears the sun and reduces as it declines from the sun.\nAssociated Concern Responses.\nWhat are Kepler’s 3 Laws called?\nKepler’s 3 laws of planetary movement can be specified as follows: (1) All worlds move about the Sun in elliptical orbits, having the Sun as one of the foci. (2) A radius vector signing up with any world to the Sun purges equivalent locations in equivalent lengths of time.\nWhat is Kepler’s very first law?\nKepler’s laws of planetary movement In Kepler’s laws of planetary movement. … be specified as follows: (1) All worlds move about the Sun in elliptical orbits, having the Sun as one of the foci. (2) A radius vector signing up with any world to the Sun purges equivalent locations in equivalent lengths of time.\nWhat do you imply by Kepler’s law?\nMeaning of Kepler’s law 1: a declaration in astronomy: the orbit of each world is an ellipse that has the sun at one focus. 2: a declaration in astronomy: the radius vector from the sun to each world creates equivalent orbital locations in equivalent times.\nDo we still utilize Kepler’s laws?\nWhile Newton’s laws generalize Kepler’s laws, a lot of issues connected to the durations of orbits are still finest fixed utilizing Kepler’s laws, given that they are easier. Worlds relocate elliptical orbits with the sun at one focus. The line signing up with worlds to either focus purges equivalent locations in equivalent times.\nThe number of Newton laws exist?\nWhat is Newton’s variation of Kepler’s 3rd law?\nNewton established a more basic kind of what was called Kepler’s Third Law that might use to any 2 items orbiting a typical center of gravity. This is called Newton’s Variation of Kepler’s Third Law: M1 + M2 = A3/ P2. Unique systems should be utilized to make this formula work.\nHow precise are Kepler’s laws?\nYes, for items in orbit far enough from their host body so as not to be affected by variances from round balance (e.g., oblateness), moving at non-relativistic speeds, and not troubled considerably by other, more remote items, Kepler’s laws are precise\nWhat is Kepler’s law of location?\nThe Law of Orbits: All worlds relocate elliptical orbits, with the sun at one focus. 2. The Law of Locations: A line that links a world to the sun purges equivalent locations in equivalent times. 3. The Law of Durations: The square of the duration of any world is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of its orbit.\nWhat is the formula for Kepler’s second law?\nKepler’s Second Law Revisited. “Equal locations in equivalent times” suggests the rate at which location is purged on the orbit (dA/dt) is continuous. So Kepler’s Second Law Modified: The rate at which a world purges location on its orbit amounts to half its angular momentum divided by its mass (the particular angular momentum).\nWhat is Kepler’s 3rd law?\n3rd law of Kepler The square of the orbital duration of a world is straight proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit. This catches the relationship in between the range of worlds from the Sun, and their orbital durations.\nWhat is the relationship in between Newton’s 3 laws and Kepler’s 3 laws?\nwhat is the relationship in between newtons 3 laws and Kepler’s 3 laws? newton’s laws are basic and use to any movement, while Kepler’s laws use just to planetary movement in the planetary system. made comprehensive measurements of the movements of the worlds in the sky.\nWhat is Kepler’s 3rd law utilized for?\nKepler’s 3rd law of planetary movement states that the typical range of a world from the Sun cubed is straight proportional to the orbital duration squared. Because Newton’s law of gravity uses to any things with mass, Kepler’s laws can be utilized for any things orbiting another things.\nCheck Out Complete Short Article https://everythingwhat.com/what-is-the-law-of-harmonies .", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Today’s Needull is a Youtube video from the always-so-awesome RocketJump Film School on the importance of the use of Black & White in Cinema. From the brief history of black & white movies to different forms of cinema developed due to limited technology to modern cinemas re-released in black & white, this narrative is an eye opener for anyone who thinks colours add life to movies.\nSometimes, it is the lack of them that does.\n“Black and white” isn’t actually a genre of film. Rather, there are a multitude of different kinds of films that have all used black and white as a unique storytelling tool. Cinema’s history of black and white film is a rich one, filled with movies that have defined the very essence of cinema, that invite you to escape into new worlds, see things in new ways, experience the thrill and strangeness of fantasy, as well as the severity and truth of the real world. This video will explore how filmmakers have used black-and-white to the story’s advantage, and why it can be so beautiful and compelling.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Healthy people, healthy places\nInformation identified as archived is provided for reference, research or recordkeeping purposes. It is not subject to the Government of Canada Web Standards and has not been altered or updated since it was archived. Please \"contact us\" to request a format other than those available.\nThe presence of arthritis was measured as the population aged 12 or older who reported that a health professional had diagnosed them as having arthritis. Prior to 2007 respondents were asked \"Do you have arthritis or rheumatism, excluding fibromyalgia?\" In 2007, the word \"rheumatism\" was removed from the question.\nArthritis is an important indicator of population health because it is a highly prevalent chronic condition that affects the daily life of many Canadians and places demands on the health care system.\nArthritis is a highly prevalent chronic condition that increases with age. This has implications for Canada's aging population1.\nArthritis is associated with mobility limitations and dependency in activities of daily living1.\nCanadians who reported arthritis were more likely to use medications and be multiple medication users2.\nStudies have found an association between arthritis and hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Long-term HRT increases the risk of arthritis in middle-aged and older women3.\nMen and women who were obese had higher odds of developing arthritis than did those who reported acceptable weight6.\nArthritis and/or rheumatism was the most commonly reported chronic condition among Métis adults; at 21% it was more prevalent among this population than for Canadians as a whole (13%)7.\n- The age-standardized prevalence of arthritis in Canada remained relatively stable from 2000/2001 through 2008.\n- Females were consistently more likely than males to report a diagnosis of arthritis.\nNote: Age–standardized to 1991 Canada population, direct method. Prior to 2008 respondents were asked \"Do you have arthritis or rheumatism, excluding fibromyalgia?\" In 2008, the word \"rheumatism\" was removed from the question.\nAge group and sex\n- In 2008 15.3% of Canadians aged 12 or older reported a diagnosis of arthritis (4.3 million): 12.0% of males (1.7 million) and 18.5% of females (2.6 million).\n- In every age group except the youngest (12 to 24), females were more likely than males to have arthritis. The differences were large at older ages: among people aged 65 or older, females were 50% more likely than males to report a diagnosis of arthritis.\n- Arthritis is relatively uncommon at ages 12 to 24—just over 1 in 100 people reported a diagnosis of arthritis in 2008 (1. 1% of males and 1.2% of females).\n- As in other countries8, arthritis in Canada becomes increasingly prevalent with advancing age; approximately one in three (33.8%) senior males and one in two (50.6%) senior females reported arthritis in 2008.\n- Although arthritis is associated with aging, a substantial number of Canadians in their prime working years report this condition. At ages 45 to 64, for example, 17.2% of males and 24.8% of females, representing more than 1.9 million people, reported a diagnosis of arthritis in 2008.\n- The age-standardized prevalence of arthritis varied considerably across the country.\n- In 2008, Quebec residents were less likely than Canadians overall to report arthritis.\n- The crude estimates of arthritis were significantly lower in Alberta and the territories than in Canada overall, but these differences disappeared once the younger age structures in these areas were taken into account.\n- For Prince Edward Island, the crude estimate of arthritis was significantly higher than for Canada overall but once the older age structure in the province was taken into account, there was no significant difference.\n- For the remaining Atlantic provinces, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, estimates of arthritis were higher than for Canada overall, even when differences in age structure were taken into account.\nNote: Age–standardized, direct method to 1991 Canada population.\nMillar WJ. Hip and knee replacement. Health Reports (Statistics Canada, Catalogue 82-003) 2002;14(1):37-50.\nWang PP, Badley EM. Consistent low prevalence of arthritis in Quebec: Findings from a provincial variation study in Canada based on several population health surveys. Journal of Rheumatology 2003; 30(1): 126-31.\n- Date modified:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "If we lived in Eastern Mexico or Central America where there is no frost, Mexican bush sage, salvia leucantha, would stay green all year and grow into a woody shrub.\nIn our zone seven climate, its summertime 2- to 4-foot tall growth and long flower clusters make it well worth growing anyway.\nThe white flowers extend from purple or lavender calyces in 6 to 10 inch long clusters. In fact, mostly what you see as rays of abundant flowers are actually calyces.\nThe rays of calyces and flowers can be used in cut flower arrangements and the calyces can be dried for fall decorating.\nSaid to prefer full sun, in our heat, Mexican sage can grow beautifully in part shade, as long as it gets six hours of sun. Otherwise it can become tall and skimpy, reaching for sunlight. Another way to keep the bush full is to prune it around June. The flowers should be removed after they fade.\nGroup Mexican sage with other moderate-moisture need plants such as thyme, butterfly bush, rosemary and other salvias.\nIt is pest, deer and disease resistant.\nBush sage can also be grown in a patio pot. The butterflies and hummingbirds will seek out the flowers in the fall no matter where it blooms.\nThe flowers that fill the plant from late-August to first frost will make you wonder how to keep it in the garden for next fall.\nSharon Owen, owner of Moonshadow Herb Farm in Muskogee, said that while you can take cuttings of Mexican bush sage for next year, an easier propagation method is to take root cuttings and grow new plants from emerging shoots in the spring.\nPerennial salvia can also be rooted at the soil level. Bend an outer branch down and remove the leaves and branching where it will touch the ground. Cover the bare branch with soil to help it root over the winter. I usually cover the soil with a few layers of newspaper topped with a rock to hold it all in place.\nAnother way to help a zone eight to 10 plant survive the winter is to mulch the roots. After the first frost, put a wire cage around the plant and fill the cage with pine needles or loose straw. Avoid using leaves because they pack when they get wet, preventing air circulation.\nDo not prune Mexican sage shrub until new growth emerges in the spring. This year’s branches and leaves will provide some additional winter protection.\n• Mountain Valley Growers has all purple, www.mountainvalleygrowers.com.\n• Plant Delights has the midnight variety www.plantdelights.com.\n• Proven Winners has pink Santa Barbara Mexican bush sage, www.provenwinners.com.\n• Sooner Plant Farm has dwarf Mexican bush sage Santa Barbara that grows 12 inches tall, www.soonerplantfarm. com.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A few things jump out of this map:\n(1.) Tibet is important, real important. These rivers feed half the world and these are the population centres of what we mean by “Asia.”\n(1a.) Continents ultimately are arbitrary political constructs; what geographic feature cuts off Europe from Asia (is it really the Urals)? This map represents “core Asia” and more than ever I can see why the Middle East has an entirely different orientation. If a world government did ever come about; for fairness sake there would have to be some redistribution in how the Asian super-continent is treated; Africa’s population is burgeoning but difficult to see how it can match this.\n(2.) It’s interesting to see how all the South Asian rivers have a common source (the Ganges has another source); a poetic meditation on the unity of the Subcontinent.\n(3.) invaders or not; foreign or alien what is admirable about the Aryans is the extent to which they co-opted local traditions. As most readers of this blog know, Mt. Kailash is known as the home of Shiva and it literally feeds the Subcontinent.\n(3b) Each initial wave seemed to have weaker and weaker ties to the land. The AASI seemed to have settled in the mists of pre-history, the (Elamitic?) Dravidian farmers may have fused with them to found the Indus Valley Civ.\n(3c) the best way to think of the Aryan invasion is the Mongol conquests. The demographics of Central Asia and Mesopotamia shifted (and collapsed) as they did not (only) because of the rapacity of the Mongols but because of the failure to maintain the qanat (complex irrigation systems). I know that for a fact in Greater Iran whereas I can’t be sure that they used qanats in Mesopotamia.\n(3d) At any rate either the Aryans filled in an ecological collapse (which seems unlikely since they spread with a rapidity elsewhere meaning that they had some technical and military advantage) or they triggered it. The indigenous compounded Dravidian-Negrito/Australasian (sorry for the loaded terms but easier to use Arya/Dravid than the newfangled terms) collapses and the remainder population did a Latin America where Aryans males were polygamous and high status.\n(3e) the Aryans were the last invaders to both fully merge and embrace India as their core civilisation. The Muslim (Turkic?) invaders were oriented West and the British even further West. Each succeeding invasion wave was invested in India by an order of magnitude less than the preceding wave. The English returned to their colonies, the Muslims created Pakistan and the Aryans kept Aryavarta while the Dravidians have their local politics that tie them (especially in TN; the heart of the Dravidian movement).\n(3f) I know it’s contentious but I would imagine the AASI would be like the Negrito coastal population and a related equivalent further upriver in the Indus prior to the Dravidian farmer wave. Prehistory was probably pretty ugly and tragic we just don’t know about it as we don’t have records but think the New World repeated time and time again.\n(4) a final point as to why Iran may not have had as much a genetic impact. The Iranian plateau is exactly that a plateau. As I was told in Tehran a couple of years ago by a geographic; the mountain is life, every city in Iran is based on hills and mountains the rest is all desert (fertile plains are in short supply). It’s probably why it’s difficult to effect population replace in Iran as it is in its neighbours (Turko-Mongols introversion in Central Asia, Arabs influx in Mesopotamia, Aryan “invasion” in the Indus).\nThat’s all I can think for now btw the title is a bit misleading since Aryans are always a good lede lol.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Authors: Mike Cantelon, Marc Harter, TJ Holowaychuk & Nathan Rajlich\nReviewer: Ian Elliot\nNode.js has come from nowhere to almost global domination in what seems like a few months. It is a very simple idea that has lots of complex consequences.\nThis book attempts to cover a the wide range of things that you might use Node.js for by going over the difficulties of building an asynchronous server that starts off with just the bare facility to send an HTTP packet. To get from here to the sorts of facilities you find in a typical webserver you have to do a lot of work. Or rather, you don't because you simply make use of libraries to do the job.\nPart 1 of this book starts off with a look at Node fundamentals. It goes fairly slowly though the idea of non-blocking code on the client side and then explains that its just the same on the server side. As someone else said \"Node.js is just like onclick\" - which is true enough.\nAfter you have the basic idea that Node.js is mostly asynchronous, Chapter 2 takes you into a big application. If you don't like books that present you with ideas using big examples you aren't going to get along with this one. It takes its \"in action\" title fairly seriously. For me the big example of a chat room was difficult to follow; it uses ideas not really introduced at this point such as sockets, which are discussed in depth in Chapter 13.\nMore successful is Chapter 3, and I suggest you skip to it if the example in Chapter 2 doesn't work out for you. This discusses modules which are fairly easy to understand, and then dives into the central issue of using Node.js - managing asynchronous flow of control. It does a good job of explaining the low level problem, but then just passes the solution to the Nimble library without really explaining it or the alternatives. It would have been nice to read something about promises or similar approaches to asynchronous flow. A bigger omission is that it doesn't explain how to deal with iteration or conditional execution of asynchronous tasks and it ignores error handling.\nPart 2 of the book is about web application development. Chapter 4 introduces the HTTP server object - which as a central Node.js object is a bit late, but the emphasis isn't on the basics but on issues such as using REST, forms and HTTPS. Next we move on to storing data - MySQL, Redis, MongoDB and Mogoose but only a few pages are devoted to each. The next two chapters are about using Connect middleware and the two following ones are on using the Express Framework. This is essentially where Node.js grows enough additional software to start to look a bit more like a web server.\nChapter 10 deals with testing Node and it is basically a general look at unit testing. The final chapter of the section is on templating using EJS, Mustache and Jade. All great as long as you want to use these frameworks.\nPart 3 of the book is called \"Going Further with Node\". This consists of three chapters mostly about deploying and hosting Node applications. Chapter 12 is mostly about using Git, cluster and general configuration issues. Chapter 13 looks at alternative ways of handling web app communications - sockets, TCP/IP and interacting with the operating system. The final chapter is something general about the Node ecosystem - online resources, GitHub and npm repositories.\nSo is this a good book on Node?\nAs long as you want lots of code then it probably is. For me its approach was a bit too fragmented to present a clean \"this is what you need to do\" storyline. It was very difficult to see the bigger picture in among all the different libraries and approaches.\nOverall the book got better as it progressed which suggests that it is better suited to the advanced user. If you already know Node.js then this might well be a good addition to your toolkit, but if you are a beginner trying to see what the fuss is about - probably not.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The DBQ APUSH section requires you to use your own knowledge with support from the provided documents. The essay question is graded on a scale from 0 to 9. To earn a 9 on your essay, utilize these 7 tips:\n1. Practice Time Management\nAfter the 15 minutes set aside for reading, you have 40 minutes to write your APUSH DBQ essay from start to finish. You need to answer the prompt, write a solid essay, include citations, and check your grammar. Can you write an essay worthy of a 9 in the time given? Yes! Just give yourself plenty of practice. Set up an environment similar to the one you’ll experience on test day, and practice acing the APUSH DBQ section.\n2. Utilize Your Reading Time\nDuring the 15 minutes for reading, you can’t start writing the essay. However, you can start the pre-writing process. Mark up the documents, write notes, develop your thesis, and make an outline. Then, you’ll be better prepared to start writing when you can open your booklet.\n3. Include a Focused Thesis Statement\nThe thesis statement is one of the most important parts of the essay. It’s not going to be good enough to just reword the question.\nYou need a thoughtful thesis that addresses ALL parts of the question. Review the question, and circle words like analyze, describe, evaluate, or compare. Then, make sure that you complete each task.\nWhen you’re ready to write your thesis, underline it in your booklet. That way, it stands out to the grader.\n4. Use as Many Documents as Possible\nDon’t quote large parts of the document. Use your own thoughts and ideas to craft your essay. However, if the test provides 3 documents for you to use, try to use all 3 documents on the exam.\nRefer to each one directly, such as Doc. A, when citing them. Remember that the documents are only meant to be used for evidence. So, use your own words to explain the citations, as needed.\n5. Practice Good Essay Writing Skills\nThe DBQ essay is no different than any other essay you write at school. Use the 5-paragraph essay format with an introduction, 3-4 supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion. Keep your essays organized by using transitions throughout, and don’t write your essay in first person.\n6. Craft a Solid Conclusion\nIf you need to use your time writing strong introduction and body paragraphs, you can get away with a quick conclusion. Just take a sentence or two to wrap up your essay. However, if you can control your pacing, a solid conclusion can leave the grader with a great impression.\nIf you haven’t already done so, the conclusion is a great place to make connections to later history, too. Think about what event you could relate to the rest of your essay.\n7. Check for Grammar and Spelling Errors\nBefore you close your booklet, don’t forget to check for grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors. A quick read through of the essay could help you discover a missing word or punctuation mark. It may not seem like much, but it could impact your score.\nAs you prepare to confront the DBQ APUSH section, consider these tips to help you prepare to earn a 9 for your essay. Practice these tips with your practice DBQ prompts now, so you’re confidence to excel when writing the essay on test day.\nImprove your SAT or ACT score, guaranteed. Start your 1 Week Free Trial of Magoosh SAT Prep or your 1 Week Free Trial of Magoosh ACT Prep today!\nMore from Magoosh\nAbout Jamie Goodwin\nJamie graduated from Brigham Young University- Idaho with a degree in English Education. She spent several years teaching and tutoring students at the elementary, high school, and college level. She currently works as a contract writer and curriculum developer for online education courses. In her free time, she enjoys running and spending time with her boys!\nLeave a Reply\nMagoosh blog comment policy: To create the best experience for our readers, we will approve and respond to comments that are relevant to the article, general enough to be helpful to other students, concise, and well-written! :) If your comment was not approved, it likely did not adhere to these guidelines. If you are a Premium Magoosh student and would like more personalized service, you can use the Help tab on the Magoosh dashboard. Thanks!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "July 23, 2020 • Life for Leaders\nScripture – Luke 6:6-10 (NRSV)\nOn another sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisees watched him to see whether he would cure on the sabbath, so that they might find an accusation against him. Even though he knew what they were thinking, he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Come and stand here.” He got up and stood there. Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to destroy it?” After looking around at all of them, he said to him, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so, and his hand was restored.\nThe fact that Jesus healed on the Sabbath gives us freedom to consider how we might engage in the ministry of healing in our own context. Our works of healing might certainly include praying for the sick, so that they might be well. But our works of healing might also include loving children as a Sunday School teacher, feeding folks who struggle with hunger and homelessness, joining a public gathering to pray for justice in our land, or reaching out to foster reconciliation in a broken relationship. Yes, the Sabbath is meant for rest. But it is also a day for restoration, restoration we receive and restoration to which we contribute.\nThis devotion is part of the series: Following Jesus Today.\nLuke 6 opens with a story about Jesus and the Sabbath. In response to a query from the Pharisees, Jesus claims to be “lord of the sabbath” (Luke 6:5). He has the authority to determine what is appropriate behavior on the seventh day of rest.\nThe next passage in Luke 6 relates another encounter between Jesus and the scribes and the Pharisees in which the Sabbath is the main theme. In this episode, Jesus was teaching in the synagogue when he became aware of a man who had a withered hand. The Jewish authorities watched Jesus closely because, if he healed the man on the sabbath, then Jesus would be breaking the sabbath law as they understood it. Healing, after all, was a kind of work.\nJesus, who knew what the leaders were thinking, invited the man with the withered hand to come forward. Before healing him, Jesus said his adversaries, “I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or destroy it” (Luke 6:9). Jesus knew that the Pharisees would allow good to be done only in a life or death situation. Healing a man’s hand wouldn’t be such a necessity. Yet, in the way Jesus framed the question, the choice was to do good or harm, to save life or to destroy life. So the Pharisees were silent. In fact, they were also furious (Luke 6:11).\nWhen the Jewish leaders failed to respond, Jesus said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” As he did, his hand was “restored” (Luke 6:10). For Jesus, the Lord of the Sabbath, the “work” of healing was appropriate on the Sabbath, even when the situation was not life or death. Restoration is central to the day of rest, whether it’s the restoration of soul that comes through quiet reflection, the restoration of body that comes through rest, or the restoration of brokenness that comes through healing.\nFor those of us who are inclined to be restless doers, this story from Luke could be a bit dangerous. It might suggest to us that we fill up our Sabbath with so many good works that we end up more exhausted than when the Sabbath began. Surely this would not be what Jesus has in mind for us. Yet, the fact that Jesus healed on the Sabbath gives us freedom to consider how we might engage in the ministry of healing in our own context. Our works of healing might certainly include praying for the sick, so that they might be well. But our works of healing might also include loving children as a Sunday School teacher, feeding folks who struggle with hunger and homelessness, joining a public gathering to pray for justice in our land, or reaching out to foster reconciliation in a broken relationship. Yes, the Sabbath is meant for rest. But it is also a day for restoration, restoration we receive and restoration to which we contribute.\nHow do you respond to the story in Luke 6:6-11?\nIn what ways do you do good on the Sabbath?\nHow might you be an instrument of God’s healing in your part of the world?\nAs you approach your next day of rest, ask the Lord if there is anything he would like you to do, any good work or acts of healing he has for you. If something comes to mind as you pray, make plans to do it.\nLord Jesus, thank you for being the one who heals us. Thank you for making your priorities clear. Thank you for your compassion and power. Thank you for healing the man with the withered hand, even on the Sabbath.\nHelp me, Lord, to know how I can honor you as I honor the Sabbath. Teach me to stop working and to rest. But, I pray, help me also to know when I need to join you in your work of healing. May I be a channel of your restoration in the part of the world to which you have sent me. Amen.\nSign up to receive a Life for Leaders devotional each day in your inbox. It’s free to subscribe and you can unsubscribe at any time.\nFind all Life for Leaders devotions here. Explore what the Bible has to say about work at the unique website of our partners, the Theology of Work Project. An article on today’s Life for Leaders theme can be found here: How Christians Can Experience Deeper Rest\nDr. Mark D. Roberts is a Senior Strategist for Fuller’s Max De Pree Center for Leadership, where he focuses on the spiritual development and thriving of leaders. He is the principal writer of the daily devotional, Life for Leaders, and the founder of the De Pree Center’s Flourishing in the Third Third of Life Initiative. Previously, Mark was the Executive Director of the De Pree Center, the lead pastor of a church in Southern California, and the Senior Director of Laity Lodge in Texas. He has written eight books, dozens of articles, and over 2,500 devotions that help people discover the difference God makes in their daily life and leadership. With a Ph.D. in New Testament from Harvard, Mark teaches at Fuller Seminary, most recently in his D.Min. cohort on “Faith, Work, Economics, and Vocation.” Mark is married to Linda, a marriage and family counselor, spiritual director, and executive coach. Their two grown children are educators on the high school and college level.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Stochastic processes involving randomness dominate in many areas of natural and man made systems. Describing their evolution quantitatively requires powerful theory from the fields of probability, statistics, and other areas of mathematics. Financial mathematics for example seeks to provide guidance in managing risk, and is at the core of modelling carried out by financial institutions and treasuries. The stochastic behaviour of cells, genes, and populations is the subject of Mathematical Biology.\nOur world is dynamic and complex, and often not deterministic. The mathematics of stochastic processes is crucial in allowing us to understand and manage risk, randomness, and change.\nFind out more at the Centre for Modelling of Stochastic Systems.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "As the story goes, Ratnakar was a robber who had taken to robbing and would loot people passing from one village to another. During one such incident he came across Narada Muni and threatened him with dire consequences if he did not part with all he had. Narada got him chatting and asked him the reason of this profession, to which Ratnakara said that he was doing this for his family. Did he know that the means were wrong, to which Ratnakara said that he did, but he had no option as he had to take care of his family too.\nThen Narada asked him, if his family would be party to his sin, to which Ratnakara felt, that they obviously would. On Narada’s insistence, Ratnakara went home to check with his family. To his horror and surprise, both his wife and children felt that it was his responsibility to take care of them, but they could not be hold responsible for the sin he was committing. Heart-broken, Ratnakara came back to the waiting Narada and broke down. It was then that Narada taught Ratnakara how to meditate and chant ‘Rama’.\nRatnakar got so engrossed in his meditation that he did not even realise that ant-hills had formed all over him. Later Narada, came and removed the ant-hills from his body and named him Valmiki, (Valmika meaning ‘from the ant-hill’) and gave him the title of Brahmarishi and in due course of time, motivated him to pen down the entire Ramayana, after narrating the story to him.\nHere too, we find that Narada was instrumental in seeing the potential of Ratnakara and through the correct means transforms him into Brahmarishi Valmiki. This is thanks to his being aware of the fact that Ratnakar was the long lost son of Rishi Prachetasa, who was lost at childhood and brought up by a hunter, and in due course took to looting. This internal information was put to good use and channelized into making him a rishi and a great author. Narada’s being aware of critical information, making good use of it and influencing in the most positive manner enabled Valmiki to write the epic, Ramayana.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "BREED OR SUBSPECIES? TAXONOMY OF CAT BREEDS\nSpecies are taxonomic grouping of animals that are similar, but readily distinguishable from another, and which rarely or never interbreed naturally. For example lions and tigers are different species of big cats. Eeven where they occur together (in the Gir forest, India) they are sufficiently different in type and behaviour that they do not interbreed naturally. Species receive binomial taxonomic names denoting genus and species e.g. Panthera tigris (tiger) and Panthera Leo (lion)\nSubspecies (also known as race) is the taxonomic rank below species. Members of a subspecies differ morphologically from members of other subspecies within the same species, for example the Amur tiger differs in type from the Bengal tiger. However, if they encounter each other, members of the subspecies are sufficiently similar that they readily interbreed. The Amur subspecies of tiger has the trinomial scientific name Panthera tigris altaica while the Chinese subspecies is Panthera tigris sinensis. Subspecies are generally separated by a physical barrier such as a mountain range or body of water.\nWhere there is a gradual change in type from one end of a species' range to the other, this is called a cline. For example Bengal tigers in a forested region may be more heavily striped than those in a more arid area of the Bengal tiger's range. Between these regions, tigers show various degrees of striping, but are still Bengal tigers.\nA breed is a domesticated subspecies that, even if it arose naturally, is has been perpetuated by humans. The domestic cat is a domesticated subspecies of F silvestris and known taxonomically as F silvestris catus. It arose from the African Wildcat, F silvestris lybica. The varieties of domestic cat are breeds, some of which arose from regiona populations of mutant forms that attracted human interest. Unlike subspecies, breeds receive common names, not scientific names. A particular longhaired form is called the Persian Longhair, but is still a domesticated form of F silvestris lybica. It could be considered a sub-subspecies! When the domestic cat was considered a species, F catus, the Persian race would have been called F catus persica. A possible modern taxonomic name might be F silvestris catus var persica denoting the Persian race of the domestic cat (Var is commonly used in botany to denote \"cultivated variety\" aka cultivar). Breeds interbreed naturally with each other and with the parental subspecies (the random-bred domestic cat).\nA subspecies arises by natural selection for a set of traits suitable to a geographic region. A breed arises through artificial selection of naturally occurring traits based on aesthetic or functional criteria. For example Persian Longhairs were considered aesthetically pleasing; Border Collie Dogs were bred to be functional.\nA strain refers to a bloodline i.e. the descendants of a single significant individual. A strain might be confined to a single breed or might span several breeds (e.g. an influential sire used in outcrosses for different breeds). Newly developed breeds may comprise a single bloodline traceable to a particular individual. Longer established breeds generally include multiple strains to ensure genetic diversity.\nIn the 19th century, there was great interest in classifying organisms scientifically. This classification is called taxonomy. Many \"species\" or \"subspecies\" were identified and named on the basis of a single variant individual brought back or described by travellers. There was great kudos in having a species or subspecies named after you! The British Victorians seemed intent on classifying everything into ordered groups.\nDuring the 20th century, many supposed specimens have lost their species/subspecies status; for example the \"Servaline\" is now known to be a Serval with a variant pattern. Many others turned out to be synonyms for the same variety. Many others are being redefined based on DNA evidence. Today, species and subspecies may be defined based on how genetically different they are and not merely on visual and behavioural differences. Before DNA techniques, the ability of species to form hybrids, and the viability and fertility of the hybrids, gave a rough indication of how closely or distantly related they were. The lion and tiger can be made to produce hybrid offspring, of which the females are fertile, but the males are not. The Bengal Tiger and Amur Tiger readiliy interbreed and their male and female offspring are fertile. The tigers are therefore more closely related to each other than they are related to the lion.\nCHANGING TAXONOMY OF THE DOMESTIC CAT\nCarolus Linnaeus, father of scientific classification and author of \"Systema Naturae\" (1758) called the domestic cat \"Felis catus\". Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber named the European wild cat Felis silvestris in 1775. The domestic cat was considered to a subspecies of the wild cat, and the wildcat should, under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature system of first-gets-precedence, have become F catus silvestris rather than F silvestris. In \"Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre and Systema regni animalis\" (1777) Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben used the name F domesticus. This name, and F silvestris domesticus, are sometimes seen, but are not considered valid scientific names under the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. F silvestris is generally adopted for the wild species and F catus is sometimes seen in print for the domestic cat.\nIn opinion 2027 (Vol 60, Part 1, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, March 31st, 2003) the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature \"conserved the usage of 17 specific names based on wild species, which are predated by or contemporary with those based on domestic forms.\" They confirmed F silvestris for the wild cat and F silvestris catus for the domestic cat. DNA and comparative bone research shows that domestic cats are derived from F lybica (African wildcat) rather than F silvestris (European wildcat); this updated the taxonomy to F silvestris silvestris (European Wildcat) and F silvestris lybica (African Wildcat) which are both subspecies of F silvestris (wild cat). The domestic cat therefore hovers between being a subspecies of the wildcat and a sub-subspecies of the African wildcat!\nDomestic cats, F lybica/F s lybica and F silvestris/F s silvestris all hybridise freely which indicates that they are subspecies rather than species. Any hybridisation with other species, such as F chaus, F margarita, in historical times was so minimal as to be incidental to the domestic cat being a domesticated form of the African Wildcat, just as modern artificial hybrids do not make it a subspecies/descendent of F bengalensis of F chaus. Nature, incidentally, will allow some species and subspecies to interbreed with little regard for the taxonomic pigeonholes imposed on them by humans!\n19TH CENTURY ATTEMPTS TO DEFINE BREEDS TAXONOMICALLY\nEarly travelers and cat fanciers suggested that distinct cat types be assigned scientific nomenclature as subspecies. This was based on the fallacy that the type was representative of the dominant phenotype in the region. It was also based on the Victorian love of collecting and categorising organisms and therefore \"claiming\" them in some way.\nWith the possible exception of the geographically isolated Manx, the types identified for scientific names were not representative of a dominant type. They represented an interesting trait reported or imported by travellers and 19th Century cat fanciers. The dominant type of cat in Thailand (Siam) is a moderately oriental type cat with kinked or bobbed tail and not the colourpoint cat recognised as the Siamese. The Siamese cat was considered sufficiently distinctive to be imported to England in the mid 1800s. The Chartreux was bred within French monasteries. In Britain it is not recognised as a distinct breed, let alone subspecies, as it is almost identical to the British Blue Shorthair. The Turkish Angora is the longhaired variant of native Turkish cats. Shorthaired Turkish cats also occur and the two types interbreed freely. Selective breeding from longhaired imports into England fixed the longhaired trait.\nThe Japanese Bobtail, the dominant form in Japan, might have been considered F catus japonica had it received sufficient attention in the late 19th century. The Persian would have been F catus persica, based on the wholly false notion that it came from Persia (Iran) rather than being developed in the late 19th/early 20th centuries from imported Angoras and the cobbier native longhairs found in Britain.\nMore recent breeds have never had a taxonomic name suggested. For example, the ticked ivory Singapura cat, suggested as a subspecies,was actually derived from Burmese/Abyssinian type cats taken to Singapore by an American couple. The cat type indigenous to Singapore and the Malay Peninsula is bobtailed and occurs in all colours and patterns including tortoiseshell-and-white and mackerel tabby. Other regional varieties such as the Maine Coon and Norwegian Forest Cats are naturally occurring and are now bred by cat fanciers, but these existed alongside other varieties with which they interbred. Longhair gene alone is not sufficient for these to be considered separate subspecies.\nThe more recently discovered Sokoke Forest Cat (from Kenya in the late 20th Century) was briefly considered to be a separate subspecies with a distinctive pattern. The Sokoke's pattern is a variation of tabby and is also found in random-bred cats in England and elsewhere. Its conformation is moderately oriental and is not confined to cats of the Sokoke region.\nAs it currently stands, the pet cat is the domesticated form of the African Wildcat. The African Wildcat, F s lybica, is a subspecies of the Wildcat. Were a level called sub-subspecies to exist, the domestic cat would be placed at this level below F s lybica. These will all interbreed freely and without human intervention. Interbreeding with other wildcats mentioned as possible ancestors, appears only to occur where the wildcat (or a wandering domestic cat) has no other choice of mate. If it has occurred at all, it is so minimal that it can be disregarded when considering the taxonomic status of the F s lybica and the domestic cat.\nMost breeds of cat do not sufficiently represent true-breeding regional populations and are, therefore, not sub-species (with the possible exception of island populations), but represent variations within the cat's range. Were the level of cultivar to exist, the various breeds would be at this level below the domestic cat.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Mouth Odour or bad breath medically known as Halitosis is a common problem and is usually simple and preventable.\nWHAT IS HALITOSIS?\nHalitosis is an unpleasant smell coming from the mouth. It can occur on occasion or it can be a chronic condition.\nHalitosis is an embarrassing condition caused by a group of anaerobic, sulfur producing bacteria that breeds beneath the surface of the tongue and often in the throat and tonsil area.\nThese anaerobic bacteria assist in digestion by breaking down of protein into Amino acids and in the process they excrete waste as odorous and bad tasting compound that cause bad breath.\nCAUSES OF HALITOSIS\nThere are many risk factors and causes for Halitosis and even healthy people have bad breath on occasion.\n1) Food: is a primary source of bad odor that come from the mouth, some foods such as garlic, onions, spicy foods, exotic spice (such as curry), cheeses, fish and acidic beverages such as coffee can leave a lingering smell. Most of the time, the odor is short lived.\nOther foods may get stuck in the teeth promoting the growth of bacteria and dental plaques which causes bad odor.\nLow carbohydrate diets may also cause the body to burn fat as it’s energy source.\nThe end- product of making this energy is ketones, which cause a fruity acetone- like odor on the breath when exhaled. This fruity odor in a diabetic might indicate uncontrolled blood sugars.\n2) Tobacco products: Smoking and chewing tobacco can leave chemicals that remain in the mouth. Smoking can also precipitate other bad breath causes such as gum disease or oral cancers.\n3) Poor oral health: When a person does not brush or floss her teeth regularly, food particles remaining in the mouth can rot and cause bad odors.\nPoor dental care can lead to a build up on the teeth can also lead to an unhealthy condition called periodontal (gum) disease. When plaque hardens,it is referred to as *Tartar*(calculus). Tartar holds bacteria that can irritate the gum and lead to gum disease. The mild form of gum disease is called gingivitis;if gingivitis is not treated,it can advance to periodontist.\n4) Health problems: Sinus infection,pnueumonia, sore throat (pharyngitis) and other throat infections,the common cold influenza(flu), tonsil stone(tonsillitis),thrush, bronchitis, postnasa drip, diabetes, acid reflux,(gastroesphageal reflux disease), lactose intolerance, other stomach or digestion problems and some liver diseases or kidney diseases may be associated with bad breath.\n5) Dry Mouth: also called xerostomia. Dry mouth can also cause bad breath. Saliva helps moisten and cleanse the mouth and when the body does not produce enough saliva,bad breath may result. Dry mouth may be caused by salivary gland problems, connective tissue disorder medications or breathing through the mouth.\n6) Allergies: Many medications used to treat allergies can cause dry mouth, another cause of .In addition,post nasal drip is a common allergy symptom that can result in bad breath. Sinus congestion due to allergies can also cause people to breathe from their mouths causing dry mouth.\n7) Mouth infections: Cavities, gum disease or impacted teeth may cause bad breath.\n8) Dentures or braces: Food particles not properly cleaned from appliances such as braces can rot or cause bacteria and odor.\nSome people wear brace to correct their teeth but don’t manage it well.\nLoosing fitting dentures may cause sores or infections in the mouth, which can cause bad breath.\nFor people that are using denture\nAs a young lady or woman,is not advisable to be using denture because of its effect on the gum.\nSo is better you go for either bridge or implant,though is more expensive but better and safer.\n9) Medications: Many medications including antihistamine to treat allergies and diuretics can cause dry mouth which can cause bad breath. Other medications that may lead to bad breath may include triamterene and paraldehyde.\n10) Morning breath: Bad breath in the morning is very common. Saliva production nearly stop during sleep, allowing odor causing bacteria to grow causing bad breath.\nA times when you wake up in the morning,you this discover that your mouth smell.\n11) Pregnancy: Being pregnant in itself does not cause bad breath, but the nausea and morning sickness common during pregnancy may cause bad breath. In addition, hormonal changes, dehydration and eating different foods due to cravings may also contribute to bad breath during pregnancy.\nOther causes of bad breath: objects stuck in the 👃 nose (usually in children),so as mothers or intending mothers, you have to check your children nose when you discover bad breath from them.\nAlcoholism, and large doses of vitamin supplements may also cause bad breath. Not every supplements you will take, some sisters doesn’t have problem they just want to take the supplements as if is food ehn🤷🏻♀🤷🏻♀\nPREVENTION AND TREATMENTS OF HALITOSIS\n1. Stimulate your salivary flow : As have said before, a dry mouth gives the perfect environment for the group of anaerobic bacteria that causes mouth odor. So avoid a dry mouth by stimulating the flow of saliva in your mouth will help us to get rid of mouth odor. This can be done by chewing gum, lozenges or mints that are sugar free. The one that contain xylitol,a non-sucrose sweeter are best because they help you avoid cavities.\nYou can also have a bottle of water handy to drink from time to time throughout the day to keep your mouth from getting dry.\n2. Good dental hygiene\nHow many time are we supposed to brush a day?\nBrush your teeth twice a day (in the morning when you wake up and at night before you sleep but not immediately after dinner, you have to wait for about 30mins to an hour before brushing)\nIt is very important you don’t neglect to brush your teeth at night because while you sleep little or no Silva is being produced, so anaerobic bacteria have the perfect environment to thrive throughout your eight hours of sleep.\nBrushing your mouth before you sleep will help to remove any food and plaque in your mouth before you sleep that the anaerobic bacteria can feed on while you’re asleep.\nFlouride toothpaste should be used, alongside brushes with soft (but not too soft) bristles (so you don’t damage your enamel and gum).\nAlso try to brush within the range of 2 to 3 minutes.\nMouth washes (alcohol free) and dental floss can also be used after meals especially after meals that contain onions and garlic, dairy foods, meat, fish, refined and processed foods that contain refined carbohydrates like cookies, cakes, sweets and ice cream which provide the ideal breeding environment for these bacteria.\n3. Fibrous fruits and vegetables: remember the saying ‘An Apple a day keeps the doctor away’. Well in this case,we will modify it to, an apple a day keeps the bad breath away.\nEating fibrous fruits and vegetables like apple, bananas, oranges, potatoes e.t.c help moisten the mouth and remove the bacteria in the mouth thus helping you get rid of mouth odor.\n4. Clean your tongue:(including the back of your tongue. Over time, there is a coating that forms on your tongue that becomes the host for many smelly bacteria.\nIt is important for you to remember to gently brush your tongue, including the back of the tongue.\nIf your brush is too big to reach the back of your tongue,you can get a smaller brush or something called a scrapper to help you reach back and properly clean the surface of the tongue, removing bacteria,food debris and dead cells that you might not have been able to remove by only brushing.\n5. See a dentist regularly:for check-up\nAt least, visit dental clinic twice a year for scaling and polishing\nFor those that are wearing brace,get braces brush that will help you to remove all food debris on the braces and also make sure you go for your regular appointment as scheduled by your orthodontist\nFor those that are using denture,try to get either bridge or implant but for the time you are still using it, always clean it at night and put it inside water covered,don’t sleep with denture in your mouth,you may swallow it unknowingly and is only through surgery it can be remove when swallow.\n6. For medications or allergies: treat the underlying medical issue.\nDiscuss with a health care professional whether there are other options for medications that can be taken.\nNever stop taking the medication without first consulting your health care professional\n7) Finally treatment during pregnancy\nMaintain oral hygiene.\nDo not eat strong smelling foods.\nRegular dental check-up.\nInclude calcium foods for the baby’s sake.\nDrink more water.\nRinse your mouth.\nBrush with baking soda and salt.\nChew gum after food\nIn conclusion, please take good care of your oral hygiene because it has a lot.\nThis was a teaching anchored by Mrs Ruth Omotusi, a dental nurse on AYF Abuja DSF Online Program.\n7 thoughts on “Mouth Odour: Causes, Prevention and Treatments”\nThanks for the enlightenment!\nThank you dear.\nGod bless you.\nThank you so much for sharing this sis.\nYou’re welcome dear, thanks for stopping by.\nThank you. I learnt a lot and also relearnt.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "This is the user sandbox of Robert Barga. A user sandbox is a subpage of the user's user page. It serves as a testing spot and page development space for the user and is not an encyclopedia article. Create or edit your own sandbox here.\nWriting an article and ready to request its creation?\nAnimation refers to any images which go through mechanized changes over time to portray the illusion of of motion. Throughout the history of art there were numerous techniques used to abstractly illustrate motion within the confines of static media, but animation is distinct because it required actual change in an image. The most common way to accomplish this is by putting sequences of images through some form of machinery which displays them in rapid succession. The position of each object in each image in the sequence relates systematically to the position of that object in the previous image so that the objects each appear to move independently of one another. The machinery must display these images in rapid succession without the viewer being able to see them moving between their being displayed. This is usually accomplished with a strobe light projecting through moving film onto a viewing screen. According to the physiological theory of persistence of vision people do not notice the rapid instances of darkness between the frames of projected film and the image appears move fluidly through time.\nPrecursors to Animation\nFive images sequence from a vase found in Iran. Evidence of artistic interest in depicting figures in motion can be seen as early as the still drawings of Paleolithic cave paintings, where animals are depicted with multiple sets of legs in superimposed positions, clearly attempting to convey the perception of motion. Other examples include a 5,200-year old earthen bowl found in Iran in Shahr-e Sukhteh and an ancient Egyptian mural. The Persian bowl has five images painted along the sides, showing phases of a goat leaping up to nip at a tree. The Egyptian mural, found in the thomb of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum, at the Beni Hassan cemetery. The paintings are approximately 4000 years old and show scenes of young soldiers being trained in wrestling and combat.\nEgyptian burial chamber mural. Seven drawings by Leonardo da Vinci (ca. 1510) extending over two folios in the Windsor Collection, Anatomical Studies of the Muscles of the Neck, Shoulder, Chest, and Arm, show detailed drawings of the upper body (with a less-detailed facial image), illustrating the changes as the torso turns from profile to frontal position and the forearm extends. Even though all these early examples may appear similar to a series of animation drawings, the lack of equipment to show the images in motion means that these image series are precursors to animation and cannot be called animation in the modern sense. They do, however, indicate the artists' intentions and interests in depicting motion.\nVictorian parlor toys\nMany of the early inventions designed to animate images were meant as novelties for private amusement of children or small parties. Animation devices which fall into this category include the zoetrope, magic lantern, praxinoscope, thaumatrope, phenakistoscope, and flip book\nThe phenakistoscope was an early animation device, the predecessor of the zoetrope. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer.\nZoetrope (180 AD; 1834) The zoetrope is a device which creates the image of a moving picture. The earliest elementary zoetrope was created in China around 180 AD by the prolific inventor Ting Huan (丁緩). Made from translucent paper or mica panels, Huan hung the device over a lamp. The rising air turned vanes at the top from which hung the pictures painted on the panels would appear to move if the device is spun at the right speed. The modern zoetrope was produced in 1834 by William George Horner. The device is essentially a cylinder with vertical slits around the sides. Around the inside edge of the cylinder there are a series of pictures on the opposite side to the slits. As the cylinder is spun, the user then looks through the slits to view the illusion of motion. The zoetrope is still being used in animation courses to illustrate early concepts of animation. The magic lantern The magic lantern is the predecessor of the modern day projector. It consisted of a translucent oil painting and a simple lamp. When put together in a darkened room, the image would appear larger on a flat surface. Athanasius Kircher spoke about this originating from China in the 16th century. Some slides for the lanterns contained parts that could be mechanically actuated to present limited movement on the screen. Thaumatrope (1824) A thaumatrope was a simple toy used in the Victorian era. A thaumatrope is a small circular disk or card with two different pictures on each side that was attached to a piece of string or a pair of strings running through the centre. When the string is twirled quickly between the fingers, the two pictures appear to combine into a single image. The thaumatrope demonstrates the Phi phenomenon, the brain's ability to persistently perceive an image. Its invention is variously credited to Charles Babbage, Peter Roget, or John Ayrton Paris, but Paris is known to have used one to illustrate the Phi phenomenon in 1824 to the Royal College of Physicians. Phenakistoscope (1831) Flip book (1868) The first flip book was patented in 1868 by John Barnes Linnet. Flip books were yet another development that brought us closer to modern animation. Like the Zoetrope, the Flip Book creates the illusion of motion. A set of sequential pictures flipped at a high speed creates this effect. The Mutoscope (1894) is basically a flip book in a box with a crank handle to flip the pages.\nPraxinoscope (1877) The praxinoscope, invented by French scientist Charles-Émile Reynaud, was a more sophisticated version of the zoetrope. It used the same basic mechanism of a strip of images placed on the inside of a spinning cylinder, but instead of viewing it through slits, it was viewed in a series of small, stationary mirrors around the inside of the cylinder, so that the animation would stay in place, and provide a clearer image and better quality. Reynaud also developed a larger version of the praxinoscope that could be projected onto a screen, called the Théâtre Optique. The present\nThe first animated film was created by Charles-Émile Reynaud, inventor of the praxinoscope, an animation system using loops of 12 pictures. On October 28, 1892 at Musée Grévin in Paris, France he exhibited animations consisting of longer bands of about 500 frames, using his Théâtre Optique system - similar in principle to a modern film projector. The first animated work on standard picture film was Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) by J. Stuart Blackton. It features what appears to be a cartoonist drawing faces on a chalkboard, and the faces apparently coming to life. Fantasmagorie, by the French director Émile Cohl (also called Émile Courtet), is also noteworthy. It was screened for the first time on August 17, 1908 at Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris. Émile Courtet later went to Fort Lee, New Jersey near New York City in 1912, where he worked for French studio Éclair and spread its technique in the US. Influenced by Cohl, Russian scientist Ladislas Starevitch started to create animated films using dead insects with wire limbs. In 1911 he created \"The Cameraman's Revenge\", a complex tale of treason, suicide and violence between several different insects. It is a pioneer work of puppet animation, and the oldest known example of an animated film of such dramatic complexity, with characters filled with motivation, desire and feelings. In 1914, American cartoonist Winsor McCay released Gertie the Dinosaur, an early example of character animation.\nThe first animated feature film was El Apóstol, made in 1917 by Quirino Cristiani from Argentina. He also directed two other animated feature films, including 1931's Peludopolis, the first to use synchronized sound. None of these, however, survive to the present day. The earliest-surviving animated feature, which used colour-tinted scenes, is the silhouette-animated Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) directed by German Lotte Reiniger and French/Hungarian Berthold Bartosch. Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) is often considered to be the first animated feature when in fact at least eight were previously released. However, Snow White was the first to become successful and well-known within the English-speaking world and the first to use cel animation. The first animation to use the full, three-color Technicolor method was Flowers and Trees (1932) made by Disney Studios which won an Academy Award for this work. The first Japanese-made feature length anime film was the propaganda film Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors (桃太郎 海の神兵) by the Japanese director Mitsuyo Seo. The film, shown in 1945, was ordered to be made to support the war by the Japanese Naval Ministry. The film's song AIUEO no Uta (アイウエオの歌) was later used in Osamu Tezuka's anime series Kimba the White Lion. Originally thought to have been destroyed during the American occupation, a negative copy survived and the film is now available in Japan on VHS. The first individually hand-drawn animated feature was \"The Tune\" by American Independent Animator Bill Plympton for production company October Films in 1992. Before limited distribution 'The Tune' was nominated for the 1992 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize dramatic and in 1993 was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Original Score by Maureen McElheron. To date, only this film's animator lays claim to having individually hand-drawn feature-length films, and has gone on to produce four more: I Married A Strange Person (1997), Mutant Aliens (2001), Hair High (2004), Idiots and Angels (2008).\nStop motion Stop motion is used for many animation productions using physical objects rather than images of people, as with traditional animation. An object will be photographed, moved slightly, and then photographed again. When the pictures are played back in normal speed the object will appear to move by itself. The first example of object manipulation and stop-motion animation was the 1899 short film by Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton called The Humpty Dumpty Circus. A European stop motion pioneer was Wladyslaw Starewicz (1892–1965), who animated The Beautiful Lukanida (1910), The Battle of the Stag Beetles (1910), The Ant and the Grasshopper (1911). This process is used for many productions, for example, the most common types of puppets are clay puppets, as used in The California Raisins and Wallace and Gromit, and figures made of various rubbers, cloths and plastic resins, such as The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. Sometimes even objects are used, such as with the films of Jan Švankmajer. Stop motion animation was also commonly used for special effects work in many live-action films, such as the 1933 version of King Kong and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad.\nComputer-generated imagery (CGI) revolutionized animation. The first feature film done completely in CGI was Toy Story, produced by Pixar. The process of CGI animation is still very tedious and similar in that sense to traditional animation, and it still adheres to many of the same principles. A principal difference of CGI Animation compared to traditional animation is that drawing is replaced by 3D modeling, almost like a virtual version of stop-motion, though a form of animation that combines the two worlds can be considered to be computer aided animation but on 2D computer drawing (which can be considered close to traditional drawing and sometimes based on it).\nCGI Animated humans\nMost CGI created films are based on animal characters, monsters, machines or cartoon-like humans. Animation studios are now trying to develop ways of creating realistic-looking humans. Films that have attempted this include Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within in 2001, Final Fantasy: Advent Children in 2005, The Polar Express in 2004, Beowulf in 2007 and Resident Evil: Degeneration in 2009. However, due to the complexity of human body functions, emotions and interactions, this method of animation is rarely used. The more realistic a CG character becomes, the more difficult it is to create the nuances and details of a living person, and the greater the likelihood of the character falling into the uncanny valley. The creation of hair and clothing that move convincingly with the animated human character is another area of difficulty. The Incredibles and Up both have humans as protagonists, while films like Avatar combine animation with live action to create humanoid creatures.\nMain article: Cel-shaded animation A type of non-photorealistic rendering designed to make computer graphics appear to be hand-drawn. Cel-shading is often used to mimic the style of a comic book or cartoon. It is a somewhat recent addition to computer graphics, most commonly turning up in console video games. Though the end result of cel-shading has a very simplistic feel like that of hand-drawn animation, the process is complex. The name comes from the clear sheets of acetate (originally, celluloid), called cels, that are painted on for use in traditional 2D animation. It may be considered a \"2.5D\" form of animation. True real-time cel-shading was first introduced in 2000 by Sega's Jet Set Radio for their Dreamcast console. Besides video games, a number of anime have also used this style of animation, such as Freedom Project in 2006.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "No matter whether you love children or not, every person was a kid at some point, and this part of life is closely connected to parents. Our writer from EssaySeek has volunteered to write this role of parents in child development essay and discuss the ideas of psychologist Diana Baumrind. This topic is really interesting to discuss, so feel free to use this idea for your own writing. But just don’t simply copy the text to your paper, as your tutor may mark it as plagiarized. Fill your paper with your own thoughts on the basis of this sample paper.\nWith the help of our psychology examples like this role of parents in child development essay, you will be inspired to write your own paper. When you will be ready to start writing your essay, be sure that you have considered writing tips from our blog! Students frequently suffer with writing, especially when they need to write something for the first time, but with our step-by-step guides it will be easy! Feel free to check our EssaySeek blog!\nIs Baumrind Right That ‘Parents Create Their Children Psychologically’?\nAs most of us know, Diana Baumrind is a famous psychologist especially due to her researches and achievements on parenting styles. And the fact that, according to her, parents create their children psychologically, cannot be underestimated.\nIt is a usual thought that the way children are treated is the key factor of what they will become in the future, hence: how they will form psychologically. And that treatment, in other words, is parenting. Well, Baumrind research has proved that there are 4 main parenting styles: authoritarian, authoritative, permissive and uninvolved. According to recent researches the results of each parenting style have been proved and sorted out one by one(Amy Morin, LCSW).\nLet’s take the contrast of 2 parenting styles as an example: authoritarian and authoritative. Authoritarian parents are more demanding and less responsive for their child. They expect that their child will accept their strict rules without questioning them, and punish if the child disobeys (Dewar). As a result, the child grows up with poor social skills, because of their parents’ lack of responsiveness, less self-esteem, most of them even start lying in order to avoid punishments.\nIn the contrary of authoritarian, authoritative parents’ demandingness and responsiveness are equally high. They often praise good behavior, value independence and are more supportive. Such parenting style creates a happy, successful child with better social skills, since child gets more experience of socializing because of the responsive environment that the authoritative parents have provided for their child (Bianca Mgbemere and Rachel Telles).\nTherefore, in the case of these two parenting styles, we can see the possibility of psychological development of two different personalities, that are created under the circumstances of dissimilar approach of raising a child. This proves the point of Baumrind, that parents are, indeed, responsible for the creation of their children psychologically.\nAmy Morin, LCSW. “4 Types of Parenting Styles and Their Effects on Kids.” Very Well (2017): 2. https://www.verywell.com/types-of-parenting-styles-1095045. (Aug. 24, 2017)\nBianca Mgbemere and Rachel Telles. “Types of Parenting Styles and How to Identify Yours.” Vanderbilt (2013): 1. https://my.vanderbilt.edu/developmentalpsychologyblog/2013/12/types-of-parenting-styles-and-how-to-identify-yours/. (Aug. 24, 2017)\nDewar, Gwen. “Authoritarian parenting: What happens to the kids?” Parenting Science (2017): 1. http://www.parentingscience.com/authoritarian-parenting.html. (Aug. 25, 2017)\nLeave a Comment:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "- Click on the Start button and click on the Control Panel.\n- In Network And Internet click on View Network Status And Tasks. (If you are in the Classic View click on Network And Sharing Center).\n- Click on Set up a connection or network in the upper left hand side.\n- Select Connect To The Internet and click Next.\n- Click on Dial-up to create the Dial-up connection. (If Dial-up is not an option, a dial-up modem may not be installed or the drivers are not available).\n- Enter the correct phone number, username and password as provided by ZiD. It is recommended to check the boxes for Remember Password and Allow other people to use this connection. The connection can be named something like \"ZiD Dial-up\". Click on Create.\nPassword: your password\nDialup Number: numver given to you when signing up\nNOTE: The phone number will dial exactly as it appears in the Phone Number Field. The Dialing Rules are disabled by default. This can be changed through the properties of the connection later.\n- The Dial-up connection has now been created. Let the connection connect if possible and proceed to Step 8. Only click Skip If you are using the phone or the phone cable is not connected to the computer or dial-up modem yet. Proceed to step 10 if you must click Skip.\n- If the correct information was entered in step 6, the Internet connection should be established. Press Close.\n- Choose Home or Work depending on how the dial-up connection is to be used. We recommend using the Home setting.\n- A screen will appear indicating the Internet connection is now ready for use. Click Close.\n- This should return you to the Network And Sharing Center. Click on Manage network connections to see the connection.\n- There should now be a dial-up connection for “ZiD Dialup”.\nWe are now going to create a shortcut for the connection on the Desktop. Right-click on the “ZiDDialup” icon and left-click on Create Shortcut.\n- An error message should appear that says cannot create a shortcut here, place on the desktop instead. Click Yes.\n- Click on the red X in the top right hand corner of the window to close the Network and Sharing center\n- An icon should now appear on your desktop for the ZiD dialup connection. You can use this icon to connect to the Internet or disconnect from the Internet.\nWhen browsing the web in future using Internet Explorer you should be prompted automatically to connect the dialup connection otherwise you can use your newly created shortcut.\nCongratulations! You have now setup your dialup account for Windows Vista ™\ncan't solve your problem?\nCall us at (514)\n342-4636(INFO) / 877\n659-6505 or use our", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Small Signal CE Amplifier , small signal common emitter amplifier , Small Signal CE Amplifier model analysis equivalent circuit of pdf .\nCE amplifiers are very popular to amplify the small signal AC. After a transistor has been biased with a Q point near the middle of a DC load line, AC source can be coupled to the base. this produces fluctuations in the base current and hence in the collector current of the same shape and frequency. the output will be enlarged sine wave of same frequency.\nThe amplifier is called linear if it does not change the wave shape of the signal. As long as the input signal is small, the tranistor will use only a small part of the load line and the operation will be linear.\nOn the other hand, if the input signal is too large. the fluctuations along the load line will drive the transistor into either saturation or cut-off. this clips the peaks of the input and the amplifier is no longer linear.\nThe CE amplifier configuration is shown in fig. 24.\nThe coupling capacitor (CC) passes an AC signal from one point to another. At the same time it does not allow the DC to pass through it. hence, it is also called blocking capaitor.\nFor example, in fig. 25 the AC voltage at point A is transmitted to point B. for this series reactance XC should be very small compared in series resistance RS. the circuit to the left of A may be a source and a series resistor or may be the thevenin equivalent of a complex circuit. similarly, RL may be the load resistance or equivalent resistance of a complex network. the current in the loop is given by\nI = Vin / (RS + RL)2 + (XC)2\n= Vin / R2 + X2\nAs a frequency increases XC = (1/2 fc) decreases and current increases until it reaches to its maximum value Vin/R. therefore, the capacitor couples the signal properly from A to B then, XC << R. the size of the coupling capacitor depends upon the lowest frequency to be coupled. normally, for lowest frequency XC 0.1R is taken as design rule.\nThe coupling capaciitor acts like a switch, which is open to DC and shorted for AC.\nThe bypass capacitor CB is similar to coupling capacitor except that it couples an ungrounded point to a grounded point. then CB capacitor looks like a short to an AC signal and therefore, emitterb is said AC grounded. A bypass capacitor does not disturb the DC voltage at emitter because it looks open to DC current. As a design the rule XCb 0.1 RE at lowest frequency.\nAnalysis of CE Ampliffier\nIn a transistor ampliffier, the DC source sets up quiescent current and voltages. the AC source then, produces fluctuations in these current and voltages. the simplest way to analyze this circuit is to split the analysis in two parts DC analysis and AC analysis. one can use superposition theorem for analysis.\nAC and DC Equivalent Circuits\nFor DC equivalent circuit, reduce all AC voltage sources to zero and open all AC current sources and open all capacitors. with this reduced circuit shown in fig. 26 (a) DC current and voltages can be calculated.\nFor AC, equivalent circuit reduces DC voltage source to zero and open current source and short all capacitors. this circuit is used to calculate AC currents and voltage as shown in fig. 26(b).\nThe total current in any branch is the sum of DC and AC currents through that branch. the total valtage across any branch is the sum of the DC voltage and AC voltage across that branch.\nBecause of the fluctuation is base current; collector current and collector voltage also swings above and below the quiescent voltage. the AC output voltage is inverted with respect to the AC input voltage, means it is 1800 out of phase with input.\nDuring the positive half cycle base current increases, causing the collector current to increase. this produces a large voltage drop across the collector resistor, therefore the voltage output decreases and negative half cycle of output voltage is obtained. conversely, on the negetive half cycle of input voltage less collector current flows and the voltage drop across the collector resistor decreases and hence collector voltage increases, we get the positive half cycle of output voltage as shown in fig.27.\n- Common-Collector Amplifier\nIf a high impedance source is connected to low impedance amplifier then, most of the signal is dropped across the internal impedance of the source. to avoid this problem common-collector amplifier is used in netween source and CE amplifier. it increases the input impedance of the CE amplifier without significant change in input voltage.\nFig. 28 shows a common-collector (CC) amplifier. since, there is no resistance in collector circuit therefore, collector circuit therefore, collector is AC grounded. if is also calld grounded collector amplifier. when input source drives the base, output appears across emitter resistor. A CC amplifier is like a heavily swamped CE amplifier with a collector resistor shorted and output taken across emitter resistor.\nVout = Vin – VBE\nTherefore, this circuit is also called emitter follower, because VBE is very small. As Vin increases, Vout increases.\nIfVin is 2 V, Vout = 1.3 V\nIfVin is 3 V, Vout = 2.3 V\nSince, Vout follows exactly the Vin therefore, there is no phase inversion between input and output. the output circuit voltage equation is given by\nVCE = VCC – IERE\nSince, IE >> IC\nIC = VCC – VCE / RE\nThis is the equation of DC load line. the DC load line is shown in fig. 28.\nFig. 29(a) shows an emitter follower driven by a small AC voltage. the input is applied at the base of transistor and output is taken across the emitter resistor. fig. 29(b) shows the AC equivalent circuit of the amplifier. the emitter is replaced by AC resistance R’E.\nThe AC output voltage is given by\nand Vout = RE IE\nVin = IE (RE + R’E)\nTherefore, A = RE / RE + R’E\nSince R’E >> RE\nA >> 1\nTherefore, it is a unity gain amplifier. the practical emitter follower circuit is shown in fig. 29 (c).\nThe AC source (VS) with a series resistance (RS) drives the transistor base. because of the biasing resistor and input impedance of the base, some of the AC signal is lost across the source resistor.\nThe AC equivalent circuit is shown in fig. 29(d).\nThe input impedance at the base is given by\nZin (base) = Vin/ IB\n= IE (R’E + RE) / IB\n= BIB (R’E + RE) / IB\n= B (R’E + RE)\nSince, R’E is very small in comparison with RE.\nZin(base) ~ BRE\nThe total input impedance of an emitter follower includes biasing resistors in parallel with input impedance of the base.\nZin = R1||R2||B(R’E + RE)\nSince BRE is very large as compared to R1 and R2.\nThus, Zin~ R1||R2\nTherefore, input impedance is very high.\nApplying thevenin’s theorem to the base circuit of fig. 29(d). it becomes a source Vin and a series resistance (R1||R2||RS) as shown in fig. 29(e).\nVin = (R1||R2||RS) + IE (R’E + RE)\nOr IE = Vin / RE + R’E + R1||R2||RS / B\nThe impedance of the amplifier seen from the output terminal is given by\nVout = AVin = RE VS\nRE +R’E + R1||R2||RS / B\n~ Vin (if RE is very large)\nExample 8. Find the Q point of the emitter follower circuit of given figure with R1 = 10 K and RE = 20 K. Assume the transistor has a B of 100 and input capacitor C is very-very large.\nsol. We first find the thevenin’s equivalent of the base bias circuitry.\nRB = R1||R2 = 6.67 K\nVBB = R1 VCC / R1 + R2 = 12 (104) / 30×103 = 4 V\nFrom the bias equation, we have,\nIC = ICQ = VBB – VBE = 4 – 0.7 = 4.95 mA\nRB / B + RE 6670/100 +600\nExample 9. Find the output voltage swing of the circuit of given above figure.\nSol. The Q point location has already been calculated in example 1. We found that the quiescet collector current is 4.95 mA.\nThe output voltage swing = 2.IC Peak (RE||Rload)\n= 2 (4.95 x 10-3) (300) = 2.97 V\nThis is less than the maximum possible output swing. continuing the analysis,\nVCE, Q = VCC – VCQRE = 9.03 V\nV’CC = 10.5 / 300 = 35.1 mA\nThe load lines for this problem are shown in figure.\nSmall Singnal Low Frequency Transistor Models\nAll the transistor amplifiers are two port networks having two voltages and two currents. The positive directions of voltages and currents are shown in fig. 30 (a).\nOut of four quantities two are independent and two are dependent. if the input current i1 and output voltage v2 are taken independent then other two quantities i2 and v1 can be expressed in terms of i1 and v2\nv1 = f1 (i1, v2)\ni2 = f2 (i1, v2)\nThe equations can be written as\nv1 = h11 i1 + h12 v2\ni2 = h21 i1 + h22 v2\nWhere, h11, h12, h21 and h22 are called h-parameters.\nh11 = v1/ i1 /v2 = 0\n= fraction of output voltage at input with input open circuited or reverse voltage gain with input open circited to AC (dimensions)\nh21 = i2/i1 /v2 = 0\n= negative of current gain with output short circuited to AC.\nThe current entering the load is neegative of I2. This is also known as forward short circuit current gain.\nh22 = i2/ i1 / i2 = 0\n= output admittance with input open circuited to AC\nIf these parameters are specified for a particular configuration, then suffixes e,b or c are also included, e.g., hfre, hib and h-parameters of common-emitter and common-collector amplifiers. using two equations, the generalized model of the amplifier can be drewn as shown in fig. 30(b).\nThe Hybrid Model for a Transistor Amplifier\nLet us consider CE configuration as shown in fig 31(a) the variables, ib, ic, vc and vb represent total instantaneous currents and voltages ib and vc can be taken as independent variables and vb, ic as dependest variables.\nUsing taylor’s series expression and neglecting higher order tems, we obtain\nvb = fi/ ib / vc ib + fi/vc / ib vc\nic = f2/ib / vc ib + f2/vc / ib vc\nThe partial derivatives are taken keeping the collector voltage or base current constant. the vb, vc, ib, ic represent the small signal (incremental) base and collector current and voltage and can be represented as\nvb, ib, vc, ic.\nvb = hie ib + hrevc\nic = hfeib + hoe vb\nWhere, hie = f1/ib /vc = vb/ib /vc\nhre = f1/vc /ib = vb/vc /ib\nhfe = f2 /ib /vc = ic/ib /vc\nhoe = f2/v2 /ib = vb/vc /ib\nThe model for CE configuration is shown in fig. 31(b).\nDetermination of h-Parameters\nTo determine the four h-parameters of transistor amplifier, input and output characteristics are used. input characteristic depicts the relationship between input voltage and input current with output voltage as parameter. the output characteristic depicts the relationship between output voltage and output current with input current as parameter. fig.32(a). shows the output characteristics of CE amplifier.\nhfe = ic/ib /vc = ic2 – ic1 / ib2 – ib1\nThe current increments are taken around the quiescent point Q which corresponds to ib = IB and to the collector voltage VCE = VC\nhoe = ic / vc /ib\nThe value of hoe at the quiescent operating point is given by the slope of the output characteristic at the operating point (i.e., slope of tangent AB).\nhie = vb/ib = vb/ib /vc\nhie is the slope of the appropriate input on fig. 21(b) at the operating point (slope of tangent EFat Q).\nhre = VB/VC = VB/VC /IB = VB2 – VB1 / VC2 – VC1\nA vertical line on the input characteristic represents constant base current. the parameter hre can be obtained from the ratio (VB2 – VB1) and (VC2 – VC1) for at Q.\nTypical CE h-parameters of transistor 2N1573 are given below.\nhie = 1000\nhre = 2.5 *10-4\nhfe = 50\nhoe = 25 mA/V\nH-Parameters Analysis of a Transistor Amplifier Using h-Parameters\nTo form a transistor amplifier, if is only necessary to connect an external load and signal source as indicated in fig. 33(a) and to bias the transistor properly.\nConsider the two-port network of CE amplifier. Rs is the source resistance and ZL is the load impedance h-parameters are assumed to be constant over the operating range, the AC equivalent circuit is shown in fig. 33(b) (phasor notations are used assuming sinusoidal voltage input). the quantities of interest are the current gain, input impedance, voltage gain and output impedance.\nFor the transistor amplifier stage A, is defined as the ratio of output to input currents.\nAf = IL /IB = -IC / IB\n(IL + IC = 0, IL = – IC)\nIC = hfeIB + hoeVC\nVC = IL ZL = – IC ZL\nIC = hfe IB + hoe (-IC ZL)\nOr IC / IB = hfe/ 1+ hoe Zl\nAl = – hfe / 1 + hoe ZL\nThe impedance looking into the amplifier input terminals (1, 1′) is the input impedance Zi\nZI = VB/ IB\nVB = hieIB + hreVE\nVB / IB = hie + hre VC/IB\n= hie – hreICZL / IB\nZI = hie + hreAIZL\nhie – hrehfeZL / 1 + hoeZl\nZi = hie – hrehfe / yl + hoe (since, YL = 1 /ZL)\nThe ratio of output voltage to input voltage gives the gain of the transistors.\nAV = VC/VB = ICZL / VB\nAV = IB AIZL / VB = AIZL /ZI\nIt is defined as ,\nYO = IC/VC /VS = 0\nIC = hfeIB + hoeVC\nIC /VC = hfe IB / VC + hoe\nwhen, VS = 0, RS IB + HIE IB + HREVC = 0\nIB/VC = – hre / RS + hIE\nYO = hoe – hrehfe / RS + HIE\nVoltage amplification taking into account source impedance (RS) IS given by\nAVS = VC/VS = VC /VB + VB/ VS (VB = VS / R2 + ZI = ZI)\n= AV ZI / ZI + RS\n= AIZL / ZI + RS\nAv is the voltage gain for an ideal voltage source (RV = 0) Consider input source to be a current soure IS in parallel with a resistance RS as shown in Fig . 34 (a).\nIn this case, overall current gain AIS is defined as\nAIS = IL / IS\n= – IC / IS\n= – IC / IB * IB / IS (IB = IS* RS / RS + ZI)\n= AI * RS / RS + ZI\nRS — OO, AIS –AI\nTo analyze multistage amplifier, the h-parameters of the transistor used are obtained from manufacture data sheet. the manufacture data sheet usually provides h-parameters in CE configuration. these parameters may be converted into CC and CB values. for example, fig. 34(b) hre in terme of CE parameter can be obtained as follows:\nFor CE transistor configuration,\nVBE + hieIB + hreVCE\nIC = hfeIB + hoe VCE\nThe circuit can be redrawn like CC transistor configuration as shown in fig 35.\nVBE = hie IB + hRE VEC\nIC = hFE IB + hOE VEC\nhrc = VBE / VEC / IB = 0\n= VBE + VEC/ VEC / IE = 0\n= (VBE / VEC + 1 ) / IB = 0\nSince , IB = 0, VBE = HRE, VC = – hREVEC\nhrc = 1 + (hreVEC / VEC)\n= 1 – hre\nSimilarly, hfe = IE / IB / VEC = 0 = – (IB + IC) / IB / VEC = 0\n= – ( 1 + hfe)\nhie = 2k, hfe = 50, hre = 6*10-4, hoc = 25 mA/V\nhic = 2k, hfe = -51, hre = 1, hre = 25 mA/V\nThe small signal model of the transistor amplifier is shown in figure below.\nSol. In the circuit, the collector resistance of first stage is shunted by the input impedance of last stage. therefore, the analysis is started with last stage. it is convenient to first compute current gain, input impedance and voltage gain. then, output impedance is calculated starting from first stage and moving towards end.\nAi2 = -hfe / 1 + hoc ZL = 51 / 1 + 25*10-6 * 5 * 103\nRi2 = hic + hreAi2ZL\n= 2 * 103 + 1 * 45.3 *5 *103\n= 228.5 K (high input impedance)\nAV2 = VO / V2 = AIZL / ZI2\n= 45.3 * 5 / 228.5 = 0.99 = 1\nRL1 = RC1||RI2\n= 5 * 228.5 / 5 + 228.5 = 4.9K\nAI1 = – hfe / 1 + hoeRL = -50 / 1+25*10-6*4.9*103 = 44.5\nRI1 = hie + hreAI1RL1\n= 2-6*10-4*44.5*4.9 = 1.87K\nVoltage gain of first state is\nAV1 = AI1RL1 / RI1 = -44.5*4.9/1.87 =-116.6\nYo1 = hoe – hfehre / hie + RS\n= 25*10-6 – 50*6*10-4/2*103+1*103\n= 15*10-6 mho\nRo1 = 1/ yo1 =66.7k\nR’O1 = RO1||RC1\nThe effective source resistance R’S2 For the second stage is R01||RC1. Thus, RS2 = R’01 = 4.65 K\nYo2 = hoe – hfehrc / hic + Rs2\n=25*10-8 – (-51) (1) /2*103 + 4.65*103\n= 7.70*10-3 A/V\nRo2 = 1/y02 = 130\nRo2 = Ro2||RC2\n= 0.13||5K =127\nOverall current gain of the amplifier is Ai and is given by\nAi = – IE2 / Ib1\n= – Ie2 / Ib2 * Ib2 / Ie1 * IC1 / IB1\n= – AI2 . IB2/IC1 * AI1\nThe equivalent circuit of the amplifier is showe in fig. 3. from the circuit, it clear that current ic1 is divided into two parts.\nTherefore, IB2 / IC1 = -RC1 / RC1 + RI2\nAI = AI2 . AI1 . RC1 / RC1 + RI2\n= 45. 3* (-44.5) * 5 / 228.5 + 5 = – 43.2\nAV = VO / V1 = VO / V2 * V2 / V1\n= AV2 . AV1\n= 0.99*(-11.6) = 115\nOverall voltage gain of the amplifier is given by\nAVS = – VO / VS = AV . RI1 / RI1 + RS\n= – 115* 1.87 / 1.87 +1 = – 75.3", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Faculty Meeting Review: What is a Text- Dependent Question?\nA text-dependent question asks a question that can only be answered by referring explicitly back to the text.\nIt does not rely on background information or depend on students having other experiences or knowledge.\nText-dependent questions are a tool to deeper understanding and analysis from close reading of the texts.\nMore information at Achieve the Core , including this TDQ Powerpoint\nGame: HOW WELL DO YOU UNDERSTAND TEXT DEPENDENT QUESTIONS?\nClick the image to go to\nEnter the game pin you see on the smartboard once the presenter launches the game.\nKahoot Game Presenter: go to this link and click launch. https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/60f91bf9-716d-4acf-b8c3-65c15b21504e\nWeb Tools and games that adjust to student's Level of Learning\n\"Automated personalization\" sounds like an oxymoron but when you use blended learning tools programs you remediate and enrich students without writing separate lesson plans.\nIt gives students a supported challenge and sometimes a choice as well and makes personalization easy if you are trying to implement it on your own.\nthe CMS Student Portal is one stop shopping for tech sites that will help your students.\n(If you don't know what all those tools are click here for definitions http://www.cmslearns.org/student-portal )\nCMS logins and directions for Dreambox and Compass Learning - note student password changes\nif you are looking for a game or tool for a specific topic or objective (like this for DNA or this for multiple topics ) I will be happy to help you find one to suit your goals.\nMore Tech Tools:Digital Classroom Resources http://www.cmslearns.org/digitalclassroom/\nGAFE (Google Apps For Education) Google Docs, Google Classroom etc.\nFree Office 365 for CMS students and staff - up to 5 computers per login\nSites for Students to Save Your Sanity http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/lesson-ideas/sites-for-your-students\nA Primer on Blendspace http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/lesson-ideas/blendspace-bailey-style\nReal Teachers Talk Tech Tools http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/news-and-thoughts/1\nWe're 1:1 now what http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/piedmont-pd/11-now-what\nChromebook Rollout and Tools http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/piedmont-pd/11-chromebook-rollout\nincludes the student a-z and teacher a-z guides.\nSign up now -- You may already have completed most of the 8 steps needed to earn this new designation from NCDPI!\n*What is a Global Ready Capstone Project?\n\" The Capstone Project must demonstrate the educator’s ability to embed opportunities for students to frame, analyze, communicate, and respond to issues of global significance through instructional practices that meet the content standards and foster students’ global awareness....The Capstone Project will include evidence that the teacher’s practice leads to increased student competence in this area. \"\nFrom The NC State Board of Ed Policy Revision ID Number: TCP-H-001\nThis blog is a compendium of District and Piedmont -specific PD opportunities, trainings, and notes.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "A little more than just squares on paper, the printable blank calendars may be used for teaching, organizing, and creative purposes.\nBlank Calendar Descriptions\nDonna's Blank \"Undated\" Dated Calendar\nA useful teaching calendar and an art project wrapped up in 12 monthly pages. While the numbers are missing from the months, this calendar is most certainly dated.\nLandscape - Monthly Blank Calendars that print in landscape orientation\nPortrait - Monthly Blank Calendars that print in portrait orientation\nYear - One year on one page.\nEvents - Record events such as appointments and so forth.\nI used blank calendars to teach my children how calendars work, how many days each month has, the days of week, and so forth. I always used the blank-top calendar. My children drew a picture at the top of each monthly calendar that they made. The picture that they drew was related to the month in some way. For instance, a winter month might have a snow scene and the summer months might feature outdoor activities such as a picnic.\nTeaching Days and Months\nSuggestions about how to teach a child the days of the week and the concept of today, yesterday, and tomorrow.\nTeaching How Many Days for Each of the Months\nHelp your child remember how many days are in each month.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License\n- n. emission of radiance in all directions\nfrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English\n- n. Emission of radiance.\nfrom The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia\n- n. Emission of rays or beams, as of light; emission by or as if by rays; radiation.\nSorry, no etymologies found.\nThe Women's Parliament will among others deliberate on the role of social movements and regional women's organisations in the eradiation of poverty and economic empowerment of women.\nTherefore, the basic economic tasks of the NDR must remain the same - the eradiation of the socio-economic legacy of apartheid, the creation of employment and the defeat of poverty.\nWe decided to put eradiation to an admittedly unscientific taste test at Sterigenics International.\nGUPTA: We'd heard from Food Safety Scientist that eradiation damages the taste and texture of the produce.\nThere is one process that kills bacteria without cooking -- eradiation.\nHimself by the manifestation of Himself, as the sun binds all the planets to his mass and his flame by the eradiation of his own mystic energies.\nChrist is the revelation of God as being the 'eradiation of His glory, and the express image of His person.'\nTherefore, because Jesus Christ has come, our Brother, 'bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh,' made like unto us, and in our likeness presenting to us the very image of God and eradiation of\nSo that long before there were eyes to see, there was the eradiation and outshining of the Father's glory.\nIsaiah, or a Paul, and in them recognise the eradiation of the divinity that imparted itself through them, but the medium was forgotten in proportion as that which it revealed was beheld.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "“I remember a child who had a battery in his pocket, which he assumed was heavier than everything else,” says early years mathematics expert Dr Sue Gifford.\n“So when you put it in a weighing scales with a big stone, and the big stone went down and his battery was up, he would maintain that higher was heavier, because his battery was always heavier than anything else.\nSo you had to give him something that he really acknowledged was heavier than his battery, in order for him to change his idea and realise that actually the lower balance scale was the heavier one.”\nShe chuckles at the memory.\nIn the latest Tes Mathematips podcast we discuss the idea of cognitive conflict and of restructuring: confronting, reconsidering and changing ideas in the light of new information or contradiction – something that seems particularly pertinent in today’s post-truth, digital-bubble-of-entrenchment era.\n“Often people think of maths as being right and wrong,” she continues, “but really we have to say with maths ‘It’s OK to change your mind, that’s what you do’”.\nBut how can we encourage pupils to do that without being tied to their original thoughts?\nStory contexts, says Sue, as well as characters, and making deliberate mistakes. In other words, do it in a playful way.\nQuick read: 5 ways to be a more responsive teacher\nQuick listen: How to give your pupils a deeper understanding of maths\nWant to know more? Should Minority Report technology be used in schools?\n“You put the child in the power position, for example to sort out the muddle that the teddy is in,” she says.\n“They know it’s a playful scenario; even if teddy is right and they are wrong, they’re not losing face.”\nSue was until recently principal lecturer in mathematics education at the University of Roehampton, chair of BSRLM and early years adviser for both NCETM and NRICH.\n“Explaining doesn’t always get people to change their mind,” she says. “Sometimes you have to show them.”\nShe makes the case for manipulatives and multiple representations – for example, most children (and adults!) think long, tall containers can hold more than short, fat ones. (And that’s why, she says, we are still sold bottles of wine and perfume in long tall containers).\nYou can tell them until you’re blue in the face – but if you let them play and discuss ideas, they will understand it in a much more powerful way.\nConflict, not argument\nHow can we engender conflict, I ask, without it turning into an argument? You need ground rules of respecting everyone’s opinion, she says, and strategies of ‘assigning competence’ – saying to pupils ‘I understand why you might think that’ or ‘that’s a reasonable thing to say’, even if it isn’t right.\nRestructuring is not just slightly changing one’s world view or preconception to fit a new experience in (this is accommodation)– but actually turning it on its head, having to significantly rethink somehow. Why is it important in the maths classroom at any age? Depth, says Sue.\nIt’s an active and creative process, something that implies deep thought and engenders connections and fluency.\n“If you’ve got very limited connections then you can’t apply them to a range of contexts, you can’t make lots of connections and you haven’t got fluency. It’s about deepening understanding.”\nPredicting and considering how you will respond to these student misconceptions is a key part of good maths teaching, she says.\n“You move from being delighted when they get it right to more excited when they show a misconception – it becomes an interesting challenge, an opportunity for restructuring.”\nListen to the episode for all this plus arrays, number jokes, mathematical free writing, Sue’s ideas about carnival maths, the need for empathy in maths teaching and mysterious little characters going camping.\n1. Jean Piaget\n2. Cognitive conflict\n3. Japanese lesson study\n4. Madeline Goutard\n6. The NCETM early years resources\n1. Sue’s 2004 paper ‘A new mathematics pedagogy for the early years: in search of principles for practice’\n2. Malcolm Swan’s work on cognitive conflict in mathematics\n3. Embedded schemas", "label": "No"}
{"text": "When looking to buy undeveloped land, it is critical to research the local zoning laws. Zoning laws dictate how land can be used, and can have a significant impact on the value of the property.\nThere are four main types of zoning: residential, commercial, agricultural, and industrial. Residential zoning is the most common, and typically allows for single-family homes, duplexes, and small apartment buildings. Commercial zoning allows for businesses such as office buildings, retail stores, and restaurants. Industrial zoning is for factories, warehouses, and other heavy industry.\nResidential zoning is a type of zoning that regulates the use of land for residential purposes. In most cases, local governments will allow single-family homes, duplexes, and other types of residences to be built on these types of properties. However, there may be restrictions on the types of businesses that can operate out of a home, and on the types of activities that can take place on the property. For property owners, residential zoning can have a significant impact on the value of their property. Properties that are zoned for residential use are typically worth more than those that are not zoned for residential use. This is because the demand for residential land is higher than the demand for other types of land. Local governments can also dictate the types of improvements that can be made to a property, which can further impact the value of the property.\nCommercial zoning is a type of zoning that is applied to land that is used for business or other commercial purposes. This type of zoning is usually applied to land that is located in or near residential areas. Commercial zoning is designed to protect residents from the noise, pollution, and traffic that can be associated with businesses. There are several benefits of commercial zoning. One benefit is that it can help to create a buffer between residential and commercial areas. This can help to reduce the amount of noise and traffic that residents have to deal with. Another benefit is that commercial zoning can help to protect the value of residential property. This is because businesses are often willing to pay more for land that is zoned for commercial use.\nAgricultural zoning is a tool used by governments to control land use and protect agricultural resources. By creating agricultural zoning districts, governments can ensure that development does not negatively impact agriculture and that agricultural land is used for its intended purpose. Agricultural zoning can also help to preserve open space and promote agricultural tourism. There are many benefits to agricultural zoning, but it is not without its critics. Some argue that agricultural zoning is a form of government control that unfairly restricts property rights. Others argue that agricultural zoning does not do enough to protect agricultural resources and that it can actually lead to the decline of agriculture.\nIndustrial zoning can be used to separate different types of businesses, such as manufacturing, storage, and distribution. This type of zoning can also be used to separate different types of industries, such as mining, construction, and agriculture. Industrial zoning can also be used to separate different types of commercial activities, such as retail, office, and hotel.\nZoning laws also dictate the minimum lot size, maximum building height, and Setbacks – the minimum distance that a structure must be from the property lines. These regulations vary from town to town, so it is important to consult with the local zoning board before buying land.\nWhen buying undeveloped land, it is important to research the local zoning laws to ensure that the property can be used for the desired purpose. Zoning laws dictate how land can be used, and can have a significant impact on the value of the property.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Make Your Carbs Count\nThe most popular comfort foods seem to contain lots of carbohydrate and fat (think macaroni and cheese) leaving one to wonder how to include them into a diabetes meal plan. You can include starchy foods, but make it count.\nWhat do we mean?\nWhen you reach for comfort foods, make your carbohydrate servings count by selecting the most nutrient dense choices and keeping your portions small.\nHere are some tips to get the most from your carb foods:\n- Avoid sugary drinks. This includes regular soda, sweet tea, fruit punch and sports drinks. Instead, drink water or diet drinks like diet soda, sugar-free lemonade.\n- Eat whole fruit instead of drinking juice.\n- Choose sweet potatoes instead of white potatoes.\n- Try whole grain breads and whole wheat pasta instead of white bread and regular pasta.\n- Eat whole grain oatmeal instead of processed cereals.\n- Try brown rice or barley in soups, stews, and salads instead of white rice.\n- Learn more about the different types of carbohydrate.\nHave a favorite white-flour-based recipe like zucchini bread or pancakes? Get creative with your own recipes and try substituting from 1/4 up to 1/2 the white flour with whole wheat flour to make your favorite comfort foods more wholesome. For healthier recipes, go to diabetes.org/recipes.\nTo gauge your portion size :\n- Keep only about 1/4 of your plate for starchy foods including starchy vegetables or grains like rice.\n- Fill half of your plate with non-starchy vegetables.\n- The last quarter is for your protein foods like fish or chicken.\n- To keep portions smaller, keep the food to a depth of about the thickness of your palm.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Nature at the Capitol - The Statue of FreedomPosted on September 24\nBy: AOC Curator Office\nThis is the first in a series of articles, written by the Architect of the Capitol’s Curator Office, about the use of nature in the art and architecture of the U.S. Capitol.\nThe architecture of ancient Greece and Rome that inspired the United States Capitol’s early architects and builders is noted for the sense of solidity and permanence conveyed through its symmetrical, balanced arrangement of carefully proportioned columns, cornices, vaults, pediments and other elements. A close look at these elements reveals that many are enriched and enlivened by designs based on a very unruly place: the natural world.\nThe Capitol’s Dome, ceilings, columns, walls and floors are decorated with depictions of plant and animal life on cast iron, marble, sandstone, painted murals and ceramic tile. Many of these depictions are based on elements from classical art and architecture; others incorporate distinctively American elements.\nThe Statue of Freedom and its pedestal atop the Capitol Dome provide examples of both the ancient and the contemporary. The robed female figure representing the concept of freedom holds in her left hand a wreath composed of laurel leaves, and laurel wreaths also ring the base of the statue’s pedestal, one beneath each of the 12 fasces (bundles of rods symbolizing the authority of the written law) that stretch upward to the encircling motto E Pluribus Unum. In classical Greece and Rome, the laurel represented accomplishment or triumph and was often awarded to the victors of games; this symbolism has persisted in Western culture through the ages.\nOn the head of the statue, however, we find a new creation derived from the New World. Sculptor Thomas Crawford had earlier proposed a design for the statue in which the figure wore a liberty cap, the classical emblem of a freed slave. When Secretary of War Jefferson Davis objected to its use, asserting that the American people had never been slaves, Crawford developed a helmet comprised of the head, talons and feathers of an eagle, in reference to the dress of American Indians. Beneath a flowing plume of feathers, the eagle’s head is lifted proudly toward the sky, its eyes fierce and its beak open as if in loud cry. At either side of Freedom’s head hang the bird’s sharp, powerful talons—the most muscular elements of the entire statue. In contrast to the erect but relaxed pose and sheathed sword of Freedom herself, this helmet shows the raw power of a majestic bird of prey.\nSuch a juxtaposition of seemingly disparate Old World and New World elements is often seen in the art and architecture of the Capitol. In representing the early, classically rooted aspirations and later accomplishments of the American nation, human values and deeds typically take precedence, but both are set within the context of the natural world. The elements of that world, ranging from rainbows to flower petals, from acorns to squirrels, frequently appear in symbolic roles but may also be simply decoration to engage the eye. It is a testament to the building’s artists and architects over a span of two centuries that these uses can coexist, and frequently overlap, so successfully.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "jQuery keypress() Method\nCount the number of key presses in an <input> field:\n$(\"span\").text(i += 1);\nDefinition and Usage\nThe order of events related to the keypress event:\nThe keypress() method triggers the keypress event, or attaches a function to run when a keypress event occurs.\nThe keypress event is similar to the keydown event. The event occurs when a button is pressed down.\nHowever, the keypress event is not fired for all keys (e.g. ALT, CTRL, SHIFT, ESC). Use the keydown() method to also check these keys.\nTrigger the keypress event for the selected elements:\nAttach a function to the keypress event:\n|function||Optional. Specifies the function to run when the keypress event is triggered|", "label": "No"}
{"text": "The Fire Ball Python is a stunning morph with unique genetics that produces interesting combinations when bred with other morphs, such as the Pastel Ball.\nIt is much lighter than a regular ball python, usually a lovely golden-hue with brown, rather than black, coloring. Unlike most morphs, that have an alien head or keyhole pattern, the Fire Ball has bands across its body with only the occasional presence of alien heads.\nHowever, the fire gene varies greatly in appearance. Some may have more gray or unique patterning. Their heads are lighter and with faded color – known as ‘blushing’.\nWhen blended with other morphs, the fire gene adds an incredible color dimension. This causes the colors to become brighter and stand out more.\nThere’s no doubt that this is an amazing morph to add to your collection, whether for breeding purposes or simply as a pet. Check out everything you need to know about the Fire Ball Python Morph below.\nDiscovery of the Fire Ball Python Morph\nThere is some debate surrounding the discovery of the Fire Ball. The gene has been on the market for around 20 years, and much like the Pastel Morph, it has a lot of different bloodlines. It is accepted that the first captive-bred Fire Ball was in 1995.\nThe Sulfur Morph is often under debate as some people think that it is a fire line, and others think it is completely unique.\nFire Ball Python Morph Genetics\nThe Fire Ball is a co-dominant gene that works as a cleaner and enhancer when it blends with other morphs. While it is not a very complex gene, it lightens and brightens the pattern, which can produce some incredible snakes.\nMixing two Fire Balls together produces a completely white snake with black eyes, known as a Super Fire Ball or Black-Eyed Leucistic. This is almost identical to the unique Blue-Eyed Leucistic Morph, except that it has black eyes and red pupils.\nTwo popular combinations are a Fire and Pastel, creating a Firefly, and a Firebee produced with a Pastel and Spider.\nYou really cannot go wrong with adding a bit of fire to the mix. It is such a versatile gene that is a lot of fun to play around with and most breeders love experimenting with this morph.\nFire Ball Python Morph Health and Longevity\nThe fantastic thing about Fire Ball Morphs is that they do not suffer from the common genetic issues that plague other morphs. There are no instances of ‘kinking’ or ‘wobbles’ found in these morphs.\nThis is not only great for you, as your python morph is guaranteed a healthy life, and you are guaranteed a high-quality snake. It is also great for breeding as it is a healthy morph whose offspring will not inherit any genetic problems.\nAs for their life span, much like all ball pythons, they live up to an average of at least 30 years in captivity. If you take good care of them and keep their living space clean, you and your Fire Ball will enjoy a long life together.\nHow Much Do Fire Ball Pythons Cost?\nOne of the best parts of this awesome morph is its inexpensive price. A Fire Ball costs between $100 to $150 depending on where you buy it from and the specifics of the snake.\nA female adult snake will cost you more than a male hatchling, for example. It’s especially advised for new snake owners to spend the extra bucks to get a young adult. This way you don’t have to worry about hatchling care and you can choose the patterning and color variations straight off the bat.\nRemember, Fire Ball Pythons get lighter with age, so keep that in mind when purchasing yours.\nEven the fire mutations are inexpensive. You can pick up epic designer morphs, such as the Fire Vanilla Yellow Belly, or the Firefly for less than $200.\nHowever, if it’s a Super Fire that you’re after, that will be a tad pricier at $400.\nWhere to Buy Fire Ball Python Morphs\nWhile Fire Ball’s are inexpensive and relatively common, finding a basic Fire Ball Morph for sale isn’t too easy. However, if you look online, you’ll find tons of designer morphs produced from the fire gene.\nHeading over to a breeder or a snake show is a good way to find a high-quality Fire Ball. Of course, you may have a hooked up pet store nearby, but you never know where the snakes come from.\nAlternatively, there are tons of online sites such as CB Reptile and Morph Market which sell thousands of ball python morphs.\nCB Reptile is an especially great site for finding snakes from reputable, breeders who only breed and sell captive-bred pythons. This is a good way to ensure that when purchasing your snake, you’re not indirectly supporting the illegal wildlife trade of pythons.\nFire Ball Python Pictures\nCheck out these incredible Fire Ball pictures. You can see the bright yellow coloring and the banded patterning. Notice the varying colors and pigmentations of each Fire Ball in these pictures.\nSome are pale with reduced patterns, while others are bright with distinguished coffee-brown bands. There is no doubt that this is one beautiful looking morph.\nOther Ball Pythons Morphs\nAre you interested in learning about some other morphs? Look below to see some popular breeds as well as morphs that blend incredibly well with the Fire Ball, such as the Pastel and Banana Ball Pythons.\nGetting Your Own Fire Ball Python\nIf you’re trying your hand at breeding and producing ball python morphs, you are sure to be excited about the awesome potential of the fire gene. The beautiful enhancing and brightening factor which it brings to each mutation is an extremely desirable trait.\nAnd if you’re just a python enthusiast and snake lover, you’re no doubt excited about adding this gorgeous morph to your collection. As an inexpensive, yet stunning, basic morph, you can’t go wrong heading out and getting one of your own!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Oxen, cows work way into the language\nMy sources inform me that Old Macdonald had a farm, and on this farm he had a cow, a pig, a sheep and a goat.\nApparently he also had a horse, a chicken, a duck and a goose, but I've already written about those.\nYes, it's time for more words and expressions drawn from the fertile field of animal husbandry (no, that isn't about bestiality).\nLet's start with the bovine family. To refer to people as \"bovine\" is to suggest they have oxlike qualities, like being \"slow, dull, stupid, stolid.\"\nThe value of oxen is in their strength, so to call someone \"as strong as an ox\" is a compliment. However, to call a person \"a dumb ox\" is probably redundant as well as unkind.\nOther oxen contributions to our language include \"oxblood,\" a deep red; \"oxbow,\" the distinctive shape of part of a yoke applied to a similar bend in a river or the land within the bend; \"oxeye\" for daisies and other flowering plants; and \"oxford,\" a type of shoe or fabric.\nThe origin of \"Oxford,\" as in the town, the school and the Oxford English Dictionary, the ultimate authority on word origins, is, quite simply, \"a place where oxen forded the river.\"\nThe mature female of the cattle crowd is called a \"cow.\" To \"have a cow,\" a slang expression popularized by animated TV character Bart Simpson, means \"to become very agitated or angry.\"\nFor the most part, cows are docile creatures content to stay in one place, which is why it's probably going to be a long wait \"till the cows come home.\"\nHowever, the verb \"to cow,\" meaning \"to intimidate,\" is actually akin to the word \"cower.\" And \"coward\" is from the Latin root for \"tail,\" and comes to us from Middle English and Old French, where it meant, literally, \"with tail between the legs.\"\nBut the importance of the cow in U.S. westward expansion is reflected in a herd of terms like \"cowboy,\" \"cowgirl,\" \"cowman,\" \"cowhand,\" \"cowpoke,\" \"cowpuncher\" and \"cow town.\"\nThat last one can be used informally for any town \"regarded as being dull, unsophisticated, etc.\" In a similar vein, a \"cow college\" is not only an agricultural school but also can be any small, little-known college in a rural area.\nWe also have the \"cowbird,\" so named because it was often seen near cattle; plants like \"cowslips,\" \"cow parsley,\" \"cow parsnips\" and \"cowpeas\"; and \"cowlick,\" that unruly batch of hair whose name comes from the idea that it \"looks as if it had been licked by a cow.\"\nFrom cows we get milk, and from the process of obtaining it we get the verb \"to milk,\" meaning to draw out or exploit, as in \"milk it for all it's worth.\"\nWe also have \"milk run,\" a slang term for \"a routine mission that is not expected to be dangerous\"; \"milksop,\" for \"a man seen as timid, ineffectual, effeminate, etc.\"; and the sound advice not to \"cry over spilt milk.\"\nAnd let's not forget our galactic neighborhood, the \"Milky Way.\"\nI'm running out of space, so I'll leave the male side of the cattle barn for next week, and that's no bull.\nBarry Wood is a senior copy editor for the Register Star. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.org or write to Wood on Words, Rockford Register Star, 99 E. State St., Rockford, IL 61104.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Jeffrey Brooks, Thank You, Comrade Stalin!: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War & David Hoffmann, Stalinist Values: the Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941\n‘Thank You, Comrade Stalin!’ by Jeffrey Brooks is written with the intention of explaining the functions of Joseph Stalin’s personality cult. The book covers power dynamics in the Soviet Union from 1917 to his in death 1953, and the implementation of de-Stalinisation. Brooks’s major argument is that because of the states monopolisation of information, the Soviet Union was able to carefully construct a unique cultural understanding for their citizens, which emphasised Stalin as the provider of great economic and social prosperity. Social and economic “gifts” from Stalin were used to justify an obligation on Soviet citizens to work hard, contribute and conform. However, Brooks adds that this constructed cultural understanding for citizens ultimately led to the demise of the Soviet Union.\nBrooks was able to construct his argument with a quantitative approach to his research, using of a range of primary resources. Jeffrey Brooks continuously refers to contemporary readings of the press, sampled newspapers and propaganda posters, mainly from the newspaper Pravda. Brooks’s quantitative approach allowed him to discover a number of reoccurring themes in Soviet literature, which became essential to his argument. These themes included an emphasis on metaphors such as “the path”, “the line”, and “the gift” in media outlets.1 The bulk of Jeffery Brooks’s book focuses on the utilisation of “Socialist building”. According to Brooks, Socialist Building was an initiative by Stalin, which drastically changed the political system by limiting public discussion and replacing the previous societal understanding of authority.\nDavid Hoffman’s book ‘Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941’ is a worthy contribution to “The Great Retreat” debate stimulated by Nicholas Timasheff. Timasheff argues that in 1934 the offensive broke down, and the Soviet state began to withdraw from its commitment to the socialist ideology.2 Hoffman disagrees, and declares that at no point did Stalin articulate a retreat from socialism. He adds that Stalinism meant a continuation of a commitment to social transformation, and the creation of the New Soviet Person. Hoffman contends that this was a sharp contrast with traditional Tsarist culture.\nThe most convincing aspect of Hoffman’s argument lies in his view that many of the Stalinist policies that have been accused as a retreat of socialism can instead be understood as pragmatic solutions to political, social and economic dilemmas in the Soviet Union. Hoffman uses Soviet patriotic and nationalistic propaganda as an example, deeming it merely as a means of mobilising society in the defence of the socialist state in a time of international uncertainty. According to Hoffman, Soviet consumerism was distinct to Western Liberalism because it maintained an emphasis on collectivist ideals, whilst providing incentives for hard work. 3\nHoffman also addresses the supposed ‘retreat’ to a patriarchal view of the household in the Stalinist era. Hoffman instead explains it as a measure to deal with low birth rates rather than a withdrawal from the socialist ideology. These changes in social policy should instead be understood as pragmatic measures used to maintain the Socialist state in a time of great political stress.\nHoffman acknowledges the use of traditional symbols, institutions and appeals by Stalin and the political elite. However, he adds that these were used merely for mass mobilisation\npurposes as a means of strengthening the new order.4 Hoffman summarises Stalinism as a consolidation of Socialism, rather than a retreat from it.5 According to Hoffman, the Soviet Union remained fundamentally Socialist throughout the period referred to as “The Great Retreat”. The planned economy remained, state ownership of the means of production continued, and the Party’s vanguard role in leading the country towards communism was sustained under the rule of Stalin.6\nBrooks’s understanding of the functions of Stalin’s cult of personality helps to develop Hoffman’s argument against the idea of a “great retreat”. Hoffman stresses that although some of Stalin’s policies had not derived from a socialist ideology, the states infrastructure remained fundamentally socialist under Stalin, and thus no retreat was undertaken.\nHoffman writes that “Presenting Stalin as the personification of the Soviet system provided a tangible symbol to which individuals could attach their loyalty. The cult provided a human face that appeared to care about people’s welfare”.7 Hoffman is suggesting that Stalin’s cult of personality was a powerful tool in restructuring society’s understanding of power dynamics in the Soviet Union. ‘Thank You, Comrade Stalin!’ develops Hoffman’s argument of a Socialist continuation under Stalin, because it offers a tangible explanation for the use of an authoritarian cult of personality in a socialist society.\nBrooks offers a useful explanation into the purposes of the Cult of Stalin. He begins, by explaining Socialist realism as a state led initiative to promote the idea that life ought to be portrayed how it should be, and not necessarily as it was.8 Socialist realism is a key aspect of Brooks’s argument, because it manipulated society into appreciating the utopian aspect of the Soviet Union, and ultimately led people to believe that life was better than it was. The economic and social prosperity that was portrayed in propaganda was heavily attributed to\nStalin. Stalin was responsible for the provision of all social benefits and all that was good in Soviet life according to media outlets. This understanding of Stalin’s personality cult is useful to Hoffman, because it stresses the mere purposes of mobilisation, and not a withdrawal from the socialist ideology.\nBrooks continues to raise another important theme, which advances Hoffman’s claim.\nBrooks explains the relevance of Stalin as provider of “the gift”. Brooks introduces his conception of a “moral economy”9 which deeply resided in Soviet culture during Stalin’s time of influence. The demand for society to acknowledge Stalin’s unprecedented influence in the production of social and economic prosperity was met with an expectation for citizens to repay this favour through hard work and conformity. Hoffman would argue that this constructed power dynamic was a means of enhancing the socialist state by use of traditional ideals and understandings of power.\nJeffrey Brooks states that although Stalin acknowledges the contradictions of an authoritarian personality cult in a socialist society, he used it to promote a very unique and precise understanding of state legitimacy and authority. This new understanding of power was used to shape a unified national agenda, with a new understanding of Soviet society, and national identity.10 The legitimacy of orders from institutions replaced the need for rational explanations of behaviour or orders from the state. 11 Brooks makes this point, because this rhetoric remained central in legitimising Stalin’s authoritarian style to governance. Hoffman would argue that this constructed understanding of state legitimacy was used to strengthen the socialist infrastructure in the Soviet Union.\nBrooks and Hoffman however fail to explain what the utilisation of prerevolutionary ideals offered to Stalin that previous Bolshevik discourses on power did not. Jan Plamper offers an explanation into why Stalin’s cult of personality was so effective in seizing the public’s\nimagination. She argues that since Russia’s Christianization (988), the Russian sovereign was both head of the Russian Orthodox Church and the head of the state12. Thus historically, Russia was used to being centered on a single person, and a retreat to this conventional understanding of authority was greatly advantageous for Stalin.\nAnother question that Brooks and Hoffman fail to address is the extent to which the Soviet population bought into and supported the reconstructed Soviet culture. Hoffman briefly mentions that some members of the military, party and Stakhanovite workers held a genuine reverence for Stalin. Hoffman also highlights that many also privately criticised Stalin and the cult. He adds, “much of the population viewed Stalin and other leaders as oppressors rather than benefactors.”13 However this point remains underdeveloped. Perhaps Brook and Hoffman’s arguments may have been more convincing if their research had comprised of a greater level of qualitative methods such as readings from private letters, diaries and other personal documents.\nOne text that does this well is Nora Dudwick’s “When Things Fall Apart”. Dudwick offers an analysis of poverty in the Soviet Union through a number of first hand interviews and readings of personal contemporary texts, and proves that qualitative research can offer a useful insight.14 Both Brooks and Hoffman’s arguments could benefit from implementing some of these research methods, in order to give a more humanist understanding of the period covered.\nBrooks concludes that Stalin was able to implement a unique cultural understanding for the Soviet Union. However, he contends that it was ultimately counter productive and led to the dismissal of the state. Brooks accuses Stalinist Soviet culture of having left little room for critical commentary, which would have allowed the state to recognise its own weaknesses,\nand thus adapt. Brooks adds that the monopoly of information also contributed to the decimation of the state because it gave little room for an exchange of informal information on an international level, which was necessary for scientific and economic development.15\nThis conception complies with Hoffman’s understanding on the demise of the Soviet Union. Hoffman claims that state led attempts to change people’s lifestyles and values through coercion and violence ultimately led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He continues to say “social change must be gradual and consensual, as violence only achieves superficial change and failed to change the way people thought.”16 Brooks and Hoffman agree that the authoritarian nature of the Soviet Union greatly hampered it from flourishing and achieving the social harmony that it set out to accomplish.\nBrooks and Hoffman offer insightful conclusions, however neither authors offer an explanation into the nature of Stalin’s terror nor the extent of coercive measures conducted by the state. Although neither book intend to narrate the coercive measures of the Soviet Union, some general background would be useful for some readers. Readers without a pre-existing understanding of the level of oppression conducted by the Stalinist state may find their arguments unconvincing.\nBoth ‘Thank You, Comrade Stalin’ and Hoffman’s ‘Stalinist Values’ have provided a great contribution in the study of the Soviet Union, and its attempts to create a unique, stringent and powerful cultural understanding of state authority. However, because both texts deal with such a wide scope of study, they can at times allocate too much emphasis on the collective at the expense of personal experience, which can provide relevant and useful insights. An adoption of a balanced approach to the use of qualitative and quantitative research methods may have benefited both arguments.\nAlthough both texts require development in some areas, they provide a number of conclusions that are difficult to scrutinise. In particular, Jeffrey Brooks’s convincing claim that Stalin was able to use traditional and popular understanding of power to enhance the hyper-centralisation of the state and create a new cultural understanding the Soviet Union. David Hoffman offers an engaging contribution to the Great Retreat debate, and presents many plausible reasons to support the notion that the Soviet Union remained fundamentally socialist throughout its existence.\nBrooks, Jeffrey. Thank You, Comrade Stalin!: Soviet Public Culture From Revolution To Cold War, (Princeton University Press: New Jersey, 2000).\nDudwick, Nora. When Things Fall Apart: Qualitative Studies of Poverty in the Former Soviet Union, (World Bank Publications: Washington, 2002).\nHoffman. L. David, Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity 1917-1941, (Cornell University Press: New York, 2003).\nPlamper, Jan. The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power, (Yale University Press: Connecticut,1970).\nTimasheff, Nicholas. The Great Retreat: The Growth and Decline of Communism in Russia, (Ayer Co Publishers: New York, 1972).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sustainable Spacefaring: Exploration of scrap metal powder metallurgy on the lunar surface\nThe increasing threat of orbital debris to the future of a safe space environment necessitates immediate action to develop sustainable end-of-life methodologies in the initial design phases. Currently, orbital spacecraft are designed-for-demise, reentering Earth’s atmosphere. This not only poses a major threat to both ground and space safety, but also leads to both an economical and environmental discussion of the sustainability of spaceflight. A circular economy in space seeks to establish reuse and recycle practices to enhance safety, save costs, and reduce the dependence on Earth resources. This thesis assesses the opportunities and limitations of upcycling scrap metal from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) as Additive Manufacturing (AM) feedstock for the lunar surface with the goal of exploring the lunar architectural surface needs for a powder metallurgy processing facility and recommend areas of improvement for the design of future spacecraft to ease the proposed recycling process. While metals can be extracted from the lunar surface, the operation of excavation, separation, processing, and extraction are energy intensive, and the actual quality of the final metal product is unknown at this time. Further, once a metal product has been manufactured on the moon, there are no recycling processes put it place after use. The development of a metal recycling system on the lunar surface is not intended to replace In-situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) initiatives, but rather, is meant to close the loop on a circular economy in space for metals. Upper stage rocket bodies are identified as one of the most dangerous debris in orbit, mostly because of the potential for residual fuel to explode. Given the mass, frequency of use, relative simplicity of design and structure compared with the intricacies of satellites, and material composition, upper stage rocket bodies are the targeted scrap metal source for this thesis. The supporting architectures include a space tug with lunar landing capabilities, a robotic crane with friction milling capabilities, and a mobile metal powder processing facility.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Inner thoughts are the thoughts and feelings that we experience within ourselves. They are the private and often unspoken dialogues that we have in our heads. These thoughts can significantly impact our mood, behaviour, and overall well-being.\nInner thoughts can be positive, negative, or neutral. Positive inner thoughts include things like affirmations, gratitude, and encouragement. Negative inner thoughts can consist of self-criticism, worry, and self-doubt. Then, neutral inner thoughts include observations or reflections on our experiences without a positive or negative judgment.\nNot all inner thoughts are negative, but a lot of them are, which can be destructive. So, paying attention to our inner thoughts is important because they can affect our emotions and actions. For example, negative inner thoughts can lead to feelings of anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem, while positive inner thoughts can boost our confidence and improve our mood.\nSo, how can I turn my negative thoughts into positive ones?\nTo cultivate positive inner thoughts, it can be helpful to practice mindfulness and self-compassion. Mindfulness involves paying attention to our thoughts and emotions without judgment, while self-compassion involves treating ourselves with kindness and understanding like we would a close friend. By practising mindfulness and self-compassion, we can become more aware of our inner thoughts and learn to shift them towards positivity and self-care.\nTurning negative thoughts into positive thoughts can be a helpful way to improve your mood and outlook on life. Here are some tips that may help:\n- Identify your negative thoughts: Take a moment to recognize what negative thoughts are going through your mind. Then, write them down if that helps you to see them more clearly.\n- Challenge your negative thoughts: Once you’ve identified them, challenge them. Ask yourself if they are really true or if there is another way to look at the situation. For example, if you think, “I’ll never be good enough,” challenge that thought by asking yourself, “Is that really true? What evidence do I have to support that thought?”\n- Reframe your negative thoughts: Once you’ve challenged your negative thoughts, reframe them in a more positive way. For example, instead of thinking, “I’m not good enough,” reframe it as “I’m capable of improving and growing.”\n- Stop using guilt trigger words like ‘I should’ or ‘I have to’ as they add unneeded pressure on yourself. For example, instead of saying, ‘I should do some exercise today’, replace this with, ‘I will try to do some exercise today’. Or, rather than ‘I have to go to work’, replace this with ‘I get to go to work’.\n- Practice gratitude: Focus on what you are thankful for in your life. This can help to shift your focus away from negative thoughts.\n- Surround yourself with positivity: Spend time with positive people, engage in activities that bring you joy, and listen to music or podcasts that uplift you.\n- Reach out to those around you – sharing is caring! Telling someone about your negative thoughts can help you to feel like a weight is lifted. They can help you to work through your issues and give you a different perspective.\nRemember, turning negative thoughts into positive ones takes time and practice. So, be patient with yourself and keep working on it.\nTo find out more on this topic…\nListen to our ‘I is for Inner Thoughts’ podcast episode!\nFollow us on social media!", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Sumerian Inventory, Butler’s Odyssey Translation, The Abauntz Map\n(Note: I’ve come to believe that there are four socio-cultural interfaces: Lists, Stories, Maps, and Games. At some point in the future, I’ll update this post to reflect this)\nLists, stories, and maps are ways humans have invented to portray and interact with information. They exist on a continuum from order through complexity to exploration.\nWhy these three forms? In some thoughts on alignment in belief space, I discussed how populations exhibiting collective intelligence are driven to a normal distribution with complex, flocking behavior in the middle, bounded on one side by excessive social conformity, and a nomadic diaspora of explorers on the other. I think stories, lists, and maps align with these populations. Further, I believe that these forms emerged to meet the needs of these populations, as constrained by human sensing and processing capabilities.\nLists are instruments of order. They exist in many forms, including inventories, search engine results, network graphs, and games of chance and crossword puzzles. Directions, like a business plan or a set of blueprints, are a form of list. So are most computer programs. Arithmetic, the mathematics of counting, also belongs to this class.\nFor a population that emphasizes conformity and simplified answers, lists are a powerful mechanism we use to simplify things. Though we can recognize easily, recall is more difficult. Psychologically, we do not seem to be naturally suited for creating and memorizing lists. It’s not surprising then that there is considerable evidence that writing was developed initially as a way of listing inventories, transactions, and celestial events.\nIn the case of an inventory, all we have to worry about is to verify that the items on the list are present. If it’s not on the list, it doesn’t matter. Jigsaw puzzles are listlike in that they contain all the information needed to solve them. The fact that they cannot be solved without a pre-existing cultural framework is an indicator of their relationship to the well-ordered, socially aligned side of the spectrum.\nLists transition into stories when games of chance have an opponent. Poker tells a story. Roulette can be a story where the opponent is The House.\nStories convey complexity, framed in a narrative arc that contains a heading and a velocity. Stories can be resemble lists. An Agatha Christie murder mystery is a storified list, where all the information needed to solve the crime (the inventory list), is contained in the story. At the other end of the spectrum, is a scientific paper which uses citations to act as markers into other works. Music, images, movies, diagrams and other forms can also serve as storytelling mediums. Mathematics is not a natural fit here, but iterative computation can be, where the computer becomes the storyteller.\nEmergent Collective behavior requires more complex signals that support the understanding the alignment and velocity of others, so that internal adjustments can be made to stay with the local group so as not to be cast out or lost to the collective. Stories can indicate the level of dynamism supported by the group (wily Odysseus, vs. the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard). They rally people to the cause or serve as warnings. Before writing, stories were told within familiar social frames. Even though the storyteller might be a traveling entertainer, the audience would inevitably come from an existing community. The storyteller then, like improvisational storytellers today, would adjust elements of the story for the audience.\nThis implies a few things: first, audiences only heard stories like this if they really wanted to. Storytellers would avoid bad venues, so closed-off communities would stay decoupled from other communities until something strong enough came along to overwhelm their resistance. Second, high-bandwidth communication would have to be hyperlocal, meaning dynamic collective action could only happen on small scales. Collective action between communities would have to be much slower. Technology, beginning with writing would have profound effects. Evolution would only have at most 200 generations to adapt collective behavior. For such a complicated set of interactions, that doesn’t seem like enough time. More likely we are responding to modern communications with the same mental equipment as our Sumerian ancestors.\nMaps are diagrams that support autonomous trajectories. Though the map itself influences the view through constraints like boundaries and projections, nonetheless an individual can find a starting point, choose a destination, and figure out their own path to that destination. Mathematics that support position and velocity are often deeply intertwined with with maps.\nNomadic, exploratory behavior is not generally complex or emergent. Things need to work, and simple things work best. To survive alone, an individual has to be acutely aware of the surrounding environment, and to be able to react effectively to unforeseen events.\nMaps are uniquely suited to help in these situations because they show relationships that support navigation between elements on the map. These paths can be straight or they may meander. To get to the goal directly may be too far, and a set of paths that incrementally lead to the goal can be constructed. The way may be blocked, requiring the map to be updated and a new route to be found.\nIn other words, maps support autonomous reasoning about a space. There is no story demanding an alignment. There is not a list of routes that must be exclusively selected from. Maps, in short, afford informed, individual response to the environment. These affordances can be seen in the earliest maps. They are small enough to be carried. They show the relationships between topographic and ecological features. They tend practical, utilitarian objects, independent of social considerations.\nThere is, in many religions and philosophies, the concept of “being in the moment” where we become simply aware of what’s going on right now, without all the cognitive framing and context that we normally bring to every experience . This is different from “mindfulness”, where we try to be aware of the cognitive framing and context. To me, this is indicative of how we experience life through the lens of path dependency, which is a sort of a narrative. If this is true, then it explains the power of stories, because it allows us to literally step into another life. This explains phrases like “losing yourself in a story”.\nThis doesn’t happen with lists. It only happens in special cases in diagrams and maps, where you can see yourself in the map. Which is why the phrase “the map is not the territory” is different from “losing yourself in the story”. In the first case, you confuse your virtual and actual environment. In the latter, you confuse your virtual and actual identity. And since that story becomes part of your path through life, the virtual is incorporated into the actual life narrative, particularly if the story is vivid.\nNarratives are an alignment mechanism. Simple stories that collapse information into a already existing beliefs can be confirming and reinforcing across a broad population. Complicated stories that challenge existing beliefs require a change in alignment to incorporate. That’s computationally expensive, and will affect fewer people, all things being equal.\nSensing and processing constraints\nThough I think that the basic group behavior patterns of nomadic, flocking, and stampeding will inevitably emerge within any collective intelligence framework, I do think that the tools that support those behaviors are deeply affected by the capabilities of the individuals in the population.\nPre-literate humans had the five senses, and memory, expressed in movement and language. Research into pre-literate cultures show that song, story and dance were used to encode historical events, location of food sources, convey mythology, and skills between groups and across generations.\nAs the ability to encode information into objects developed, first with pictures, then with notation and most recently with general-purpose alphabets, the need to memorize was off-loaded. Over time, the most efficient technology for each form of behavior developed. Maps to aid navigation, stories to maintain identity and cohesion, and lists for directions and inventories.\nInformation technology has continued to extend sensing and processing capabilities. The printing press led to mass communication and public libraries. I would submit that the increased ability to communicate and coordinate with distant, unknown, but familiar-feeling leaders led to a new type of human behavior, the runaway social influence condition known as totalitarianism. Totalitarianism depends on the individual’s belief in the narrative that the only thing that matters is to support The Leader. This extreme form of alignment allows that one story to dominate rendering any other story inaccessible.\nIn the late 20th century, the primary instrument of totalitarianism was terror. But as our machines have improved and become more responsive and aligned with our desires, I begin to believe that a “soft totalitarianism”, based on constant distracting stimulation and the psychology of dopamine could emerge. Rather than being isolated by fear, we are isolated through endless interactions with our devices, aligning to whatever sells the most clicks. This form of overwhelming social influence may not be as bloody as the regimes of Hitler, Stalin and Mao, but they can have devastating effects of their own.\nAs with my previous post, I’d like to end with what could be the next collective intelligence on the planet. Machines are not even near the level of preliterate cultures. Loosely, they are probably closer to the level of insect collectives, but with vastly greater sensing and processing capabilities. And they are getting smarter – whatever that really means – all the time.\nAssuming that machines do indeed become intelligent and do not become a single entity, they will encounter the internal and external pressures that are inherent in collective intelligence. They will have to balance the blind efficiency of total social influence against the wasteful resilience of nomadic explorers. It seems reasonable that, like our ancestors, they may create tools that help with these different needs. It also seems reasonable that these tools will extend their capabilities in ways that the machines weren’t designed for and create information imbalances that may in turn lead to AI stampedes.\nWe may want to leave them a warning.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Domestic violence is a type of violence which can happen in a family home.\nWhat is Domestic Violence / Abuse?\nDomestic violence is usually violence seen between mum and dad, or some of your siblings.\nThere are four main types of abuse – emotional, physical, sexual and neglect. Abuse is something that can happen on a regular basis in someone’s home.\nIt is very important to stay as safe as possible if domestic violence or abuse is happening.\nIs Domestic Violence okay?\nNo. Domestic Violence is never okay. Everyone has the right to be safe at all times, especially in their home. Hitting someone or calling them names is not a nice thing to do.\nIf you are worried, it is important to speak to a trusted adult in your life. Don’t forget that you can call Childline and speak to someone about your worries on 1800 66 66 66.\nA safety plan is a plan that you can put in place if you feel unsafe in your home, or anywhere else.\nIf you feel like you are in danger, it is best that you find a safe place that you can be. This could be your bedroom, outside in the garden or anywhere that is safe.\nIt is best that you do not get involved in any arguments at home between adults – and it is important to find a trusted adult to tell about what is going on at home. This could be a teacher, a grandparent, or another adult that you trust.\nNever get involved\nIf adults at home are fighting, it is best that you do not get involved. Keep yourself safe and try and keep yourself calm.\nYou could do this by hugging your favourite teddy bear, listening to music or reading a story.\nIt is not your fault\nSupports and Resources\nWhatever age you are, or wherever you are in Ireland, there are supports available to you if you are worried about Domestic Violence or Abuse. Childline is always here for you.\nMembers of the the ISPCC Childline Children’s Advisory Committee have helped to create ‘Shine’ support and information booklets for children and young people of different ages – you can check them out at the links below:", "label": "No"}
{"text": "It is desired to magnify reading material by a factor of 2.5X when a book is placed 8 cm behind a lens. A0 draw a ray diagram and describe the type of image this would be b) what type of lens is needed c) what is the power of the lens in diopters?\nWant an answer?\nNo answer yet. Submit this question to the community.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "If you’re taking your A-Levels this summer, it’s worth looking into revision apps to give you an edge; some of the best apps can involve using a combination of flash cards, mini quizzes, and links to notes and other content related to different courses. Apps can similarly be used as a way of sharing notes and mind maps with friends via social networks, and when used consistently, can help to vary your revision during the busy time in the run up to exams.\n1 – Revision App\nThis simply titled app is one of the most comprehensive you’ll likely find in terms of its content. Available for iPhones and other iOS devices, Revision App can be used for GCSE, university, and A-Level courses, and contains content that ranges from flash cards to quizzes. Indeed, Revision App has over a million flash cards, and can be synced up with Facebook and other social networks; other content includes video clip tutorials for core subjects like English, Science, and Maths, and access to listings for tutors.\n2 – iMindMap\nRepresenting one way to visualise difficult problems, mind mapping can be a good way to mix up your revision if you’re having problems with a topic, and can also be excellent as a way of enhancing revision for dyslexic students through visual aids. The iMindMap app creates interactive versions of these maps, which can be saved and used throughout your revision. Some notable features include Focus In & Out, whereby you can break down larger scale mind maps into smaller sections.\n3 – Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation\nAn app that’s ideal for double checking your notes, and for brushing up on your writing before an exam, Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation is available for iOS and Android devices. Using this kind of app, which can be easily broken down into different filters and popular questions, can form a complement to more intensive tutoring and revision in other areas.\n4 – Evernote\nWhile not specifically a revision app, Evernote does represent one of the best ways of organising and collating your notes. The app can be used to sync up different notes, from written through to video and audio content, which can then be stored in tagged folders. The genius of Evernote is its simplicity, where you can bring together multiple parts of your revision into a format where you can identify the key information you have so far, and where you might need to build up your studies.\n5 – Maths Card\nThis app, available or GCSE as well as A-Level, is particularly useful if you’re studying Maths or Pure Maths; it stores and displays different pure maths formulae, as well as vectors and other elements from calculus. You can access these formulae using flash card style images, which can be grouped together into different units.\nIt’s worth investigating these apps if you want to mix up your revision; using apps on smartphones and tablets can give you an opportunity to take a break from traditional textbooks and other online revision aids. At the same time, these apps can be used when you’re away from home, and can be valuable for double checking notes or for writing down an idea or important piece of information without having your computer or a pen and paper to hand.\nAuthor Bio: Alice Aires completed her A-Levels a few years ago, and wishes she had been able to use more apps at the time. She writes on education and exam busting techniques, and puts down a lot of his exam success to her independent schooling at Lansdowne College.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Colorimetric detectors indicate the presence of a target through a chemical or biological reaction that results in a color change. Results are typically examined by comparison of the resulting color to a key in the test kit. However, a few vendors offer electronic readers that provide more objective results than visual comparison and can store the results of a test. Detection limits are typically in the part-per-million to part-per-thousand range (ppm-ppth), depending on the target, with some radiological targets dipping into the part-per-billion (ppb) range.\nTypically colorimetric detection has a small form factor and can be easily transported by hand. As the tests are based on chemical or biological reactions, they generally require little or no additional power to conduct. There are a small number of radiological colorimetric test kits available. Kit cost varies depending on the target and the number of reagent packets in the kit. They typically require one-time use consumables such as cartridges, reagents, papers or swabs for each target.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How I Use It\nStudents create comic strips that describe/explain/involve various concepts in chemistry. The students were engaged and would have spent hours playing and designing comic strips. Students emailed their work to me when it was completed. A genre study of comic strips would probably have helped the students create comic strips more true to the style.\nEncourages deep thought and understanding of serious concepts in order to transform them into humorous comic strips. Thoughtful assignment design is important to successful use of this tool.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "1934, 1935, What Is Right Action?\n3rd Public Talk 18th June, 1934\nThis morning I am only going to answer questions.\nQuestion: What is the difference between self-discipline and suppression?\nKrishnamurti: I don't think there is much difference between the two because both deny intelligence. Suppression is the gross form of the subtler self-discipline, which is also repression; that is, both suppression as well as self-discipline are mere adjustments to environment. One is the gross form of adjustment, which is suppression, and the other, self-discipline, is the subtle form. Both are based on fear: suppression, on an obvious fear; the other, self-discipline, on fear born of loss, or on fear which expresses itself through gain.\nSelf-discipline - what you call self-discipline - is merely an adjustment to an environment which we have not completely understood; therefore in that adjustment there must be the denial of intelligence. Why has one ever to discipline one's self? Why does one discipline, force one's self to mould after a particular pattern? Why do so many people belong to the various schools of disciplines, supposed to lead to spirituality, to greater understanding, greater unfoldment of thought? You will see that the more you discipline the mind, train the mind, the greater its limitations. Please, one has to think this over carefully and with delicate perception and not get confused by introducing other issues. Here I am using the word self-discipline as in the question, that is, disciplining one's self after a certain pattern, preconceived or pre-established, and therefore with the desire to attain, to gain. Whereas to me the very process of discipline, this continual twisting of mind to a particular pre-established pattern, must eventually cripple the mind. The mind which is really intelligent is free of self-discipline, for intelligence is born out of the questioning of environment, and the discovery of the true significance of environment. In that discovery is true adjustment, not the adjustment to a particular pattern or condition, but the adjustment through understanding, which is therefore free of the particular condition.\nTake a primitive; what does he do? In him there is no discipline, no control, no suppression. He does what he desires to do, this primitive. The intelligent man also does what he desires, but with intelligence. Intelligence is not born out of self-discipline or suppression. In the one instance it is wholly the pursuit of desire, the primitive man pursuing the object he desires. In the other instance, the intelligent man sees the significance of desire and sees the conflict; the primitive man does not, he pursues anything he desires and creates suffering and pain. So to me self-discipline and suppression are both alike - they both deny intelligence.\nPlease experiment with what I have said about discipline, self-discipline. Don't reject it, don't say you must have self-discipline, because there will be chaos in the world - as if there were not already chaos; and again, don't merely accept what I say, agreeing that it is true. I am telling you something with which I have experimented and which I have found to be true. Psychologically I think it is true, because self-discipline implies a mind that is tethered to a particular thought or belief or ideal, a mind that is held by a condition; and as an animal that is tethered to a post can only wander within the distance of its rope, so does the mind which is tethered to a belief, which is perverted through self-discipline, wander only within the limitation of that condition. Therefore such a mind is not mind at all, it is incapable of thought. It may be capable of adjustment between the limitations of the post and the farthest point of its reach; but such a mind, such a heart cannot really think and feel. The mind and the heart are disciplined, crippled, perverted, through denying thought, denying affection. So you must observe, become aware how your own thought, how your own feelings are functioning, without wanting to guide them in any particular direction. First of all, before you guide them, find out how they are functioning. Before you try to change and alter thought and feeling, find out the manner of their working, and you will see that they are continually adjusting themselves within the limitations established by that point fixed by desire and the fulfillment of that desire. In awareness there is no discipline.\nLet me take an example. Suppose that you are class-minded, class-conscious, snobbish. You don't know that you are snobbish, but you want to find out if you are; how will you find out? By becoming conscious of your thought and your emotions. Then what happens? Suppose that you discover that you are snobbish, then that very discovery creates a disturbance, a conflict, and that very conflict dissolves snobbishness. Whereas if you merely discipline the mind not to be snobbish, you are developing a different characteristic which is the opposite of being a snob, and being deliberate, therefore false, is equally pernicious.\nSo, because we have established various patterns, various goals, aids, which we are continually, consciously or unconsciously, pursuing, we discipline our minds and hearts towards them, and therefore there must be control, perversion. Whereas if you begin to inquire into the conditions that create conflict, and thereby awaken intelligence, then that intelligence itself is so supreme that it is continually in movement and therefore there is never a static point which can create conflict.\nQuestion: Granted that the \"I\" is made up of reactions from environment, by what method can one escape its limitations; or how does one go about the process of re-orientation, in order to avoid conflict between the two false things?\nKrishnamurti: First of all, you want to know the method of escape from the limitations. Why? Why do you ask? Please, why do you always ask for a method, for a system? What does it indicate, this desire for a method? Every demand for a method indicates the desire to escape. You want me to lay down a system so that you may imitate that system. In other words, you want a system invented for you to superimpose on those conditions which are creating conflict, so that you can escape from all conflict. In other words you merely seek to adjust yourselves to a pattern, in order to escape from conflict or from your environment. That is the desire behind the demand for a method, for a system. You know life is not Pelmanism. The desire for a method indicates essentially the desire to escape.\n\"How does one go about the process of re-orientation in order to avoid constant conflict between the two false things?\" First of all, are you aware that you are in conflict, before you want to know how to get away from it? Or, being aware of conflict, are you merely seeking a refuge, a shelter which will not create further conflict? So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to escape from the present conflict to enter a condition in which there shall be no conflict; or whether you are unaware, unconscious of this conflict in which you exist. If you are unconscious of the conflict, that is, the battle that is taking place between that self and the environment, if you are unconscious of that battle, then why do you seek further remedies? Remain unconscious. Let the conditions themselves produce the necessary conflict, without your rushing after, invoking artificially, falsely, a conflict which does not exist in your mind and heart. And you create artificially a conflict because you are afraid you are missing something. Life will not miss you. If you think it does, something is wrong with you. Perhaps you are neurotic, not normal.\nIf you are in conflict, you will not ask me for a method. Were I to give you a method you would merely be disciplining yourself according to that method, trying to imitate an ideal, a pattern which I have laid down, and therefore destroying your own intelligence. Whereas if you are really conscious of that conflict, in that consciousness suffering will become acute and in that acuteness, in that intensity, you will dissolve the cause of suffering, which is the lack of understanding of the environment.\nYou know we have lost all sense of living normally, simply, directly. To get back to that normality, that simplicity, that directness, you cannot follow methods, you cannot merely become automatic machines; and I am afraid most of us are seeking methods because we think that through them we shall realize fullness, stability and permanency. To me methods lead to slow stagnation and decay and they have nothing to do with real spirituality, which is, after all, the summation of intelligence.\nQuestion: You speak of the necessity of a drastic revolution in the life of the individual. If he does not want to revolutionize his outward personal environment because of the suffering it would cause to his family and friends, will inward revolution lead him to the freedom from all conflict?\nKrishnamurti: First of all, sirs, don't you also feel that a drastic revolution in the life of the individual is necessary? Or are you merely satisfied with things as they are, with your ideas of progress, evolution and your desire for attainment, with your longings and fluctuating pleasures? You know, the moment you begin to think, really begin to feel, you must have this burning desire for a drastic change, drastic revolution, complete re-orientation of thinking. Now, if you feel that that is necessary, then neither family nor friends will stand in the way. Then there is neither an outward revolution nor an inward revolution; there is only revolution, change. But the moment you begin to limit it by saying, \"I must not hurt my family, my friends, my priest, my capitalistic exploiter or state exploiter\", then you really don't see the necessity for radical change, you merely seek a change of environment. In that there is merely lethargy which creates further false environment and continues the conflict.\nI think we give the rather false excuse that we must not hurt our families and our friends. You know when you want to do something vital, you do it, irrespective of your family and friends, don't you? Then you don't consider that you are going to hurt them. It is beyond your control; you feel so intensely, you think so completely that it carries you beyond the limitation of family circles, classified bondages. But you begin to consider family, friends, ideals, beliefs, traditions, the established order of things, only when you are still clinging to a particular safety, when there is not that inward richness, but merely the dependence on external stimulation for that inward richness. So if there is that full consciousness of suffering, brought about by conflict, then you are not held in the bondage of any particular orthodoxy, friends or family. You want to find out the cause of that suffering, you want to find out the significance of the environment which creates that conflict; then in that there is no personality, no limited thought of the \"I\". But it is only when you cling to that limited thought of the \"I\" that you have to consider how far you shall wander and how far you shall not wander.\nSurely truth, or that Godhead of understanding, is not to be found by clinging either to family or tradition or habit. It is to be found only when you are completely naked, stripped of your longings, hopes, securities; and in that direct simplicity there is the richness of life.\nQuestion: Can you explain why environment started being false instead of true? What is the origin of all this mess and trouble? Krishnamurti: Who do you think created environment? Some mysterious God? Please, just a minute; who created environment, the social structure, the economic, the religious structure? We. Each one has contributed individually, until it has become collective, and the individual who has helped to create the collective, now is lost in the collective, for it has become his mould, his environment. Through the desire for security, financial, moral and spiritual, you have created a capitalistic environment in which there is nationality, class distinction and exploitation. We have created it, you and I. This thing hasn't miraculously come into being. You will again create another capitalistic, acquisitive system of a different kind, with a different nuance, with a different colour, so long as you are seeking security. You may abolish this present pattern, but so long as there is possessiveness, you will create another capitalistic state, with a new phraseology, a new jargon.\nAnd the same thing applies to religions, with all their absurd ceremonies, exploitations, fears. Who has created them? You and I. Throughout the centuries we have created these things and yielded to them through fear. It is the individual who has created false environment everywhere. And he has become a slave, and that false condition has resulted in a false search for the security of that self-consciousness which you call the \"I\", and hence the constant battle between the \"I\" and the false environment.\nYou want to know who has created this environment and all this appalling mess and trouble, because you want a redeemer to lift you out of that trouble and set you in a new heaven. Clinging to all your particular prejudices, hopes, fears and preferences, you have individually created this environment, so individually you must break it down and not wait for a system to come and sweep it away. A system will probably come and sweep it away and then you will merely become slaves to that system. The communistic system may come in, and then probably you will be using new words, but having the same reactions, only in a different manner, with a different tempo.\nThat is why I said the other day that if environment is driving you to a certain action, it is no longer righteous. It is only when there is action born out of the understanding of that environment that there is righteousness.\nSo individually we must become conscious. I assure you, you will then individually create something immense, not a society which is merely holding to an ideal and therefore decaying, but a society that is constantly in movement, not coming to a culmination and dying. Individuals establish a goal, strive after its attainment, and after attaining, collapse. They try all the time to reach some goal and stay at that stage which they have attained. As the individual so the state - the state is trying all the time to reach an ideal, a goal. Whereas to me the individual must be in constant movement, must ever be becoming, not seeking a culmination, not pursuing a goal. Then self-expression, which is society, will be ever in constant movement.\nQuestion: Do you consider that karma is the interaction between the false environment and the false \"I\"?\nKrishnamurti: You know karma is a Sanskrit word which means to act, to do, to work, and also it implies cause and effect. Now karma is the bondage, the reaction born out of the environment which the mind has not understood. As I tried to explain yesterday, if we do not understand a particular condition, naturally the mind is burdened with that condition, with that lack of understanding; and with that lack of understanding we function and act, and therefore create further burdens, greater limitations.\nSo one has to find out what creates this lack of understanding, what prevents the individual from gathering the full significance of the environment, whether it be the past environment or the present. And to discover that significance, mind must really be free of prejudice. It is one of the most difficult things to be really free of a bias, of a temperament, of a twist; and to approach environment with a fresh openness, a directness, demands a great deal of perception. Most minds are biased through vanity, through the desire to impress others by being somebody, or through the desire to attain truth, or to escape from their environment, or expand their own consciousness - only they call this by a special spiritual name - or through their national prejudices. All these desires prevent the mind from perceiving directly the full worth of the environment; and as most minds are prejudiced, the first thing that one has to become conscious of is one's own limitations. And when you begin to be conscious, there is conflict in that consciousness. When you know that you are really brutally proud or conceited, in the very consciousness of conceit it begins to dissipate, because you perceive the absurdity of it; but if you begin merely to cover it up, it creates further diseases, further false reactions.\nSo to live each moment now without the burden of the past or of the present, without that crippling memory created by the lack of understanding, mind must ever meet things anew. It is fatal to meet life with the burden of certainty, with the conceit of knowledge, because, after all, knowledge is merely a thing of the past. So when you come to that life with a freshness, then you will know what it is to live without conflict, without this continual straining effort. Then you wander far on the floods of life.\n1934, 1935, What Is Right Action?\n3rd Public Talk 18th June, 1934\nJiddu Krishnamurti. What Is Right Action? The collected works of J.Krishnamurti, 1934..1935.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "+44 1803 865913\nBy: John M Legler(Author), Richard C Vogt(Author)\n402 pages, colour & b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w distribution maps\nThe Turtles of Mexico is the first comprehensive guide to the biology, ecology, evolution, and distribution of more than fifty freshwater and terrestrial turtle taxa found in Mexico. Legler and Vogt draw on more than fifty years of fieldwork to elucidate the natural history of these species. The Turtles of Mexico includes an extensive introduction to turtle anatomy, taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography, and physiology.\nA key to the turtles of Mexico is included along with individual species accounts featuring geographic distribution maps and detailed color illustrations. Specific topics discussed for each species include habitat, diet, feeding behavior, reproduction, predators, parasites, growth and ontogeny, sexual dimorphism, growth rings, economic use, conservation, legal protection, and taxonomic studies. The Turtles of Mexico is a complete reference for scientists, conservationists, and professional and amateur enthusiasts who wish to study Mexican turtles.\n\"For the first time, we have a synthesis of the biology of Mexican turtles. Legler and Vogt have combined their half century of field and laboratory studies with others' knowledge and written an exciting, encyclopedic, and readable source book on all aspects of Mexican turtle natural history.\"\n– George Zug, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution\n\"This definitive and scholarly treatment of Mexican turtle biology sets the new standard for books on regional and national turtle faunas.\"\n– Joseph C. Mitchell, co-editor of Urban Herpetology\nThere are currently no reviews for this book. Be the first to review this book!\nJohn M. Legler is Professor Emeritus of Biology at The University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Richard C. Vogt is a researcher at the National Institute for Amazonia Research, in Manaus, Brazil.\nYour orders support book donation projects\nSearch and browse over 110,000 wildlife and science products\nMulti-currency. Secure worldwide shipping\nWildlife, science and conservation since 1985", "label": "No"}
{"text": "God spoke through his servant Isaiah concerning the wickedness of his people in Judah. God was angry with them because they rebelled against him and had forsaken His ways. Despite their corruption, the people still brought offerings and sacrifices unto God. God’s response was disgust, because of their contempt for his laws. “What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats” (Isaiah 1:11). God did not find their offering and sacrifices pleasing or acceptable.\nGod also said that he would not listen to them, as they would lift their hands in prayer. This was because their hands were stained with blood and they were unclean before God. “Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil” (Isaiah 1:16). God also wanted them to do good, to seek justice, correct oppression, bring justice to the orphans and plead the cause of the widow. Within the context of the Old Testament, orphans and widows were among some of the most vulnerable. Not all widows in today’s society may experience destitution. The idea is that we should consider the most vulnerable within our society.\nDepending on where you live, the vulnerable and destitute may be different social groups. There are orphanages in most countries that provide housing for children. Within your own communities, the vulnerable may be immigrants or particular groups of people. At your work place, there are staff members who are more vulnerable than others based on their positions of power. The church has a role to play in looking after the vulnerable. Ignoring injustice and refusing to get involved because ‘it is none of your business,’ does not please God. There are times when we have the power and resources to get involved and support persons in need.\nYou may feel the prompting of the Holy, Spirit to speak up for someone who is being bullied or harassed at work. We should teach children to look out for other children who are being isolated in school. The children of the righteous should set an example and befriend the child that is excluded. This can relate to a child who is unpopular due to socio economic deprivation or the child who is unpopular. Our salvation is not limited to going to church on a Sunday to worship and give our offering. What we do in the market place is of major significance, as it is within the darkness where we need to let our light shine.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "Hair is one of the most telling pieces of trace evidence that can be collected from a crime scene name two ways hairs may be used to help an investigation. 1,378 followers, 2,195 following, 284 posts - see instagram photos and videos from trace evidence (@traceevidencepod. This guide examines educational programs, certification, and employers across four fields of forensics: trace evidence, ballistics, toxicology, and dna. This website is funded in part through a cooperative agreement from the national institute of justice (2016-mu-bx-k110), office of justice programs, us department.\nTrace evidence should be collected using the most direct and least intrusive methods possible, while protecting that evidence from loss and contamination this kit. A simplified guide to trace evidence introduction atacrimescene,thereareoftentinyfragmentsofphysicalevidencesuchas. Minute traces of spray paint were found on three of the murdered victims in the case by skip palenik these traces were found on the clothes of the victims.\nTrace fiber evidence under magnification fiber evidence is found in a variety of cases when a struggle occurs between two people, fibers may be transferred from the. Trace evidence: soil, paint, and metals what is trace evidence trace evidence is defined as: very small pieces of evidence that may be used to link or identify a. Forensic trace evidence expert analysis on glass, gunshot residue analysis (gsr), firearms, hair, fibres, contact traces & fibres, toolmark and instrument marks. Become a patron of trace evidence podcast today: read 34 posts by trace evidence podcast and get access to exclusive content and. Wwwasteetraceorg volume number two, issue number one december 2011 issn: 2156-9797 journal of american society of trace evidence examiners.\nDefinition of trace evidence in the definitionsnet dictionary meaning of trace evidence what does trace evidence mean information and translations of trace. The trace evidence unit (teu) identifies and compares specific types of trace materials that could be transferred during the commission of a violent crime. Specially developed for ease in trace evidence collection pick up minute hairs and fibers with this fully repulpable trace evidence tape the tape should be cut into. Trace evidence analysis identifies and/or compares small, possibly microscopic evidence, transferred by contact or discharged by movement during a crime. Course covers the collection, analysis and comparison of microscopic trace evidence found at a crime scene.\nTrace evidence the trace unit of the physical evidence section is responsible for the examination of small (trace) particles of evidence left behind during a crime. Trace 1 (trās) n 1 a a visible mark, such as a footprint, made or left by the passage of a person, animal, or thing b evidence or an indication of the former. The trace evidence section examines fire debris, explosives, paint, hairs, fibers, glass, primer residue (pr), fracture matches, and vehicle lamps in addition, the. Synonym discussion of trace a minute and often barely detectable amount or indication to discover by going backward over the evidence step by step.\nTrace evidence podcast 22k likes trace evidence is a weekly true crime podcast focused on unsolved murders and abductions. Hola estoy traduciendo algo de medicina forense, hablan de trace evidence saben como se traduce en castellano no me suena rastros de evidencia, ya. Journalissue no 249 / july 2003 without a trace advances in detecting trace evidence s hards of glass are found at the.\nTrace evidence use of dna in forensic firearm examination is the forensic process of examining the characteristics of firearms as well as any cartridges or. Trace evidence includes many different types of materials in simplest terms, trace evidence is the term used to describe materials that can be transferred from a. With henry lee, tim palmbach, andrea altieri, paul connick dr lee reconstructs how he solved some of his cases during his 40 years as a forensic scientist.\nEdmond locard, founder of the institute of criminalistics at the university of lyon, france, developed what has become known as locard’s exchange principle. Read trace evidence free essay and over 88,000 other research documents trace evidence crime scenes are known to have many. Fans of the virals series will be thrilled with this companion volume that includes three short stories originally published as especials as well as an all-new, never.", "label": "No"}
{"text": "During Roman and early Islamic times, animal‑shaped vessels were made using an intricate decorated double or quadruple glass tube. Decorated with trailed glass threads, the tubes are carried on the backs of domestic animals and the trailed threads appear to imitate protective cages. Such vessels were probably used as containers for kohl or perfume.\nLike the blue bottle decorated with applied threads of blue glass (x.21.210), the playful utilitarian objects 69.153 and 1999.145 testify to the transition between two glassmaking traditions, the Roman and the Islamic, along the coastal zone of the Mediterranean region. They are also examples of the versatility and flexibility of glass as a medium, which poses no restrictions on the creativity of the glassmaker. Here, two simple vessels, small bottles for ointments or valuable liquids such as essences and perfumes, are transformed into zoomorphic figurines that \"carry\" the container as part of their burden. Once a bottle had been blown and shaped, the rest of the figure was constructed around it from trails and blobs of hot glass, forming the stylized body, legs, head, and burden surrounding the functional vessel. The quadruped with a bottle (cat. 14A) is typical of early Islamic production and is probably slightly earlier than the camel (cat. 14B) because it follows more closely the Late Antique, eastern Roman tradition. It combines a figure that supports a slender tubular flask known as balsamarium (container for balm) and is in turn encased in a cage. This latter feature evolved from extremely accomplished third- to fourth-century bowls known as vasa diatreta, in which vessels encased in open cages were produced by cutting the glass when cold. In their imitations (known as pseudodiatreta) produced in Alexandria on the Egyptian coast, the cage was constructed from hot-worked glass trails. Evidently the idea of constructing a cage around a vessel was adopted by the early Islamic glassmakers and fused with features of a balsamarium container. The bottle no. 69.153 was built entirely with one batch of amber-colored glass whose surface has taken on an iridescent hue due to weathering. Many of these animal-shaped bottles, now preserved in various collections around the world, carry a cage made of different trails from two contrasting colors— usually nearly colorless and dark blue glass—thus also offering a pleasant chromatic variety. In this example, the figure is given a more whimsical appearance by its double head and by the addition of four protruding stylized heads atop the cage, almost as if it is meant to represent an entire caravan of horses, donkeys, or camels carrying their precious goods. On the other hand, figurine no. 1999.145 is atypical for this group because the burden that surrounds the bottle is solid. The surface of the glass is entirely weathered from long burial in the ground, but when viewed through transmitted light the object is revealed to have been made of two different colors. Unmistakably a camel, feet well planted on the ground and ostensibly conscious of its mission, this lively piece is evocative of the vital role played by these animals along the caravan trade routes of western Asia in a time of transition between two empires. Stefano Carboni in [Ekhtiar, Soucek, Canby, and Haidar 2011] Footnotes: 1. For the diatreta, see Glass of the Caesars. Exhibition, The Corning Museum of Glass; British Museum, London; Romisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne 1987, nos. 134–39. Catalogue by Donald B. Harden and others. Milan, 1987 For the pseudodiatreta, see \"Arte del vetro. Bussagli, Mario and Maria Grazia Chiappori. Rome 1991, fig. p. 65. 2. See Carboni et al 2001, pp. 112–14, nos. 29, 30.\n[ Art market, Israel]; [ Taiyo Ltd., Tokyo, until 1999; sold to MMA]\nNew York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. \"The Nature of Islamic Ornament, Part IV: Figural Representation,\" September 16, 1999–January 30, 2000, no catalogue.\nNew York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. \"Glass of the Sultans,\" October 2, 2001–January 13, 2002, no. 32.\nCarboni, Stefano, David Whitehouse, Robert H. Brill, and William Gudenrath. Glass of the Sultans. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. no. 32, pp. 112-114, ill. p. 113 (color).\nEkhtiar, Maryam, Sheila R. Canby, Navina Haidar, and Priscilla P. Soucek, ed. Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1st ed. ed. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. no. 14B, p. 37, ill. (color).\nCanby, Sheila R. \"The Scented World : Incense Burners and Perfume Containers from Spain to Central Asia.\" Arts of Asia vol. 42 (2012). p. 119, ill. fig. 1 (color).", "label": "No"}
{"text": "How do you spell \"in Russian\"?\nThe use of adverbs in the Russian language helps to make speech more colorful and figurative. After all, adverbs are used to designate signs of the subject, sign, action. Due to a wide variety of adverbs, problems arise with their spelling. And how do you spell \"in Russian\"?\nThe adverb \"in Russian\", like the other in-it-s, -yi, -k-to-it, are the definitive adverbs of assimilation. They are formed mainly from adjectives and the preposition \"on\" and are written only through a hyphen. For example, the adverb “summer-like” is derived from the adjective “summer”, and “in Russian”, respectively, from “Russian”.\nThus, it is necessary to write correctly like this: in Russian. Do not be lazy to learn a language, and let your speech always sound competent, in Russian.", "label": "No"}